method

method
n.

1) to apply, employ, use a method

2) to adopt a method

3) to give up, scrap a method

4) an antiquated, obsolete; crude; infallible, sure; modern, up-to-date; refined, sophisticated; sound; unorthodox method

5) the case; deductive; inductive; scientific; Socratic method

6) Madison Avenue ('high-pressure') methods

7) the audiovisual; direct, oral; grammar-translation method (of foreign language instruction); the tutorial method (of instruction)

8) teaching methods

9) the rhythm method (of contraception)

10) a method for; in, to (a method for learning languages; there is a definite method in her manner of interrogation)

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['meθəd]
Socratic method
deductive
inductive
modern
obsolete
refined
scientific
scrap a method
sophisticated
unorthodox method
up-to-date
use a method
oral: grammar-translation method (of foreign language instruction)
the tutorial method (of instruction)
Madison Avenue ('high-pressure') methods
a method for
an antiquated
teaching methods
the audiovisual
the case
to adopt a method
to apply
to give up
n. to (a method for learning languages: there is a definite method in her manner of interrogation)
the rhythm method (of contraception)

Combinatory dictionary. 2013.

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