a nervous habit

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• habit - custom — ◊ habit A habit is something that an individual person does often or regularly, usually for no particular reason. He had a nervous habit of biting his nails. I wish I could get out of this habit. ◊ custom A custom is something done by the people… …   Useful english dictionary

• habit — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ annoying, antisocial (BrE), bad, dangerous, destructive, dirty, disconcerting (BrE), disgusting, filthy, horrible …   Collocations dictionary

• Habit — • Habit is an effect of repeated acts and an aptitude to reproduce them, and may be defined as a quality difficult to change, whereby an agent whose nature it is to work one way or another indeterminately, is disposed easily and readily at will… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Nervous Gender — is a punk band founded in Los Angeles, California in 1978 by Gerardo Velazquez, Edward Stapleton, Phranc and Michael Ochoa. Their use of heavily distorted keyboards and synthesizers made them, along with The Screamers, one of the original… …   Wikipedia

• Habit reversal training — (HRT) is a multicomponent behavioral treatment package originally developed to address a wide variety of repetitive behavior disorders .Piacentini JC, Chang SW. Behavioral treatments for tic suppression: habit reversal training. Adv Neurol.… …   Wikipedia

• habit — hab|it W3S3 [ˈhæbıt] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(usual/regular)¦ 2¦(drugs)¦ 3 not make a habit of (doing) something 4 I m not in the habit of doing something 5 have a habit of doing something 6 old habits die hard 7 habit of thought/mind 8¦(clothing)¦ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• habit — [[t]hæ̱bɪt[/t]] ♦♦♦ habits 1) N VAR: oft N of ing A habit is something that you do often or regularly. He has an endearing habit of licking his lips when he s nervous... Many people add salt to their food out of habit, without even tasting it… …   English dictionary

• habit */*/*/ — UK [ˈhæbɪt] / US noun Word forms habit : singular habit plural habits 1) [countable/uncountable] something that you do often or regularly, often without thinking about it healthy eating habits a good/bad habit: He had acquired some rather bad… …   English dictionary

• nervous — adj. VERBS ▪ appear, be, feel, look, seem, sound ▪ Both men appeared nervous. ▪ become, get …   Collocations dictionary

• habit — hab|it [ hæbıt ] noun *** 1. ) count or uncount something that you do often or regularly, often without thinking about it: healthy eating habits a good/bad habit: Don t pick up any bad habits from your friends. be in the habit of doing something …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• habit*/*/ — [ˈhæbɪt] noun 1) [C/U] something that you do often healthy eating habits[/ex] They were in the habit of going for long walks.[/ex] George has got into the habit of going to bed late.[/ex] 2) [C] something that is bad that you often do without… …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English