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1 own
own [əʊn]1. adjective• all my own work! je l'ai fait moi-même !• "own garden" « jardin privatif »• he scored an own goal (British) il a marqué un but contre son camp ; (figurative) ça s'est retourné contre lui2. pronoun• organic farming is now coming into its own l'agriculture biologique commence à prendre de l'importance• did you do it all on your own? est-ce que vous l'avez fait tout seul ?• who owns this house? à qui appartient cette maison ?4. compounds• their own-brand or own-label peas leur propre marque de petits pois• come on, own up! allons, avoue !* * *[əʊn] 1.adjective propreher own car/house/business — sa propre voiture/maison/affaire
2.the house has its own garage/garden — c'est une maison avec garage/jardin (privatif)
my own — le mien, la mienne
3.his/her own — le sien, la sienne
transitive verb1) ( possess) avoir [car, house, dog]2) ( admit) reconnaître, avouer4.Phrasal Verbs:- own up••each to his own — chacun son goût (colloq)
to get one's own back — se venger ( on somebody de quelqu'un)
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2 Computer Metaphors
Within the AI community there is a growing dissatisfaction concerning the adequacy of sequential models to simulate the cognitive processes....For an example of the dissimilarity between computers and nervous systems, consider that in conventional computers... each piece of data [is] located in its own special space in the memory bank [and] can be retrieved only by a central processor that knows the address in the memory bank for each datum. Human memory appears to be organized along entirely different lines. For one thing, from a partial or a degraded stimulus human memory can "reconstruct" the rest, and there are associative relationships among stored pieces of information based on considerations of context rather than on considerations of location.... t now appears doubtful that individual neurons are so specific that they are tuned to respond to a single item and nothing else. Thus, connectionist models tend to devise and use distributed principles, which means that elements may be selective to a range of stimuli and there are no "grandmother cells."...Information storage, it appears, is in some ill-defined sense a function of connectivity among sets of neurons. This implies that there is something fundamentally wrong in understanding the brain's memory on the model of individual symbols stored at unique addresses in a data bank....A further source of misgivings about the computer metaphor concerns real-time constraints. Although the signal velocities in nervous systems are quite slow in comparison to those in computers, brains are nonetheless far, far faster than electronic devices in the execution of their complex tasks. For example, human brains are incomparably faster than any computer in word-nonword recognition tasks. (P. S. Churchland, 1986, pp. 458-459)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Computer Metaphors
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3 become a prey to smth.
(become (или fall) a prey to smth.)сделаться, пасть жертвой чего-л.When Carrie reached her own room she had already fallen a prey to those doubts and misgivings which are ever the result of a lack of decision. (Th. Dreiser, ‘Sister Carrie’, ch. XXIII) — К тому времени, когда Кэрри добралась домой, она снова стала жертвой сомнений и опасений, всегда возникающих при недостатке решимости.
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