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Winning

winning

1. The act of obtaining something, as in a contest or by competition.

2. The money, etc, gained by success in competition or contest, especially, in gambling; usually in the plural. Ye seek land and sea for your winnings. (Chaucer)

3. (Science: chemical) A new opening. The portion of a coal field out for working.

(Science: chemical) Winning headway, an excavation for exploration, in post-and-stall working. Winning post, the post, or goal, at the end of a race.


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For those people, I would ask the following: If you are in a room that has two one-way exits and you leave the room via one of them, can you ever be sure that you could have also taken the other exit? And if so, is there any way for you or anyone to prove that you genuinely had the chance to take t...

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by biohazard
Wed Apr 03, 2013 9:13 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Do We Have The Freedom Of Choice?
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For those people, I would ask the following: If you are in a room that has two one-way exits and you leave the room via one of them, can you ever be sure that you could have also taken the other exit? And if so, is there any way for you or anyone to prove that you genuinely had the chance to take t...

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by ughaibu
Tue Apr 02, 2013 3:29 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Do We Have The Freedom Of Choice?
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... of my neurons to the electrophysical stimulus of my eyes seeing the text you wrote. This being said, I think we would need some Nobel prize-winning quantum physicist to tell us whether anything in the world is truly random. In theory, if we were able to calculate the movement of each electron ...

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by Ahsmeah
Thu Feb 07, 2013 2:20 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Do We Have The Freedom Of Choice?
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Do We Have The Freedom Of Choice?

... of my neurons to the electrophysical stimulus of my eyes seeing the text you wrote. This being said, I think we would need some Nobel prize-winning quantum physicist to tell us whether anything in the world is truly random. In theory, if we were able to calculate the movement of each electron ...

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by biohazard
Wed Feb 06, 2013 8:06 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Do We Have The Freedom Of Choice?
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Re: Theories - Origin of Life

... study of animal behavior, especially as it occurs in a natural environment ) Dawkins studied zoology under Niko Tinbergen, the Dutch Nobel prize-winning ethologist . Tinbergen had already outlined his idea that plants and animals could be described as survival machines for genes. He was awarded ...

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by scottie
Fri Feb 03, 2012 6:46 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Theories - Origin of Life
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