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Starvation (crime), a crime under international law Starvation (computer science), a problem encountered in concurrent computing where a process is perpetually denied necessary resources to process its work
Starvation is a severe deficiency in caloric energy intake, below the level needed to maintain an organism's life. It is the most extreme form of malnutrition.In humans, prolonged starvation can cause permanent organ damage [1] and eventually, death.
Humans are animals, despite the fact that the word animal is colloquially used as an antonym for human. [178] [179] Ecosystems do not naturally move back towards an equilibrium using negative feedback. [180] The concept of an inherent "balance of nature" has been superseded by chaos theory. [181]
An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.
"Feed a cold, starve a fever" is an adage or a wives' tale which attempts to instruct people how to deal with illness. The adage dates to the time of Hippocrates when fever was not well understood. His idea was the fever was the disease, and starving the sick person would starve the disease.
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Lit., as adjective or past tense, dead or died of laughing, so "died laughing" or "dying of laughter"; compare mort de faim for starve. mélange a mixture. mêlée a confused fight; a struggling crowd. In French also: a rugby scrum. ménage à trois lit. "household for three": a sexual arrangement between three people. [40] métier
The paradox predates Buridan; it dates to antiquity, being found in Aristotle's On the Heavens. [4] Aristotle, in ridiculing the Sophist idea that the Earth is stationary simply because it is spherical and any forces on it must be equal in all directions, says that is as ridiculous as saying that [4]