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PHYSICALLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In accord with physical laws
Example:
it is physically impossible
Classified under:
Pertainym:
physical (relating to the sciences dealing with matter and energy; especially physics)
Context examples:
Microfilaments physically associate with microtubules to play a structural role in cytoskeleton integrity.
(Microfilament Protein, NCI Thesaurus)
A statistical estimate of whether two genetic loci are physically near enough to each other (or linked) on a particular chromosome that they are likely to be inherited together.
(LOD Score, NCI Dictionary)
Minor restrictions in physically strenuous activity.
(Lansky Performance Status 90, NCI Thesaurus)
Physically, you are a man in a thousand—in ten thousand.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Men who are more physically active might be more likely to get screened for prostate cancer, thus increasing rates of detection.
(Physical activity associated with lower risk of many cancers, NIH)
I think it will be best for her to go to bed tired out physically, so I shall take her for a long walk by the cliffs to Robin Hood's Bay and back.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
While he did not amount to much, it is true—that is, physically—I'd hardly say he was as bad as all that.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
He appeared the same, physically, as when last I saw him, but he was gloomy and silent.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
And yet it was not physically painful.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
A way of contracting a disease by physically associating with an infected group of individuals.
(Contact With Exposure In Crowd Setting, NCI Thesaurus)
