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lack::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | deficiency, want |
| Type of | need, demand |
| Has types | famine, mineral deficiency, absence, shortage, shortness, stringency, tightness, deficit, dearth |
there is a serious lack of insight into the problem.
Examples of lack
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It was on the verge of its season being cancelled because of a lack of interest.
From the orlandosentinel.com
The third period was scoreless, but not for a lack of trying on Portland's part.
From the thenewstribune.com
The problem could have been bad marketing or lack of commitment by the district.
From the tennessean.com
Her 15-year-old son contracted tuberculosis because of a lack of food, she said.
From the washingtontimes.com
Lampert and Starr lack size, but they are dangerous shooters from the perimeter.
From the chron.com
There is also a lack of effective technical solutions to reduce these emissions.
From the sciencedaily.com
The result is a lack of knowledge of the process and of sales people themselves.
From the techcrunch.com
We may lack amenities like mountains and oceans, but we do have low, low prices.
From the stltoday.com
Mr. Ghonim's newfound star power points to the movement's lack of clear leaders.
From the online.wsj.com
- Miss: be without; "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewelry box!"
- The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost"
- (lacking) deficient: inadequate in amount or degree; "a deficient education"; "deficient in common sense"; "lacking in stamina"; "tested and found wanting"
- (lacking) nonexistent; "the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was lacking"
- u0141u0105ck (1943u20131945, German Lonsch) is a village in Pu0142ock County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina u0141u0105ck. It lies approximately 11 kilometres (7u00A0mi) south-west of Pu0142ock and 99u00A0km (62u00A0mi) west of Warsaw.
- Lack (in French, manque), is, in Lacan's psychoanalytic philosophy, always related to desire. In his seminar Le transfert (1960-61) he states that lack is what causes desire to arise.
- Henrietta Lacks (nu00E9e Loretta Pleasant; August 1, 1920 u2013 October 4, 1951) was an African American woman who was the unwitting donor of cells from her cancerous tumor that was biopsied during treatment for cervical cancer at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, USA...
- A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy; A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want; To be without, to need, to require; To be short (of or for something)
- (Lacking) Describes a neutral liquor with no body or pronounced characteristics.
