natural

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"Me: "Well, it can occur naturally, but it's extremely rare.

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Quick take

someone regarded as certain to succeed; "he's a natural for the job"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of natural gathered in one view.

noun

someone regarded as certain to succeed; "he's a natural for the job"

noun

a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat

noun

(craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for natural.

noun

someone regarded as certain to succeed; "he's a natural for the job"

noun

a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat

noun

(craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake

adjective

in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature; "a very natural development"; "our natural environment"; "natural science"; "natural resources"; "natural cliffs"; "natural phenomena"

adjective

existing in or produced by nature; not artificial or imitation; "a natural pearl"; "natural gas"; "natural silk"; "natural blonde hair"; "a natural sweetener"; "natural fertilizers"

adjective

existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; neither supernatural nor magical; "a perfectly natural explanation"

adjective

functioning or occurring in a normal way; lacking abnormalities or deficiencies; "it's the natural thing to happen"; "natural immunity"; "a grandparent's natural affection for a grandchild"

adjective

(of a musical note) being neither raised nor lowered by one chromatic semitone; "a natural scale"; "B natural"

adjective

unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct; "a cat's natural aversion to water"; "offering to help was as instinctive as breathing"

adjective

(used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes; "natural yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw wool"; "raw sugar"; "bales of rude cotton"

adjective

related by blood; not adopted

adjective

being talented through inherited qualities; "a natural leader"; "a born musician"; "an innate talent"

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free from artificiality; "a lifelike pose"; "a natural reaction"

Example sentences

"Me: "Well, it can occur naturally, but it's extremely rare.

"Pencil is the most natural and expressive tool for getting ideas on Paper"I thought this would be some kind of parody at first...

Instead [...] we must work in sales and marketing to convince someone with money to trade cash for our trinket, so that we can have purchasing power to access the natural bounty of the land.

The pay is usually better and it's a natural career progression most organizations are built around.

Artisanal bitcoins!They're 67 quadrillion times more expensive, but they're all natural and locally-sourced.

Because the telcos are currently enjoying a "natural monopoly".

Due to the human body's natural resiliency, after chemo eventually the bone marrow would start to regenerate.

In this case, however, the inflows to the fund come not from personal income taxes but from taxes and lease-revenue on the state's natural resources, notably oil and gas.

This seems to be the natural outcome of Amazon's excellent customer service policy, where they have on numerous occasions[0] refunded costs for hacked instances.

I learned something new and mathematically-interesting about the natural world, the author came up with a clever hack to enliven backgrounds, and we learn how to apply that to improve our own designs.

Whether it's because the chemotherapy is ineffective or specific DNA markers or whatever, there are times when the body's natural bone marrow is no longer effective in producing normal blood cells.

But even at that, the fallacious teleological language he uses about biological evolution by natural selection suggests a way out of this problem.

Those who value copyright and its social benefits in protecting creative output also value the public domain because it is a natural concomitant to the protected core of works that fall under copyright in any given generation.

Some of these words, like "measure" or "continuous" make some intuitive sense, but how can "measure" be "continuous" with respect to some other measure, and what the hell is Lebesgue measure anyway?Now, if you're a mathematician, you know that Lebesgue measure in simple cases is just a natural notion of area or volume, but you also know that it's very useful to be able to measure much more complicated sets than just rectangles, polyhedrals, balls, and other similar regular shapes.