problem
IPA: prˈɑbɫʌm
noun
- A difficulty that has to be resolved or dealt with.
- A question to be answered, schoolwork exercise.
- A puzzling circumstance.
- Objection.
- Difficulty in accepting or understanding or refusal to accept or understand.
- (climbing) A set of moves required to complete a climb.
adjective
- (of a person or an animal) Difficult to train or guide; unruly.
- Causing a problem; problematic; troublesome.
Advertisement
Examples of "problem" in Sentences
- * This isn't a linux networking problem, per se, but it is a networking problem*
- One metaphysical problem concerns how change is possible (this has recently become known as the ˜problem of temporary intrinsics™).
- _What is the precise constitution of the Subliminal_ -- such is the problem which deserves to figure in our Science hereafter as the _problem of
- It is well known to most of my readers that woman is a problem; but it may not be as well known that now-a-days, she is a _mathematical problem_.
- Just as astronomy, at bottom, is a mechanical problem, and physiology, likewise, a chemical problem, so is history, at bottom, a _problem of psychology_.
- The negro problem is one of many race problems which the United States has, but because it is the most pressing of all of our race problems it is frequently spoken of as _the race problem_.
- Although there would have been plenty of muttering, nothing would have been done to interfere with the solution of the problem which I had devised, _until the solution was accomplished and the problem ceased to be a problem_.
- The most influential arguments against the view that there is a genuine problem of transworld identity (or ˜problem of transworld identification™, to use Kripke's preferred terminology) are probably those presented by Plantinga (1973, 1974) and Kripke (1980).
- That there is no solution to the race problem is a statement heard so often in America that it has become almost proverbial; that the solution is simple if our citizens would approach the problem fairly is an observation made less often; but that _there is no problem_ would seem to be either the flippant remark of one who dabbles in sociology or the profound utterance of a new seer.
- VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Bush and Blair, Joined at the Hip, Sinking Together'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = '"Never in modern history has the solution to one problem resulted in the creation of so many larger problems, especially since the initial \'problem\', Saddam Hussein\'s weapons of mass destruction, turned out to be non-existent, "writes Rupert Cornwell in London\'s The Independent. '
Advertisement
Advertisement