noun. Mayonnaise is a colloid. Mayonnaise is a colloid. The definition of a colloid is a combination of molecules mixed through other substances that will not settle out or join with the other substance. Mayonnaise and blood are both examples of colloids.
The story's opening operates on a contrast. At the same time that it introduces the reader to Jonathanâs constructive outlook, it obliquely references the extent of the war's devastation. Jonathan not only considers himself lucky, but has an almost dazed optimism in his manner and attitude.
For the Socrates of Plato's Apology the examined life is the life that seeks never to think it knows what it does not know, but recognizes its ignorance and seeks through dialectic, both in discourse with itself alone and with the help of others, to cure itself of its ignorance.