Drawings and pictures are more than mereornaments in scientificdiscourse. Blackboardsketches, geologicalmaps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomicalphotographs, MRI images, the manyvarieties of statisticalcharts and graphs: These pictorialdevices are indispensable tools for presentingevidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
[ …] in his discourse on the heinoussins of chowsing, cheating, and defraudingone'sneighbours, [ …]
Meaning of discourse for the defined word.
Grammaticalement, ce mot "discourse" est un nom, plus spécifiquement, un noms dénombrable et un singularia tantum. C'est aussi un verbe, plus spécifiquement, un verbes intransitif et un verbes transitif.