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Từ điển American Heritage Dictionary 4th
behavior
 be·hav·ior (bĭ-hāvʹyər)n.
1. The manner in which one behaves.
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a. The actions or reactions of a person or animal in response to external or internal stimuli.
b. One of these actions or reactions: “a hormone... known to directly control sex-specific reproductive and parenting behaviors in a wide variety of vertebrates” (Thomas Maugh II).
3. The manner in which something functions or operates:
the faulty behavior of a computer program; the behavior of dying stars. [Middle English behavour, from behaven, to behave (on the model of havour, behavior, from Old French avoir, from avoir, to have). See behave.] be·havʹior·al adj.be·havʹior·al·ly adv.
Synonyms: behavior, conduct, deportment
These nouns all pertain to a person's actions as they constitute a means of evaluation by others. Behavior is the most general: The children were on their best behavior. Conduct applies to actions considered from the standpoint of morality and ethics: “Life, not the parson, teaches conduct” (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.). Deportment more narrowly pertains to actions measured by a prevailing code of social behavior: “ [Old Mr. Turveydrop] was not like anything in the world but a model of Deportment” (Charles Dickens).
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