A ritual, as scholars define it, is a special act that links people through shared meaning.

Instead, scholars define self-disclosure as sharing information with others that they would not normally know or discover.

Not all scholars define acting white in the same way.

Some scholars define crime as deviance from a social consensus of permitted behaviour.

Many scholars and authors define international law as "the law governing relations between sovereign, territorial states."

Future studies on this topic may allow scholars to define whether or not society is becoming too dependent on the Internet as a social tool.

Other scholars define it as a non-Vedic, indigenous part of Hinduism.

Some scholars define religion simply as our attempt to make logical sense of those two facts.

The ancient scholars defined the genre on the basis of the metrical form, not the content.

More broadly, scholars in the field define aesthetics as "critical reflection on art, culture and nature."