Birth
(n.) The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born |
Birth
(n.) Lineage |
Birth
(n.) The condition to which a person is born |
Birth
(n.) The act of bringing forth |
Birth
(n.) That which is born |
Birth
(n.) Origin |
Birth
(n.) See Berth. |
Certificate
(n.) A written testimony to the truth of any fact |
Certificate
(n.) A written declaration legally authenticated. |
Certificate
(v. t.) To verify or vouch for by certificate. |
Certificate
(v. t.) To furnish with a certificate |
Chock-full
(a.) Quite full |
Choke-full
(a.) Full to the brim |
Cross-birth
(n.) Any preternatural labor, in which the body of the child lies across the pelvis of the mother, so that the shoulder, arm, or trunk is the part first presented at the mouth of the uterus. |
Descent
(n.) The act of descending, or passing downward |
Descent
(n.) Incursion |
Descent
(n.) Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc. |
Descent
(n.) Derivation, as from an ancestor |
Descent
(n.) Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line |
Descent
(n.) Inclination downward |
Descent
(n.) That which is descended |
Descent
(n.) A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation |
Descent
(n.) Lowest place |
Descent
(n.) A passing from a higher to a lower tone. |
form
(n.) A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc. |
Form
(n.) The shape and structure of anything, as distinguished from the material of which it is composed |
Form
(n.) Constitution |
Form
(n.) Established method of expression or practice |
Form
(n.) Show without substance |
Form
(n.) Orderly arrangement |
Form
(n.) A shape |
Form
(n.) That by which shape is given or determined |
Form
(n.) A long seat |
Form
(n.) The seat or bed of a hare. |
Form
(n.) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase. |
Form
(n.) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body. |
Form
(n.) The particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech |
Form
(n.) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid. |
Form
(n.) That assemblage or disposition of qualities which makes a conception, or that internal constitution which makes an existing thing to be what it is |
Form
(n.) Mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the intellect |
Form
(n.) The peculiar characteristics of an organism as a type of others |
Form
(n.) To give form or shape to |
Form
(n.) To give a particular shape to |
Form
(n.) To go to make up |
Form
(n.) To provide with a form, as a hare. See Form, n., 9. |
Form
(n.) To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes. |
Form
(v. i.) To take a form, definite shape, or arrangement |
Form
(v. i.) To run to a form, as a hare. |
Full
(Compar.) Filled up, having within its limits all that it can contain |
Full
(Compar.) Abundantly furnished or provided |
shape
form | the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance, geometry is the mathematical science of shape |
breech delivery
breech birth
breech presentation | delivery of an infant whose feet or buttocks appear first |
| descent | the act of changing your location in a downward direction |
gainer
full gainer | a dive in which the diver throws the feet forward to complete a full backward somersault and enters the water feet first and facing away from the diving board |
| full nelson | a wrestling hold in which the holder puts both arms under the opponent's arms and exerts pressure on the back of the neck (illegal in amateur wrestling) |
birth control
birth prevention
family planning | limiting the number of children born |
rhythm method of birth control
rhythm method
rhythm
calendar method of birth control
calendar method | natural family planning in which ovulation is assumed to occur days before the onset of a period (the fertile period would be assumed to extend from daythrough day of her cycle) |
| form genus | an artificial taxonomic category established on the basis of morphological resemblance for organisms of obscure true relationships especially fossil forms |
contraceptive
preventive preventative contraceptive device
prophylactic device
birth control device | an agent or device intended to prevent conception |
dress suit
full dress
tailcoat
tail coat
tails white tie white tie and tails | formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men |
| form | a mold for setting concrete, they built elaborate forms for pouring the foundation |
| full-dress uniform | the naval or military uniform that is specified by regulations to be worn on ceremonial occasions |
| full metal jacket | a lead bullet that is covered with a jacket of a harder metal (usually copper) |
| full skirt | a long skirt gathered at the waist |
| full-wave rectifier | rectifier that converts the negative half wave of an alternating current into a positive half wave |
mannequin
manikin
mannikin
manakin
form | a life-size dummy used to display clothes |
pill birth control pill
contraceptive pill
oral contraceptive pill
oral contraceptive
anovulatory drug
anovulant | a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception |
form
shape cast | the visual appearance of something or someone, the delicate cast of his features |
| good form | behavior that conforms to social conventions of the time, it is not good form to brag about winning |
origin
descent
extraction | properties attributable to your ancestry, he comes from good origins |
| full blood | descent from parents both of one pure breed |
| form | a particular mode in which something is manifested, his resentment took the form of extreme hostility |
shape
form configuration
contour
conformation | any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline), he could barely make out their shapes |
| form | an ability to perform well, he was at the top of his form, the team was off form last night |
| life form | the characteristic bodily form of a mature organism |
e human body
physical body
material body
soma
build
figure
physique
anatomy
shape
bod
chassis
frame form
flesh | alternative names for the body of a human being, Leonardo studied the human body, he has a strong physique, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak |
| birth canal | a passage in the uterus and vagina through which a fetus passes during vaginal birth |
kind
sort
form variety | a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality, sculpture is a form of art, what kinds of desserts are there? |
| art form | (architecture) a form of artistic expression (such as writing or painting or architecture) |
form
shape
pattern | a perceptual structure, the composition presents problems for students of musical form, a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them |
| sonata form | a musical form having sections -- exposition and development and recapitulation, characteristic of st movement of a sonata or symphony |
Virgin Birth
Nativity | the theological doctrine that Jesus Christ had no human father, Christians believe that Jesus's birth fulfilled Old Testament prophecies and was attended by miracles, the Nativity is celebrated at Christmas |
| full page | something that covers an entire page, the ad took up a full page |
form
word form
signifier
descriptor | the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something, the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached |
plural
plural form | the form of a word that is used to denote more than one |
singular
singular form | the form of a word that is used to denote a singleton |
citation form
main entry word
entry word | the form of a word that heads a lexical entry and is alphabetized in a dictionary |
free morpheme
free form | a morpheme that can occur alone |
bound morpheme
bound form | a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction, eg an -s at the end of plural nouns |
| combining form | a bound form used only in compounds, `hemato-' is a combining form in words like `hematology' |
part of speech
form class
word class | one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context |
| major form class | any of the major parts of speech of traditional grammar |
transitive verb
transitive verb form
transitive | a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical |
doubly transitive verb
doubly transitive verb form | a transitive verb that takes both a direct and an indirect object |
intransitive verb
intransitive verb form
intransitive | a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object |
title title of respect
form of address | an identifying appellation signifying status or function: e.g. `Mr.' or `General', the professor didn't like his friends to use his formal title |
poem
verse form | a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines |
certificate
certification credential
credentials | a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts |
| form | a printed document with spaces in which to write, he filled out his tax form |
| application form | a form to use when making an application |