addiction | (Roman law) a formal award by a magistrate of a thing or person to another person (as the award of a debtor to his creditor), a surrender to a master, under Roman law addiction was the justification for slavery |
beauty treatment | enhancement of someone's personal beauty |
maltreatment ill-treatment ill-usage abuse | cruel or inhumane treatment, the child showed signs of physical abuse |
cruelty inhuman treatment | a cruel act, a deliberate infliction of pain and suffering |
program programme | a performance (or series of performances) at a public presentation, the program lasted more than two hours |
treatment intervention | care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury) |
detoxification | treatment for poisoning by neutralizing the toxic properties (normally a function of the liver) |
detoxification | a treatment for addiction to drugs or alcohol intended to remove the physiological effects of the addictive substances |
shock therapy shock treatment | treatment of certain psychotic states by the administration of shocks that are followed by convulsions |
insulin shock insulin shock therapy insulin shock treatment | the administration of sufficient insulin to induce convulsions and coma |
metrazol shock metrazol shock therapy metrazol shock treatment | the administration of sufficient Metrazol to induce convulsions and coma |
orthodontic treatment | dental treatment that corrects irregularities of the teeth or of the relation of the teeth to surrounding anatomy, treatment is usually by braces or mechanical aids, orthodontic treatment of facial abnormalities |
alcohol abuse alcoholic abuse alcoholism abuse | excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic drinks |
treatment handling | the management of someone or something, the handling of prisoners, the treatment of water sewage, the right to equal treatment in the criminal justice system |
silent treatment | an aloof refusal to speak to someone you know |
alcohol thermometer alcohol-in-glass thermometer | thermometer consisting of a glass capillary tube marked with degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit and containing alcohol which rises or falls as it expands or contracts with changes in temperature |
detox | the hospital ward or clinic in which patients are detoxified |
rubbing alcohol | lotion consisting of a poisonous solution of isopropyl alcohol or denatured ethanol alcohol for external use |
tribromoethanol tribromoethyl alcohol | an intravenous anesthetic |
treatment | a manner of dealing with something artistically, his treatment of space borrows from Italian architecture |
audit program audit programme | a listing of audit procedures to be performed in completing an audit |
plan program programme | a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished, they drew up a six-step plan, they discussed plans for a new bond issue |
program programme | a system of projects or services intended to meet a public need, he proposed an elaborate program of public works, working mothers rely on the day care program |
program programme computer program computer programme | (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute, the program required several hundred lines of code |
application application program applications programme | a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task, he has tried several different word processing applications |
broadcast program programme | a radio or television show, did you see his program last night? |
course of study program programme curriculum syllabus | an integrated course of academic studies, he was admitted to a new program at the university |
crash course crash program crash programme | a rapid and intense course of training or research (usually undertaken in an emergency), he took a crash course in Italian on his way to Italy, his first job was a crash course in survival and in learning how to get along with people, a crash programme is needed to create new jobs |
program programme | an announcement of the events that will occur as part of a theatrical or sporting event, you can't tell the players without a program |
discussion treatment discourse | an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic, the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic, his treatment of the race question is badly biased |
comprehensive examination comprehensive comp | an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge, she took her comps in English literature |
short shrift summary treatment | a brief and unsympathetic rejection, they made short shrift of my request |
program music programme music | musical compositions intended to evoke images or remind the listener of events |
addiction | an abnormally strong craving |
alcohol alcoholic drink alcoholic beverage intoxicant inebriant | a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent, alcohol (or drink) ruined him |
neutral spirits ethyl alcohol | nonflavored alcohol of percent orproof used for blending with straight whiskies and in making gin and liqueurs |
Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms ATF | the law enforcement and tax collection agency of the Treasury Department that enforces federal laws concerning alcohol and tobacco products and firearms and explosives and arson |
comprehensive school composite school | a large British or Canadian secondary school for children of all abilities |
addiction dependence dependance dependency habituation | being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) |
drug addiction white plague | an addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug) |
alcoholism alcohol addiction inebriation drunkenness | habitual intoxication, prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms |
cocaine addiction | an addiction to cocaine |
heroin addiction | an addiction to heroin |
caffein addiction | an addiction to caffein |
nicotine addiction | an addiction to nicotine |
fetal alcohol syndrome FAS | a congenital medical condition in which body deformation occurs or facial development or mental ability is impaired because the mother drinks alcohol during pregnancy |
alcoholic dementia alcohol amnestic disorder Korsakoff's psychosis Korsakoff's syndrome Korsakov's psychosis Korsakov's syndrome polyneuritic psychosis | dementia observed during the last stages of severe chronic alcoholism, involves loss of memory for recent events although long term memory is intact |
a whole shebang whole kit and caboodle kit and caboodle whole kit and boodle kit and boodle whole kit whole caboodle whole works works full treatment | everything available, usually preceded by `the', we saw the whole shebang, a hotdog with the works, we took on the whole caboodle, for $ you get the full treatment |
alcohol group alcohol radical | the chemical group -OH |
methanol methyl alcohol wood alcohol wood spirit | a light volatile flammable poisonous liquid alcohol, used as an antifreeze and solvent and fuel and as a denaturant for ethyl alcohol |