mental hospital psychiatric hospital mental institution institution mental home insane asylum asylum | a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person |
orphanage orphans' asylum | a public institution for the care of orphans |
refuge sanctuary asylum | a shelter from danger or hardship |
power hunger status seeking | a drive to acquire power |
Commission on the Status of Women | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with the status of women in different societies |
condition status | a state at a particular time, a condition (or state) of disrepair, the current status of the arms negotiations |
status quo | the existing state of affairs |
status position | the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society, he had the status of a minor, the novel attained the status of a classic, atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life |
social station social status social rank rank | position in a social hierarchy, the British are more aware of social status than Americans are |
high status | a position of superior status |
seniority senior status higher status higher rank | higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service |
low status lowness lowliness | a position of inferior status, low in station or rank or fortune or estimation |
inferiority lower status lower rank | the state of being inferior |
junior status | in a junior position |
legal status | a status defined by law |
marital status | the condition of being married or unmarried |
status epilepticus | a condition in which there are continuing attacks of epilepsy without intervals of consciousness, can lead to brain damage and death |
status asthmaticus | a prolonged and severe asthma attack that does not respond to standard treatment |
receive | convert into sounds or pictures, receive the incoming radio signals |
receive get find obtain incur | receive a specified treatment (abstract), These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation, His movie received a good review, I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions |
receive | regard favorably or with disapproval, Her new collection of poems was not well received |
assume presume take for granted | take to be the case or to be true, accept without verification or proof, I assume his train was late |
receive | accept as true or valid, He received Christ |
welcome receive | bid welcome to, greet upon arrival |
receive | partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament |
receive take in invite c | express willingness to have in one's home or environs, The community warmly received the refugees |
pick up receive | register (perceptual input), pick up a signal |
experience receive have get | go through (mental or physical states or experiences), get an idea, experience vertigo, get nauseous, receive injuries, have a feeling |
get e receive f | receive as a retribution or punishment, He got years in prison |
receive have | get something, come into possession of, receive payment, receive a gift, receive letters from the front |
receive | have or give a reception, The lady is receiving Sunday morning |
meet encounter receive | experience as a reaction, My proposal met with much opposition |
given granted | acknowledged as a supposition, given the engine's condition, it is a wonder that it started |
axiomatic self-evident taken for granted(p) | evident without proof or argument, an axiomatic truth, we hold these truths to be self-evident |