soccer
association football | a football game in which two teams of players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal |
| association | the act of consorting with or joining with others, you cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association |
| automobile engine | the engine that propels an automobile |
automobile factory
auto factory
car factory | a factory where automobiles are manufactured |
automobile horn
car horn
motor horn
horn hooter | a device on an automobile for making a warning noise |
car
auto
automobile
machine motorcar | a motor vehicle with four wheels, usually propelled by an internal combustion engine, he needs a car to get to work |
car battery
automobile battery | a lead-acid storage battery in a motor vehicle, usually a -volt battery of six cells, the heart of the car's electrical system |
car tire
automobile tire
auto tire
rubber tire | a tire consisting of a rubber ring around the rim of an automobile wheel |
electric
electric automobile
electric car | a car that is powered by electricity |
luggage compartment
automobile trunk
trunk | compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools, he put his golf bag in the trunk |
National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations
NASDAQ | a computerized data system to provide brokers with price quotations for securities traded over the counter |
association area
association cortex | cortical areas that are neither motor or sensory but are thought to be involved in higher processing of information |
association
connection
connexion | the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination, conditioning is a form of learning by association |
| free association | a thought process in which ideas (words or images) suggest other ideas in a sequence |
associationism
association theory | (psychology) a theory that association is the basic principle of mental activity |
automobile race
auto race
car race | a race between (usually high-performance) automobiles |
| association | (ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species |
Kaplan Group
Association of Islamic Groups and Communities
Caliphate State | a Turkish terrorist group of fundamentalist Muslims with ties to al-Qaeda that operates in Germany, seeks the violent overthrow of the Turkish government and the establishment of an Islamic nation modeled on Iran |
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
LTTE
Tamil Tigers
Tigers
World Tamil Association
World Tamil Movement | a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began inas a student protest over the limited university access for Tamil students, currently seeks to establish an independent Tamil state called Eelam, relies on guerilla strategy including terrorist tactics that target key government and military personnel, the Tamil Tigers perfected suicide bombing as a weapon of war |
Orange Order
Association of Orangemen | a Protestant political organization in Northern Ireland |
Ulster Defence Association
UDA | the major Protestant paramilitary group in Northern Ireland, responsible for bombing the homes of Catholics and for criminal racketeering and selling drugs |
| association | a formal organization of people or groups of people, he joined the Modern Language Association |
| automobile industry | the manufacturers of automobiles considered collectively |
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
National Volunteers Association | an all-male organization begun in to foster nationalism in India's Hindus |
Lions Club
International Association of Lions clubs | club dedicated to promoting responsible citizenship and good government and community and national and international welfare |
| professional association | an association of practitioners of a given profession |
International Development Association
IDA | an agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank |
news agency
press agency
wire service
press association
news organization
news organisation | an agency to collects news reports for newspapers and distributes it electronically |
National Rifle Association
NRA | a powerful lobby that advocates the right to own and bear arms and rejects any gun regulation by the government |
Federal National Mortgage Association
Fannie Mae
FNMA | a federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages |
savings and loan
savings and loan association | a thrift institution that is required by law to make a certain percentage of its loans as home mortgages |
automobile traffic
car traffic | cars coming and going |
Association for the Advancement of Retired Persons
AARP | an association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens |
| National Association of Realtors | a United States association of real estate agents which follows a strict code of ethics |
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
ASEAN | an association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia and who joined with the United States to fight against global terrorism |
automobile mechanic
auto-mechanic
car-mechanic
mechanic grease monkey | someone whose occupation is repairing and maintaining automobiles |
racer
race driver
automobile driver | someone who drives racing cars at high speeds |
automobile insurance
car insurance | insurance against loss due to theft or traffic accidents |
no fault insurance
no fault automobile insurance | a system of automobile insurance where a party who is injured in an automobile accident recovers damages up to a specific amount against his own insurance company regardless of who was responsible for the accident, the amount of litigation resulting from minor accidents is reduced by no fault insurance |
automobile loan
auto loan
car loan | a personal loan to purchase an automobile |
| association | (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding |
| association | a relation resulting from interaction or dependence, flints were found in association with the prehistoric remains of the bear, the host is not always injured by association with a parasite |
affiliation
association
tie tie-up | a social or business relationship, a valuable financial affiliation, he was sorry he had to sever his ties with other members of the team, many close associations with England |
| guilt by association | the attribution of guilt (without proof) to individuals because the people they associate with are guilty |
| association | the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination, his association of his father with being beaten was too strong to break |
| automobile | travel in an automobile |