Chairman
(n.) The presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body. |
Chairman
(n.) One whose business it is to cary a chair or sedan. |
Colorado group
() A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region. |
Dakota group
() A subdivision at the base of the cretaceous formation in Western North America |
Fair-leader
(n.) A block, or ring, serving as a guide for the running rigging or for any rope. |
Floor
(n.) The bottom or lower part of any room |
Floor
(n.) The structure formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2. |
Floor
(n.) The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel |
Floor
(n.) A story of a building. See Story. |
Floor
(n.) The part of the house assigned to the members. |
Floor
(n.) The right to speak. |
Floor
(n.) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal. |
Floor
(n.) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit. |
Floor
(n.) A horizontal, flat ore body. |
Floor
(v. t.) To cover with a floor |
Floor
(v. t.) To strike down or lay level with the floor |
Floor
(v. t.) To finish or make an end of |
Group
(n.) A cluster, crowd, or throng |
Group
(n.) An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic |
Group
(n.) A variously limited assemblage of animals or plants, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera, or even several orders. |
Group
(n.) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems |
Group
(n.) To form a group of |
Harlech group
() A minor subdivision at the base of the Cambrian system in Wales. |
Laramie group
() An extensive series of strata, principally developed in the Rocky Mountain region, as in the Laramie Mountains, and formerly supposed to be of the Tertiary age, but now generally regarded as Cretaceous, or of intermediate and transitional character. It contains beds of lignite, often valuable for coal, and is hence also called the lignitic group. See Chart of Geology. |
Leader
(n.) One who, or that which, leads or conducts |
Leader
(n.) One who goes first. |
Leader
(n.) One having authority to direct |
Leader
(n.) A performer who leads a band or choir in music |
Leader
(n.) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places. |
Leader
(n.) The principal wheel in any kind of machinery. |
Leader
(n.) A horse placed in advance of others |
Leader
(n.) A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground |
Leader
(n.) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc. |
Leader
(n.) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one. |
Leader
(n.) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper |
Leader
(n.) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face. |
Leader
(n.) a row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number. |
Llandeilo group
() A series of strata in the lower Silurian formations of Great Britain |
Ludlow group
() A subdivision of the British Upper Silurian lying below the Old Red Sandstone |
Party
(v.) A part or portion. |
Party
(v.) A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association |
Party
(v.) A part of a larger body of company |
Party
(v.) A number of persons invited to a social entertainment |
Party
(v.) One concerned or interested in an affair |
Party
(v.) The plaintiff or the defendant in a lawsuit, whether an individual, a firm, or corporation |
Party
(v.) Hence, any certain person who is regarded as being opposed or antagonistic to another. |
Party
(v.) Cause |
Party
(v.) A person |
Party
(v.) Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries |
Party
(v.) Partial |
group
grouping | any number of entities (members) considered as a unit |
whip
lash
whiplash | a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object, the whip raised a red welt |
| party game | a game to amuse guests at a party |
cabaret
floorshow
floor show | a series of acts at a night club |
| group practice | (medicine) the practice of medicine by a group of physicians who share their premises and other resources |
group therapy
group psychotherapy | psychotherapy in which a small group of individuals meet with a therapist, interactions among the members are considered to be therapeutic |
campaigning
candidacy
candidature
electioneering
political campaign | the campaign of a candidate to be elected |
| group action | action taken by a group of people |
| Boston Tea Party | demonstration () by citizens of Boston who (disguised as Indians) raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor, organized as a protest against taxes on tea |
| party spirit | devotion to a political party |
| group participation | participation by all members of a group |
whip-snake
whip snake
whipsnake | any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails |
whip-scorpion
whip scorpion | nonvenomous arachnid that resembles a scorpion and that has a long thin tail without a stinger |
Adapid
Adapid group | extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit, abundant in North America and Europetomillion years ago, their descendents probably include the lemurs, some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins |
Omomyid
Omomyid group | extinct tiny nocturnal lower primates that fed on fruit and insects, abundant in North America and Europetomillion years ago, probably gave rise to the tarsiers, some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins |
| buggy whip | a horsewhip once used by a driver of a buggy, since buggies have been replaced by cars the buggy whip has become a symbol for anything that is hopelessly outmoded |
| dance floor | a bare floor polished for dancing |
drawing card
loss leader
leader | a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers |
floor
flooring | the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure), they needed rugs to cover the bare floors, we spread our sleeping bags on the dry floor of the tent |
floor level storey
story | a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale, what level is the office on? |
| floor trading floor | a large room in a exchange where the trading is done, he is a floor trader |
| floor | the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business, there was a motion from the floor |
floorboard
floor board | a board in the floor |
floor cover
floor covering | a covering for a floor |
| floor joist | joist that supports a floor |
| floor lamp | a lamp that stands on the floor |
| floor plan | scale drawing of a horizontal section through a building at a given level, contrasts with elevation |
fly gallery
fly floor | a narrow raised platform at the side of a stage in a theater, stagehands can work the ropes controlling equipment in the flies |
ground floor
first floor
ground level | the floor of a building that is at or nearest to the level of the ground around the building |
mezzanine
mezzanine floor
entresol | intermediate floor just above the ground floor |
| parquet parquet floor | a floor made of parquetry |
party favor
party favour
favor
favour | souvenir consisting of a small gift given to a guest at a party |
| party line | a telephone line serving two or more subscribers |
| party wall | a wall erected on the line between two properties and shared by both owners |
| shop floor | workplace consisting of the part of a factory housing the machines, the productive work is done on the shop floor |
| threshing floor | a floor or ground area for threshing or treading out grain |
| whip | an instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping |
whipping top
whip top | a top that is spun by whipping |
political correctness
political correctitude | avoidance of expressions or actions that can be perceived to exclude or marginalize or insult people who are socially disadvantaged or discriminated against |
| political incorrectness | the use of expressions or actions that can be perceived to exclude or marginalize or insult groups who are socially disadvantaged or discriminated against |
| whip | (golf) the flexibility of the shaft of a golf club |
upper hand
whip hand | position of advantage and control |
| floor | the parliamentary right to address an assembly, the chairman granted him the floor |
| privilege of the floor | the right to be admitted onto the floor of a legislative assembly while it is in session |
blood group
blood type | human blood cells (usually just the red blood cells) that have the same antigens |
A
type A
group A | the blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen |
B
type B
group B | the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen |
AB
type AB
group AB | the blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens |
O
type O
group O | the blood group whose red cells carry neither the A nor B antigens, people with type O blood are universal donors |
linkage group
linked genes | any pair of genes that tend to be transmitted together, the genes of Drosophila fall into four linkage groups |