Aid-major
(n.) The adjutant of a regiment. |
Attorney-general
(n.) The chief law officer of the state, empowered to act in all litigation in which the law-executing power is a party, and to advise this supreme executive whenever required. |
Brigadier general
() An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier. |
Drum major
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Drum major
() The chief or first drummer of a regiment |
Drum major
() The marching leader of a military band. |
Drum major
() A noisy gathering. [R.] See under Drum, n., 4. |
Etat Major
() The staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, also, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, judge advocates |
General
(a.) Relating to a genus or kind |
General
(a.) Comprehending many species or individuals |
General
(a.) Not restrained or limited to a precise import |
General
(a.) Common to many, or the greatest number |
General
(a.) Having a relation to all |
General
(a.) As a whole |
General
(a.) Usual |
General
(a.) The whole |
General
(a.) One of the chief military officers of a government or country |
General
(a.) The roll of the drum which calls the troops together |
General
(a.) The chief of an order of monks, or of all the houses or congregations under the same rule. |
General
(a.) The public |
Governor general
() A governor who has lieutenant or deputy governors under him |
Lieutenant general
() An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general. |
Major
(a.) Greater in number, quantity, or extent |
Major
(a.) Of greater dignity |
Major
(a.) Of full legal age. |
Major
(a.) Greater by a semitone, either in interval or in difference of pitch from another tone. |
Major
(a.) An officer next in rank above a captain and next below a lieutenant colonel |
Major
(a.) A person of full age. |
Major
(a.) That premise which contains the major term. It its the first proposition of a regular syllogism |
Major
(a.) A mayor. |
Major-domo
(n.) A man who has authority to act, within certain limits, as master of the house |
Major general
() An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps. |
Postmasters-general
(pl. ) of Postmaster-general |
Postmaster-general
(n.) The chief officer of the post-office department of a government. In the United States the postmaster-general is a member of the cabinet. |
Solicitor-general
(n.) The second law officer in the government of Great Britain |
States-general
(n.) In France, before the Revolution, the assembly of the three orders of the kingdom, namely, the clergy, the nobility, and the third estate, or commonalty. |
States-general
(n.) In the Netherlands, the legislative body, composed of two chambers. |
Tierce-major
(n.) See Tierce, 4. |
| general election | a national or state election, candidates are chosen in all constituencies |
Attorney General
Attorney General of the United States | the position of the head of the Justice Department and the chief law enforcement officer of the United States, the post of Attorney General was created in |
| major surgery | any surgical procedure that involves anesthesia or respiratory assistance |
quarterback
signal caller
field general | (American football) the position of the football player in the backfield who directs the offensive play of his team, quarterback is the most important position on the team |
| general verdict | an ordinary verdict declaring which party prevails without any special findings of fact |
variola major
variola major virus | a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of up to percent |
sergeant major
Abudefduf saxatilis | large blue-grey black-striped damselfish, nearly worldwide |
command post
general headquarters
GHQ | military headquarters from which a military commander controls and organizes the forces |
country store
general store
trading post | a retail store serving a sparsely populated region, usually stocked with a wide variety of merchandise |
general anesthetic
general anaesthetic | an anesthetic that anesthetizes the entire body and causes loss of consciousness |
general-purpose bomb
GP bomb | a large bomb ( to , pounds that is % explosive) whose explosion creates a blast and whose metal casing creates some fragmentation effect |
inhalation anesthetic
inhalation anaesthetic
inhalation general anesthetic
inhalation general anaesthetic | a gas that produces general anesthesia when inhaled |
| major suit | (bridge) a suit of superior scoring value, either spades or hearts |
major tranquilizer
major tranquillizer
major tranquilliser
antipsychotic drug
antipsychotic agent
antipsychotic
neuroleptic drug
neuroleptic agent
neuroleptic | tranquilizer used to treat psychotic conditions when a calming effect is desired |
pectoralis major
musculus pectoralis major
greater pectoral muscle | a skeletal muscle that adducts and rotates the arm |
rhomboideus major muscle
greater rhomboid muscle
musculus rhomboideus major | rhomboid muscle that draws the scapula toward the spinal column |
teres major
teres major muscle
musculus teres major | teres muscle that moves the arm and rotates it medially |
public knowledge
general knowledge | knowledge that is available to anyone |
| general | a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular), he discussed the general but neglected the particular |
| major | the principal field of study of a student at a university, her major is linguistics |
| major axis | the longest axis of an ellipse or ellipsoid, passes through the two foci |
internal medicine
general medicine | the branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and (nonsurgical) treatment of diseases of the internal organs (especially in adults) |
anatomy
general anatomy r | the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals |
general relativity
general theory of relativity
general relativity theory
Einstein's general theory of relativity | a generalization of special relativity to include gravity (based on the principle of equivalence) |
| major form class | any of the major parts of speech of traditional grammar |
major premise
major premiss | the premise of a syllogism that contains the major term (which is the predicate of the conclusion) |
| major term | the term in a syllogism that is the predicate of the conclusion |
major scale
major diatonic scale | a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the rd and th and th and th |
major key
major mode | a key whose harmony is based on the major scale |
C major
C major scale
scale of C major | (music) the major scale having no sharps or flats |
| major lobe | the maximum lobe in the radiation pattern which is intended to be along the forward axis and which gives the effect of a beam |
act of God
force majeure
vis major
inevitable accident
unavoidable casualty | a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events, he discovered that his house was not insured against acts of God |
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command
PFLP-GC | a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization that conducted several attacks in western Europe |
major-league team
major-league club | a team that plays in a major league |
Arminian Baptist
General Baptist | group of Baptist congregations believing the teachings of the Dutch theologian Jacobus Arminius (who opposed the doctrine of strict predestination of the Calvinists) |
general delivery
poste restante | the part of a post office that handles mail for persons who call for it |
legislature
legislative assembly
legislative body
general assembly
law-makers | persons who make or amend or repeal laws |
| States General | assembly of the estates of an entire country especially the sovereign body of the Dutch republic from th to th centuries |
| Estates General | assembly of the estates of all France, last meeting in |
world power
major power
great power
power
superpower | a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world |
major league
big league
majors | the most important league in any sport (especially baseball) |
| General Assembly | the supreme deliberative assembly of the United Nations |
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GATT | a United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas |
Shin Bet
General Security Services | the Israeli domestic counterintelligence and internal security agency, the Shin Bet also handles overall security for Israel's national airline |
Office of Inspector General
OIG | the investigative arm of the Federal Trade Commission |
General Services Administration
GSA | a central management agency that sets Federal policy for Federal procurement and real property management and information resources management |
| general staff | military officers assigned to assist a senior officer in planning military policy |
Canis Major
Great Dog | a constellation to the southeast of Orion, contains Sirius |
Great Bear
Ursa Major | a constellation outside the zodiac that rotates around the North Star |
planet
major planet | (astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun, viewed from the constellation Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction |