check checkout
check-out procedure | the act of inspecting or verifying, they made a check of their equipment, the pilot ran through the check-out procedure |
diagnostic procedure
diagnostic technique | a procedure followed in making a medical diagnosis |
| emergency procedure | (medicine) a procedure adopted to meet an emergency (especially a medical emergency) |
| experimental procedure | the specific techniques used in conducting a particular experiment |
double-blind procedure
double-blind experiment
double-blind study | an experimental procedure in which neither the subjects of the experiment nor the persons administering the experiment know the critical aspects of the experiment, a double-blind procedure is used to guard against both experimenter bias and placebo effects |
Gram's method
Gram method
Gram's procedure
Gram's stain
Gram stain | a staining technique used to classify bacteria, bacteria are stained with gentian violet and then treated with Gram's solution, after being decolorized with alcohol and treated with safranine and washed in water, those that retain the gentian violet are Gram-positive and those that do not retain it are Gram-negative |
| international flight | a flight that takes off in one country and lands in another |
| operation procedure | a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work, the operations in building a house, certain machine tool operations |
| advisory service | a consulting service in which a CPA develops findings and conclusions and recommendations that are presented to the client for consideration and decision making |
operation
surgery surgical operation
surgical procedure
surgical process | a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments, performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body, they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available, he died while undergoing surgery |
desensitization technique
desensitisation technique
desensitization procedure
desensitisation procedure
systematic desensitization
systematic desensitisation | a technique used in behavior therapy to treat phobias and other behavior problems involving anxiety, client is exposed to the threatening situation under relaxed conditions until the anxiety reaction is extinguished |
| international terrorism | terrorism practiced in a foreign country by terrorists who are not native to that country |
| jihad jehad international jihad | a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels |
| procedure | a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings |
procedure
process | a particular course of action intended to achieve a result, the procedure of obtaining a driver's license, it was a process of trial and error |
| medical procedure | a procedure employed by medical or dental practitioners |
| dental procedure | a procedure employed by a dentist |
| operating procedure | a procedure for operating something or for dealing with a given situation |
standing operating procedure
standard operating procedure
SOP
standard procedure | a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely, rote memorization has been the educator's standard operating procedure for centuries |
bureaucratic procedure
red tape | needlessly timeonsuming procedure |
world affairs
international affairs | affairs between nations, you can't really keep up with world affairs by watching television |
mutual aid
international logistic support | arrangements made between nations to assist each other |
concert pitch
philharmonic pitch
international pitch | the pitch used to tune instruments for concert performances, usually assignsHz to the A above middle C |
cloze procedure
cloze test | a test for diagnosing reading ability, words are deleted from a prose passage and the reader is required to fill in the blanks |
statistical method
statistical procedure | a method of analyzing or representing statistical data, a procedure for calculating a statistic |
Morse
Morse code
international Morse code | a telegraph code in which letters and numbers are represented by strings of dots and dashes (short and long signals) |
routine
subroutine
subprogram
procedure
function | a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program |
| cataloged procedure | a set of control statements that have been placed in a library and can be retrieved by name |
| contingency procedure | an alternative to the normal procedure, triggered if an unusual but anticipated situation arises |
order rules of order
parliamentary law
parliamentary procedure | a body of rules followed by an assembly |
| advisory | an announcement that usually advises or warns the public of some threat, a frost advisory |
International Wanted Notice
Red Notice | an Interpol notice describing a wanted person and asking that he or she be arrested with a view to extradition, a wanted notice that is issued by Interpol at the request of an Interpol member country and distributed to all member countries, an Interpol Red Notice is the closest instrument to an international arrest warrant in use today |
| International Islamic Front for Jihad against Jews and Crusaders | a terrorist group organized by Osama bin Laden in that provided an umbrella organization for al-Qaeda and other militant groups in Egypt and Algeria and Pakistan and Bangladesh |
Japanese Red Army
JRA
Anti-Imperialist International Brigade | a terrorist group organized into overthrow the Japanese government and monarchy and to foment world revolution, is said to have close ties with Palestinian terrorists, in the Japanese Red Army was responsible for a massacre at an airport in Israel |
Hare Krishna
International Society for Krishna Consciousness
ISKCON | a religious sect founded in the United States in , based on Vedic scriptures, groups engage in joyful chanting of `Hare Krishna' and other mantras based on the name of the Hindu god Krishna, devotees usually wear saffron robes and practice vegetarianism and celibacy |
Lions Club
International Association of Lions clubs | club dedicated to promoting responsible citizenship and good government and community and national and international welfare |
Rotary Club
Rotary International | a group of businessmen in a town organized as a service club and to promote world peace |
world organization
world organisation
international organization
international organisation
global organization | an international alliance involving many different countries |
International Court of Justice
World Court | a court established to settle disputes between members of the United Nations |
United Nations Children's Fund
United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
UNICEF | an agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries |
International Atomic Energy Agency
IAEA | the United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy |
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
World Bank
IBRD | a United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments |
International Civil Aviation Organization
ICAO | the United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation |
International Development Association
IDA | an agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank |
International Finance Corporation
IFC | a United Nations agency that invests directly in companies and guarantees loans to private investors, affiliated with the World Bank |
International Labor Organization
International Labour Organization
ILO | the United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor |
International Maritime Organization
IMO | the United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities |
International Monetary Fund
IMF | a United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies |
United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
Centre for International Crime Prevention | the United Nations office responsible for crime prevention and criminal justice and law reform |
| international intelligence agency | an intelligence agency outside the United States |