Characteristic (a.) Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character |
Characteristic (n.) A distinguishing trait, quality, or property |
Characteristic (n.) The integral part (whether positive or negative) of a logarithm. |
Feature (n.) The make, form, or outward appearance of a person |
Feature (n.) The make, cast, or appearance of the human face, and especially of any single part of the face |
Feature (n.) The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay |
Feature (n.) A form |
Main (n.) A hand or match at dice. |
Main (n.) A stake played for at dice. |
Main (n.) The largest throw in a match at dice |
Main (n.) A match at cockfighting. |
Main (n.) A main-hamper. |
Main (v.) Strength |
Main (v.) The chief or principal part |
Main (v.) The great sea, as distinguished from an arm, bay, etc. |
Main (v.) The continent, as distinguished from an island |
Main (v.) principal duct or pipe, as distinguished from lesser ones |
Main (a.) Very or extremely strong. |
Main (a.) Vast |
Main (a.) Unqualified |
Main (a.) Principal |
Main (a.) Important |
Main (a.) Very |
Main-gauche (n.) The dagger held in the left hand, while the rapier is held in the right |
Main-hamper (n.) A hamper to be carried in the hand |
Main yard () The yard on which the mainsail is extended, supported by the mainmast. |
Principal (a.) Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree |
Principal (a.) Of or pertaining to a prince |
Principal (n.) A leader, chief, or head |
Principal (n.) The chief actor in a crime, or an abettor who is present at it, -- as distinguished from an accessory. |
Principal (n.) A chief obligor, promisor, or debtor, -- as distinguished from a surety. |
Principal (n.) One who employs another to act for him, -- as distinguished from an agent. |
Principal (n.) A thing of chief or prime importance |
Principal (n.) A capital sum of money, placed out at interest, due as a debt or used as a fund |
Principal (n.) The construction which gives shape and strength to a roof, -- generally a truss of timber or iron, but there are roofs with stone principals. Also, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing. |
Principal (n.) In English organs the chief open metallic stop, an octave above the open diapason. On the manual it is four feet long, on the pedal eight feet. In Germany this term corresponds to the English open diapason. |
Principal (n.) A heirloom |
Principal (n.) The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing. |
Principal (n.) One of turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and center of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned. |
Principal (n.) A principal or essential point or rule |
psychological feature | a feature of the mental life of a living organism |
twin bill doubleheader double feature | two games instead of one (especially in baseball when the same two teams play two games on the same day) |
surprise attack coup de main | an attack without warning |
electric main | a main that distributes electricity |
feature | an article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles |
gas main | a main that distributes gas |
headquarters central office main office home office home base | (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise, many companies have their headquarters in New York |
highway main road | a major road for any form of motor transport |
main | a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage |
main course | a square mainsail |
main deck second deck | the uppermost sheltered deck that runs the entire length of a large vessel |
main drag | the main street of a town or city |
main line | the principal route of a transportation system |
main rotor | rotor consisting of large rotating airfoils on a singleotor helicopter that produce the lift to support the helicopter in the air |
main street high street | street that serves as a principal thoroughfare for traffic in a town |
main-topmast | the topmast next above the mainmast |
main-topsail | a topsail set on the mainmast |
main yard | yard for a square mainsail |
riser riser pipe riser pipeline riser main | a vertical pipe in a building |
sewer main sewer line | a main in a sewage system |
water main | main (a pipe or conduit) for conveying water |
characteristic | a distinguishing quality |
characteristic device characteristic | any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions |
sex characteristic sexual characteristic sex character | those characteristics (both anatomical and psychological) that are strongly associated with one sex relative to the other |
primary sex characteristic primary sexual characteristic primary sex character | the genetically determined sex characteristics bound up with reproduction (genitals and organs of reproduction) |
secondary sex characteristic secondary sexual characteristic secondary sex character | the genetically determined sex characteristics that are not functionally necessary for reproduction (pitch of the voice and body hair and musculature) |
feature lineament | the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin, an expression of pleasure crossed his features, his lineaments were very regular |
feature characteristic | a prominent attribute or aspect of something, the map showed roads and other features, generosity is one of his best characteristics |
feature of speech feature | (linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kind |
attraction attractor attracter attractive feature magnet | a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts, flowers are an attractor for bees |
peculiarity distinctive feature distinguishing characteristic | an odd or unusual characteristic |
safety feature | feature of an artifact that is added to insure a user's safety |
eigenvalue eigenvalue of a matrix eigenvalue of a square matrix characteristic root of a square matrix | (mathematics) any number such that a given square matrix minus that number times the identity matrix has a zero determinant |
principal axis optic axis | a line that passes through the center of curvature of a lens so that light is neither reflected nor refracted, in a normal eye the optic axis is the direction in which objects are seen most distinctly |
feature feature article | a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine, they ran a feature on retirement planning |
citation form main entry word entry word | the form of a word that heads a lexical entry and is alphabetized in a dictionary |
main clause independent clause | a clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence |
master file main file | (computer science) a computer file that is used as the authority in a given job and that is relatively permanent |
feature feature film | the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater, the feature tonight is `Casablanca' |
characteristic | the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm, in the expression log . the characteristic is |
frequencyesponse curve frequencyesponse characteristic | (electronics) a graph of frequency response with signal amplitude or gain plotted against frequency |
characteristic curve characterisic function | (electronics) graph showing how a particular characteristic of a device varies with other parameters |
entree main course | the principal dish of a meal |
main diagonal principal diagonal | the diagonal of a square matrix running from the upper left entry to the lower right entry |
Main Street | any small town (or the people who inhabit it), generally used to represent parochialism and materialism (after a novel by Sinclair Lewis), Main Street will never vote for a liberal politician |
Frankfurt on the Main Frankfurt Frankfort | a German city, an industrial and commercial and financial center |
main briny | any very large body of (salt) water |
principal dealer | the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange, buys and sells for his own account |
principal school principal head teacher head | the educator who has executive authority for a school, she sent unruly pupils to see the principal |
principal | (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement |