bell ringer
bull's eye mark home run | something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal, the new advertising campaign was a bell ringer, scored a bull's eye, hit the mark, the president's speech was a home run |
homer
home run | a base hit on which the batter scores a run |
| home game | a game played at home |
| home invasion | burglary of a dwelling while the residents are at home |
| home study | a course of study carried out at home rather than in a classroom |
| creating by mental acts | the act of creating something by thinking |
| mental measurement | a generic term used to cover any application of measurement techniques to the quantification of mental functions |
test mental test
mental testing
psychometric test | any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc, the test was standardized on a large sample of students |
harvest harvesting
harvest home | the gathering of a ripened crop |
| home banking | banking in which transactions are conducted by means of electronic communication (via telephone or computer) |
c Bedlam
booby hatch
crazy house
cuckoo's nest
funny farm
funny house
loony bin
madhouse
nut house
nuthouse
sanatorium snake pit | pejorative terms for an insane asylum |
camper
camping bus
motor home | a recreational vehicle equipped for camping out while traveling |
detention home
detention house
house of detention
detention camp | an institution where juvenile offenders can be held temporarily (usually under the supervision of a juvenile court) |
dwelling
home
domicile
abode
habitation
dwelling house | housing that someone is living in, he built a modest dwelling near the pond, they raise money to provide homes for the homeless |
funeral home
funeral parlor
funeral parlour
funeral chapel
funeral church
funeralesidence | a mortuary where those who knew the deceased can come to pay their last respects |
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 |
home nursing home
rest home | an institution where people are cared for, a home for the elderly |
home appliance
household appliance | an appliance that does a particular job in the home |
| home computer | a computer intended for use in the home |
| home court | (basketball) the court where the host team plays its home games |
| home-farm | a farm that supplies the needs of a large estate of establishment |
home plate
home base home plate | (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands, it must be touched by a base runner in order to score, he ruled that the runner failed to touch home |
home room
homeroom | a classroom in which all students in a particular grade (or in a division of a grade) meet at certain times under the supervision of a teacher who takes attendance and does other administrative business |
home theater
home theatre | television and video equipment designed to reproduce in the home the experience of being in a movie theater |
mental hospital
psychiatric hospital
mental institution
institution mental home
insane asylum
asylum | a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person |
mobile home
manufactured home | a large house trailer that can be connected to utilities and can be parked in one place and used as permanent housing |
orphanage
orphans' asylum | a public institution for the care of orphans |
refuge
sanctuary asylum | a shelter from danger or hardship |
soap scoop max
liquid ecstasy
grievous bodily harm
goop
Georgia home boy
easy lay | street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate |
| stately home | a mansion that is (or formerly was) occupied by an aristocratic family |
| vacation home | a dwelling (a second home) where you live while you are on vacation |
| mental age | the level of intellectual development as measured by an intelligence test |
brain
brainpower
learning ability
mental capacity
mentality
wit | mental ability, he's got plenty of brains but no common sense |
mental quickness
quickness
quick-wittedness | intelligence as revealed by an ability to give correct responses without delay |
nimbleness
mental dexterity | intelligence as revealed by quickness and alertness of mind, nimbleness of wit and imagination |
capacity
mental ability | the power to learn or retain knowledge, in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior |
block
mental block | an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do, often caused by emotional tension, I knew his name perfectly well but I had a temporary block |
retardation
mental retardation
backwardness
slowness subnormality | lack of normal development of intellectual capacities |
| abnormality mental defectiveness | retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence |
moronity
mental deficiency | mild mental retardation |
faculty
mental faculty
module | one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind |
vocabulary
lexicon
mental lexicon | a language user's knowledge of words |
confusion
mental confusion
confusedness
muddiness
disarray | a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior, a confusion of impressions |
mental reservation
reservation
arriere pensee | an unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly |
incredulity
disbelief
skepticism
mental rejection | doubt about the truth of something |
process
cognitive process
mental process
operation
cognitive operation | (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity, an operation that affects mental contents, the process of thinking, the cognitive operation of remembering |
| mental note | special attention with intent to remember, he made a mental note to send her flowers |
imagination imaging
imagery
mental imagery | the ability to form mental images of things or events, he could still hear her in his imagination |
construction
mental synthesis | the creation of a construct, the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought |
content
cognitive content
mental object | the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned |