megapode
mound bird
mound-bird
mound builder
scrub fowl | large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia, build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs |
| cable | a very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire |
cable cable television
cable system
cable television service | a television system that transmits over cables |
| cable line transmission line | a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power |
cable car
car | a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway, they took a cable car to the top of the mountain |
cable railway
funicular
funicular railway | a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars |
coaxial cable
coax
coax cable | a transmission line for high-frequency signals |
| computer network | (computer science) a network of computers |
| electrical cable | a cable that provides an electrical connection for telephone or television or power stations |
| ethernet cable | any of several types of coaxial cable used in ethernets |
fiber optic cable
fibre optic cable | a cable made of optical fibers that can transmit large amounts of information at the speed of light |
| ground cable | a mooring cable, runs from a buoy to a mooring anchor |
guy
guy cable
guy wire
guy rope | a cable, wire, or rope that is used to brace something (especially a tent) |
jumper cable
jumper lead
lead booster cable | a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire, it was a tangle of jumper cables and clip leads |
local area network
LAN | a local computer network for communication between computers, especially a network connecting computers and word processors and other electronic office equipment to create a communication system between offices |
net
network
mesh
meshing meshwork | an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals |
| network | (broadcasting) a communication system consisting of a group of broadcasting stations that all transmit the same programs, the networks compete to broadcast important sports events |
| network electronic network | (electronics) a system of interconnected electronic components or circuits |
| network | a system of intersecting lines or channels, a railroad network, a network of canals |
power line
power cable | cable used to distribute electricity |
| printer cable | a cable between a computer and a printer |
| T-network | a circuit formed by two equal series circuits with a shunt between them |
tramway tram aerial tramway
cable tramway
ropeway | a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers |
wide area network
WAN | a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network |
wireless local area network
WLAN
wireless fidelity
WiFi | a local area network that uses high frequency radio signals to transmit and receive data over distances of a few hundred feet, uses ethernet protocol |
Purkinje network
Purkinje's tissue
Purkinje's system | a network of Purkinje fibers that carry the cardiac impulse from the atrioventricular node to the ventricles of the heart and causes them to contract |
neural network
neural net | any network of neurons or nuclei that function together to perform some function in the body |
| morale builder | something or someone who influences by building or strengthening morale |
| topology network topology | the configuration of a communication network |
cable
cablegram
overseas telegram | a telegram sent abroad |
cable television
cable | television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver |
| network programming | the schedule of programs to be broadcast on a network |
neural network
neural net | computer architecture in which processors are connected in a manner suggestive of connections between neurons, can learn by trial and error |
| network architecture | specification of design principles (including data formats and procedures) for creating a network configuration of data processors |
| network army | a group of like-minded people united by the internet, a new kind of social or political of business group that may exert broad influence on a shared concern, a network army of software programmers contribute free software to those who want it |
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
FinCEN | a law enforcement agency of the Treasury Department responsible for establishing and implementing policies to detect money laundering |
International Relations and Security Network
ISN | Switzerland's information network for security and defense studies and for peace and conflict research and for international relations |
network
web | an interconnected system of things or people, he owned a network of shops, retirement meant dropping out of a whole network of people who had been part of my life, tangled in a web of cloth |
| espionage network | a network of spies |
| old boy network | an exclusive informal network linking members of a social class or profession or organization in order to provide connections and information and favors (especially in business or politics), professional women have developed an old boy network of their own |
bodybuilder
muscle builder
muscle-builder
musclebuilder
muscleman | someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature |
builder
constructor | someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building) |
| builder | a person who creates a business or who organizes and develops a country, empire builder |
homebuilder
home-builder
housebuilder
house-builder | someone who builds houses as a business |
| jerry-builder | someone who builds cheap buildings out of poor materials on speculation for a quick profit |
| Mound Builder | prehistoric Amerindians who built altar mounds |
repairman
maintenance man
service man | a skilled worker whose job is to repair things |
| road builder | someone whose business is to build roads |
shipbuilder
ship builder | a person who builds ships as a business |
shipwright
shipbuilder ship builder | a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels |