constitution establishment formation organization organisation | the act of forming or establishing something, the constitution of a PTA group last year, it was the establishment of his reputation, he still remembers the organization of the club |
re-formation regeneration | forming again (especially with improvements or removal of defects), renewing and reconstituting |
cabinet minister | the job of a senior minister who is a member of the cabinet |
formation shaping | the act of fabricating something in a particular shape |
formation | creation by mental activity, the formation of sentences, the formation of memories |
cabinet | a piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers, for storage or display |
cabinet console | housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television |
cabinet locker storage locker | a storage compartment for clothes and valuables, usually it has a lock |
china cabinet china closet | a cabinet (usually with glass doors) for storing and displaying china |
file file cabinet filing cabinet | office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order |
formation | a particular spatial arrangement |
medicine chest medicine cabinet | cabinet that holds medicines and toiletries |
toolbox tool chest tool cabinet tool case | a box or chest or cabinet for holding hand tools |
reticular formation RF | a complex neural network in the central core of the brainstem, monitors the state of the body and functions in such processes as arousal and sleep and attention and muscle tone |
back-formation | a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it |
calque calque formation loan translation | an expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language, `superman' is a calque for the German `Ubermensch' |
kitchen cabinet brain trust | an inner circle of unofficial advisors to the head of a government |
cabinet | persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers |
British Cabinet | the senior ministers of the British government |
shadow cabinet | a group of senior members of the political party that is out of power, these members would probably assume corresponding positions as ministers in the British Cabinet if their party was elected |
United States Cabinet US Cabinet | a board to advise the President, members are the secretaries of executive departments, the United States constitution does not provide for the cabinet |
formation | an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit, a defensive formation, a formation of planes |
military formation | a formation of troops |
geological formation formation | (geology) the geological features of the earth |
cabinet minister | a person who is a member of the cabinet |
heat of formation | the heat evolved or absorbed during the formation of one mole of a substance from its component elements |
formation | natural process that causes something to form, the formation of gas in the intestine, the formation of crystals, the formation of pseudopods |
pair production pair creation pair formation | the transformation of a gammaay photon into an electron and a positron when the photon passes close to an atomic nucleus |
reaction formation | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which a person unconsciously develops attitudes and behavior that are the opposite of unacceptable repressed desires and impulses and serve to conceal them, his strict morality is just a reaction formation to hide his sexual drive |
cabinet wood | moderately dense wood used for cabinetwork, teak and other heavy cabinet wood |