close call
close shave
squeak
squeaker
narrow escape | something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin |
call option
call | the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date |
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 |
| call | (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee, he was ejected for protesting the call |
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 |
| 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 |
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 |
| call fire | fire delivered on a specific target in response to a request from the supported unit |
| roll call | calling out an official list of names |
| mail call | a call of names of those receiving mail |
| muster call | a call of the names of personnel at a military assembly |
| 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 |
| call | a visit in an official or professional capacity, the pastor's calls on his parishioners, the salesman's call on a customer |
| call | a brief social visit, senior professors' wives no longer make afternoon calls on newcomers, the characters in Henry James' novels are forever paying calls on each other, usually in the parlor of some residence |
| call-back | the recall of an employee after a layoff |
| service call | a trip made by a repairman to visit the location of something in need of service |
| call-board | a bulletin board backstage in a theater |
call center
call centre | a center equipped to handle a large volume of telephone calls (especially for taking orders or serving customers) |
Post-Office box
PO Box
POB
call box letter box | a numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for |
telephone booth
phone booth
call box
telephone box
telephone kiosk | booth for using a telephone |
siren call
siren song | the enticing appeal of something alluring but potentially dangerous, he succumbed to the siren call of the wilderness |
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 |
| Call | a special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course, he was disappointed that he had not heard the Call |
call phone call
telephone call | a telephone connection, she reported several anonymous calls, he placed a phone call to London, he heard the phone ringing but didn't want to take the call |
| call-back | a return call |
| collect call | a telephone call that the receiving party is asked to pay for |
| call forwarding | lets you transfer your incoming calls to any telephone that you can dial direct |
| call-in | a telephone call to a radio station or a television station in which the caller participates in the on-going program |
| call waiting | a way of letting you know that someone else is calling when you are using your telephone |
| crank call | a hostile telephone call (from a crank) |
| local call | a telephone call made within a local calling area |
long distance
long-distance call
trunk call | a telephone call made outside the local calling area, I talked to her by long distance |
| toll call | a long-distance telephone call at charges above a local rate |
| conference call | a telephone call in which more than two people participate |
| wake-up call | a telephone call that you request be made a specific time in order to wake you up at that time (especially in hotels), she left a wake-up call for a.m. |
routine
subroutine
subprogram
procedure
function | a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program |
| call | an instruction that interrupts the program being executed, Pascal performs calls by simply giving the name of the routine to be executed |
| function call | a call that passes control to a subroutine, after the subroutine is executed control returns to the next instruction in main program |