| beauty treatment | enhancement of someone's personal beauty |
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 |
liberalization
liberalisation
relaxation | the act of making less strict |
maltreatment
ill-treatment
ill-usage
abuse | cruel or inhumane treatment, the child showed signs of physical abuse |
cruelty
inhuman treatment | a cruel act, a deliberate infliction of pain and suffering |
method acting
method | an acting technique introduced by Stanislavsky in which the actor recalls emotions or reactions from his or her own life and uses them to identify with the character being portrayed |
treatment
intervention | care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury) |
shock therapy
shock treatment | treatment of certain psychotic states by the administration of shocks that are followed by convulsions |
insulin shock
insulin shock therapy
insulin shock treatment | the administration of sufficient insulin to induce convulsions and coma |
metrazol shock
metrazol shock therapy
metrazol shock treatment | the administration of sufficient Metrazol to induce convulsions and coma |
| orthodontic treatment | dental treatment that corrects irregularities of the teeth or of the relation of the teeth to surrounding anatomy, treatment is usually by braces or mechanical aids, orthodontic treatment of facial abnormalities |
coitus interruptus
withdrawal method
withdrawal pulling out
onanism | a method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation |
contraception
contraceptive method | birth control by the use of devices (diaphragm or intrauterine device or condom) or drugs or surgery |
basal body temperature method of family planning
basal body temperature method | natural family planning in which the fertile period of the woman's menstrual cycle is inferred by noting the rise in basal body temperature that typically occurs with ovulation |
ovulation method of family planning
ovulation method | natural family planning in which the fertile period is inferred from changes in the character and quantity of cervical mucus, ovulation is marked by an increase in mucus that becomes sticky and then clearer and slippery |
rhythm method of birth control
rhythm method
rhythm
calendar method of birth control
calendar method | natural family planning in which ovulation is assumed to occur days before the onset of a period (the fertile period would be assumed to extend from daythrough day of her cycle) |
| relaxation relaxation method | a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount |
| whole-word method | teaching reading by training beginners to associate printed words with spoken words |
rest
ease
repose
relaxation | freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility), took his repose by the swimming pool |
| treatment handling | the management of someone or something, the handling of prisoners, the treatment of water sewage, the right to equal treatment in the criminal justice system |
| silent treatment | an aloof refusal to speak to someone you know |
| treatment | a manner of dealing with something artistically, his treatment of space borrows from Italian architecture |
| method | a way of doing something, especially a systematic way, implies an orderly logical arrangement (usually in steps) |
| scientific method | a method of investigation involving observation and theory to test scientific hypotheses |
| experimental method | the use of controlled observations and measurements to test hypotheses |
teaching method
pedagogics
pedagogy | the principles and methods of instruction |
Socratic method
maieutic method | a method of teaching by question and answer, used by Socrates to elicit truths from his students |
| method of choice | the best method to achieve a desired result |
eclecticism
eclectic method | making decisions on the basis of what seems best instead of following some single doctrine or style |
differential calculus
method of fluxions | the part of calculus that deals with the variation of a function with respect to changes in the independent variable (or variables) by means of the concepts of derivative and differential |
statistical method
statistical procedure | a method of analyzing or representing statistical data, a procedure for calculating a statistic |
least squares
method of least squares | a method of fitting a curve to data points so as to minimize the sum of the squares of the distances of the points from the curve |
discussion treatment
discourse | an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic, the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic, his treatment of the race question is badly biased |
short shrift
summary treatment | a brief and unsympathetic rejection, they made short shrift of my request |
relaxation
loosening
slackening | an occurrence of control or strength weakening, the relaxation of requirements, the loosening of his grip, the slackening of the wind |
easiness
relaxation | a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry, the easiness we feel when sleeping |
straight-line method
straight-line method of depreciation | (accounting) a method of calculating depreciation by taking an equal amount of the asset's cost as an expense for each year of the asset's useful life |
accounting accounting system
method of accounting | a bookkeeper's chronological list of related debits and credits of a business, forms part of a ledger of accounts |
Bradley method of childbirth
Bradley method | a method that prepares a mother for natural childbirth by providing education and exercises and nutrition and techniques of breathing and relaxation (with the assistance of the father) |
Lamaze method of childbirth
Lamaze method | a method that prepares a mother for natural childbirth, the pregnant woman (in classes and at home) practices (usually with the help of a coach) and learns about the physiology of childbirth and techniques of relaxation, concentration, and breathing |
Leboyer method of childbirth
Leboyer method | a method of childbirth that tries to minimize the trauma for the newborn, delivery occurs in a quiet dimly lit room and the infant's head is not pulled and immediate bonding between mother and child is encouraged |
powder photography
powder method
powder technique | a process for identifying minerals or crystals, a small rod is coated with a powdered form of the substance and subjected to suitably modified Xays, the pattern of diffracted rings is used for identification |
Read method of childbirth
Read method | a method of natural childbirth that assumes it is a normal process and that the pain is largely psychological, involves education and breathing exercises to foster relaxation and other exercises |
relaxation
relaxation behavior | (physics) the exponential return of a system to equilibrium after a disturbance |
| relaxation | (physiology) the gradual lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers |
a whole shebang
whole kit and caboodle
kit and caboodle
whole kit and boodle
kit and boodle
whole kit
whole caboodle
whole works
works
full treatment | everything available, usually preceded by `the', we saw the whole shebang, a hotdog with the works, we took on the whole caboodle, for $ you get the full treatment |
| relaxation time | the time constant of an exponential return of a system to equilibrium after a disturbance |