Complementary (a.) Serving to fill out or to complete |
Complementary (n.) One skilled in compliments. |
Critical (n.) Qualified to criticise, or pass judgment upon, literary or artistic productions. |
Critical (n.) Pertaining to criticism or the critic's art |
Critical (n.) Inclined to make nice distinctions, or to exercise careful judgment and selection |
Critical (n.) Inclined to criticise or find fault |
Critical (n.) Characterized by thoroughness and a reference to principles, as becomes a critic |
Critical (n.) Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis, turning point, or specially important juncture |
Shearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shear |
Shear (v. t.) To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument |
Shear (v. t.) To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument |
Shear (v. t.) To reap, as grain. |
Shear (v. t.) Fig.: To deprive of property |
Shear (v. t.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4. |
Shear (v. t.) A pair of shears |
Shear (v. t.) A shearing |
Shear (v. t.) An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact |
Shear (v. t.) A strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body, consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal compression in a perpendicular direction, with an unchanged magnitude in the third direction. |
Shear (v. i.) To deviate. See Sheer. |
Shear (v. i.) To become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact. |
Shearing (n.) The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth. |
Shearing (n.) The product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine |
Shearing (n.) Same as Shearling. |
Shearing (n.) The act or operation of reaping. |
Shearing (n.) The act or operation of dividing with shears |
Shearing (n.) The process of preparing shear steel |
Shearing (n.) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal. |
Sheep-shearing (n.) Act of shearing sheep. |
Sheep-shearing (n.) A feast at the time of sheep-shearing. |
Stress (n.) Distress. |
Stress (n.) Pressure, strain |
Stress (n.) The force, or combination of forces, which produces a strain |
Stress (n.) Force of utterance expended upon words or syllables. Stress is in English the chief element in accent and is one of the most important in emphasis. See Guide to pronunciation, // 31-35. |
Stress (n.) Distress |
Stress (v. t.) To press |
Stress (v. t.) To subject to stress, pressure, or strain. |
shearing | removing by cutting off or clipping |
complementary medicine | the practice of medicine that combines traditional medicine with alternative medicine |
shear | a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it |
complementary color complementary | either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments), yellow and blue are complementaries |
elasticity of shear | the elasticity of a body that has been pulled out of shape by a shearing force |
critical mass | the minimum mass of fissionable material that can sustain a chain reaction |
complementary distribution complementation | (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts |
critical mass | the minimum amount (of something) required to start or maintain a venture, the battle for the computer market has now reached critical mass, there is now a critical mass of successful women to take the lead, they sold the business because it lacked critical mass |
critical appraisal critical analysis | an appraisal based on careful analytical evaluation |
stress test | a test measuring how a system functions when subjected to controlled amounts of stress |
review critique critical review review article | an essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play) |
stress mark | a mark indicating the stress on a syllable |
stress emphasis accent | the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch), he put the stress on the wrong syllable |
word stress word accent | the distribution of stresses within a polysyllabic word |
sentence stress | the distribution of stresses within a sentence |
shear | (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves, the shear changed the quadrilateral into a parallelogram |
stress | (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body, the intensity of stress is expressed in units of force divided by units of area |
stress incontinence | urinary incontinence that occurs when involuntary pressure is put on the bladder by coughing or laughing or sneezing or lifting or straining |
complementary angles | two angles whose sum is a right angle |
critical angle | the smallest angle of incidence for which light is totally reflected |
juncture critical point crossroads | a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made, at that juncture he had no idea what to do, he must be made to realize that the company stands at a critical point |
fatigue fracture stress fracture | fracture resulting from excessive activity rather than a specific injury |
tension tenseness stress | (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense, he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension, stress is a vasoconstrictor |
posttraumatic stress disorder PTSD | an anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as survivor guilt, reliving the trauma in dreams, numbness and lack of involvement with reality, or recurrent thoughts and images |
stress strain | difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension, she endured the stresses and strains of life, he presided over the economy during the period of the greatest stress and danger- R.J.Samuelson |
stress focus | special emphasis attached to something, the stress was more on accuracy than on speed |
complementary DNA cDNA | single-stranded DNA that is complementary to messenger RNA or DNA that has been synthesized from messenger RNA by reverse transcriptase |
shear | become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain |
stress accent accentuate | put stress on, utter with an accent, In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word |
stress emphasize emphasise punctuate accent accentuate | to stress, single out as important, Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet |
shear | cut with shears, shear hedges |
shear | cut or cut through with shears, shear the wool off the lamb |
fleece shear | shear the wool from, shear sheep |
try strain stress | test the limits of, You are trying my patience! |
complemental complementary completing | acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole) |
critical | marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws, a critical attitude |
critical | characterized by careful evaluation and judgment, a critical reading, a critical dissertation, a critical analysis of Melville's writings |
critical | being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency, a critical shortage of food, a critical illness, an illness at the critical stage |
critical | at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction, a critical temperature of water idegrees C--its boiling point at standard atmospheric pressure, critical mass, go critical |
critical decisive | forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis, a critical point in the campaign, the critical test |
critical vital | urgently needed, absolutely necessary, a critical element of the plan, critical medical supplies, vital for a healthy society, of vital interest |
complementary | of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other, `male' and `female' are complementary terms |
critical | of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism, critical acclaim |