Convention (v. i.) The act of coming together |
Convention (v. i.) General agreement or concurrence |
Convention (v. i.) A meeting or an assembly of persons, esp. of delegates or representatives, to accomplish some specific object, -- civil, social, political, or ecclesiastical. |
Convention (v. i.) An extraordinary assembly of the parkiament or estates of the realm, held without the king's writ, -- as the assembly which restored Charles II. to the throne, and that which declared the throne to be abdicated by James II. |
Convention (v. i.) An agreement or contract less formal than, or preliminary to, a treaty |
Granite State () New Hampshire |
Open (a.) Free of access |
Open (a.) Free to be used, enjoyed, visited, or the like |
Open (a.) Free or cleared of obstruction to progress or to view |
Open (a.) Not drawn together, closed, or contracted |
Open (a.) Without reserve or false pretense |
Open (a.) Not concealed or secret |
Open (a.) Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing water ways, blocking roads, etc. |
Open (a.) Not settled or adjusted |
Open (a.) Free |
Open (a.) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs |
Open (a.) Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure, as in uttering s. |
Open (a.) Not closed or stopped with the finger |
Open (a.) Produced by an open string |
Open (n.) Open or unobstructed space |
Open (v. t.) To make or set open |
Open (v. t.) To spread |
Open (v. t.) To disclose |
Open (v. t.) To make known |
Open (v. t.) To enter upon |
Open (v. t.) To loosen or make less compact |
Open (v. i.) To unclose |
Open (v. i.) To expand |
Open (v. i.) To begin |
Open (v. i.) To bark on scent or view of the game. |
Open-air (a.) Taking place in the open air |
Open-eyed (a.) With eyes widely open |
Open-handed (a.) Generous |
Open-headed (a.) Bareheaded. |
Open-hearted (a.) Candid |
Open-mouthed (a.) Having the mouth open |
Participating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Participate |
Phrase (n.) A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually two or more words forming an expression by themselves, or being a portion of a sentence |
Phrase (n.) A short, pithy expression |
Phrase (n.) A mode or form of speech |
Phrase (n.) A short clause or portion of a period. |
Phrase (v. t.) To express in words, or in peculiar words |
Phrase (v. i.) To use proper or fine phrases. |
Phrase (v. i.) To group notes into phrases |
Present (a.) Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits |
Present (a.) Now existing, or in process |
Present (a.) Not delayed |
Present (a.) Ready |
Present (a.) Favorably attentive |
Present (a.) Present time |
state | the way something is with respect to its main attributes, the current state of knowledge, his state of health, in a weak financial state |
open sesame | any very successful means of achieving a result |
open primary | a primary in which any registered voter can vote (but must vote for candidates of only one party) |
open frame break | any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare, the break in the eighth frame cost him the match |
change of state | the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics |
phrase | dance movements that are linked in a single choreographic sequence |
President of the United States President Chief Executive | the office of the United States head of state, a President is elected every four years |
Attorney General Attorney General of the United States | the position of the head of the Justice Department and the chief law enforcement officer of the United States, the post of Attorney General was created in |
Secretary of State | the position of the head of the State Department, the position of Secretary of State was established in |
open-heart surgery | heart surgery in which the rib cage is spread open, the heart is stopped and blood is detoured through a heart-lung machine while a heart valve or coronary artery is surgically repaired |
state-sponsored terrorism | terrorism practiced by a government against its own people or in support of international terrorism |
convention convening | the act of convening |
American Civil War United States Civil War War between the States | civil war in the United States between the North and the South, - |
chair of state | a ceremonial chair for an exalted or powerful person |
Empire State Building | a skyscraper built in New York City in ,feet tall |
expressway freeway motorway pike state highway superhighway throughway thruway | a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic |
fireplace hearth open fireplace | an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built, the fireplace was so large you could walk inside it, he laid a fire in the hearth and lit it, the hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires |
Great Seal of the United States | the seal of the United States government |
National Library of Medicine United States National Library of Medicine U.S. National Library of Medicine | the world's largest medical library |
Ohio State University | a university in Columbus, Ohio |
open-air market open-air marketplace market square | a public marketplace where food and merchandise is sold |
open circuit | an incomplete electrical circuit in which no current flows |
open-end wrench tappet wrench | a wrench having parallel jaws at fixed separation (often on both ends of the handle) |
open-hearth furnace | a furnace for making steel in which the steel is placed on a shallow hearth and flames of burning gas and hot air play over it |
open sight | rear gunsight having an open notch instead of a peephole or telescope |
open weave | a weave in which warp threads never come together, leaving interstices in the fabric |
state prison | a prison maintained by a state of the U.S. |
United States Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory US Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory USACIL | a defense laboratory of the Criminal Investigation Command, the United States Army's primary forensic laboratory in support of criminal intelligence |
United States Mint U.S. Mint US Mint | the mint that manufactures and distributes United States coins for circulation through Federal Reserve Banks, processes gold and silver bullion |
conventionality convention conventionalism | orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional |
touch signature | a distinguishing style, this room needs a woman's touch |
open door | freedom of access, he maintained an open door for all employees |
states' rights | the rights conceded to the states by the United States constitution |
open surface | information that has become public, all the reports were out in the open, the facts had been brought to the surface |
convention normal pattern rule formula | something regarded as a normative example, the convention of not naming the main character, violence is the rule not the exception, his formula for impressing visitors |
cognitive state state of mind | the state of a person's cognitive processes |
religious trance ecstatic state | a trance induced by intense religious devotion, does not show reduced bodily functions that are typical of other trances |
steady state theory continuous creation theory | (cosmology) the theory that the universe maintains a constant average density with matter created to fill the void left by galaxies that are receding from each other, the steady state theory has been abandoned in favor of the big bang theory |
open interval unbounded interval | an interval that does not include its endpoints |
solid-state physics | the branch of physics that studies the properties of materials in the solid state: electrical conduction in crystals of semiconductors and metals, superconductivity, photoconductivity |
syntax sentence structure phrase structure | the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences |
states' rights | a doctrine that federal powers should be curtailed and returned to the individual states |
signature | a sheet with several pages printed on it, it folds to page size and is bound with other signatures to form a book |
phrase | an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence |
noun phrase nominal phrase nominal | a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb |
predicate verb phrase | one of the two main constituents of a sentence, the predicate contains the verb and its complements |
prepositional phrase | a phrase beginning with a preposition |
pronominal phrase pronominal | a phrase that functions as a pronoun |
present present tense | a verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking |
historical present | the use of the present tense to describe past actions or states |