progress progression procession advance advancement forward motion onward motion | the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) |
forward pass aerial | a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer |
forward | a position on a basketball, soccer, or hockey team |
buffer buffer storage buffer store | (computer science) a part of RAM used for temporary storage of data that is waiting to be sent to a device, used to compensate for differences in the rate of flow of data between components of a computer system |
building supply store building supply house | a store where builders can purchase materials for building houses and related structures |
chain store | one of a chain of retail stores under the same management and selling the same merchandise |
clothing store haberdashery haberdashery store mens store | a store where men's clothes are sold |
computer store | a store that sells computers to the small businessperson or personal user |
confectionery confectionary candy store | a confectioner's shop |
convenience store | a store selling a limited variety of food and pharmaceutical items, open long hours for the convenience of customers |
country store general store trading post | a retail store serving a sparsely populated region, usually stocked with a wide variety of merchandise |
department store emporium | a large retail store organized into departments offering a variety of merchandise, commonly part of a retail chain |
discount house discount store discounter wholesale house | a sales outlet offering goods at a discounted price |
florist florist shop flower store | a shop where flowers and ornamental plants are sold |
futures exchange futures market forward market | a commodity exchange where futures contracts are traded |
grocery store grocery food market market | a marketplace where groceries are sold, the grocery store included a meat market |
hardware store ironmonger ironmonger's shop | a store selling hardware, in Great Britain they used to call a hardware store an ironmonger's shop |
magazine powder store powder magazine | a storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored |
memory computer memory storage computer storage store memory board | an electronic memory device, a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached |
mercantile establishment retail store sales outlet outlet | a place of business for retailing goods |
munition ordnance ordnance store | military supplies |
package store liquor store off-licence | a store that sells alcoholic beverages for consumption elsewhere |
push-down storage push-down store stack | a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO) |
shoe shop shoe-shop shoe store | a shop where shoes are sold |
shop store | a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services, he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod |
specialty store | a store that sells only one kind of merchandise |
storehouse depot entrepot storage store | a depository for goods, storehouses were built close to the docks |
thriftshop second-hand store | a shop that sells secondhand goods at reduced prices |
rationale principle | (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature), the rationale for capital punishment, the principles of internalombustion engines |
working principle working rule | a rule that is adequate to permit work to be done |
fundamentals basics fundamental principle basic principle bedrock | principles from which other truths can be derived, first you must learn the fundamentals, let's get down to basics |
pleasure principle pleasure-pain principle pleasure-unpleasure principle | (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id, the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality |
reality principle | (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the ego, the principle that as a child grows it becomes aware of the real environment and the need to accommodate to it |
principle | a basic truth or law or assumption, the principles of democracy |
rudiment first rudiment first principle alphabet ABC ABC's ABCs | the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural), he mastered only the rudiments of geometry |
principle rule | a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system, the principle of the conservation of mass, the principle of jet propulsion, the right-hand rule for inductive fields |
Archimedes' principle law of Archimedes | (hydrostatics) the apparent loss in weight of a body immersed in a fluid is equal to the weight of the displaced fluid |
Gestalt law of organization Gestalt principle of organization | a principle of Gestalt psychology that identifies factors leading to particular forms of perceptual organization |
Le Chatelier's principle Le Chatelier's law Le Chatelier principle Le Chatelier-Braun principle | the principle that if any change is imposed on a system that is in equilibrium then the system tends to adjust to a new equilibrium counteracting the change |
Pauli exclusion principle exclusion principle | no two electrons or protons or neutrons in a given system can be in states characterized by the same set of quantum numbers |
principle rule | a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct, their principles of composition characterized all their works |
principle | a rule or standard especially of good behavior, a man of principle, he will not violate his principles |
accounting principle accounting standard | a principle that governs current accounting practice and that is used as a reference to determine the appropriate treatment of complex transactions |
ethic moral principle value-system value orientation | the principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group, the Puritan ethic, a person with old-fashioned values |
legal principle judicial principle judicial doctrine | (law) a principle underlying the formulation of jurisprudence |
principle of relativity | (physics) a universal law that states that the laws of mechanics are not affected by a uniform rectilinear motion of the system of coordinates to which they are referred |
Occam's Razor Ockham's Razor principle of parsimony law of parsimony | the principle that entities should not be multiplied needlessly, the simplest of two competing theories is to be preferred |
principle of equivalence | (physics) the principle that an observer has no way of distinguishing whether his laboratory is in a uniform gravitational field or is in an accelerated frame of reference |
principle of liquid displacement | (hydrostatics) the volume of a body immersed in a fluid is equal to the volume of the displaced fluid |
principle of superposition Huygens' principle of superposition | the displacement of any point due to the superposition of wave systems is equal to the sum of the displacements of the individual waves at that point, the principle of superposition is the basis of the wave theory of light |