| attack tone-beginning | a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase |
overshoot
wave-off
go-around | an approach that fails and gives way to another attempt |
| wave | a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon, a wave of settlers, troops advancing in waves |
change of direction
reorientation | the act of changing the direction in which something is oriented |
| attack | an offensive move in a sport or game, they won the game with a -hit attack in the th inning |
| attack attempt | the act of attacking, attacks on women increased last year, they made an attempt on his life |
steering
guidance
direction | the act of setting and holding a course, a new council was installed under the direction of the king |
| approach attack plan of attack | ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation, his approach to every problem is to draw up a list of pros and cons, an attack on inflation, his plan of attack was misguided |
biological warfare
BW
biological attack
biologic attack
bioattack | the use of bacteria or viruses or toxins to destroy men and animals or food |
attack
onslaught
onset onrush | (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons), the attack began at dawn |
air raid
air attack | an attack by armed planes on a surface target |
| ground attack | an attack by ground troops |
banzai attack
banzai charge | a mass attack of troops without concern for casualties, originated by Japanese who accompanied it with yells of `banzai' |
| diversion diversionary attack | an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack |
preventive strike
preventive attack | a strike that is carried out in order to deter expected aggression by hostile forces |
management
direction | the act of managing something, he was given overall management of the program, is the direction of the economy a function of government? |
| attack | strong criticism, he published an unexpected attack on my work |
surprise attack
coup de main | an attack without warning |
| terrorist attack | a surprise attack involving the deliberate use of violence against civilians in the hope of attaining political or religious aims |
| attack dog | a watchdog trained to attack on command |
aircraft carrier
carrier flattop
attack aircraft carrier | a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings |
| attack submarine | a military submarine designed and armed to attack enemy shipping |
| direction finder | radio, determines the direction of incoming radio waves |
fighter
fighter aircraft
attack aircraft | a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air |
| full-wave rectifier | rectifier that converts the negative half wave of an alternating current into a positive half wave |
Joint Direct Attack Munition
JDAM | a pinpoint bomb guidance device that can be strapped to a gravity bomb thus converting dumb bombs into smart bombs |
waveguide
wave guide | a hollow metal conductor that provides a path to guide microwaves, used in radar |
duality
wave-particle duality | (physics) the property of matter and electromagnetic radiation that is characterized by the fact that some properties can be explained best by wave theory and others by particle theory |
| wave | a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair |
| finger wave | a wave made with the fingers |
permanent wave
permanent
perm | a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals |
| sense of direction | an awareness of your orientation in space |
focus
focusing
focussing
focal point
direction centering | the concentration of attention or energy on something, the focus of activity shifted to molecular biology, he had no direction in his life |
wave theory
undulatory theory
wave theory of light | (physics) the theory that light is transmitted as waves |
| wave mechanics | the modern form of quantum theory, an extension of quantum mechanics based on Schrodinger's equation, atomic events are explained as interactions between particle waves |
| direction | a general course along which something has a tendency to develop, I couldn't follow the direction of his thoughts, his ideals determined the direction of his career, they proposed a new direction for the firm |
guidance
counsel
counseling
counselling
direction | something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action |
Schrodinger equation
Schrodinger wave equation | the fundamental equation of wave mechanics |
| wave equation | a differential equation that describes the passage of harmonic waves through a medium |
fire
attack
flak
flack
blast | intense adverse criticism, Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party, the government has come under attack, don't give me any flak |
| direction instruction | a message describing how something is to be done, he gave directions faster than she could follow them |
| stage direction | an instruction written as part of the script of a play |
| commission charge direction | a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something, the judge's charge to the jury |
| warning of attack | a warning to national policy makers that an enemy intends to launch an attack in the near future |
wave waving
wafture | the act of signaling by a movement of the hand |
| crime wave | a sudden rise in the crime rate |
gravity wave
gravitation wave | (physics) a wave that is hypothesized to propagate gravity and to travel at the speed of light |
| sine wave | a wave whose waveform resembles a sine curve |
wave
undulation | (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth |
soliton
soliton wave
solitary wave | (physics) a quantum of energy or quasiparticle that can be propagated as a traveling wave in nonlinear systems and is neither preceded nor followed by another such disturbance, does not obey the superposition principle and does not dissipate, soliton waves can travel long distances with little loss of energy or structure |