| absolute space | physical space independent of what occupies it |
mistake
error fault | a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention, he made a bad mistake, she was quick to point out my errors, I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults |
| double fault | (tennis) two successive faults in serving resulting in the loss of the point |
| error misplay | (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed |
rounding
rounding error | (mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals, the error in the calculation was attributable to rounding, taxes are rounded off to the nearest dollar but the rounding error is surprisingly small |
| truncation error | (mathematics) a miscalculation that results from cutting off a numerical calculation before it is finished |
| random sampling | the selection of a random sample, each element of the population has an equal chance of been selected |
makeshift
stopgap
make-do | something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency |
point after
point after touchdown
extra point | in American football a point awarded for a successful place kick following a touchdown |
springboard
jumping-off point
point of departure | a beginning from which an enterprise is launched, he uses other people's ideas as a springboard for his own, reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions, the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out |
| three-point landing | a landing in which all three wheels of the aircraft touch the ground at the same time |
shuffle
shuffling
make | the act of mixing cards haphazardly |
| fault | (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area), he served too many double faults |
busywork
make-work | active work of little value, while he was waiting he filled the days with busywork |
| trial and error | experimenting until a solution is found |
desensitization technique
desensitisation technique
desensitization procedure
desensitisation procedure
systematic desensitization
systematic desensitisation | a technique used in behavior therapy to treat phobias and other behavior problems involving anxiety, client is exposed to the threatening situation under relaxed conditions until the anxiety reaction is extinguished |
| language lesson | a period of instruction learning a language |
make-believe
pretend | the enactment of a pretense, it was just pretend |
adventure
escapade risky venture
dangerous undertaking | a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful) |
| language teaching | teaching people to speak and understand a foreign language |
| active air defense | air defense by the use aircraft or missiles or artillery or electronic countermeasures |
| passive air defense | air defense by the use of deception or dispersion or protective construction |
| point duty | the control of traffic by a policeman stationed at an intersection |
passive resistance
nonviolent resistance
nonviolence | peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate |
| three-point turn | the act of turning a vehicle around in a limited space by moving in a series of back and forward arcs |
relative
congener
congenator
congeneric | an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus) |
bluepoint
blue point | small edible oyster typically from the southern shore of Long Island |
| blue point Siamese | Siamese cat having a bluish creamolored body and dark grey points |
| active matrix screen | a type of LCD screen used for some portable computers, there is a separate circuit for each pixel |
| active placebo | a placebo used in experimental tests of a drug that has noticeable side effects, an active placebo mimics the side effects of the experimental drug |
| basic point defense missile system | a shipboard missile system |
corner
street corner
turning point | the intersection of two streets, standing on the corner watching all the girls go by |
| diamond point | a very hard small point made from a diamond |
distributor point
breaker point
point | a contact in the distributor, as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs |
drug cocktail
highly active antiretroviral therapy
HAART | a combination of protease inhibitors taken with reverse transcriptase inhibitors, used in treating AIDS and HIV |
| dry point | a steel needle for engraving without acid on a bare copper plate |
| dry point | a print produced by dry point engraving |
| gros point | needlepoint embroidery done with large stitches |
| gros point | a needlepoint stitch covering two horizontal and two vertical threads |
makeup
make-up
war paint | cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance |
| passive matrix display | a type of LCD display used for some portable computers, parallel wires run both vertically and horizontally and pixels are turned on when the wires intersecting at that pixel are both energized, passive matrix displays are generally inferior to active matrix displays |
| petit point | needlepoint done with small stitches |
| petit point tent stitch | a small diagonal needlepoint stitch |
| point | sharp end, he stuck the point of the knife into a tree, he broke the point of his pencil |
| point power point | a wall socket |
| point gunpoint | the gun muzzle's direction, he held me up at the point of a gun |
| point-and-shoot camera | a lightweight photographic camera with an autofocus |
point lace
needlepoint | lace worked with a needle in a buttonhole stitch on a paper pattern |
random-access memory
random access memory
random memory
RAM read
write memory | the most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on, an integrated circuit memory chip allows information to be stored or accessed in any order and all storage locations are equally accessible |
spearhead
spearpoint
spear-point | the head and sharpened point of a spear |