object-oriented programming
object-oriented programing | creating a program that can use and support objects |
| job-oriented terminal | a terminal designed for a particular application |
| object-oriented database management system | a database management system designed to manage an object-oriented database |
| object-oriented database | a database in which the operations carried out on information items (data objects) are considered part of their definition |
application-oriented language
problem-oriented language | a language whose statements resemble terminology of the user |
computer language
computer-oriented language
machine language machine-oriented language | a programming language designed for use on a specific class of computers |
object-oriented programming language
object-oriented programing language | (computer science) a programming language that enables the programmer to associate a set of procedures with each type of data structure, C is an object-oriented programming language that is an extension of C |
| people | (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively, old people, there were at least people in the audience |
business people
businesspeople | people who transact business (especially business executives) |
country people
countryfolk | people raised in or living in a rural environment, rustics |
| country people countryfolk | people living in the same country, compatriots |
folk
folks common people | people in general (often used in the plural), they're just country folk, folks around here drink moonshine, the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next |
free
free people | people who are free, the home of the free and the brave |
color
colour
people of color
people of colour | a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks) |
| people | members of a family line, his people have been farmers for generations, are your people still alive? |
Irish National Liberation Army
INLA
People's Liberation Army
People's Republican Army
Catholic Reaction Force | a radical terrorist group dedicated to the removal of British forces from Northern Ireland and the unification of Ireland |
Mujahidin-e Khalq Organization
MKO
MEK
People's Mujahidin of Iran | a terrorist organization formed in the s by children of Iranian merchants, sought to counter the Shah of Iran's pro-western policies of modernization and opposition to communism, following a philosophy that mixes Marxism and Islam it now attacks the Islamic fundamentalists who deposed the Shah |
New People's Army
NPA | a terrorist organization that is the militant wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, a Maoist organization formed to overthrow the government, uses hit squads called Sparrow Units, opposes United States military presence in the Philippines |
People against Gangsterism and Drugs
PAGAD | a terrorist organization in South Africa formed in to fight drug lords, evolved into a vigilante group with anti-western views closely allied with Qibla, is believed to have ties to Islamic extremists in the Middle East, is suspected of conducting bouts of urban terrorism |
Revolutionary People's Liberation Party
Revolutionary People's Liberation Front | an extreme Marxist terrorist organization in Turkey that is opposed to NATO and the United States, attacks Turkish security and military officials |
Revolutionary People's Struggle
ELA | an extreme leftist terrorist group formed in Greece in to oppose the military junta that ruled Greece from to , a revolutionary group opposed to capitalism and imperialism and the United States |
citizenry
people | the body of citizens of a state or country, the Spanish people |
poor people
poor | people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group), the urban poor need assistance |
rich people
rich | people who have possessions and wealth (considered as a group), only the very rich benefit from this legislation |
multitude masses
mass hoi polloi
people the great unwashed | the common people generally, separate the warriors from the mass, power to the people |
People's Party
Populist Party | a former political party in the United States, formed in to advocate currency expansion and state control of railroads |
flower people
hippies
hipsters | a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the s, advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs, favored acid rock and progressive rock music |
ruling class
people in power | the class of people exerting power or authority |
unemployed people
unemployed | people who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group), the long-term unemployed need assistance |
| chosen people | any people believing themselves to be chosen by God |
China
People's Republic of China
mainland China
Communist China
Red China
PRC
Cathay
| a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia, the most populous country in the world |
Bangladesh
People's Republic of Bangladesh
Bangla Desh
East Pakistan | a Muslim republic in southern Asia bordered by India to the north and west and east and the Bay of Bengal to the south, formerly part of India and then part of Pakistan, it achieved independence in |
North Korea
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
D.P.R.K.
DPRK | a communist country in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula, established in |
Laos
Lao People's Democratic Republic | a mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia, achieved independence from France in |
Libya
Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya | a military dictatorship in northern Africa on the Mediterranean, consists almost entirely of desert, a major exporter of petroleum |
Mongolia
Mongolian People's Republic
Outer Mongolia | a landlocked socialist republic in central Asia |
White race
White people
Caucasoid race
Caucasian race | a light-skinned race |
Slavic people
Slavic race | a race of people speaking a Slavonic language |
Dutch
Dutch people | the people of the Netherlands, the Dutch are famous for their tulips |
British
British people
Brits | the people of Great Britain |
English
English people | the people of England |
Irish
Irish people | people of Ireland or of Irish extraction |
French
French people | the people of France |
Spanish
Spanish people | the people of Spain |
Swiss
Swiss people | the natives or inhabitants of Switzerland |
| people | fill with people, Stalin wanted to people the empty steppes |
| people | furnish with people, The plains are sparsely populated |
oriented
orientated | adjusted or located in relation to surroundings or circumstances, sometimes used in combination, the house had its large windows oriented toward the ocean view, helping freshmen become oriented to college life, the book is value-oriented throughout |