| beauty treatment | enhancement of someone's personal beauty |
maltreatment
ill-treatment
ill-usage
abuse | cruel or inhumane treatment, the child showed signs of physical abuse |
cruelty
inhuman treatment | a cruel act, a deliberate infliction of pain and suffering |
treatment
intervention | care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury) |
shock therapy
shock treatment | treatment of certain psychotic states by the administration of shocks that are followed by convulsions |
insulin shock
insulin shock therapy
insulin shock treatment | the administration of sufficient insulin to induce convulsions and coma |
metrazol shock
metrazol shock therapy
metrazol shock treatment | the administration of sufficient Metrazol to induce convulsions and coma |
| orthodontic treatment | dental treatment that corrects irregularities of the teeth or of the relation of the teeth to surrounding anatomy, treatment is usually by braces or mechanical aids, orthodontic treatment of facial abnormalities |
| treatment handling | the management of someone or something, the handling of prisoners, the treatment of water sewage, the right to equal treatment in the criminal justice system |
| silent treatment | an aloof refusal to speak to someone you know |
aluminum foil
aluminium foil
tin foil | foil made of aluminum |
| treatment | a manner of dealing with something artistically, his treatment of space borrows from Italian architecture |
discussion treatment
discourse | an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic, the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic, his treatment of the race question is badly biased |
short shrift
summary treatment | a brief and unsympathetic rejection, they made short shrift of my request |
a whole shebang
whole kit and caboodle
kit and caboodle
whole kit and boodle
kit and boodle
whole kit
whole caboodle
whole works
works
full treatment | everything available, usually preceded by `the', we saw the whole shebang, a hotdog with the works, we took on the whole caboodle, for $ you get the full treatment |
aluminum
aluminium
Al
atomic number | a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite |
aluminum bronze
aluminium bronze | an alloy of copper and aluminum with high tensile strength and resistance to corrosion |
alumina
aluminum oxide
aluminium oxide | any of various forms of aluminum oxide occurring naturally as corundum |
aluminum hydroxide
aluminium hydroxide
hydrated aluminum oxide
hydrated aluminium oxide | white crystalline compound that occurs naturally as the mineral gibbsite |
aluminum chloride
aluminium chloride | a chloride used as a wood preservative or catalyst |