mail-order buying
catalog buying | buying goods to be shipped through the mail |
check checkout
check-out procedure | the act of inspecting or verifying, they made a check of their equipment, the pilot ran through the check-out procedure |
diagnostic procedure
diagnostic technique | a procedure followed in making a medical diagnosis |
| emergency procedure | (medicine) a procedure adopted to meet an emergency (especially a medical emergency) |
| experimental procedure | the specific techniques used in conducting a particular experiment |
double-blind procedure
double-blind experiment
double-blind study | an experimental procedure in which neither the subjects of the experiment nor the persons administering the experiment know the critical aspects of the experiment, a double-blind procedure is used to guard against both experimenter bias and placebo effects |
Gram's method
Gram method
Gram's procedure
Gram's stain
Gram stain | a staining technique used to classify bacteria, bacteria are stained with gentian violet and then treated with Gram's solution, after being decolorized with alcohol and treated with safranine and washed in water, those that retain the gentian violet are Gram-positive and those that do not retain it are Gram-negative |
| operation procedure | a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work, the operations in building a house, certain machine tool operations |
operation
surgery surgical operation
surgical procedure
surgical process | a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments, performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body, they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available, he died while undergoing surgery |
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 |
tall order
large order | a formidable task or requirement, finishing in time was a tall order but we did it |
| order arms | a position in the manual of arms, the rifle is held vertically on the right side with the butt on the ground, often used as a command |
| close-order drill | (military) military drill of troops in standard marching (shoulder-to-shoulder) |
order
ordering | the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement, there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list |
| rank order | an arrangement according to rank |
| procedure | a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings |
procedure
process | a particular course of action intended to achieve a result, the procedure of obtaining a driver's license, it was a process of trial and error |
| medical procedure | a procedure employed by medical or dental practitioners |
| dental procedure | a procedure employed by a dentist |
| operating procedure | a procedure for operating something or for dealing with a given situation |
standing operating procedure
standard operating procedure
SOP
standard procedure | a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely, rote memorization has been the educator's standard operating procedure for centuries |
bureaucratic procedure
red tape | needlessly timeonsuming procedure |
| holy order | the sacrament of ordination |
transaction
dealing dealings | the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities), no transactions are possible without him, he has always been honest is his dealings with me |
| telephone order | receiving orders via telephone |
| animal order | the order of animals |
| protoctist order | the order of protoctists |
| bacteria order | an order of bacteria |
Eubacteriales
order Eubacteriales | one of two usually recognized orders of true bacteria, Gram-positive spherical or rod-shaped forms, some are motile, in some classifications considered an order of Schizomycetes |
Pseudomonadales
order Pseudomonadales | one of two usually recognized orders of true bacteria, Gram-negative spiral or spherical or rod-shaped bacteria usually motile by polar flagella, some contain photosynthetic pigments |
Rickettsiales
order Rickettsiales | pleomorphic Gram-negative microorganisms |
Mycoplasmatales
order Mycoplasmatales | coextensive with the family Mycoplasmataceae |
Actinomycetales
order Actinomycetales | filamentous or rod-shaped bacteria |
order Myxobacteria
Myxobacterales
order Myxobacterales
Myxobacteriales
order Myxobacteriales | an order of higher bacteria |
Spirochaetales
order Spirochaetales | higher bacteria, slender spiral rodlike forms |
Heliozoa
order Heliozoa | mostly freshwater protozoa |
Radiolaria
order Radiolaria | marine protozoa |
Amoebida
order Amoebida
Amoebina
order Amoebina | the animal order including amoebas |
Foraminifera
order Foraminifera | foraminifers |
Testacea
order Testacea | testacean rhizopods |
Heterotrichales
order Heterotrichales | yellow-green algae with simple or branching filaments, comprising the single family Tribonemaceae |
Laminariales
order Laminariales | in some classifications coextensive with family Laminariaceae: marine brown algae of cold or polar seas |
Fucales
order Fucales | coextensive with the family Fucaceae |
Ulvales
order Ulvales | an order of protoctist |
Volvocales
order Volvocales | chiefly freshwater green algae, solitary or colonial |
Zygnematales
order Zygnematales
Zygnemales
order Zygnemales | pond scums, desmids |
Chlorococcales
order Chlorococcales | unicellular green algae that reproduce by spores |
Oedogoniales
order oedogoniales | simple or branched filamentous freshwater green algae |
Charales
order Charales | small order of macroscopic fresh and brackish water algae with a distinct axis: stoneworts |
Dinoflagellata
order Dinoflagellata
Cilioflagellata
order Cilioflagellata | in some classifications considered a phylum of the kingdom Protista, in others included in the plant phylum Pyrrophyta |