| possession | anything owned or possessed |
fraud in fact
positive fraud | actual deceit, concealing something or making a false representation with an evil intent to cause injury to another |
possession
ownership | the act of having and controlling property |
| possession | (sport) the act of controlling the ball (or puck), they took possession of the ball on their own goal line |
| actual possession | (law) immediate and direct physical control over property |
| constructive possession | (law) having the power and intention to have and control property but without direct control or actual presence upon it |
| criminal possession | (law) possession for which criminal sanctions are provided because the property may not lawfully be possessed or may not be possessed under certain circumstances |
| illegal possession | possession of controlled substances |
| positive chemotaxis | movement toward a chemical stimulus |
| positive | a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject |
positive pole
positive magnetic pole
north-seeking pole | the pole of a magnet that points toward the north when the magnet is suspended freely |
| positive pole | the terminal of a battery that is connected to the positive plate |
prescription drug
prescription
prescription medicine
ethical drug | a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist, he told the doctor that he had been taking his prescription regularly |
worldly possession
worldly good | a commodity or good associated with the earthly, rather than the spiritual, existence of human beings |
selfontrol
self-possession
possession
willpower
will power
selfommand
self-will | the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior |
Rh-positive blood type
Rh positive | the blood group (approximately % of people) whose red cells have the Rh factor (Rh antigen) |
positive reinforcing stimulus
positive reinforcer | a reinforcing stimulus that serves to increase the likelihood of the response that produces it |
| positive stimulus | a stimulus with desirable consequences |
positive correlation
direct correlation | a correlation in which large values of one variable are associated with large values of the other and small with small, the correlation coefficient is between
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positive
positive degree | the primary form of an adjective or adverb, denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution |
| prescription | written instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient |
| prescription | written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person |
| adverse opinion | an opinion concerning financial statements (usually based on an audit by a CPA) that the statements as a whole do not present results fairly or are not in conformity with the generally accepted accounting practices of the United States |
| prescription | directions prescribed beforehand, the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions, I tried to follow her prescription for success |
| positive identification | evidence proving that you are who you say you are, evidence establishing that you are among the group of people already known to the system, recognition by the system leads to acceptance, a system for positive identification can prevent the use of a single identity by several people |
| possession | a territory that is controlled by a ruling state |
monomania
possession | a mania restricted to one thing or idea |
antimuon
positive muon | the antiparticle of a muon, decays to positron and neutrino and antineutrino |
adverse witness
hostile witness | a witness whose relationship to the opposing party is such that his or her testimony may be prejudiced against the opposing party, a hostile witness can be asked leading questions and cross-examined |
| positive charge | having a deficiency of electrons, having a higher electric potential |
tangible possession
material possession | property or belongings that are tangible |
transferred property
transferred possession | a possession whose ownership changes or lapses |
positive feedback
regeneration | feedback in phase with (augmenting) the input |
| possession | being controlled by passion or the supernatural |
| acquisitive | eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas, an acquisitive mind, an acquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied |
plus
positive | involving advantage or good, a plus (or positive) factor |
convinced(p)
positive(p)
confident(p) | persuaded of, very sure, were convinced that it would be to their advantage to join, I am positive he is lying, was confident he would win |
cocksure
overconfident
positive | marked by excessive confidence, an arrogant and cocksure materialist, so overconfident and impudent as to speak to the queen, the less he knows the more positive he gets |
positive
electropositive
positively charged | having a positive charge, protons are positive |
incontrovertible
irrefutable
positive | impossible to deny or disprove, incontrovertible proof of the defendant's innocence, proof positive, an irrefutable argument |
adverse
contrary | in an opposing direction, adverse currents, a contrary wind |
adverse
inauspicious
untoward | contrary to your interests or welfare, adverse circumstances, made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions |
positive
prescribed | formally laid down or imposed, positive laws |
| positive | characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc., a positive attitude, the reviews were all positive, a positive benefit, a positive demand |
| positive | greater than zero, positive numbers |
| positive | reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion, positive increase in graduating students |
| positive confirming | indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen, a positive pregnancy test |
| Gram-positive | (of bacteria) being or relating to a bacterium that retains the violet stain used in Gram's method |
| prescription(a) | available only with a doctor's written prescription, a prescription drug |
| rh-positive | of persons (or their blood) having the Rh factor present in their red blood cells |