| 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 |
| prolonged interrogation | a form of psychological torture inflicted by questioning the victim for hours |
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 |
listening watch
continuous receiver watch | a watch established for the reception of traffic of interest to the unit maintaining the watch |
| 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 |
| treatment | a manner of dealing with something artistically, his treatment of space borrows from Italian architecture |
steady state theory
continuous creation theory | (cosmology) the theory that the universe maintains a constant average density with matter created to fill the void left by galaxies that are receding from each other, the steady state theory has been abandoned in favor of the big bang theory |
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 |
progressive
progressive tense
imperfect
imperfect tense
continuous tense | a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going |
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 |
| continuous uninterrupted | continuing in time or space without interruption, a continuous rearrangement of electrons in the solar atoms results in the emission of light- James Jeans, a continuous bout of illness lasting six months, lived in continuous fear, a continuous row of warehouses, a continuous line has no gaps or breaks in it, moving midweek holidays to the nearest Monday or Friday allows uninterrupted work weeks |
| continuous | of a function or curve, extending without break or irregularity |
elongated extended
lengthened
prolonged | drawn out or made longer spatially, Picasso's elongated Don Quixote, lengthened skirts are fashionable this year, the extended airport runways can accommodate larger planes, a prolonged black line across the page |
drawn-out
extended
lengthy
prolonged
protracted | relatively long in duration, tediously protracted, a drawn-out argument, an extended discussion, a lengthy visit from her mother-in-law, a prolonged and bitter struggle, protracted negotiations |