Clause
(n.) A separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence |
Clause
(n.) A subordinate portion or a subdivision of a sentence containing a subject and its predicate. |
Clause
(n.) See Letters clause / close, under Letter. |
Contract
(n.) To draw together or nearer |
Contract
(n.) To draw together so as to wrinkle |
Contract
(n.) To bring on |
Contract
(n.) To enter into, with mutual obligations |
Contract
(n.) To betroth |
Contract
(n.) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one. |
Contract
(v. i.) To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent |
Contract
(v. i.) To make an agreement |
Contract
(a.) Contracted |
Contract
(a.) Contracted |
Contract
(n.) The agreement of two or more persons, upon a sufficient consideration or cause, to do, or to abstain from doing, some act |
Contract
(n.) A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation. |
Contract
(n.) The act of formally betrothing a man and woman. |
Cover-point
(n.) The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." |
Delivery
(n.) The act of delivering from restraint |
Delivery
(n.) The act of delivering up or over |
Delivery
(n.) The act or style of utterance |
Delivery
(n.) The act of giving birth |
Delivery
(n.) The act of exerting one's strength or limbs. |
Delivery
(n.) The act or manner of delivering a ball |
Dew-point
(n.) The temperature at which dew begins to form. It varies with the humidity and temperature of the atmosphere. |
Dust-point
(n.) An old rural game. |
International
(a.) Between or among nations |
International
(a.) Of or concerning the association called the International. |
International
(n.) The International |
International
(n.) A member of the International Association. |
Libration point
(n.) any one of five points in the plane of a system of two large astronomical bodies orbiting each other, as the Earth-moon system, where the gravitational pull of the two bodies on an object are approximately equal, and in opposite directions. A solid object moving in the same velocity and direction as such a libration point will remain in gravitational equilibrium with the two bodies of the system and not fall toward either body. |
Point
(v. t. & i.) To appoint. |
Point
(n.) That which pricks or pierces |
Point
(n.) An instrument which pricks or pierces, as a sort of needle used by engravers, etchers, lace workers, and others |
Point
(n.) Anything which tapers to a sharp, well-defined termination. Specifically: A small promontory or cape |
Point
(n.) The mark made by the end of a sharp, piercing instrument, as a needle |
Point
(n.) An indefinitely small space |
Point
(n.) An indivisible portion of time |
Point
(n.) A mark of punctuation |
Point
(n.) Whatever serves to mark progress, rank, or relative position, or to indicate a transition from one state or position to another, degree |
Point
(n.) That which arrests attention, or indicates qualities or character |
Point
(n.) Hence, the most prominent or important feature, as of an argument, discourse, etc. |
Point
(n.) A small matter |
Point
(n.) A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time |
Point
(n.) A dot or mark distinguishing or characterizing certain tones or styles |
Point
(n.) A dot placed at the right hand of a note, to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half, as to make a whole note equal to three half notes, a half note equal to three quarter notes. |
Point
(n.) A fixed conventional place for reference, or zero of reckoning, in the heavens, usually the intersection of two or more great circles of the sphere, and named specifically in each case according to the position intended |
Point
(n.) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon. See Escutcheon. |
Point
(n.) One of the points of the compass (see Points of the compass, below) |
Point
(n.) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails. See Reef point, under Reef. |
Point
(n.) A a string or lace used to tie together certain parts of the dress. |
| delivery obstetrical delivery | the act of delivering a child |
| breach of contract | a breach of a legal duty, failure to do something that is required in a contract |
rescue
deliverance
delivery
saving | recovery or preservation from loss or danger, work is the deliverance of mankind, a surgeon's job is the saving of lives |
| jail delivery | the use of force to liberate prisoners |
| pitch delivery | (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter |
breech delivery
breech birth
breech presentation | delivery of an infant whose feet or buttocks appear first |
frank breech
frank breech delivery | position of a fetus in which the buttocks are present at the maternal pelvic outlet |
d cesarean delivery
caesarean delivery
caesarian delivery
cesarean section
cesarian section
caesarean section
caesarian section
C-section
cesarean
cesarian
caesarean
caesarian
abdominal delivery a b a a | the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) |
| forceps delivery | delivery in which forceps are inserted through the vagina and used to grasp the head of the fetus and pull it through the birth canal, since the forceps can injure the fetus this procedure has generally given way to cesarean deliveries |
point after
point after touchdown
extra point | in American football a point awarded for a successful place kick following a touchdown |
| contract killing | a murder carried out on agreement with a hired killer |
springboard
jumping-off point
point of departure | a beginning from which an enterprise is launched, he uses other people's ideas as a springboard for his own, reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions, the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out |
| international flight | a flight that takes off in one country and lands in another |
| three-point landing | a landing in which all three wheels of the aircraft touch the ground at the same time |
| delivery bringing | the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail), his reluctant delivery of bad news |
| contract contract bridge | a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid |
| international terrorism | terrorism practiced in a foreign country by terrorists who are not native to that country |
| jihad jehad international jihad | a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels |
healthcare delivery
health care delivery
care delivery | the provision of health care |
| point duty | the control of traffic by a policeman stationed at an intersection |
world affairs
international affairs | affairs between nations, you can't really keep up with world affairs by watching television |
delivery livery
legal transfer | the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another |
mutual aid
international logistic support | arrangements made between nations to assist each other |
| three-point turn | the act of turning a vehicle around in a limited space by moving in a series of back and forward arcs |
bluepoint
blue point | small edible oyster typically from the southern shore of Long Island |
| blue point Siamese | Siamese cat having a bluish creamolored body and dark grey points |
| basic point defense missile system | a shipboard missile system |
corner
street corner
turning point | the intersection of two streets, standing on the corner watching all the girls go by |
delivery truck
delivery van
panel truck | a van suitable for delivering goods or services to customers |
| diamond point | a very hard small point made from a diamond |
distributor point
breaker point
point | a contact in the distributor, as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs |
| dry point | a steel needle for engraving without acid on a bare copper plate |
| dry point | a print produced by dry point engraving |
| gros point | needlepoint embroidery done with large stitches |
| gros point | a needlepoint stitch covering two horizontal and two vertical threads |
| petit point | needlepoint done with small stitches |
| petit point tent stitch | a small diagonal needlepoint stitch |
| point | sharp end, he stuck the point of the knife into a tree, he broke the point of his pencil |
| point power point | a wall socket |
| point gunpoint | the gun muzzle's direction, he held me up at the point of a gun |
| point-and-shoot camera | a lightweight photographic camera with an autofocus |
point lace
needlepoint | lace worked with a needle in a buttonhole stitch on a paper pattern |
spearhead
spearpoint
spear-point | the head and sharpened point of a spear |
three-way switch
three-point switch | an electric switch that has three terminals, used to control a circuit from two different locations |
well point
wellpoint | a perforated tube driven into the ground to collect water from the surrounding area |
| boiling point | being highly angry or excited, ready to boil over, after an hour of waiting I was at the boiling point |
| vanishing point | the appearance of a point on the horizon at which parallel lines converge |
| point spot | an outstanding characteristic, his acting was one of the high points of the movie |
| point | a distinguishing or individuating characteristic, he knows my bad points as well as my good points |
| selling point | a characteristic of something that is up for sale that makes it attractive to potential customers |