Detached
(imp. & p. p.) of Detach |
Detached
(a.) Separate |
Family
(v. t.) The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager |
Family
(v. t.) The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society. |
Family
(v. t.) Those who descend from one common progenitor |
Family
(v. t.) Course of descent |
Family
(v. t.) Honorable descent |
Family
(v. t.) A group of kindred or closely related individuals |
Family
(v. t.) A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoology a family is less comprehesive than an order |
Houses
(pl. ) of House |
House
(n.) A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind |
House
(n.) Household affairs |
House
(n.) Those who dwell in the same house |
House
(n.) A family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred |
House
(n.) One of the estates of a kingdom or other government assembled in parliament or legislature |
House
(n.) A firm, or commercial establishment. |
House
(n.) A public house |
House
(n.) A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in the reverse order every twenty-four hours. |
House
(n.) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece. |
House
(n.) An audience |
House
(n.) The body, as the habitation of the soul. |
House
(n.) The grave. |
House
(v. t.) To take or put into a house |
House
(v. t.) To drive to a shelter. |
House
(v. t.) To admit to residence |
House
(v. t.) To deposit and cover, as in the grave. |
House
(v. t.) To stow in a safe place |
House
(v. i.) To take shelter or lodging |
House
(v. i.) To have a position in one of the houses. See House, n., 8. |
Lombard-house
(n.) Alt. of Lombar-house |
Lombar-house
(n.) A bank or a pawnbroker's shop. |
Lombar-house
(n.) A public institution for lending money to the poor at a moderate interest, upon articles deposited and pledged |
Moot-house
(n.) A hall for public meetings |
Single
(a.) One only, as distinguished from more than one |
Single
(a.) Alone |
Single
(a.) Hence, unmarried |
Single
(a.) Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others |
Single
(a.) Performed by one person, or one on each side |
Single
(a.) Uncompounded |
Single
(a.) Not deceitful or artful |
Single
(a.) Simple |
Single
(v. t.) To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number |
Single
(v. t.) To sequester |
Single
(v. t.) To take alone, or one by one. |
Single
(v. i.) To take the irrregular gait called single-foot |
Single
(n.) A unit |
Single
(n.) The reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness. |
Single
(n.) A handful of gleaned grain. |
Single
(n.) A game with but one player on each side |
Single
(n.) A hit by a batter which enables him to reach first base only. |
line-drive single
line single | a single resulting from a line drive |
single
bingle | a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base |
rack
single-foot | a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately |
| house | play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults, the children were playing house |
| painting house painting | the occupation of a house painter, house painting was the only craft he knew |
single entry
single-entry bookkeeping | a simple bookkeeping system, transactions are entered in only one account |
family practice
family medicine | medical practice that provides health care regardless of age or sex while placing emphasis on the family unit |
| family therapy | any of several therapeutic approaches in which a family is treated as a whole |
| natural family planning | any of several methods of family planning that do not involve sterilization or contraceptive devices or drugs, coitus is avoided during the fertile time of a woman's menstrual cycle |
birth control
birth prevention
family planning | limiting the number of children born |
basal body temperature method of family planning
basal body temperature method | natural family planning in which the fertile period of the woman's menstrual cycle is inferred by noting the rise in basal body temperature that typically occurs with ovulation |
ovulation method of family planning
ovulation method | natural family planning in which the fertile period is inferred from changes in the character and quantity of cervical mucus, ovulation is marked by an increase in mucus that becomes sticky and then clearer and slippery |
| house arrest | confinement to your own home |
| single combat | a fight between two people, in all armies there were officers who needed to prove their bravery by single combat |
Monmouth Court House
Battle of Monmouth Court House
Battle of Monmouth | a pitched battle in New Jersey during the American Revolution () that ended with the withdrawal of British forces |
| bacteria family | a family of bacteria |
Rhizobiaceae
family Rhizobiaceae | a small family of rod-shaped bacteria |
Bacillaceae
family Bacillaceae | typically rod-shaped usually Gram-positive bacteria that produce endospores |
Myxophyceae
family Myxophyceae
Schizophyceae
family Schizophyceae | former terms for Cyanophyceae |
Nostocaceae
family Nostocaceae | blue-green algae |
Oscillatoriaceae
family Oscillatoriaceae | blue green algae |
Pseudomonodaceae
family Pseudomonodaceae | rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria, include important plant and animal pathogens |
Athiorhodaceae
family Athiorhodaceae | small motile sulphur bacteria |
Nitrobacteriaceae
family Nitrobacteriaceae | usually rod-shaped bacteria that oxidize ammonia or nitrites: nitrobacteria |
Thiobacteriaceae
family Thiobacteriaceae | free-living coccoid to rod-shaped bacteria that derive energy from oxidizing sulfur or sulfur compounds |
Spirillaceae
family Spirillaceae | rigid spirally curved elongate bacteria |
Bacteroidaceae
family Bacteroidaceae | family of bacteria living usually in the alimentary canal or on mucous surfaces of warm-blooded animals, sometimes associated with acute infective processes |
Corynebacteriaceae
family Corynebacteriaceae | a large family of mostly Gram-positive and aerobic and nonmotile rod-shaped bacteria of the order Eubacteriales |
Enterobacteriaceae
family Enterobacteriaceae | a large family of Gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria of the order Eubacteriales |
Rickettsiaceae
family Rickettsiaceae | microorganism resembling bacteria inhabiting arthropod tissues but capable of causing disease in vertebrates |
Chlamydiaceae
family Chlamydiaceae | Gram-negative parasites in warm-blooded vertebrates |
Mycoplasmataceae
family Mycoplasmataceae | pleomorphic Gram-negative nonmotile microorganism similar to both viruses and bacteria, parasitic in mammals |
Actinomycetaceae
family Actinomycetaceae | filamentous anaerobic bacteria |
Streptomycetaceae
family Streptomycetaceae | higher bacteria typically aerobic soil saprophytes |
Mycobacteriaceae
family Mycobacteriaceae | a family of bacteria |
Polyangiaceae
family Polyangiaceae
Myxobacteriaceae
family Myxobacteriaceae | bacteria living mostly in soils and on dung |
Micrococcaceae
family Micrococcaceae | spherical or elliptical usually aerobic eubacteria that produce yellow or orange or red pigment, includes toxin-producing forms as well as harmless commensals and saprophytes |
Lactobacillaceae
family Lactobacillaceae
Lactobacteriaceae
family Lactobacteriaceae | lactic acid bacteria and important pathogens, bacteria that ferment carbohydrates chiefly into lactic acid |
Spirochaetaceae
family Spirochaetaceae | large coarsely spiral bacteria, free-living in fresh or salt water or commensal in bodies of oysters |
Treponemataceae
family Treponemataceae | small spirochetes some parasitic or pathogenic |
| protoctist family | any of the families of Protoctista |
Endamoebidae
family Endamoebidae | a large family of endoparasitic amebas that invade the digestive tract |
Globigerinidae
family Globigerinidae | a family of protoctists |
Nummulitidae
family Nummulitidae | a family of fossil protoctists |
Arcellidae
family Arcellidae | soil and freshwater protozoa, cosmopolitan in distribution |
Tribonemaceae
family Tribonemaceae | simple filamentous freshwater yellow-green algae |
Laminariaceae
family Laminariaceae | large family of marine brown algae including many economically important large kelps chiefly of northern waters |
Fucaceae
family Fucaceae | small family of brown algae: gulfweeds, rockweeds |
Euglenaceae
family Euglenaceae | considered green algae |
Ulvaceae
family Ulvaceae
sea-lettuce family | thin flat or tubular green algae |