body English | a motion of the body by a player as if to make an object already propelled go in the desired direction |
command guidance | a method of controlling the flight of a missile by commands originating from the ground or from another missile |
English Civil War | civil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I, - |
English Revolution Glorious Revolution Bloodless Revolution | the revolution against James II, there was little armed resistance to William and Mary in England although battles were fought in Scotland and Ireland (-) |
English sparrow house sparrow Passer domesticus | small hardy brown-and-grey bird native to Europe |
English lady crab Portunus puber | crab of the English coasts |
English toy spaniel | British breed having a long silky coat and rounded head with a short upturned muzzle |
English foxhound | an English breed slightly larger than the American foxhounds originally used to hunt in packs |
English setter | an English breed having a plumed tail and a soft silky coat that is chiefly white |
English springer English springer spaniel | a breed having typically a black-and-white coat |
cocker spaniel English cocker spaniel cocker | a small breed with wavy silky hair, originally developed in England |
Old English sheepdog bobtail | large sheepdog with a profuse shaggy bluish-grey-and-white coat and short tail, believed to trace back to the Roman occupation of Britain |
bulldog English bulldog | a sturdy thickset short-haired breed with a large head and strong undershot lower jaw, developed originally in England for bull baiting |
English sole lemon sole Parophrys vitulus | popular pale brown food flatfish of the Pacific coast of North America |
command module | a space module in which astronauts can live and control the spacecraft and communicate with earth |
command post general headquarters GHQ | military headquarters from which a military commander controls and organizes the forces |
control key command key | (computer science) the key on a computer keyboard that is used (in combination with some other key) to type control characters |
English horn cor anglais | a doubleeed woodwind instrument similar to an oboe but lower in pitch |
English saddle English cavalry saddle | a saddle having a steel cantle and pommel and no horn |
command | availability for use, the materials at the command of the potters grew |
command | the power or authority to command, an admiral in command |
command control mastery | great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity, a good command of French |
perpendicular perpendicular style English-Gothic English-Gothic architecture | a Gothic style in th and th century England, characterized by vertical lines and a fourentered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting |
English | the discipline that studies the English language and literature |
prompt command prompt | (computer science) a symbol that appears on the computer screen to indicate that the computer is ready to receive a command |
Shakespearean sonnet Elizabethan sonnet English sonnet | a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg |
Oxford English Dictionary O.E.D. OED | an unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles |
New English Bible | a modern English version of the Bible and Apocrypha |
command line interface CLI | a user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon |
instruction command statement program line | (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program |
command line | commands that a user types in order to run an application |
Basic English | a simplified form of English proposed for use as an auxiliary language for international communication, devised by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards |
command language query language search language | a source language consisting of procedural operators that invoke functions to be executed |
English English language | an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch, the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries |
American English American language American | the English language as used in the United States |
African American Vernacular English AAVE African American English Black English Black English Vernacular Black Vernacular Black Vernacular English Ebonics | a nonstandard form of American English characteristically spoken by African Americans in the United States |
King's English Queen's English | English as spoken by educated persons in southern England |
Middle English | English from about to |
Modern English | English since about |
Old English Anglo-Saxon | English prior to about |
Oxford English | the dialect of English spoken at Oxford University and regarded by many as affected and pretentious |
Scottish Scots Scots English | the dialect of English used in Scotland |
command bid bidding dictation | an authoritative direction or instruction to do something |
system command | a computer user's instruction (not part of a program) that calls for action by the computer's executive program |
English side | (sports) the spin given to a ball by striking it on one side or releasing it with a sharp twist |
English muffin | round, raised muffin cooked on a griddle, usually split and toasted before being eaten |
scarlet runner scarlet runner bean runner bean English runner bean | long bean pods usually sliced into half-inch lengths, a favorite in Britain |
English walnut | nut with a wrinkled two-lobed seed and hard but relatively thin shell, widely used in cooking |
lemon sole English sole | highly valued almost pure white flesh |
congou congo congou tea English breakfast tea | black tea grown in China |