Amber tree
() A species of Anthospermum, a shrub with evergreen leaves, which, when bruised, emit a fragrant odor. |
Bay tree
() A species of laurel. (Laurus nobilis). |
Beam tree
() A tree (Pyrus aria) related to the apple. |
Beech tree
() The beech. |
Bound
(imp.) of Bind |
Bound
(p. p.) of Bind |
Bo tree
() The peepul tree |
Bound
(n.) The external or limiting line, either real or imaginary, of any object or space |
Bound
(v. t.) To limit |
Bound
(v. t.) To name the boundaries of |
Bound
(v. i.) To move with a sudden spring or leap, or with a succession of springs or leaps |
Bound
(v. i.) To rebound, as an elastic ball. |
Bound
(v. t.) To make to bound or leap |
Bound
(v. t.) To cause to rebound |
Bound
(n.) A leap |
Bound
(n.) Rebound |
Bound
(n.) Spring from one foot to the other. |
Bound
() imp. & p. p. of Bind. |
Bound
(p. p. & a.) Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the like. |
Bound
(p. p. & a.) Inclosed in a binding or cover |
Bound
(p. p. & a.) Under legal or moral restraint or obligation. |
Bound
(p. p. & a.) Constrained or compelled |
Bound
(p. p. & a.) Resolved |
Bound
(p. p. & a.) Constipated |
Bound
(v.) Ready or intending to go |
Branch
(n.) A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant. |
Branch
(n.) Any division extending like a branch |
Branch
(n.) Any member or part of a body or system |
Branch
(n.) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance |
Branch
(n.) A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock |
Branch
(n.) A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters. |
Branch
(a.) Diverging from, or tributary to, a main stock, line, way, theme, etc. |
Branch
(v. i.) To shoot or spread in branches |
Branch
(v. i.) To divide into separate parts or subdivision. |
Branch
(v. t.) To divide as into branches |
Branch
(v. t.) To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs. |
Branch pilot
() A pilot who has a branch or commission, as from Trinity House, England, for special navigation. |
Bully tree
() The name of several West Indian trees of the order Sapotaceae, as Dipholis nigra and species of Sapota and Mimusops. Most of them yield a substance closely resembling gutta-percha. |
Candleberry tree
() A shrub (the Myrica cerifera, or wax-bearing myrtle), common in North America, the little nuts of which are covered with a greenish white wax, which was formerly, used for hardening candles |
Caper tree
() See Capper, a plant, 2. |
Cow tree
() A tree (Galactodendron utile or Brosimum Galactodendron) of South America, which yields, on incision, a nourishing fluid, resembling milk. |
Crab tree
() See under Crab. |
Decision
(n.) Cutting off |
Decision
(n.) The act of deciding |
Decision
(n.) An account or report of a conclusion, especially of a legal adjudication or judicial determination of a question or cause |
Decision
(n.) The quality of being decided |
Fir tree
() See Fir. |
Galapee tree
() The West Indian Sciadophyllum Brownei, a tree with very large digitate leaves. |
Gatten tree
() A name given to the small trees called guelder-rose (Viburnum Opulus), cornel (Cornus sanguinea), and spindle tree (Euonymus Europaeus). |
Gold-bound
(a.) Encompassed with gold. |
leap
leaping
spring
saltation
bound
bounce | a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards |
decision
determination conclusion | the act of making up your mind about something, the burden of decision was his, he drew his conclusions quickly |
Gram's method
Gram method
Gram's procedure
Gram's stain
Gram stain | a staining technique used to classify bacteria, bacteria are stained with gentian violet and then treated with Gram's solution, after being decolorized with alcohol and treated with safranine and washed in water, those that retain the gentian violet are Gram-positive and those that do not retain it are Gram-negative |
method acting
method | an acting technique introduced by Stanislavsky in which the actor recalls emotions or reactions from his or her own life and uses them to identify with the character being portrayed |
coitus interruptus
withdrawal method
withdrawal pulling out
onanism | a method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation |
contraception
contraceptive method | birth control by the use of devices (diaphragm or intrauterine device or condom) or drugs or surgery |
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 |
rhythm method of birth control
rhythm method
rhythm
calendar method of birth control
calendar method | natural family planning in which ovulation is assumed to occur days before the onset of a period (the fertile period would be assumed to extend from daythrough day of her cycle) |
| relaxation relaxation method | a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount |
| whole-word method | teaching reading by training beginners to associate printed words with spoken words |
arboriculture
tree farming | the cultivation of tree for the production of timber |
| tree surgery | treatment of damaged or decaying trees |
arborolatry
tree-worship | the worship of trees |
judgment
judgement
judicial decision | (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it |
final judgment
final decision | a judgment disposing of the case before the court, after the judgment (or an appeal from it) is rendered all that remains is to enforce the judgment |
| Bakke decision | a ruling by the Supreme Court on affirmative action, the Court ruled in that medical schools are entitled to consider race as a factor in their admission policy |
| tree sparrow Spizella arborea | finch common in winter in the northern U.S. |
| tree sparrow Passer montanus | Eurasian sparrow smaller than the house sparrow |
woodhewer
woodcreeper
woodreeper
tree creeper | any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers |
creeper
tree creeper | any of various small insectivorous birds of the northern hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet |
tree swallow tree martin
Hirundo nigricans | of Australia and Polynesia, nests in tree cavities |
white-bellied swallow
tree swallow Iridoprocne bicolor | bluish-green-and-white North American swallow, nests in tree cavities |
| tree frog tree-frog | any of various Old World arboreal frogs distinguished from true frogs by adhesive suckers on the toes |
tree toad
tree frog tree-frog | arboreal amphibians usually having adhesive disks at the tip of each toe, of southeast Asia and Australia and America |
Pacific tree toad
Hyla regilla | the most commonly heard frog on the Pacific coast of America |
| chameleon tree frog | a form of tree toad |
tree lizard
Urosaurus ornatus | a climbing lizard of western United States and northern Mexico |
tree swift
crested swift | birds of southeast Asia and East Indies differing from true swifts in having upright crests and nesting in trees |
tree wallaby
tree kangaroo | arboreal wallabies of New Guinea and northern Australia having hind and forelegs of similar length |
| tree cricket | pale arboreal American cricket noted for loud stridulation |
snowy tree cricket
Oecanthus fultoni | pale yellowish tree cricket widely distributed in North America |
| tree squirrel | any typical arboreal squirrel |
sloth
tree sloth | any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America, they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits |
| tree shrew | insectivorous arboreal mammal of southeast Asia that resembles a squirrel with large eyes and long sharp snout |
pentail
pen-tail
pen-tailed tree shrew | brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third, of Malaysia |
arm branch
limb | any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm, the arm of the record player, an arm of the sea, a branch of the sewer |
branch line
spur track
spur | a railway line connected to a trunk line |
| Christmas tree | an ornamented evergreen used as a Christmas decoration |
clothes tree
coat tree
coat stand | an upright pole with pegs or hooks on which to hang clothing |
crucifix
rood
rood-tree | representation of the cross on which Jesus died |
gallows tree
gallows-tree
gibbet
gallous | alternative terms for gallows |
| tree house | a playhouse built in the branches of a tree |
decisiveness
decision | the trait of resoluteness as evidenced by firmness of character or purpose, a man of unusual decisiveness |
limit
bound
boundary | the greatest possible degree of something, what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior, to the limit of his ability |
| method | a way of doing something, especially a systematic way, implies an orderly logical arrangement (usually in steps) |
| scientific method | a method of investigation involving observation and theory to test scientific hypotheses |
| experimental method | the use of controlled observations and measurements to test hypotheses |
teaching method
pedagogics
pedagogy | the principles and methods of instruction |
Socratic method
maieutic method | a method of teaching by question and answer, used by Socrates to elicit truths from his students |