fielder's choice | a play made on a ground ball in which the fielder chooses to put out an advancing runner instead of the batter |
choice selection option pick | the act of choosing or selecting, your choice of colors was unfortunate, you can take your pick |
decision determination conclusion | the act of making up your mind about something, the burden of decision was his, he drew his conclusions quickly |
a mischief mischief-making mischievousness deviltry devilry devilment rascality roguery roguishness shenanigan ddd | reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others |
sexual love lovemaking making love love love life | sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people, his lovemaking disgusted her, he hadn't had any love in months, he has a very complicated love life |
lace making tatting | the act or art of making handmade lace |
devising fashioning making | the act that results in something coming to be, the devising of plans, the fashioning of pots and pans, the making of measurements, it was already in the making |
moviemaking movie making film making | the production of movies |
winemaking wine making | the craft and science of growing grapes and making wine |
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 |
slave-making ant slave-maker | an ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants |
sailor'shoice sailors choice Haemulon parra | a grunt found from Florida to Brazil and Gulf of Mexico |
making | (usually plural) the components needed for making or doing something, the recipe listed all the makings for a chocolate cake |
qualification making | an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something, her qualifications for the job are excellent, one of the qualifications for admission is an academic degree, she has the makings of fine musician |
decisiveness decision | the trait of resoluteness as evidenced by firmness of character or purpose, a man of unusual decisiveness |
freedom of thought | the right to hold unpopular ideas |
freedom of religion | a civil right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution |
freedom of speech | a civil right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution |
freedom of the press | a right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution |
freedom of assembly | the right to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for redress of grievances, guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution |
freedom to bear arms | a right guaranteed by the nd amendment to the US Constitution |
freedom from search and seizure | a right guaranteed by the th amendment to the US Constitution |
freedom from self-incrimination privilege against self incrimination | the civil right (guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution) to refuse to answer questions or otherwise give testimony against yourself |
freedom from double jeopardy | a civil right guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution |
freedom from cruel and unusual punishment | a right guaranteed by the th amendment to the US Constitution |
freedom from involuntary servitude | a civil right guaranteed by the th amendment to the US Constitution |
freedom from discrimination | immunity from discrimination on the basis of race or sex or nationality or religion or age, guaranteed by federal laws of the United States |
method of choice | the best method to achieve a desired result |
decision making deciding | the cognitive process of reaching a decision, a good executive must be good at decision making |
choice pick selection | the person or thing chosen or selected, he was my pick for mayor |
option alternative choice | one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen, what option did I have?, there no other alternative, my only choice is to refuse |
Hobson's choice | the choice of taking what is offered or nothing at all |
decision determination conclusion | a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration, a decision unfavorable to the opposition, his conclusion took the evidence into account, satisfied with the panel's determination |
degree of freedom | (statistics) an unrestricted variable in a frequency distribution |
degree of freedom | one of the minimum number of parameters needed to describe the state of a physical system |
decision table | a table of all contingencies and the actions to be taken for each |
wording diction phrasing phraseology choice of words verbiage | the manner in which something is expressed in words, use concise military verbiage- G.S.Patton |
informing making known | a speech act that conveys information |
decision | the outcome of a game or contest, the team dropped three decisions in a row |
decision | (boxing) a victory won on points when no knockout has occurred, had little trouble in taking a unanimous decision over his opponent |
split decision | a boxing decision in which the judges are not unanimous |
choice morsel tidbit titbit | a small tasty bit of food |
Basque Homeland and Freedom Basque Fatherland and Liberty Euskadi ta Askatasuna ETA | a terrorist organization organized in by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party, want to create an independent homeland in Spain's western Pyrenees, in ETA launched a campaign of political assassinations of government officials |
Hizb ut-Tahrir Freedom Party | the most popular and feared Islamic extremist group in central Asia, advocates `pure' Islam and the creation of a worldwide Islamic state |
administrator decision maker | someone who administers a business |
freedom rider | one of an interracial group of civil rights activists who rode buses through parts of the South in order to protest racial segregation |
insurgent insurrectionist freedom fighter rebel | a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions) |
leak wetting making water passing water | a euphemism for urination, he had to take a leak |