scorched-earth policy | the target company defends itself by selling off its crown jewels |
career life history | the general progression of your working or professional life, the general had had a distinguished career, he had a long career in the law |
history lesson | a lesson in the facts of history |
dating geological dating | use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens |
ground earth | a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage) |
ancient history | knowledge of some recent fact or event that has become so commonly known that it has lost its original pertinence |
worldly concern earthly concern world earth | the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife, they consider the church to be independent of the world |
natural history | the scientific study of plants or animals (more observational than experimental) usually published in popular magazines rather than in academic journals |
earth science | any of the sciences that deal with the earth or its parts |
history | the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings, he teaches Medieval history, history takes the long view |
art history | the academic discipline that studies the development of painting and sculpture |
history | all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing, a body of knowledge, the dawn of recorded history, from the beginning of history |
history account chronicle story | a record or narrative description of past events, a history of France, he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president, the story of exposure to lead |
ancient history | a history of the ancient world |
case history | detailed record of the background of a person or group under study or treatment |
family history | part of a patient's medical history in which questions are asked in an attempt to find out whether the patient has hereditary tendencies toward particular diseases |
medical history medical record anamnesis | the case history of a medical patient as recalled by the patient |
biography life life story life history | an account of the series of events making up a person's life |
tremor earth tremor microseism | a small earthquake |
a Hizballah Hezbollah Hizbollah Hizbullah Lebanese Hizballah Party of God Islamic Jihad Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine Revolutionary Justice Organization Organization of the Oppressed on Earth | a Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran, seeks to create an Iranian fundamentalist Islamic state in Lebanon, car bombs are the signature weapon |
history department department of history | the academic department responsible for teaching history |
Earth earth | the abode of mortals (as contrasted with Heaven or Hell), it was hell on earth |
hell hell on earth hellhole snake pit the pits inferno | any place of pain and turmoil, the hell of battle, the inferno of the engine room, when you're alone Christmas is the pits, |
geological horizon | a layer of rock with a particular composition (especially of fossils), for dating the stratum |
crust Earth's crust | the outer layer of the Earth |
Earth earth world globe | the rd planet from the sun, the planet we live on, the Earth moves around the sun, he sailed around the world |
fault faulting geological fault shift fracture break | (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other, they built it right over a geological fault, he studied the faulting of the earth's crust |
geological formation formation | (geology) the geological features of the earth |
land dry land earth ground solid ground terra firma | the solid part of the earth's surface, the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land, the earth shook for several minutes, he dropped the logs on the ground |
surface Earth's surface | the outermost level of the land or sea, earthquakes originate far below the surface, three quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by water |
earth-god earth god | a god of fertility and vegetation |
earth-goddess earth goddess | a goddess of fertility and vegetation |
earth mother | the earth conceived of as the female principle of fertility |
geological phenomenon | a natural phenomenon involving the structure or composition of the earth |
lion's foot gall of the earth Nabalus serpentarius Prenanthes serpentaria | common perennial herb widely distributed in the southern and eastern United States having drooping clusters of pinkish flowers and thick basal leaves suggesting a lion's foot in shape, sometimes placed in genus Prenanthes |
chufa yellow nutgrass earth almond ground almond rush nut Cyperus esculentus | European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers |
heath pea earth-nut pea earthnut pea tuberous vetch Lathyrus tuberosus | European herb bearing small tubers used for food and in Scotland to flavor whiskey |
wild potato vine wild sweet potato vine man-of-the-earth manroot scammonyroot Ipomoea panurata Ipomoea fastigiata | tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root, sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato |
man-of-the-earth Ipomoea leptophylla | a morning glory with long roots of western United States |
truffle earthnut earth-ball | any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber, grow naturally in southwestern Europe |
earthtongue earth-tongue | any club-shaped fungus of the genus Geoglossum |
geological process geologic process | (geology) a natural process whereby geological features are modified |
rare earth rare-earth element lanthanoid lanthanide lanthanon | any element of the lanthanide series (atomic numbers through ) |
ader wax earth wax mineral wax ozokerite ozocerite | a waxy mineral that is a mixture of hydrocarbons and occurs in association with petroleum, some varieties are used in making ceresin and candles |
earth color | a colored mineral used as a pigment |
alkaline earth alkaline-earth metal | any of the bivalent metals of group II of the periodic table (calcium or strontium or barium or magnesium or beryllium) |
bleaching clay bleaching earth | an adsorbent clay that will remove coloring from oils |
potter's clay potter's earth | clay that does not contain any iron, used in making pottery or for modeling |
earth ground | the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface, they dug into the earth outside the church |
diatomaceous earth diatomite kieselguhr | a light soil consisting of siliceous diatom remains and often used as a filtering material |