| naked option | a put or call option for which the seller or buyer has no underlying security position |
| covered option | a put or call option backed by the shares underlying the option |
call option
call | the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date |
put option
put | the option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date |
incentive option
incentive stock option | an option granted to corporate executives if the company achieves certain financial goals |
choice
selection
option
pick | the act of choosing or selecting, your choice of colors was unfortunate, you can take your pick |
| co-option co-optation | the act of appointing summarily (with or without the appointee's consent) |
co-option
co-optation | the selection of a new member (usually by a vote of the existing membership) |
switch
switching
shift | the act of changing one thing or position for another, his switch on abortion cost him the election |
shift
shifting | the act of moving from one place to another, his constant shifting disrupted the class |
function
office part role | the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group, the function of a teacher, the government must do its part, play its role |
biology lab
biology laboratory
bio lab | a laboratory for biological research |
chemise
sack shift | a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist |
chemise shimmy
shift slip
teddy | a woman's sleeveless undergarment |
shift key
shift | the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lowerase letters to upperase letters |
| shift register | (computer science) register in which all bits can be shifted one or more positions to the left or to the right |
standard transmission
stick shift | a transmission that is operated manually with a gear lever and a clutch pedal |
function
purpose
role
use | what something is used for, the function of an auger is to bore holes, ballet is beautiful but what use is it? |
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 |
default option
default | an option that is selected automatically unless an alternative is specified |
| soft option | an easier alternative, the instructor took the soft option and gave the boy a passing grade |
localization of function
localisation of function
localization principle
localisation principle
localization
localisation | (physiology) the principle that specific functions have relatively circumscribed locations in some particular part or organ of the body |
derived function
derivative
differential coefficient
differential
first derivative | the result of mathematical differentiation, the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another, df(x)
dx |
biology
biological science r | the science that studies living organisms |
exobiology
space biology
astrobiology | the branch of biology concerned with the effects of outer space on living organisms and the search for extraterrestrial life |
| molecular biology | the branch of biology that studies the structure and activity of macromolecules essential to life (and especially with their genetic role) |
| evolutionary trend | a general direction of evolutionary change |
| sentential function | formal expression containing variables, becomes a sentence when variables are replaced by constants |
function word
closedlass word | a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning |
routine
subroutine
subprogram
procedure
function | a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program |
| function call | a call that passes control to a subroutine, after the subroutine is executed control returns to the next instruction in main program |
characteristic curve
characterisic function | (electronics) graph showing how a particular characteristic of a device varies with other parameters |
transformation
transmutation
shift | a qualitative change |
| population shift | a change in the relative numbers of the different groups of individuals making up a population |
shift
displacement | an event in which something is displaced without rotation |
affair
occasion social occasion
function
social function | a vaguely specified social event, the party was quite an affair, an occasion arranged to honor the president, a seemingly endless round of social functions |
biota
biology | all the plant and animal life of a particular region |
| domain domain of a function | (mathematics) the set of values of the independent variable for which a function is defined |
image
range range of a function | (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined, the image of f(x) x^ is the set of all non-negative real numbers if the domain of the function is the set of all real numbers |
biology department
department of biology | the academic department responsible for teaching and research in biology |
| shift | a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time |
day shift
day watch | workers who work during the day (as a.m. to p.m.) |
| evening shift | workers who work during the evening (as p.m. to midnight) |
night shift
graveyard shift | workers who work during the night (as midnight to a.m.) |
| function | a formal or official social gathering or ceremony, it was a black-tie function |
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 |
| biology | characteristic life processes and phenomena of living organisms, the biology of viruses |
Doppler effect
Doppler shift | change in the apparent frequency of a wave as observer and source move toward or away from each other |
red shift
redshift | (astronomy) a shift in the spectra of very distant galaxies toward longer wavelengths (toward the red end of the spectrum), generally interpreted as evidence that the universe is expanding |
| option | the right to buy or sell property at an agreed price, the right is purchased and if it is not exercised by a stated date the money is forfeited |