| domestic flight | a flight that begins and ends in the same country |
practice
pattern | a customary way of operation or behavior, it is their practice to give annual raises, they changed their dietary pattern |
| practice praxis | translating an idea into action, a hard theory to put into practice, differences between theory and praxis of communism |
exhibition game
practice game | a game whose outcome is not recorded in the season's standing |
Chinese checkers
Chinese chequers | a board game in which each player tries to move a set of marbles through a set of holes from one point of a six-pointed star to the opposite point |
law
practice of law | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system, he studied law at Yale |
medicine
practice of medicine | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries, he studied medicine at Harvard |
| practice | the exercise of a profession, the practice of the law, I took over his practice when he retired |
| dental practice | the practice of dentistry |
| law practice | the practice of law |
| medical practice | the practice of medicine |
family practice
family medicine | medical practice that provides health care regardless of age or sex while placing emphasis on the family unit |
| group practice | (medicine) the practice of medicine by a group of physicians who share their premises and other resources |
| private practice | the practice of a profession independently and not as an employee, he teaches at the medical school but his fortune came from private practice, lawyers in private practice are in business and must make a profit to survive |
| domestic terrorism | terrorism practiced in your own country against your own people, the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City was an instance of domestic terrorism |
sexual activity
sexual practice
sex
sex activity | activities associated with sexual intercourse, they had sex in the back seat |
exercise practice drill
practice session
recitation | systematic training by multiple repetitions, practice makes perfect |
skull session
skull practice | teaching strategy to an athletic team |
| target practice | practice in shooting at targets |
| creating from raw materials | the act of creating something that is different from the materials that went into it |
| creating by mental acts | the act of creating something by thinking |
| creating by removal | the act of creating by removing something |
| domestic violence | violence or physical abuse directed toward your spouse or domestic partner, usually violence by men against women |
| Chinese Revolution | the republican revolution against the Manchu dynasty in China, - |
domestic animal
domesticated animal | any of various animals that have been tamed and made fit for a human environment |
domestic carp
Cyprinus carpio | large Old World freshwater bottom-feeding fish introduced into Europe from Asia, inhabits ponds and sluggish streams and often raised for food, introduced into United States where it has become a pest |
Chinese alligator
Alligator sinensis | small alligator of the Yangtze valley of China having unwebbed digits |
domestic fowl
fowl
poultry | a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl |
| domestic pigeon | domesticated pigeon raised for sport or food |
Chinese goose
Anser cygnoides | very large wild goose of northeast Asia, interbreeds freely with the greylag |
dog
domestic dog
Canis familiaris | a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times, occurs in many breeds, the dog barked all night |
domestic cat
house cat
Felis domesticus
Felis catus | any domesticated member of the genus Felis |
domestic silkworm moth
domesticated silkworm moth
Bombyx mori | stocky creamy-white Asiatic moth found almost entirely under human care, the source of most of the silk commerce |
domestic ass
donkey
Equus asinus | domestic beast of burden descended from the African wild ass, patient but stubborn |
domestic sheep
Ovis aries | any of various breeds raised for wool or edible meat or skin |
domestic goat
Capra hircus | any of various breeds of goat raised for milk or meat or wool |
domestic llama
Lama peruana | used in the Andes as a beast of burden and source of wool, considered a domesticated variety of the guanaco |
Chinese paddlefish
Psephurus gladis | fish of larger rivers of China similar to the Mississippi paddlefish |
| Chinese lantern | a collapsible paper lantern in bright colors, used for decorative purposes |
| Chinese puzzle | intricate or ingenious puzzle consisting of boxes within boxes |
Chinese Wall
Great Wall
Great Wall of China | a fortification , miles long built across northern China in the rd century BC, it averages meters in width |
| practice range | a place for practicing golf shots |
| practice | knowledge of how something is usually done, it is not the local practice to wear shorts to dinner |
| feng shui | rules in Chinese philosophy that govern spatial arrangement and orientation in relation to patterns of yin and yang and the flow of energy (qi), the favorable or unfavorable effects are taken into consideration in designing and siting buildings and graves and furniture |
home economics
home ec
domestic science
household arts | theory and practice of homemaking |
| Chinese | any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China, regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system |
Mandarin
Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin dialect
Beijing dialect | the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China |
Tai Nuea
Chinese Shan
Dehong Dai | a branch of the Tai languages |
Chinese cabbage
celery cabbage
Chinese celery | elongated head of crisp celery-like stalks and light green leaves |
kiwi
kiwi fruit
Chinese gooseberry | fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh |