Absence
(n.) A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship |
Absence
(n.) Want |
Absence
(n.) Inattention to things present |
Contract
(n.) To draw together or nearer |
Contract
(n.) To draw together so as to wrinkle |
Contract
(n.) To bring on |
Contract
(n.) To enter into, with mutual obligations |
Contract
(n.) To betroth |
Contract
(n.) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one. |
Contract
(v. i.) To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent |
Contract
(v. i.) To make an agreement |
Contract
(a.) Contracted |
Contract
(a.) Contracted |
Contract
(n.) The agreement of two or more persons, upon a sufficient consideration or cause, to do, or to abstain from doing, some act |
Contract
(n.) A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation. |
Contract
(n.) The act of formally betrothing a man and woman. |
form
(n.) A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc. |
Form
(n.) The shape and structure of anything, as distinguished from the material of which it is composed |
Form
(n.) Constitution |
Form
(n.) Established method of expression or practice |
Form
(n.) Show without substance |
Form
(n.) Orderly arrangement |
Form
(n.) A shape |
Form
(n.) That by which shape is given or determined |
Form
(n.) A long seat |
Form
(n.) The seat or bed of a hare. |
Form
(n.) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase. |
Form
(n.) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body. |
Form
(n.) The particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech |
Form
(n.) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid. |
Form
(n.) That assemblage or disposition of qualities which makes a conception, or that internal constitution which makes an existing thing to be what it is |
Form
(n.) Mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the intellect |
Form
(n.) The peculiar characteristics of an organism as a type of others |
Form
(n.) To give form or shape to |
Form
(n.) To give a particular shape to |
Form
(n.) To go to make up |
Form
(n.) To provide with a form, as a hare. See Form, n., 9. |
Form
(n.) To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes. |
Form
(v. i.) To take a form, definite shape, or arrangement |
Form
(v. i.) To run to a form, as a hare. |
Formal
(n.) See Methylal. |
Formal
(a.) Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing. |
Formal
(a.) Belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished from the matter composing it |
Formal
(a.) Done in due form, or with solemnity |
Formal
(a.) Devoted to, or done in accordance with, forms or rules |
Formal
(a.) Having the form or appearance without the substance or essence |
Formal
(a.) Dependent in form |
Formal
(a.) Sound |
Kidney-form
(a.) Alt. of Kidney-shaped |
Principle
(n.) Beginning |
shape
form | the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance, geometry is the mathematical science of shape |
absence without leave
unauthorized absence | unauthorized military absence |
| breach of contract | a breach of a legal duty, failure to do something that is required in a contract |
| contract killing | a murder carried out on agreement with a hired killer |
| contract contract bridge | a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid |
| absence | failure to be present |
| form genus | an artificial taxonomic category established on the basis of morphological resemblance for organisms of obscure true relationships especially fossil forms |
dinner dress
dinner gown
formal
evening gown | a gown for evening wear |
| form | a mold for setting concrete, they built elaborate forms for pouring the foundation |
| formal garden | a garden laid out on regular lines with plants arranged in symmetrical locations or in geometrical designs |
mannequin
manikin
mannikin
manakin
form | a life-size dummy used to display clothes |
subject
content
depicted object | something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation, a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject |
form
shape cast | the visual appearance of something or someone, the delicate cast of his features |
| good form | behavior that conforms to social conventions of the time, it is not good form to brag about winning |
| form | a particular mode in which something is manifested, his resentment took the form of extreme hostility |
shape
form configuration
contour
conformation | any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline), he could barely make out their shapes |
| form | an ability to perform well, he was at the top of his form, the team was off form last night |
| life form | the characteristic bodily form of a mature organism |
e human body
physical body
material body
soma
build
figure
physique
anatomy
shape
bod
chassis
frame form
flesh | alternative names for the body of a human being, Leonardo studied the human body, he has a strong physique, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak |
rationale
principle | (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature), the rationale for capital punishment, the principles of internalombustion engines |
topic
subject issue
matter | some situation or event that is thought about, he kept drifting off the topic, he had been thinking about the subject for several years, it is a matter for the police |
kind
sort
form variety | a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality, sculpture is a form of art, what kinds of desserts are there? |
| art form | (architecture) a form of artistic expression (such as writing or painting or architecture) |
working principle
working rule | a rule that is adequate to permit work to be done |
fundamentals
basics
fundamental principle
basic principle
bedrock | principles from which other truths can be derived, first you must learn the fundamentals, let's get down to basics |
pleasure principle
pleasure-pain principle
pleasure-unpleasure principle | (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id, the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality |
| reality principle | (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the ego, the principle that as a child grows it becomes aware of the real environment and the need to accommodate to it |
| principle | a basic truth or law or assumption, the principles of democracy |
rudiment
first rudiment
first principle
alphabet
ABC
ABC's
ABCs | the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural), he mastered only the rudiments of geometry |
| principle rule | a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system, the principle of the conservation of mass, the principle of jet propulsion, the right-hand rule for inductive fields |
Archimedes' principle
law of Archimedes | (hydrostatics) the apparent loss in weight of a body immersed in a fluid is equal to the weight of the displaced fluid |
Gestalt law of organization
Gestalt principle of organization | a principle of Gestalt psychology that identifies factors leading to particular forms of perceptual organization |
Le Chatelier's principle
Le Chatelier's law
Le Chatelier principle
Le Chatelier-Braun principle | the principle that if any change is imposed on a system that is in equilibrium then the system tends to adjust to a new equilibrium counteracting the change |
Pauli exclusion principle
exclusion principle | no two electrons or protons or neutrons in a given system can be in states characterized by the same set of quantum numbers |
prerequisite
requirement | something that is required in advance, Latin was a prerequisite for admission |
| requirement demand | required activity, the requirements of his work affected his health, there were many demands on his time |
| academic requirement | a requirement for admission to or completion of an academic program |
| language requirement | a requirement that a student know certain languages |
| principle rule | a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct, their principles of composition characterized all their works |
form
shape
pattern | a perceptual structure, the composition presents problems for students of musical form, a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them |
| sonata form | a musical form having sections -- exposition and development and recapitulation, characteristic of st movement of a sonata or symphony |
| principle | a rule or standard especially of good behavior, a man of principle, he will not violate his principles |
accounting principle
accounting standard | a principle that governs current accounting practice and that is used as a reference to determine the appropriate treatment of complex transactions |
ethic
moral principle
value-system
value orientation | the principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group, the Puritan ethic, a person with old-fashioned values |
legal principle
judicial principle
judicial doctrine | (law) a principle underlying the formulation of jurisprudence |
| principle of relativity | (physics) a universal law that states that the laws of mechanics are not affected by a uniform rectilinear motion of the system of coordinates to which they are referred |
Occam's Razor
Ockham's Razor
principle of parsimony
law of parsimony | the principle that entities should not be multiplied needlessly, the simplest of two competing theories is to be preferred |
| principle of equivalence | (physics) the principle that an observer has no way of distinguishing whether his laboratory is in a uniform gravitational field or is in an accelerated frame of reference |
| principle of liquid displacement | (hydrostatics) the volume of a body immersed in a fluid is equal to the volume of the displaced fluid |
principle of superposition
Huygens' principle of superposition | the displacement of any point due to the superposition of wave systems is equal to the sum of the displacements of the individual waves at that point, the principle of superposition is the basis of the wave theory of light |