state | the way something is with respect to its main attributes, the current state of knowledge, his state of health, in a weak financial state |
mind game | deliberate actions of calculated psychological manipulation intended to intimidate or confuse (usually for competitive advantage), football players try to play mind games with the opposition, the jeweler's mind game is to convince lovers that the size of a gemstone reflects the depth of their feelings |
change of state | the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics |
mind game | any game designed to exercise the intellect |
Secretary of State | the position of the head of the State Department, the position of Secretary of State was established in |
state-sponsored terrorism | terrorism practiced by a government against its own people or in support of international terrorism |
chair of state | a ceremonial chair for an exalted or powerful person |
Empire State Building | a skyscraper built in New York City in ,feet tall |
expressway freeway motorway pike state highway superhighway throughway thruway | a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic |
Ohio State University | a university in Columbus, Ohio |
psychoactive drug mind-altering drug consciousness-altering drug psychoactive substance | a drug that can produce mood changes and distorted perceptions |
state prison | a prison maintained by a state of the U.S. |
presence of mind | selfontrol in a crisis, ability to say or do the right thing in an emergency |
mind head brain psyche nous | that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings, the seat of the faculty of reason, his mind wandered, I couldn't get his words out of my head |
unconscious mind unconscious | that part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place of which the person is unaware |
subconscious mind subconscious | psychic activity just below the level of awareness |
mind intellect | knowledge and intellectual ability, he reads to improve his mind, he has a keen intellect |
cognitive state state of mind | the state of a person's cognitive processes |
religious trance ecstatic state | a trance induced by intense religious devotion, does not show reduced bodily functions that are typical of other trances |
mind | attention, don't pay him any mind |
mind | recall or remembrance, it came to mind |
mind's eye | the imaging of remembered or invented scenes, I could see her clearly in my mind's eye |
reversal change of mind flip-flop turnabout turnaround | a decision to reverse an earlier decision |
judgment judgement mind | an opinion formed by judging something, he was reluctant to make his judgment known, she changed her mind |
steady state theory continuous creation theory | (cosmology) the theory that the universe maintains a constant average density with matter created to fill the void left by galaxies that are receding from each other, the steady state theory has been abandoned in favor of the big bang theory |
mind idea | your intention, what you intend to do, he had in mind to see his old teacher, the idea of the game is to capture all the pieces |
solid-state physics | the branch of physics that studies the properties of materials in the solid state: electrical conduction in crystals of semiconductors and metals, superconductivity, photoconductivity |
mentality outlook mindset mind-set | a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations |
state's evidence | evidence for the prosecution in criminal proceedings |
peace peacefulness peace of mind repose serenity heartsease ataraxis | the absence of mental stress or anxiety |
Kaplan Group Association of Islamic Groups and Communities Caliphate State | a Turkish terrorist group of fundamentalist Muslims with ties to al-Qaeda that operates in Germany, seeks the violent overthrow of the Turkish government and the establishment of an Islamic nation modeled on Iran |
authoritarian state authoritarian regime | a government that concentrates political power in an authority not responsible to the people |
State Department | a department of government in one of thestates |
Department of State United States Department of State State Department State DoS | the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies, the Department of State was created in |
state nation country land commonwealth res publica body politic | a politically organized body of people under a single government, the state has elected a new president, African nations, students who had come to the nation's capitol, the country's largest manufacturer, an industrialized land |
rogue state renegade state rogue nation | a state that does not respect other states in its international actions |
church-state | a state ruled by religious authority |
city state city-state | a state consisting of a sovereign city |
welfare state | a government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc. |
puppet government puppet state pupet regime | a government that is appointed by and whose affairs are directed by an outside authority that may impose hardships on those governed |
state | the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state, the state has lowered its income tax |
state government | the government of a state in the United States |
totalitarian state totalitation regime | a government that subordinates the individual to the state and strictly controls all aspects of life by coercive measures |
supreme court state supreme court high court | the highest court in most states of the United States |
state capitalism | an economic system that is primarily capitalistic but there is some degree of government ownership of the means of production |
state socialism | an economic system in which the government owns most means of production but some degree of private capitalism is allowed |
state bank | a bank chartered by a state rather than by the federal government |
police state | a country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police) |
Committee for State Security KGB Soviet KGB | formerly the predominant security police organization of Soviet Russia |
narco-state | an area that has been taken over and is controlled and corrupted by drug cartels and where law enforcement is effectively nonexistent, this Mexican town has become a narco-state that ships pounds of cocaine to the United States every day |