constitution
establishment
formation organization organisation | the act of forming or establishing something, the constitution of a PTA group last year, it was the establishment of his reputation, he still remembers the organization of the club |
| development | act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining, he congratulated them on their development of a plan to meet the emergency, they funded research and development |
| product development | improving an existing product or developing new kinds of products |
re-formation
regeneration | forming again (especially with improvements or removal of defects), renewing and reconstituting |
| Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | the position of the head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the position of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development was created in |
formation
shaping | the act of fabricating something in a particular shape |
| formation | creation by mental activity, the formation of sentences, the formation of memories |
exploitation
development | the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful, the development of Alaskan resources, the exploitation of copper deposits |
| land development | making an area of land more useful |
water development
water project
water program | making an area of water more useful |
| formation | a particular spatial arrangement |
| ribbon development | building complex in a continuous row along a road |
olfactory property
smell
aroma
odor
odour
scent | any property detected by the olfactory system |
body odor
body odour
B.O. | malodorousness resulting from a failure to bathe |
reticular formation
RF | a complex neural network in the central core of the brainstem, monitors the state of the body and functions in such processes as arousal and sleep and attention and muscle tone |
smell odor
odour
olfactory sensation
olfactory perception | the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form, she loved the smell of roses |
| back-formation | a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it |
calque
calque formation
loan translation | an expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language, `superman' is a calque for the German `Ubermensch' |
| development | (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated |
| development | a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation, recent developments in Iraq, what a revolting development! |
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Housing and Urban Development
HUD | the United States federal department that administers federal programs dealing with better housing and urban renewal, created in |
| Social Development Commission | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with social development |
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
World Bank
IBRD | a United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments |
International Development Association
IDA | an agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank |
Advanced Research and Development Activity
ARDA | an agency of the Intelligence Community that conducts advanced research and development related to information technology |
| formation | an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit, a defensive formation, a formation of planes |
| military formation | a formation of troops |
| development | a district that has been developed to serve some purpose, such land is practical for small park developments |
| housing development | a residential area of similar dwellings built by property developers and usually under a single management, they live in the new housing development |
geological formation
formation | (geology) the geological features of the earth |
| Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the first Secretary of Housing and Urban Development was Robert C. Weaver who was appointed by Johnson |
| heat of formation | the heat evolved or absorbed during the formation of one mole of a substance from its component elements |
development
developing | processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible, the development and printing of his pictures took only two hours |
| development evolution | a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage), the development of his ideas took many years, the evolution of Greek civilization, the slow development of her skill as a writer |
| formation | natural process that causes something to form, the formation of gas in the intestine, the formation of crystals, the formation of pseudopods |
growth
growing
maturation
development ontogeny
ontogenesis | (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically, a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level, he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children |
pair production
pair creation
pair formation | the transformation of a gammaay photon into an electron and a positron when the photon passes close to an atomic nucleus |
| psychomotor development | progressive acquisition of skills involving both mental and motor activities |
| psychosexual development | (psychoanalysis) the process during which personality and sexual behavior mature through a series of stages: first oral stage and then anal stage and then phallic stage and then latency stage and finally genital stage |
| reaction formation | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which a person unconsciously develops attitudes and behavior that are the opposite of unacceptable repressed desires and impulses and serve to conceal them, his strict morality is just a reaction formation to hide his sexual drive |
| development | a state in which things are improving, the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess), after he saw the latest development he changed his mind and became a supporter, in chess your should take care of your development before moving your queen |
arrested development
fixation
infantile fixation
regression | an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely |