capacity | a specified function, he was employed in the capacity of director, he should be retained in his present capacity at a higher salary |
capacity | the maximum production possible, the plant is working atper cent capacity |
idle pulley idler pulley idle wheel | a pulley on a shaft that presses against a guide belt to guide or tighten it |
capacity | tolerance for alcohol, he had drunk beyond his capacity |
seating capacity | the number of people that can be seated in a vehicle or auditorium or stadium etc. |
capacity | capability to perform or produce, among his gifts is his capacity for true altruism, limited runway capacity, a great capacity for growth |
brain brainpower learning ability mental capacity mentality wit | mental ability, he's got plenty of brains but no common sense |
capacity mental ability | the power to learn or retain knowledge, in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior |
wind malarkey malarky idle words jazz nothingness | empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk, that's a lot of wind, don't give me any of that jazz |
prate prattle idle talk blether chin music | idle or foolish and irrelevant talk |
capacitance electrical capacity capacity | an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored |
costs | pecuniary reimbursement to the winning party for the expenses of litigation |
fixed charge fixed cost fixed costs | a periodic charge that does not vary with business volume (as insurance or rent or mortgage payments etc.) |
volume unit capacity unit capacity measure cubage unit cubic measure cubic content unit displacement unit cubature unit | a unit of measurement of volume or capacity |
British capacity unit Imperial capacity unit | a unit of measure for capacity officially adopted in the British Imperial System, British units are both dry and wet |
metric capacity unit | a capacity unit defined in metric terms |
field capacity | the maximum amount of water that a particular soil can hold |
capacity | (computer science) the amount of information (in bytes) that can be stored on a disk drive, the capacity of a hard disk drive is usually expressed in megabytes |
formatted capacity | (computer science) the usable capacity of a disk drive, the amount of space that is left after the sector headings and boundary definitions and timing information have been added by formatting the disk |
unformatted capacity | (computer science) the total number of bytes on a disk including the space that will be required to format it |
capacity content | the amount that can be contained, the gas tank has a capacity of gallons |
vital capacity | the maximum amount of air that can be exhaled after a maximum inhalation (usually tested with a spirometer), used to determine the condition of lung tissue |
idle | the state of an engine or other mechanism that is idling, the car engine was running at idle |
capability capacity | the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment, the capability of a metal to be fused |
channel capacity | the maximum data rate that can be attained over a given channel |
idle tick over | run disconnected or idle, the engine is idling |
idle laze slug stagnate | be idle, exist in a changeless situation, The old man sat and stagnated on his porch, He slugged in bed all morning |
idle unused | not in active use, the machinery sat idle during the strike, idle hands |
idle | not in action or at work, an idle laborer, idle drifters, the idle rich, an idle mind |
bone-idle bone-lazy | constitutionally lazy or idle |
idle jobless out of work | not having a job, idle carpenters, jobless transients, many people in the area were out of work |
dead idle | not yielding a return, dead capital, idle funds |
idle loose | lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility, idle talk, a loose tongue |
idle light | silly or trivial, idle pleasure, light banter, light idle chatter |
baseless groundless idle unfounded unwarranted wild | without a basis in reason or fact, baseless gossip, the allegations proved groundless, idle fears, unfounded suspicions, unwarranted jealousy |
at all costs at any cost at any expense | regardless of the cost involved, he wanted to save her life at all cost |