merging meeting coming together | the act of joining together as one, the merging of the two groups occurred quickly, there was no meeting of minds |
prayer meeting prayer service | a service at which people sing hymns and pray together |
meeting coming together | the social act of assembling for some common purpose, his meeting with the salesmen was the high point of his day |
boardroom council chamber | a room where a committee meets (such as the board of directors of a company) |
conference table council table council board | the table that conferees sit around as they hold a meeting |
forum assembly meeting place | a public facility to meet for open discussion |
faculty mental faculty module | one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind |
sense sensation sentience sentiency sensory faculty | the faculty through which the external world is apprehended, in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing |
meeting encounter | a casual or unexpected convergence, he still remembers their meeting in Paris, there was a brief encounter in the hallway |
meet sports meeting | a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held |
race meeting | a regular occasion on which a number of horse races are held on the same track, the Epsom race meeting was an important social event |
Continuity Irish Republican Army CIRA Continuity Army Council | a terrorist organization formed in Ireland in as a clandestine armed wing of Sinn Fein |
Fatah Revolutionary Council Fatah-RC Abu Nidal Organization ANO Arab Revolutionary Brigades Black September Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims | a Palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the PLO in , has conducted terrorist attacks incountries, in the s the Fatah-RC was considered the most dangerous and murderous Palestinian terror group |
Council of Economic Advisors | an executive agency responsible for providing economic advice to the President |
National Security Council NSC | a committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security, supervises the Central Intelligence Agency |
Council on Environmental Policy | the executive agency that advises the President on protecting the environment |
legislative council | a unicameral legislature |
staff faculty | the body of teachers and administrators at a school, the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university |
Security Council SC | a permanent council of the United Nations, responsible for preserving world peace |
Trusteeship Council TC | a permanent council of the United Nations that commissions a country (or countries) to undertake the administration of a territory |
Economic and Social Council ECOSOC | a permanent council of the United Nations, responsible for economic and social conditions |
Economic and Social Council commission ECOSOC commission | a commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations |
meeting group meeting | a formally arranged gathering, next year the meeting will be in Chicago, the meeting elected a chairperson |
board meeting committee meeting | a meeting for administrative purposes |
camp meeting | religious (usually evangelistic) meeting held in a large tent or outdoors and lasting several days |
council | a meeting of people for consultation, emergency council |
stockholders meeting | a meeting at which the management reports to the stockholders of a company |
meeting get together | a small informal social gathering, there was an informal meeting in my living room |
North Atlantic Council NAC | a council consisting of permanent representatives of all the member countries of NATO, has political authority and powers of decision |
council | a body serving in an administrative capacity, student council |
city council | a municipal body that can pass ordinances and appropriate funds etc. |
executive council | a council that shares the supreme executive power |
privy council | an advisory council to a ruler (especially to the British Crown) |
works council | (chiefly Brit) a council representing employer and employees of a plant or business to discuss working conditions etc, also: a committee representing the workers elected to negotiate with management about grievances and wages etc |
town meeting | government of a town by an assembly of the qualified voters |
summit summit meeting | a meeting of heads of governments |
town meeting | a meeting of the inhabitants of a town |
council | (Christianity) an assembly of theologians and bishops and other representatives of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrine |
ecumenical council | (early Christian church) one of seven gatherings of bishops from around the known world under the presidency of the Pope to regulate matters of faith and morals and discipline, the first seven councils through are considered to be ecumenical councils by both the Roman Catholic church and the Eastern Orthodox church but the next fourteen councils are considered ecumenical only by the Roman Catholic church |
Nicaea First Council of Nicaea | the first ecumenical council in which produced the wording of the Nicene Creed and condemned the heresy of Arianism |
Constantinople First Council of Constantinople | the second ecumenical council in which added wording about the Holy Spirit to the Nicene Creed |
Ephesus Council of Ephesus | the third ecumenical council in which declared Mary as mother of God and condemned Pelagius |
Chalcedon Council of Chalcedon | the fourth ecumenical council in which defined the two natures (human and divine) of Christ |
Constantinople Second Council of Constantinople | the fifth ecumenical council in which held Origen's writings to be heretic |
Constantinople Third Council of Constantinople | the sixth ecumenical council in - which condemned Monothelitism by defining two wills in Christ, divine and human |
Nicaea Second Council of Nicaea | the seventh ecumenical council in which refuted iconoclasm and regulated the veneration of holy images |
Constantinople Fourth Council of Constantinople | the council in that condemned Photius who had become the patriarch of Constantinople without approval from the Vatican, thereby precipitating the schism between the eastern and western churches |
Lateran Council | any of five general councils of the Western Catholic Church that were held in the Lateran Palace |
First Lateran Council | the first council of the Western Church held in the Lateran Palace in , focused on church discipline and made plans to recover the Holy Lands from the Muslim `infidels' |
Second Lateran Council | the second council of the Western Church in which put an end to the dogmatic errors of Arnold of Brescia |