Attorney-general (n.) The chief law officer of the state, empowered to act in all litigation in which the law-executing power is a party, and to advise this supreme executive whenever required. |
Brigadier general () An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier. |
General (a.) Relating to a genus or kind |
General (a.) Comprehending many species or individuals |
General (a.) Not restrained or limited to a precise import |
General (a.) Common to many, or the greatest number |
General (a.) Having a relation to all |
General (a.) As a whole |
General (a.) Usual |
General (a.) The whole |
General (a.) One of the chief military officers of a government or country |
General (a.) The roll of the drum which calls the troops together |
General (a.) The chief of an order of monks, or of all the houses or congregations under the same rule. |
General (a.) The public |
Governor general () A governor who has lieutenant or deputy governors under him |
Guiding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Guide |
Idea (n.) The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind |
Idea (n.) A general notion, or a conception formed by generalization. |
Idea (n.) Hence: Any object apprehended, conceived, or thought of, by the mind |
Idea (n.) A belief, option, or doctrine |
Idea (n.) A plan or purpose of action |
Idea (n.) A rational conception |
Idea (n.) A fiction object or picture created by the imagination |
Lieutenant general () An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general. |
Major general () An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps. |
Outline (n.) The line which marks the outer limits of an object or figure |
Outline (n.) In art: A line drawn by pencil, pen, graver, or the like, by which the boundary of a figure is indicated. |
Outline (n.) A sketch composed of such lines |
Outline (n.) Fig.: A sketch of any scheme |
Outline (v. t.) To draw the outline of. |
Outline (v. t.) Fig.: To sketch out or indicate as by an outline |
Postmasters-general (pl. ) of Postmaster-general |
Postmaster-general (n.) The chief officer of the post-office department of a government. In the United States the postmaster-general is a member of the cabinet. |
Principle (n.) Beginning |
Principle (n.) A source, or origin |
Principle (n.) An original faculty or endowment. |
Principle (n.) A fundamental truth |
Principle (n.) A settled rule of action |
Principle (n.) Any original inherent constituent which characterizes a substance, or gives it its essential properties, and which can usually be separated by analysis |
Principle (v. t.) To equip with principles |
Solicitor-general (n.) The second law officer in the government of Great Britain |
States-general (n.) In France, before the Revolution, the assembly of the three orders of the kingdom, namely, the clergy, the nobility, and the third estate, or commonalty. |
States-general (n.) In the Netherlands, the legislative body, composed of two chambers. |
Vision (v.) The act of seeing external objects |
Vision (v.) The faculty of seeing |
Vision (v.) That which is seen |
Vision (v.) Especially, that which is seen otherwise than by the ordinary sight, or the rational eye |
Vision (v.) Hence, something unreal or imaginary |
Vision (v. t.) To see in a vision |
general election | a national or state election, candidates are chosen in all constituencies |
Attorney General Attorney General of the United States | the position of the head of the Justice Department and the chief law enforcement officer of the United States, the post of Attorney General was created in |
quarterback signal caller field general | (American football) the position of the football player in the backfield who directs the offensive play of his team, quarterback is the most important position on the team |
general verdict | an ordinary verdict declaring which party prevails without any special findings of fact |
command post general headquarters GHQ | military headquarters from which a military commander controls and organizes the forces |
country store general store trading post | a retail store serving a sparsely populated region, usually stocked with a wide variety of merchandise |
general anesthetic general anaesthetic | an anesthetic that anesthetizes the entire body and causes loss of consciousness |
general-purpose bomb GP bomb | a large bomb ( to , pounds that is % explosive) whose explosion creates a blast and whose metal casing creates some fragmentation effect |
inhalation anesthetic inhalation anaesthetic inhalation general anesthetic inhalation general anaesthetic | a gas that produces general anesthesia when inhaled |
public knowledge general knowledge | knowledge that is available to anyone |
imagination imaginativeness vision | the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses, popular imagination created a world of demons, imagination reveals what the world could be |
sight vision visual sense visual modality | the ability to see, the visual faculty |
achromatic vision | vision using the rods |
binocular vision | vision involving the use of both eyes |
central vision | vision using the fovea and parafovea, the middle part of the visual field |
color vision chromatic vision trichromacy | the normal ability to see colors |
distance vision | vision for objects that afeet or more from the viewer |
foveal vision | vision with the fovea |
monocular vision | vision with only one eye |
near vision | vision for objects feet or closer to the viewer |
night vision night-sight scotopic vision twilight vision | the ability to see in reduced illumination (as in moonlight) |
daylight vision photopic vision | normal vision in daylight, vision with sufficient illumination that the cones are active and hue is perceived |
peripheral vision | vision at the edges of the visual field using only the periphery of the retina |
stereoscopic vision stereoscopy | three-dimensional vision produced by the fusion of two slightly different views of a scene on each retina |
vision visual sensation | the perceptual experience of seeing, the runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision, he had a visual sensation of intense light |
vision | a vivid mental image, he had a vision of his own death |
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 |
estimate estimation approximation idea | an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth, an estimate of what it would cost, a rough idea how long it would take |
general | a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular), he discussed the general but neglected the particular |
idea thought | the content of cognition, the main thing you are thinking about, it was not a good idea, the thought never entered my mind |
idea | a personal view, he has an idea that we don't like him |
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 |
outline schema scheme | a schematic or preliminary plan |
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 |
visual field field of vision field of regard | all of the points of the physical environment that can be perceived by a stable eye at a given moment |
preconception prepossession parti pris preconceived opinion preconceived idea preconceived notion | an opinion formed beforehand without adequate evidence, he did not even try to confirm his preconceptions |
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 |