Chief
(n.) The head or leader of any body of men |
Chief
(n.) The principal part |
Chief
(n.) The upper third part of the field. It is supposed to be composed of the dexter, sinister, and middle chiefs. |
Chief
(a.) Highest in office or rank |
Chief
(a.) Principal or most eminent in any quality or action |
Chief
(a.) Very intimate, near, or close. |
Chief baron
() The presiding judge of the court of exchequer. |
Chief hare
() A small rodent (Lagamys princeps) inhabiting the summits of the Rocky Mountains |
Chief justice
() The presiding justice, or principal judge, of a court. |
Chief-justiceship
(n.) The office of chief justice. |
Civil
(a.) Pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his relations to his fellow citizens or to the state |
Civil
(a.) Subject to government |
Civil
(a.) Performing the duties of a citizen |
Civil
(a.) Having the manners of one dwelling in a city, as opposed to those of savages or rustics |
Civil
(a.) Pertaining to civic life and affairs, in distinction from military, ecclesiastical, or official state. |
Civil
(a.) Relating to rights and remedies sought by action or suit distinct from criminal proceedings. |
Department
(v. i.) Act of departing |
Department
(v. i.) A part, portion, or subdivision. |
Department
(v. i.) A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like |
Department
(v. i.) Subdivision of business or official duty |
Department
(v. i.) A territorial division |
Department
(v. i.) A military subdivision of a country |
Engineer
(n.) A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Engineering, n. |
Engineer
(n.) One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine |
Engineer
(n.) One who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance |
Engineer
(v. t.) To lay out or construct, as an engineer |
Engineer
(v. t.) To use contrivance and effort for |
Maintenance
(n.) The act of maintaining |
Maintenance
(n.) That which maintains or supports |
Maintenance
(n.) An officious or unlawful intermeddling in a cause depending between others, by assisting either party with money or means to carry it on. See Champerty. |
Permanent
(a.) Continuing in the same state, or without any change that destroys form or character |
Railway
(n.) A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure. |
Railway
(n.) The road, track, etc., with all the lands, buildings, rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and constituting one property |
Underground Railroad
Underground Railway | secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War |
attainder
civil death | cancellation of civil rights |
care
maintenance
upkeep | activity involved in maintaining something in good working order, he wrote the manual on car care |
| scheduled maintenance | maintenance at a regularly scheduled time |
President of the United States
President Chief Executive | the office of the United States head of state, a President is elected every four years |
tort
civil wrong | (law) any wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought |
| maintenance criminal maintenance | the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community, unlike champerty, criminal maintenance does not necessarily involve personal profit |
| civil censorship | military censorship of civilian communications (correspondence or printed matter of films) entering or leaving of circulating within territories controlled by armed forces |
| civil defense | activities organized by civilians for their own protection in time of war or disaster |
| civil war | a war between factions in the same country |
| civil marriage | a marriage performed by a government official rather than by a clergyman |
| civil disobedience | a group's refusal to obey a law because they believe the law is immoral (as in protest against discrimination), Thoreau wrote a famous essay justifying civil disobedience |
| civil contempt | a failure to follow a court order that benefits someone else |
| civil suit | a lawsuit alleging violations of civil law by the defendant |
| civil action | legal action to protect a private civil right or to compel a civil remedy (as distinguished from criminal prosecution) |
sustenance
sustentation
sustainment
maintenance upkeep | the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence, they were in want of sustenance, fishing was their main sustainment |
American Civil War
United States Civil War
War between the States | civil war in the United States between the North and the South, - |
| English Civil War | civil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I, - |
| Spanish Civil War | civil war in Spain in which Franco succeeded in overthrowing the republican government, during the war Spain became a battleground for fascists and socialists from all countries, - |
little chief hare
Ochotona princeps | North American pika |
cable railway
funicular
funicular railway | a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars |
car railcar
railway car
railroad car | a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad, three cars had jumped the rails |
cog railway
rack railway | railway for steep mountains, a cogwheel on the locomotive engages cogs on a center rail to provide traction |
department store
emporium | a large retail store organized into departments offering a variety of merchandise, commonly part of a retail chain |
elevated railway
elevated railroad
elevated
el
overhead railway | a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level |
| garage service department | a repair shop where cars and trucks are serviced and repaired |
line railway line
rail line | the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed |
locomotive
engine locomotive engine
railway locomotive | a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks |
permanent magnet
static magnet | a magnet that retains its magnetism after being removed from a magnetic field |
permanent press
durable press | a fabric that has been chemically processed to resist wrinkles and hold its shape |
railroad track
railroad railway | a line of track providing a runway for wheels, he walked along the railroad track |
railway
railroad
railroad line
railway line railway system | line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight |
| railway junction | a junction where two or more railway lines meet or cross |
railway station
railroad station
railroad terminal
train station
train depot | terminal where trains load or unload passengers or goods |
| scenic railway | small railway in an amusement park |
yard railway yard
railyard | an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines |
| civil right | right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the th and th amendments and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to legal and social and economic equality |
| civil liberty | fundamental individual right protected by law and expressed as immunity from unwarranted governmental interference |
permanent wave
permanent
perm | a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals |
permanent tooth
adult tooth | any of the teeth that replace the deciduous teeth of early childhood and (with luck) can last until old age |
| department | a specialized sphere of knowledge, baking is not my department, his work established a new department of literature |
| civil engineering | the branch of engineering concerned with the design and construction of such public works as dams or bridges |
Roman law
Justinian code
civil law jus civile | the legal code of ancient Rome, codified under Justinian, the basis for many modern systems of civil law |
permanent injunction
final injunction | injunction issued on completion of a trial |
department
section | a specialized division of a large organization, you'll find it in the hardware department, she got a job in the historical section of the Treasury |
| academic department | a division of a school that is responsible for a given subject |
anthropology department
department of anthropology | the academic department responsible for teaching and research in anthropology |
| art department | the academic department responsible for teaching art and art appreciation |
biology department
department of biology | the academic department responsible for teaching and research in biology |
chemistry department
department of chemistry | the academic department responsible for teaching and research in chemistry |