lift
raise
heave | the act of raising something, he responded with a lift of his eyebrow, fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up |
| face lift facelift face lifting | a renovation that improves the outward appearance (as of a building) but usually does not involve major changes, give your home a facelift, more than a facelift, the new model marks a fundamental change of direction |
| lift | a ride in a car, he gave me a lift home |
airlift
lift | transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable) |
face lift
facelift
lift face lifting
cosmetic surgery
rhytidectomy
rhytidoplasty
nip and tuck | plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face, an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised, some actresses have more than one face lift |
enzyme-linked-immunosorbent serologic assay
ELISA | an assay that relies on an enzymatic conversion reaction and is used to detect the presence of specific substances (such as enzymes or viruses or antibodies or bacteria) |
carpet bombing
area bombing
saturation bombing | an extensive and systematic bombing intended to devastate a large target |
| lift | the act of giving temporary assistance |
| inter-service support | action by one military service to provide logistic (or administrative) support to another military service |
blastoderm
germinal disc
blastodisc
germinal area | a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula |
| area | a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function, the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants |
breakfast area
breakfast nook | a place for light meals (usually near a kitchen), the breakfast nook had a built in table and seats |
cargo area
cargo deck
cargo hold
hold storage area | the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo |
chairlift
chair lift | a ski lift on which riders (skiers or sightseers) are seated and carried up or down a mountainside, seats are hung from an endless overhead cable |
| dining area | an area arranged for dining, they put up tents for the dining area |
drawbridge
lift bridge | a bridge that can be raised to block passage or to allow boats or ships to pass beneath it |
elevator
lift | lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building |
equal-area projection
equal-area map projection | a map projection in which quadrilaterals formed by meridians and parallels have an area on the map proportional to their area on the globe |
exhibition hall
exhibition area | a large hall for holding exhibitions |
launching pad
launchpad
launch pad
launch area
pad | a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched |
| lift | one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot |
| lift | a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg |
| lift pump | pump used to lift rather than force a liquid up |
local area network
LAN | a local computer network for communication between computers, especially a network connecting computers and word processors and other electronic office equipment to create a communication system between offices |
lounge
waiting room
waiting area | a room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait |
pull-off
rest area
rest stop
layby
lay-by | designated paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily |
seating
seats
seating room
seating area | an area that includes places where several people can sit, there is seating forstudents in this classroom |
ski tow
ski lift
lift | a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill |
| surface lift | a ski tow that pulls skiers up a slope without lifting them off the ground |
T-bar lift
T-bar
Alpine lift | a surface lift where riders hold a bar and are pulled up the hill on their skis |
| top lift | the bottom layer of a heel |
wide area network
WAN | a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network |
wireless local area network
WLAN
wireless fidelity
WiFi | a local area network that uses high frequency radio signals to transmit and receive data over distances of a few hundred feet, uses ethernet protocol |
| X-linked dominant inheritance | hereditary pattern in which a dominant gene on the X chromosome causes a characteristic to be manifested in the offspring |
| X-linked recessive inheritance | hereditary pattern in which a recessive gene on the X chromosome results in the manifestation of characteristics in male offspring and a carrier state in female offspring |
area
expanse
surface area | the extent of a -dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary, the area of a rectangle, it was about square feet in area |
acreage
land area | an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming), he wanted some acreage to build on |
area
region | a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve, in the abdominal region |
| area of cardiac dullness | a triangular area of the front of the chest (determined by percussion), corresponds to the part of the heart not covered by the lungs |
linkage group
linked genes | any pair of genes that tend to be transmitted together, the genes of Drosophila fall into four linkage groups |
| X-linked gene | a gene located on an X chromosome |
Y-linked gene
holandric gene | a gene located on a Y chromosome |
macula
macula lutea
macular area
yellow spot | a small yellowish central area of the retina that is rich in cones and that mediates clear detailed vision |
pyriform area
piriform area
pyriform lobe
piriform lobe | pear-shaped neural structure on either side of the brain in the rhinencephalon |
cortical area
cortical region | any of various regions of the cerebral cortex |
association area
association cortex | cortical areas that are neither motor or sensory but are thought to be involved in higher processing of information |
auditory area
auditory cortex | the cortical area that receives auditory information from the medial geniculate body |
Broca's area
Broca's center
Broca's gyrus
Broca's convolution
convolution of Broca | the motor speech center in the left hemisphere of the brain in most people |
| Brodmann's area | one of the cortical areas mapped out on the basis of its cytoarchitecture |
language area
language zone | a large cortical area (in the left hemisphere in most people) containing all the centers associated with language |