blot smear smirch spot stain | an act that brings discredit to the person who does it, he made a huge blot on his copybook |
constitution establishment formation organization organisation | the act of forming or establishing something, the constitution of a PTA group last year, it was the establishment of his reputation, he still remembers the organization of the club |
re-formation regeneration | forming again (especially with improvements or removal of defects), renewing and reconstituting |
formation shaping | the act of fabricating something in a particular shape |
formation | creation by mental activity, the formation of sentences, the formation of memories |
formation | a particular spatial arrangement |
smudge spot blot daub smear smirch slur | a blemish made by dirt, he had a smudge on his cheek |
smear cytologic smear cytosmear | a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope |
alimentary tract smear | any of several cytologic smears obtained from different parts of the alimentary tract, obtained by specialized lavage techniques and used mainly to diagnose cancer in those parts |
esophageal smear | alimentary tract smear of material obtained from the esophagus |
gastric smear | alimentary tract smear of material obtained from the stomach |
oral smear | alimentary tract smear of material obtained from the mouth |
paraduodenal smear duodenal smear | alimentary tract smear of material obtained from the duodenum |
cervical smear Pap smear Papanicolaou smear | a sample of secretions and superficial cells of the uterine cervix and uterus, examined with a microscope to detect any abnormal cells |
lower respiratory tract smear bronchoscopic smear sputum smear | any of several cytologic smears obtained from different parts of the lower respiratory tract, used for cytologic study of cancer and other diseases of the lungs |
vaginal smear | smear taken from the vaginal mucosa for cytological analysis |
reticular formation RF | a complex neural network in the central core of the brainstem, monitors the state of the body and functions in such processes as arousal and sleep and attention and muscle tone |
Pap test Papanicolaou test smear test | a method of examining stained cells in a cervical smear for early diagnosis of uterine cancer |
back-formation | a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it |
calque calque formation loan translation | an expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language, `superman' is a calque for the German `Ubermensch' |
smear vilification malignment | slanderous defamation |
smear word | an epithet that can be used to smear someone's reputation, he used the smear word `communist' for everyone who disagreed with him |
formation | an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit, a defensive formation, a formation of planes |
military formation | a formation of troops |
geological formation formation | (geology) the geological features of the earth |
heat of formation | the heat evolved or absorbed during the formation of one mole of a substance from its component elements |
formation | natural process that causes something to form, the formation of gas in the intestine, the formation of crystals, the formation of pseudopods |
pair production pair creation pair formation | the transformation of a gammaay photon into an electron and a positron when the photon passes close to an atomic nucleus |
reaction formation | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which a person unconsciously develops attitudes and behavior that are the opposite of unacceptable repressed desires and impulses and serve to conceal them, his strict morality is just a reaction formation to hide his sexual drive |
defame slander smirch asperse denigrate calumniate smear sully besmirch | charge falsely or with malicious intent, attack the good name and reputation of someone, The journalists have defamed me! The article in the paper sullied my reputation |
daub smear | cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it, smear the wall with paint, daub the ceiling with plaster |
smear blur smudge smutch | make a smudge on, soil by smudging |
smear | stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance |