specific performance | the performance of a legal contract as specified by its terms |
instrument tool | the means whereby some act is accomplished, my greed was the instrument of my destruction, science has given us new tools to fight disease |
tool-and-die work | the craft of making special tools and dies |
carpenter's kit tool kit | a set of carpenter's tools |
cutter cutlery cutting tool | a cutting implement, a tool for cutting |
edge tool | any cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel or knife or plane or gouge) |
entrenching tool trenching spade | a hand shovel carried by infantrymen for digging trenches |
garden tool lawn tool | used for working in gardens or yards |
graver graving tool pointel pointrel | a tool used by an engraver |
hand tool | a tool used with workers' hands |
machine tool | a powered machine for cutting or shaping or finishing metals or other materials |
n-type semiconductor | a semiconductor in which electrical conduction is due chiefly to the movement of electrons |
power tool | a tool driven by a motor |
p-type semiconductor | a semiconductor in which electrical conduction is due chiefly to the movement of positive holes |
pump-type pliers | a type of pliers |
shaping tool | a tool for shaping metal |
specific | a medicine that has a mitigating effect on a specific disease, quinine is a specific for malaria |
tire iron tire tool | hand tool consisting of a lever that is used to force the casing of a pneumatic tire onto a steel wheel |
tool | an implement used in the practice of a vocation |
tool bag | a bag in which tools are carried |
toolbox tool chest tool cabinet tool case | a box or chest or cabinet for holding hand tools |
type | a small metal block bearing a raised character on one end, produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper, he dropped a case of type, so they made him pick them up |
type slug slug | a strip of type metal used for spacing |
specific gravity | the density of a substance relative to the density of water |
body type somatotype | a category of physique |
asthenic type ectomorphy | slender, weak, and lightweight |
endomorphy pyknic type | round, fat, and heavy |
athletic type mesomorphy | muscular and big-boned |
blood group blood type | human blood cells (usually just the red blood cells) that have the same antigens |
A type A group A | the blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen |
B type B group B | the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen |
AB type AB group AB | the blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens |
O type O group O | the blood group whose red cells carry neither the A nor B antigens, people with type O blood are universal donors |
Rh-positive blood type Rh positive | the blood group (approximately % of people) whose red cells have the Rh factor (Rh antigen) |
Rh-negative blood type Rh-negative blood Rh negative | the blood group whose red cells lack the Rh factor (Rh antigen) |
cock prick dick shaft pecker peter tool putz | obscene terms for penis |
particular specific | a fact about some part (as opposed to general), he always reasons from the particular to the general |
type | a subdivision of a particular kind of thing, what type of sculpture do you prefer? |
architectural style style of architecture type of architecture | architecture as a kind of art form |
type specimen holotype | the original specimen from which the description of a new species is made |
type | all of the tokens of the same symbol, the word `element' contains five different types of character |
type | printed characters, small type is hard to read |
type family | a complete set of type suitable for printing text |
roman roman type roman letters roman print | a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions |
type genus | (biology) genus from which the name of a family or subfamily is formed, it is not necessarily the most representative genus but often the largest or best known or earliest described |
type | (biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon |
type species | (biology) the species that best exemplifies the essential characteristics of the genus to which it belongs |
Alpine glacier Alpine type of glacier | a glacier that moves down from a high valley |
Piedmont glacier Piedmont type of glacier | a type of glaciation characteristic of Alaska, large valley glaciers meet to form an almost stagnant sheet of ice |
character eccentric type case | a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities), a real character, a strange character, a friendly eccentric, the capable type, a mental case |