Active
(a.) Having the power or quality of acting |
Active
(a.) Quick in physical movement |
Active
(a.) In action |
Active
(a.) Given to action |
Active
(a.) Requiring or implying action or exertion |
Active
(a.) Given to action rather than contemplation |
Active
(a.) Brisk |
Active
(a.) Implying or producing rapid action |
Active
(a.) Applied to a form of the verb |
Active
(a.) Applied to verbs which assert that the subject acts upon or affects something else |
Active
(a.) Applied to all verbs that express action as distinct from mere existence or state. |
Antennae
(pl. ) of Antenna |
Armless
(a.) Without any arm or branch. |
Armless
(a.) Destitute of arms or weapons. |
Barred
(imp. & p. p.) of Bar |
Barred owl
() A large American owl (Syrnium nebulosum) |
Close-barred
(a.) Firmly barred or closed. |
Colorado group
() A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region. |
Concho-spiral
(n.) A kind of spiral curve found in certain univalve shells. |
Crash
(v. t. ) To break in pieces violently |
Crash
(v. i.) To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once |
Crash
(v. i.) To break with violence and noise |
Crash
(n.) A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once. |
Crash
(n.) Ruin |
Crash
(n.) Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels. |
Dakota group
() A subdivision at the base of the cretaceous formation in Western North America |
Electro-polar
(a.) Possessing electrical polarity |
Elliptical
(a.) Of or pertaining to an ellipse |
Elliptical
(a.) Having a part omitted |
Galaxies
(pl. ) of Galaxy |
Galaxy
(n.) The Milky Way |
Galaxy
(n.) A splendid assemblage of persons or things. |
Group
(n.) A cluster, crowd, or throng |
Group
(n.) An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic |
Group
(n.) A variously limited assemblage of animals or plants, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera, or even several orders. |
Group
(n.) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems |
Group
(n.) To form a group of |
Harlech group
() A minor subdivision at the base of the Cambrian system in Wales. |
Irregular
(a.) Not regular |
Irregular
(n.) One who is not regular |
Laramie group
() An extensive series of strata, principally developed in the Rocky Mountain region, as in the Laramie Mountains, and formerly supposed to be of the Tertiary age, but now generally regarded as Cretaceous, or of intermediate and transitional character. It contains beds of lignite, often valuable for coal, and is hence also called the lignitic group. See Chart of Geology. |
Lenticular
(a.) Resembling a lentil in size or form |
Llandeilo group
() A series of strata in the lower Silurian formations of Great Britain |
Local
(a.) Of or pertaining to a particular place, or to a definite region or portion of space |
Local
(n.) A train which receives and deposits passengers or freight along the line of the road |
Local
(n.) On newspaper cant, an item of news relating to the place where the paper is published. |
Ludlow group
() A subdivision of the British Upper Silurian lying below the Old Red Sandstone |
Metric system
() See Metric, a. |
Mice
(n.) pl of Mouse. |
Mice
(pl. ) of Mouse |
group
grouping | any number of entities (members) considered as a unit |
crash
smash | the act of colliding with something, his crash through the window, the fullback's smash into the defensive line |
| Bertillon system | a system or procedure for identifying persons |
| crash landing | an emergency landing under circumstances where a normal landing is impossible (usually damaging the aircraft) |
| crash dive | a rapid descent by a submarine |
| spiral | flying downward in a helical path with a large radius |
| buddy system | a cooperative practice of pairing two or more people together for mutual assistance or safety (especially in recreational swimming) |
ring-around-theosy
ring-around-aosy
ring-aosy | a children's game in which the players dance around in a circle and at a given signal all squat |
round dance
ring dance | a folk dance, dancers form a circle |
| group practice | (medicine) the practice of medicine by a group of physicians who share their premises and other resources |
| infrared therapy | the use of infrared radiation (as by infrared lamps or heating pads or hot water bottles) to relieve pain and increase circulation to a particular area of the body |
group therapy
group psychotherapy | psychotherapy in which a small group of individuals meet with a therapist, interactions among the members are considered to be therapeutic |
| ring vaccination | administering vaccine only to people in close contact with an isolated infected patient, prevents the spread of a highly infectious disease by surrounding the patient with a ring of immunization |
| active air defense | air defense by the use aircraft or missiles or artillery or electronic countermeasures |
| group action | action taken by a group of people |
| ring containment | a strategy of defense in cases of bioterrorism, vaccination only of people exposed and others who are in contact with them, ring containment is a proven method of halting a smallpox epidemic |
| group participation | participation by all members of a group |
ring rot bacteria
Pseudomonas solanacearum | causes brown rot in tomatoes and potatoes and tobacco etc |
ring ouzel
ring blackbird
ring thrush
Turdus torquatus | European thrush common in rocky areas, the male has blackish plumage with a white band around the neck |
Kamchatkan sea eagle
Stellar's sea eagle
Haliaeetus pelagicus | found on coasts of the northwestern Pacific |
barred owl
Strix varia | large owl of eastern North America having its breast and abdomen streaked with brown |
ringneck snake
ring-necked snake
ring snake | any of numerous small nonvenomous North American snakes with a yellow or orange ring around the neck |
grass snake
ring snake ringed snake
Natrix natrix | harmless European snake with a bright yellow collar, common in England |
ring-necked pheasant
Phasianus colchicus | common pheasant having bright plumage and a white neck ring |
ring-necked parakeet
Psittacula krameri | African parakeet |
ice bear
polar bear
Ursus Maritimus
Thalarctos maritimus | white bear of Arctic regions |
| water vascular system | system of fluid-filled tubes used by echinoderms in locomotion and feeding and respiration |
polar hare
Arctic hare
Lepus arcticus | a large hare of northern North America, it is almost completely white in winter |
Adapid
Adapid group | extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit, abundant in North America and Europetomillion years ago, their descendents probably include the lemurs, some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins |
Madagascar cat
ring-tailed lemur
Lemur catta | small lemur having its tail barred with black |
Omomyid
Omomyid group | extinct tiny nocturnal lower primates that fed on fruit and insects, abundant in North America and Europetomillion years ago, probably gave rise to the tarsiers, some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins |
a bassarisk
cacomistle
cacomixle
coon cat raccoon fox
ringtail ring-tailed cat
civet cat miner's cat
Bassariscus astutus | raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings |
redfin pickerel
barred pickerel
Esox americanus | small but gamy pickerel of Atlantic coastal states |
| active matrix screen | a type of LCD screen used for some portable computers, there is a separate circuit for each pixel |
| active placebo | a placebo used in experimental tests of a drug that has noticeable side effects, an active placebo mimics the side effects of the experimental drug |
| air transportation system | a transportation system for moving passengers or goods by air |
alarm
warning device
alarm system | a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event |
audio system
sound system | a system of electronic equipment for recording or reproducing sound |
| backup system | a computer system for making backups |
| band ring | a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration) |
| basic point defense missile system | a shipboard missile system |
beltway
bypass
ring road
ringway | a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center |
bevel gear
pinion and crown wheel
pinion and ring gear | gears that mesh at an angle |
| binder ring-binder | holds loose papers or magazines |
boxing ring
prize ring | a square ring where boxers fight |
brake system
brakes | a braking device consisting of a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle |
bulletin board system
bulletin board electronic bulletin board
bbs | a computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest |
cable cable television
cable system
cable television service | a television system that transmits over cables |
carabiner
karabiner
snap ring | an oblong metal ring with a spring clip, used in mountaineering to attach a rope to a piton or to connect two ropes |
chain mail
ring mail
mail
chain armor
chain armour
ring armor
ring armour | (Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings |