check checkout
check-out procedure | the act of inspecting or verifying, they made a check of their equipment, the pilot ran through the check-out procedure |
diagnostic procedure
diagnostic technique | a procedure followed in making a medical diagnosis |
| emergency procedure | (medicine) a procedure adopted to meet an emergency (especially a medical emergency) |
| experimental procedure | the specific techniques used in conducting a particular experiment |
double-blind procedure
double-blind experiment
double-blind study | an experimental procedure in which neither the subjects of the experiment nor the persons administering the experiment know the critical aspects of the experiment, a double-blind procedure is used to guard against both experimenter bias and placebo effects |
Gram's method
Gram method
Gram's procedure
Gram's stain
Gram stain | a staining technique used to classify bacteria, bacteria are stained with gentian violet and then treated with Gram's solution, after being decolorized with alcohol and treated with safranine and washed in water, those that retain the gentian violet are Gram-positive and those that do not retain it are Gram-negative |
| operation procedure | a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work, the operations in building a house, certain machine tool operations |
operation
surgery surgical operation
surgical procedure
surgical process | a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments, performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body, they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available, he died while undergoing surgery |
desensitization technique
desensitisation technique
desensitization procedure
desensitisation procedure
systematic desensitization
systematic desensitisation | a technique used in behavior therapy to treat phobias and other behavior problems involving anxiety, client is exposed to the threatening situation under relaxed conditions until the anxiety reaction is extinguished |
criminal negligence
culpable negligence | (law) recklessly acting without reasonable caution and putting another person at risk of injury or death (or failing to do something with the same consequences) |
| 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 |
crime
offense criminal offense
criminal offence
offence law-breaking | (criminal law) an act punishable by law, usually considered an evil act, a long record of crimes |
| criminal possession | (law) possession for which criminal sanctions are provided because the property may not lawfully be possessed or may not be possessed under certain circumstances |
unlawful carnal knowledge
criminal congress | forbidden or tabu sexual intercourse between individuals |
adultery
criminal conversation
fornication | extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations, adultery is often cited as grounds for divorce |
| procedure | a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings |
procedure
process | a particular course of action intended to achieve a result, the procedure of obtaining a driver's license, it was a process of trial and error |
| medical procedure | a procedure employed by medical or dental practitioners |
| dental procedure | a procedure employed by a dentist |
| operating procedure | a procedure for operating something or for dealing with a given situation |
standing operating procedure
standard operating procedure
SOP
standard procedure | a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely, rote memorization has been the educator's standard operating procedure for centuries |
bureaucratic procedure
red tape | needlessly timeonsuming procedure |
| criminal contempt | an act of disrespect that impedes the administration of justice |
| criminal suit | a lawsuit alleging violations of criminal law by the defendant |
prosecution
criminal prosecution | the institution and conduct of legal proceedings against a defendant for criminal behavior |
United States Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory
U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory
US Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory
USACIL | a defense laboratory of the Criminal Investigation Command, the United States Army's primary forensic laboratory in support of criminal intelligence |
cloze procedure
cloze test | a test for diagnosing reading ability, words are deleted from a prose passage and the reader is required to fill in the blanks |
statistical method
statistical procedure | a method of analyzing or representing statistical data, a procedure for calculating a statistic |
criminal record
record | a list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted, he ruled that the criminal record of the defendant could not be disclosed to the court, the prostitute had a record a mile long |
| criminal law | the body of law dealing with crimes and their punishment |
routine
subroutine
subprogram
procedure
function | a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program |
| cataloged procedure | a set of control statements that have been placed in a library and can be retrieved by name |
| contingency procedure | an alternative to the normal procedure, triggered if an unusual but anticipated situation arises |
order rules of order
parliamentary law
parliamentary procedure | a body of rules followed by an assembly |
Criminal Investigation Command
CID | the United States Army's principal law enforcement agency responsible for the conduct of criminal investigations for all levels of the Army anywhere in the world |
United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
Centre for International Crime Prevention | the United Nations office responsible for crime prevention and criminal justice and law reform |
| criminal court | a court having jurisdiction over criminal cases |
Criminal Intelligence Services of Canada
CISC | an agency of the Canadian government that unifies the intelligence units of Canadian law enforcement agencies |
criminal
felon
crook
outlaw
malefactor | someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime |
desperado
desperate criminal | a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier) |
| recidivist repeater habitual criminal | someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior) |
| war criminal | an offender who violates international law during times of war |
| criminal | guilty of crime or serious offense, criminal in the sight of God and man |
criminal
felonious | involving or being or having the nature of a crime, a criminal offense, criminal abuse, felonious intent |
condemnable
criminal
deplorable
reprehensible
vicious | bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure, a criminal waste of talent, a deplorable act of violence, adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife |