blot
smear
smirch
spot
stain | an act that brings discredit to the person who does it, he made a huge blot on his copybook |
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 |
method acting
method | an acting technique introduced by Stanislavsky in which the actor recalls emotions or reactions from his or her own life and uses them to identify with the character being portrayed |
| means test | an inquiry into the financial position of someone applying for financial aid |
test
trial
run | the act of testing something, in the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately, he called each flip of the coin a new trial |
clinical trial
clinical test | a rigorously controlled test of a new drug or a new invasive medical device on human subjects, in the United States it is conducted under the direction of the FDA before being made available for general clinical use |
preclinical trial
preclinical test
preclinical phase | a laboratory test of a new drug or a new invasive medical device on animal subjects, conducted to gather evidence justifying a clinical trial |
| test trial | the act of undergoing testing, he survived the great test of battle, candidates must compete in a trial of skill |
| screen test | a filmed audition of an actor or actress |
MOT
MOT test
Ministry of Transportation test | a compulsory annual test of older motor vehicles for safety and exhaust fumes |
coitus interruptus
withdrawal method
withdrawal pulling out
onanism | a method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation |
contraception
contraceptive method | birth control by the use of devices (diaphragm or intrauterine device or condom) or drugs or surgery |
basal body temperature method of family planning
basal body temperature method | natural family planning in which the fertile period of the woman's menstrual cycle is inferred by noting the rise in basal body temperature that typically occurs with ovulation |
ovulation method of family planning
ovulation method | natural family planning in which the fertile period is inferred from changes in the character and quantity of cervical mucus, ovulation is marked by an increase in mucus that becomes sticky and then clearer and slippery |
rhythm method of birth control
rhythm method
rhythm
calendar method of birth control
calendar method | natural family planning in which ovulation is assumed to occur days before the onset of a period (the fertile period would be assumed to extend from daythrough day of her cycle) |
| relaxation relaxation method | a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount |
| whole-word method | teaching reading by training beginners to associate printed words with spoken words |
test mental test
mental testing
psychometric test | any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc, the test was standardized on a large sample of students |
intelligence test
IQ test | a psychometric test of intelligence, they used to think that intelligence is what an intelligence test tests |
| Stanford-Binet test | revision of the Binet-Simon Scale |
| personality test | any test that is intended to assess personality |
projective test
projective device
projective technique | any personality test designed to yield information about someone's personality on the basis of their unrestricted response to ambiguous objects or situations |
Rorschach
Rorschach test
inkblot test | a projective tests using bilaterally symmetrical inkblots, subjects state what they see in the inkblot |
Thematic Apperception Test
TAT | a projective technique using black-and-white pictures, subjects tell a story about each picture |
| sub-test | one of a battery of related tests |
test case
test suit | a representative legal action whose outcome is likely to become a precedent |
Arkansas kingbird
western kingbird | a kingbird seen in western United States, head and back are pale grey and the breast is yellowish and the tail is black |
western wood pewee
Contopus sordidulus | small flycatcher of western North America |
western meadowlark
Sturnella neglecta | a meadowlark of western North America |
western tanager
Piranga ludoviciana | of western North America, male is black and yellow and orangeed |
western red-backed salamander
Plethodon vehiculum | salamander of the Pacific coast of North America |
western toad
Bufo boreas | of a great variety of habitats from southern Alaska to Baja California west of the Rockies |
western spadefoot
Scaphiopus hammondii | this spadefoot toad live in California |
western narrow-mouthed toad
Gastrophryne olivacea | small secretive toad with smooth tough skin of central and western North America |
Western box turtle
Terrapene ornata | primarily a prairie turtle of western United States and northern Mexico |
western fence lizard
swift blue-belly
Sceloporus occidentalis | common western lizard, seen on logs or rocks |
western skink
Eumeces skiltonianus | found in western North American grasslands and open woodlands |
western whiptail
Cnemidophorus tigris | active lizard having a network of dusky dark markings, of semiarid areas from Oregon and Idaho to Baja California |
Western ribbon snake
Thamnophis proximus | yellow- or reddish-striped snake of temperate woodlands and grasslands to tropics |
western blind snake
Leptotyphlops humilis | burrows among roots of shrubs and beneath rocks in desert and rocky hillside areas and beach sand of western United States |
western coral snake
Micruroides euryxanthus | ranges from Central America to southwestern United States |
prairie rattlesnake
prairie rattler
Western rattlesnake
Crotalus viridis | widely distributed between the Mississippi and the Rockies |
Western diamondback
Western diamondback rattlesnake
Crotalus atrox | largest and most dangerous North American snake, of southwestern United States and Mexico |
Ixodes pacificus
western black-legged tick | a tick that feeds on dusky-footed wood rat and bites humans, principal vector for Lyme disease in western United States especially northern California |
| test | a hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins |
western pipistrel
SPipistrellus hesperus | of western North America |
western big-eared bat
Plecotus townsendi | bat of western North America having extremely large ears |
western grey squirrel
western gray squirrel
Sciurus griseus | large grey squirrel of far western areas of United States |
western lowland gorilla
Gorilla gorilla gorilla | a kind of gorilla |
western chimpanzee
Pan troglodytes verus | masked or pale-faced chimpanzees of western Africa, distantly related to the eastern and central chimpanzees, possibly a distinct species |