Acting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Act |
Acting (a.) Operating in any way. |
Acting (a.) Doing duty for another |
Approach (v. i.) To come or go near, in place or time |
Approach (v. i.) To draw near, in a figurative sense |
Approach (v. t.) To bring near |
Approach (v. t.) To come near to in place, time, or character |
Approach (v. t.) To take approaches to. |
Approach (v. i.) The act of drawing near |
Approach (v. i.) A access, or opportunity of drawing near. |
Approach (v. i.) Movements to gain favor |
Approach (v. i.) A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached |
Approach (v. i.) The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post. |
Approach (v. i.) See Approaching. |
Curse (v. t.) To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon |
Curse (v. t.) To bring great evil upon |
Curse (v. i.) To utter imprecations or curses |
Curse (v. t.) An invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury |
Curse (v. t.) Evil pronounced or invoked upon another, solemnly, or in passion |
Curse (v. t.) The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune |
Direct-acting (a.) Acting directly, as one part upon another, without the intervention of other working parts. |
Dislike (v. t.) To regard with dislike or aversion |
Dislike (v. t.) To awaken dislike in |
Dislike (n.) A feeling of positive and usually permanent aversion to something unpleasant, uncongenial, or offensive |
Dislike (n.) Discord |
Double-acting (a.) Acting or operating in two directions or with both motions |
Foreign (a.) Outside |
Foreign (a.) Not native or belonging to a certain country |
Foreign (a.) Remote |
Foreign (a.) Held at a distance |
Intellectual (a.) Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect |
Intellectual (a.) Endowed with intellect |
Intellectual (a.) Suitable for exercising the intellect |
Intellectual (a.) Relating to the understanding |
Intellectual (n.) The intellect or understanding |
Reaction (n.) Any action in resisting other action or force |
Reaction (n.) The mutual or reciprocal action of chemical agents upon each other, or the action upon such chemical agents of some form of energy, as heat, light, or electricity, resulting in a chemical change in one or more of these agents, with the production of new compounds or the manifestation of distinctive characters. See Blowpipe reaction, Flame reaction, under Blowpipe, and Flame. |
Reaction (n.) An action induced by vital resistance to some other action |
Reaction (n.) The force which a body subjected to the action of a force from another body exerts upon the latter body in the opposite direction. |
Reaction (n.) Backward tendency or movement after revolution, reform, or great progress in any direction. |
Self-acting (a.) Acting of or by one's self or by itself |
Single-acting (a.) Having simplicity of action |
Visceral (a.) Of or pertaining to the viscera |
Visceral (a.) Fig.: Having deep sensibility. |
reaction | doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like, his style of painting was a reaction against cubism |
approach approaching coming | the act of drawing spatially closer to something, the hunter's approach scattered the geese |
landing approach | the approach to a landing field by an airplane |
groundontrolled approach GCA | aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar |
acting playing playacting performing | the performance of a part or role in a drama |
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 |
approach approach shot | a relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green, he lost the hole when his approach rolled over the green |
foreign direct investment | a joint venture between a foreign company and a United States company |
reaction response | a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent, a bad reaction to the medicine, his responses have slowed with age |
immune response immune reaction immunologic response | a bodily defense reaction that recognizes an invading substance (an antigen: such as a virus or fungus or bacteria or transplanted organ) and produces antibodies specific against that antigen |
anamnestic response anamnestic reaction | renewed rapid production of an antibody on the second (or subsequent) encounter with the same antigen |
reflex reflex response reflex action instinctive reflex innate reflex inborn reflex unconditioned reflex physiological reaction | an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus |
conditional reflex conditioned reflex acquired reflex conditional reaction conditioned reaction conditional response conditioned response | an acquired response that is under the control of (conditional on the occurrence of) a stimulus |
learned reaction learned response | a reaction that has been acquired by learning |
startle response startle reaction | a complicated involuntary reaction to a sudden unexpected stimulus (especially a loud noise), involves flexion of most skeletal muscles and a variety of visceral reactions |
approach attack plan of attack | ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation, his approach to every problem is to draw up a list of pros and cons, an attack on inflation, his plan of attack was misguided |
foreign direct investment | investing in United States businesses by foreign citizens (often involves stock ownership of the business) |
transfusion reaction | reaction of the body to a transfusion of blood that is not compatible with its own blood, an adverse reaction can range from fever and hives to renal failure and shock and death |
access approach | a way of entering or leaving, he took a wrong turn on the access to the bridge |
approach trench communication trench | a trench that provides protected passage between the rear and front lines of a defensive position |
reaction-propulsion engine reaction engine | a jet or rocket engine based on a form of aerodynamic propulsion in which the vehicle emits a high-speed stream |
reaction turbine | a turbine with blades arranged to develop torque from gradual decrease of steam pressure from inlet to exhaust |
approach | a close approximation, the nearest approach to genius |
approach approaching coming | the temporal property of becoming nearer in time, the approach of winter |
visceral pleura | pleura that covers the lungs |
epicardium visceral pericardium | the innermost of the two layers of the pericardium |
limbic system visceral brain limbic brain | a system of functionally related neural structures in the brain that are involved in emotional behavior |
Wassermann test Wasserman reaction Wassermann | a blood test to detect syphilis, a complement fixation test is used to detect antibodies to the syphilis organism treponema, a positive reaction indicates the presence of antibodies and therefore syphilis infection |
food food for thought intellectual nourishment | anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking |
third law of motion Newton's third law of motion Newton's third law law of action and reaction | action and reaction are equal and opposite |
reaction | an idea evoked by some experience, his reaction to the news was to start planning what to do |
disfavor disfavour dislike disapproval | an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group |
reaction | extreme conservatism in political or social matters, the forces of reaction carried the election |
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act FISA | an act passed by Congress in to establish procedures for requesting judicial authorization for foreign intelligence surveillance and to create the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, intended to increase United States counterintelligence, separate from ordinary law enforcement surveillance |
foreign policy | a policy governing international relations |
acting out | (psychiatry) the display of previously inhibited emotions (often in actions rather than words), considered to be healthy and therapeutic |
acting out | a (usually irritating) impulsive and uncontrollable outburst by a problem child or a neurotic adult |
curse curse word expletive oath swearing swearword cuss | profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger, expletives were deleted |
hex jinx curse whammy | an evil spell, a witch put a curse on his whole family, he put the whammy on me |
overture advance approach feeler | a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others, she rejected his advances |
execration condemnation curse | an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group |
approach approaching | the event of one object coming closer to another |
curse torment | a severe affliction |
dislike | a feeling of aversion or antipathy, my dislike of him was instinctive |
Irish National Liberation Army INLA People's Liberation Army People's Republican Army Catholic Reaction Force | a radical terrorist group dedicated to the removal of British forces from Northern Ireland and the unification of Ireland |
Foreign Office | the government department in charge of foreign relations |
French Foreign Office Quai d'Orsay | the French department in charge of foreign affairs, referred to familiarly by its address in Paris |
Foreign Service | the part of the State Department that supplies diplomats for the United States embassies and consulates around the world |
foreign country | any state of which one is not a citizen, working in a foreign country takes a bit of getting used to |
Veterans of Foreign Wars VFW | an organization of United States war veterans |