soccer
association football | a football game in which two teams of players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal |
| association | the act of consorting with or joining with others, you cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association |
building complex
complex | a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures |
National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations
NASDAQ | a computerized data system to provide brokers with price quotations for securities traded over the counter |
| superiority complex | an exaggerated estimate of your own value and importance |
complex instruction set computing
complex instruction set computer
CISC | (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip |
structure
anatomical structure
complex body part
bodily structure
body structure | a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing, he has good bone structure |
Golgi body
Golgi apparatus
Golgi complex
dictyosome | a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions) |
association area
association cortex | cortical areas that are neither motor or sensory but are thought to be involved in higher processing of information |
association
connection
connexion | the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination, conditioning is a form of learning by association |
| free association | a thought process in which ideas (words or images) suggest other ideas in a sequence |
complex
composite | a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts, the complex of shopping malls, houses, and roads created a new town |
associationism
association theory | (psychology) a theory that association is the basic principle of mental activity |
| complex sentence | a sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause |
| complex | (psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior |
Oedipus complex
Oedipal complex | a complex of males, desire to possess the mother sexually and to exclude the father, said to be a source of personality disorders if unresolved |
| Electra complex | a complex of females, sexual attraction to the father |
| inferiority complex | a sense of personal inferiority arising from conflict between the desire to be noticed and the fear of being humiliated |
| military-industrial complex | a country's military establishment and the industries that produce arms and other military equipment, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex--Dwight David Eisenhower |
| association | (ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species |
| histocompatibility complex | a family of fifty or more genes on the sixth human chromosome that code for proteins on the surfaces of cells and that play a role in the immune response |
Kaplan Group
Association of Islamic Groups and Communities
Caliphate State | a Turkish terrorist group of fundamentalist Muslims with ties to al-Qaeda that operates in Germany, seeks the violent overthrow of the Turkish government and the establishment of an Islamic nation modeled on Iran |
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
LTTE
Tamil Tigers
Tigers
World Tamil Association
World Tamil Movement | a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began inas a student protest over the limited university access for Tamil students, currently seeks to establish an independent Tamil state called Eelam, relies on guerilla strategy including terrorist tactics that target key government and military personnel, the Tamil Tigers perfected suicide bombing as a weapon of war |
Orange Order
Association of Orangemen | a Protestant political organization in Northern Ireland |
Ulster Defence Association
UDA | the major Protestant paramilitary group in Northern Ireland, responsible for bombing the homes of Catholics and for criminal racketeering and selling drugs |
| association | a formal organization of people or groups of people, he joined the Modern Language Association |
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
National Volunteers Association | an all-male organization begun in to foster nationalism in India's Hindus |
Lions Club
International Association of Lions clubs | club dedicated to promoting responsible citizenship and good government and community and national and international welfare |
| professional association | an association of practitioners of a given profession |
International Development Association
IDA | an agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank |
news agency
press agency
wire service
press association
news organization
news organisation | an agency to collects news reports for newspapers and distributes it electronically |
National Rifle Association
NRA | a powerful lobby that advocates the right to own and bear arms and rejects any gun regulation by the government |
Federal National Mortgage Association
Fannie Mae
FNMA | a federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages |
savings and loan
savings and loan association | a thrift institution that is required by law to make a certain percentage of its loans as home mortgages |
Association for the Advancement of Retired Persons
AARP | an association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens |
| National Association of Realtors | a United States association of real estate agents which follows a strict code of ethics |
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
ASEAN | an association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia and who joined with the United States to fight against global terrorism |
retirement community
retirement complex | a planned community for residents who have retired from an active working life |
Magnoliidae
subclass Magnoliidae
ranalian complex | a group of families of trees and shrubs and herbs having well-developed perianths and apocarpous ovaries and generally regarded as the most primitive extant flowering plants, contains families including Magnoliaceae and Ranunculaceae, sometimes classified as a superorder |
| association | (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding |
complex number
complex quantity
imaginary number
imaginary | (mathematics) a number of the form abi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of - |
| complex conjugate | either of two complex numbers whose real parts are identical and whose imaginary parts differ only in sign |
imaginary part
imaginary part of a complex number | the part of a complex number that has the square root of - as a factor |
complex fraction
compound fraction | a fraction with fractions in the numerator or denominator |
| association | a relation resulting from interaction or dependence, flints were found in association with the prehistoric remains of the bear, the host is not always injured by association with a parasite |
affiliation
association
tie tie-up | a social or business relationship, a valuable financial affiliation, he was sorry he had to sever his ties with other members of the team, many close associations with England |
| guilt by association | the attribution of guilt (without proof) to individuals because the people they associate with are guilty |
| complex absence | an absence seizure accompanied by other abnormalities (atonia or automatisms or vasomotor changes) |
| association | the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination, his association of his father with being beaten was too strong to break |
complex
coordination compound | a compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated |