| concern | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. concern | something that interests you because it is important or affects you.; "the safety of the ship is the captain's concern" |
| ~ earthly concern, worldly concern, earth, world | the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife.; "they consider the church to be independent of the world" |
| ~ affair, matter, thing | a vaguely specified concern.; "several matters to attend to"; "it is none of your affair"; "things are going well" |
| ~ affairs, personal business, personal matters | matters of personal concern.; "get his affairs in order" |
| ~ part | that which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation.; "it requires vigilance on our part"; "they resisted every effort on his part" |
| ~ point of honor | a concern that seriously reflects on your honor. |
| ~ interest, involvement | a sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something.; "an interest in music" |
| n. (feeling) | 2. care, concern, fear | an anxious feeling.; "care had aged him"; "they hushed it up out of fear of public reaction" |
| ~ anxiety | a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune. |
| n. (feeling) | 3. concern | a feeling of sympathy for someone or something.; "She felt strong concern for those less fortunate" |
| ~ solicitousness, solicitude | a feeling of excessive concern. |
| ~ softheartedness, tenderness | a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless). |
| ~ fellow feeling, sympathy | sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish). |
| n. (cognition) | 4. concern, headache, vexation, worry | something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness.; "New York traffic is a constant concern"; "it's a major worry" |
| ~ negative stimulus | a stimulus with undesirable consequences. |
| ~ bugaboo | a source of concern.; "the old bugaboo of inflation still bothers them" |
| ~ burden, encumbrance, onus, incumbrance, load | an onerous or difficult concern.; "the burden of responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind" |
| ~ business | a rightful concern or responsibility.; "it's none of your business"; "mind your own business" |
| n. (group) | 5. business, business concern, business organisation, business organization, concern | a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it.; "he bought his brother's business"; "a small mom-and-pop business"; "a racially integrated business concern" |
| ~ business enterprise, business, commercial enterprise | the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects.; "computers are now widely used in business" |
| ~ shipping room | a room where goods are packaged and shipped. |
| ~ enterprise | an organization created for business ventures.; "a growing enterprise must have a bold leader" |
| ~ agency | a business that serves other businesses. |
| ~ brokerage | the business of a broker; charges a fee to arrange a contract between two parties. |
| ~ common carrier, carrier | a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages. |
| ~ chain | (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership. |
| ~ business firm, firm, house | the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments.; "he worked for a brokerage house" |
| ~ dealership, franchise | a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area. |
| ~ manufacturer, manufacturing business, maker | a business engaged in manufacturing some product. |
| ~ partnership | the members of a business venture created by contract. |
| ~ processor | a business engaged in processing agricultural products and preparing them for market. |
| ~ shipbuilder | a business that builds and repairs ships. |
| ~ underperformer | a business that is less successful than expected. |
| ~ division | an administrative unit in government or business. |
| v. (stative) | 6. bear on, come to, concern, have-to doe with, pertain, refer, relate, touch, touch on | be relevant to.; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments" |
| ~ allude, advert, touch | make a more or less disguised reference to.; "He alluded to the problem but did not mention it" |
| ~ center, center on, concentrate on, focus on, revolve about, revolve around | center upon.; "Her entire attention centered on her children"; "Our day revolved around our work" |
| ~ go for, apply, hold | be pertinent or relevant or applicable.; "The same laws apply to you!"; "This theory holds for all irrational numbers"; "The same rules go for everyone" |
| ~ involve, affect, regard | connect closely and often incriminatingly.; "This new ruling affects your business" |
| ~ matter to, interest | be of importance or consequence.; "This matters to me!" |
| v. (stative) | 7. concern, interest, occupy, worry | be on the mind of.; "I worry about the second Germanic consonant shift" |
| go around | | |
| v. (stative) | 1. go around | be sufficient.; "There's not enough to go around" |
| ~ suffice, answer, do, serve | be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity.; "A few words would answer"; "This car suits my purpose well"; "Will $100 do?"; "A 'B' grade doesn't suffice to get me into medical school"; "Nothing else will serve" |
| v. (communication) | 2. circulate, go around, spread | become widely known and passed on.; "the rumor spread"; "the story went around in the office" |
| ~ disseminate, circulate, pass around, broadcast, circularise, diffuse, circularize, spread, disperse, distribute, propagate | cause to become widely known.; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news" |
| ~ go, locomote, move, travel | change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically.; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" |
| v. (motion) | 3. go around, outflank | go around the flank of (an opposing army). |
| ~ go, locomote, move, travel | change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically.; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" |
| v. (motion) | 4. go around, revolve, rotate | turn on or around an axis or a center.; "The Earth revolves around the Sun"; "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire" |
| ~ drive in, screw | cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion.; "drive in screws or bolts" |
| ~ screw | turn like a screw. |
| ~ circumvolve, rotate | cause to turn on an axis or center.; "Rotate the handle" |
| ~ wheel, wheel around | change directions as if revolving on a pivot.; "They wheeled their horses around and left" |
| ~ spin, spin around, gyrate, reel, whirl | revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis.; "The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy" |
| ~ swirl, twiddle, twirl, whirl | turn in a twisting or spinning motion.; "The leaves swirled in the autumn wind" |
| ~ turn | move around an axis or a center.; "The wheels are turning" |
| v. (communication) | 5. bypass, get around, go around, short-circuit | avoid something unpleasant or laborious.; "You cannot bypass these rules!" |
| ~ avoid | stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something.; "Her former friends now avoid her" |
| orbit | | |
| n. (location) | 1. celestial orbit, orbit | the (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another.; "he plotted the orbit of the moon" |
| ~ apoapsis, point of apoapsis | (astronomy) the point in an orbit farthest from the body being orbited. |
| ~ geosynchronous orbit | a circular orbit around the Earth having a period of 24 hours. |
| ~ itinerary, route, path | an established line of travel or access. |
| ~ periapsis, point of periapsis | (astronomy) the point in an orbit closest to the body being orbited. |
| n. (state) | 2. area, arena, domain, field, orbit, sphere | a particular environment or walk of life.; "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit" |
| ~ environment | the totality of surrounding conditions.; "he longed for the comfortable environment of his living room" |
| ~ distaff | the sphere of work by women. |
| ~ front | a sphere of activity involving effort.; "the Japanese were active last week on the diplomatic front"; "they advertise on many different fronts" |
| ~ kingdom, realm, land | a domain in which something is dominant.; "the untroubled kingdom of reason"; "a land of make-believe"; "the rise of the realm of cotton in the south" |
| ~ lap | an area of control or responsibility.; "the job fell right in my lap" |
| ~ political arena, political sphere | a sphere of intense political activity. |
| ~ preserve | a domain that seems to be specially reserved for someone.; "medicine is no longer a male preserve" |
| ~ province, responsibility | the proper sphere or extent of your activities.; "it was his province to take care of himself" |
| n. (attribute) | 3. ambit, compass, orbit, range, reach, scope | an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:.; "the range of a supersonic jet"; "a piano has a greater range than the human voice"; "the ambit of municipal legislation"; "within the compass of this article"; "within the scope of an investigation"; "outside the reach of the law"; "in the political orbit of a world power" |
| ~ extent | the distance or area or volume over which something extends.; "the vast extent of the desert"; "an orchard of considerable extent" |
| ~ approximate range, ballpark | near to the scope or range of something.; "his answer wasn't even in the right ballpark" |
| ~ confines | a bounded scope.; "he stayed within the confines of the city" |
| ~ contrast | the range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness). |
| ~ internationality, internationalism | quality of being international in scope.; "he applauded the internationality of scientific terminology" |
| ~ latitude | scope for freedom of e.g. action or thought; freedom from restriction. |
| ~ purview, horizon, view | the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated.; "It is beyond the horizon of present knowledge" |
| ~ expanse, sweep | a wide scope.; "the sweep of the plains" |
| ~ gamut | a complete extent or range:.; "a face that expressed a gamut of emotions" |
| ~ spectrum | a broad range of related objects or values or qualities or ideas or activities. |
| ~ palette, pallet | the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art. |
| n. (location) | 4. electron orbit, orbit | the path of an electron around the nucleus of an atom. |
| ~ itinerary, route, path | an established line of travel or access. |
| n. (body) | 5. cranial orbit, eye socket, orbit, orbital cavity | the bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball. |
| ~ bodily cavity, cavum, cavity | (anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body. |
| ~ lacrimal bone | small fragile bone making up part of the front inner walls of each eye socket and providing room for the passage of the lacrimal ducts. |
| ~ skull | the bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates. |
| v. (motion) | 6. orb, orbit, revolve | move in an orbit.; "The moon orbits around the Earth"; "The planets are orbiting the sun"; "electrons orbit the nucleus" |
| ~ retrograde | move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies. |
| ~ circle, circulate | move in circles. |
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