| bearing | | |
| n. (linkdef) | 1. bearing | relevant relation or interconnection.; "those issues have no bearing on our situation" |
| ~ relatedness | a particular manner of connectedness.; "the relatedness of all living things" |
| n. (location) | 2. aim, bearing, heading | the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies. |
| ~ direction, way | a line leading to a place or point.; "he looked the other direction"; "didn't know the way home" |
| ~ tack | the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails. |
| n. (attribute) | 3. bearing, comportment, mien, presence | dignified manner or conduct. |
| ~ personal manner, manner | a way of acting or behaving. |
| ~ gravitas, lordliness, dignity | formality in bearing and appearance.; "he behaved with great dignity" |
| n. (attribute) | 4. bearing, carriage, posture | characteristic way of bearing one's body.; "stood with good posture" |
| ~ bodily property | an attribute of the body. |
| ~ manner of walking, walk | manner of walking.; "he had a funny walk" |
| ~ slouch | a stooping carriage in standing and walking. |
| ~ gracefulness | beautiful carriage. |
| ~ clumsiness, awkwardness | the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant. |
| n. (artifact) | 5. armorial bearing, bearing, charge, heraldic bearing | heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield. |
| ~ annulet, roundel | (heraldry) a charge in the shape of a circle.; "a hollow roundel" |
| ~ chevron | an inverted V-shaped charge. |
| ~ fleur-de-lys, fleur-de-lis | (heraldry) charge consisting of a conventionalized representation of an iris. |
| ~ heraldry | emblem indicating the right of a person to bear arms. |
| ~ ordinary | (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields. |
| n. (artifact) | 6. bearing | a rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily. |
| ~ ball bearing, needle bearing, roller bearing | bearings containing small metal balls. |
| ~ fifth wheel | a steering bearing that enables the front axle of a horse-drawn wagon to rotate. |
| ~ journal bearing | the bearing of a journal. |
| ~ rotating mechanism | a mechanism that rotates. |
| ~ support | any device that bears the weight of another thing.; "there was no place to attach supports for a shelf" |
| ~ thrust bearing | a bearing designed to take thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution. |
| adj. | 7. bearing | (of a structural member) withstanding a weight or strain. |
| ~ load-bearing, supporting | capable of bearing a structural load.; "a supporting wall" |
| 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" |
| relation | | |
| n. (tops) | 1. relation | an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together. |
| ~ abstract entity, abstraction | a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples. |
| ~ possession | anything owned or possessed. |
| ~ social relation | a relation between living organisms (especially between people). |
| ~ spatial relation, position | the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated.; "the position of the hands on the clock"; "he specified the spatial relations of every piece of furniture on the stage" |
| ~ ownership | the relation of an owner to the thing possessed; possession with the right to transfer possession to others. |
| ~ causality | the relation between causes and effects. |
| ~ human relationship, relationship | a relation between people; (`relationship' is often used where `relation' would serve, as in `the relationship between inflation and unemployment', but the preferred usage of `relationship' is for human relations or states of relatedness).; "the relationship between mothers and their children" |
| ~ function | a relation such that one thing is dependent on another.; "height is a function of age"; "price is a function of supply and demand" |
| ~ 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" |
| ~ logical relation | a relation between propositions. |
| ~ mathematical relation | a relation between mathematical expressions (such as equality or inequality). |
| ~ foundation | the basis on which something is grounded.; "there is little foundation for his objections" |
| ~ connection, connectedness, connexion | a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it).; "there was a connection between eating that pickle and having that nightmare" |
| ~ unconnectedness | the lack of a connection between things. |
| ~ linguistic relation | a relation between linguistic forms or constituents. |
| ~ component part, part, portion, component, constituent | something determined in relation to something that includes it.; "he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself"; "I read a portion of the manuscript"; "the smaller component is hard to reach"; "the animal constituent of plankton" |
| ~ kinship, affinity | a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character.; "found a natural affinity with the immigrants"; "felt a deep kinship with the other students"; "anthropology's kinship with the humanities" |
| ~ family relationship, kinship, relationship | (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption. |
| ~ magnitude relation, quantitative relation | a relation between magnitudes. |
| ~ control | a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another.; "measures for the control of disease"; "they instituted controls over drinking on campus" |
| ~ business relation | a relation between different business enterprises. |
| ~ reciprocality, reciprocity | a relation of mutual dependence or action or influence. |
| ~ interrelatedness, interrelation, interrelationship | mutual or reciprocal relation or relatedness.; "interrelationships of animal structure and function" |
| ~ temporal relation | a relation involving time. |
| ~ comparison | relation based on similarities and differences. |
| ~ oppositeness, opposition | the relation between opposed entities. |
| ~ change | a relational difference between states; especially between states before and after some event.; "he attributed the change to their marriage" |
| n. (act) | 2. carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, congress, copulation, intercourse, relation, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation | the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur. |
| ~ sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice | activities associated with sexual intercourse.; "they had sex in the back seat" |
| ~ defloration | the act of depriving a woman of her virginity (especially by rupturing the hymen through sexual intercourse). |
| ~ insemination | the introduction of semen into the genital tract of a female. |
| ~ fuck, fucking, nookie, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screwing, shtup, ass, shag, screw | slang for sexual intercourse. |
| ~ hank panky | illicit sexual intercourse. |
| ~ penetration | the act (by a man) of inserting his penis into the vagina of a woman. |
| ~ criminal congress, unlawful carnal knowledge | forbidden or tabu sexual intercourse between individuals. |
| n. (person) | 3. relation, relative | a person related by blood or marriage.; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey" |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| ~ clan, kin group, kindred, kinship group, kin, tribe | group of people related by blood or marriage. |
| ~ ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, ascendent, root | someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent). |
| ~ cousin, cousin-german, first cousin, full cousin | the child of your aunt or uncle. |
| ~ descendant, descendent | a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race. |
| ~ in-law, relative-in-law | a relative by marriage. |
| ~ blood relation, blood relative, cognate, sib | one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another. |
| ~ kin, kinsperson, family | a person having kinship with another or others.; "he's kin"; "he's family" |
| ~ enate, matrikin, matrilineal kin, matrilineal sib, matrisib | one related on the mother's side. |
| ~ agnate, patrikin, patrilineal kin, patrilineal sib, patrisib | one related on the father's side. |
| ~ kinsman | a male relative. |
| ~ kinswoman | a female relative. |
| ~ kissing cousin, kissing kin | a more or less distant relative; familiar enough to be greeted with a kiss. |
| ~ next of kin | the person who is (or persons who are) most closely related to a given person. |
| ~ offspring, progeny, issue | the immediate descendants of a person.; "she was the mother of many offspring"; "he died without issue" |
| ~ second cousin | a child of a first cousin. |
| ~ sib, sibling | a person's brother or sister. |
| ~ better half, married person, partner, spouse, mate | a person's partner in marriage. |
| n. (communication) | 4. recounting, relation, telling | an act of narration.; "he was the hero according to his own relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable" |
| ~ recital, yarn, narration | the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events.; "his narration was hesitant" |
| n. (cognition) | 5. relation, relation back | (law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time.; "his attorney argued for the relation back of the amended complaint to the time the initial complaint was filed" |
| ~ judicial doctrine, judicial principle, legal principle | (law) a principle underlying the formulation of jurisprudence. |
| ~ law, jurisprudence | the collection of rules imposed by authority.; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
| n. (act) | 6. relation | (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups.; "international relations" |
| ~ dealings, traffic | social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with'). |
| ~ plural, plural form | the form of a word that is used to denote more than one. |
| include | | |
| v. (stative) | 1. include | have as a part, be made up out of.; "The list includes the names of many famous writers" |
| ~ contain, comprise, incorporate | include or contain; have as a component.; "A totally new idea is comprised in this paper"; "The record contains many old songs from the 1930's" |
| ~ embrace, encompass, comprehend, cover | include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory.; "This group encompasses a wide range of people from different backgrounds"; "this should cover everyone in the group" |
| ~ feature, have | have as a feature.; "This restaurant features the most famous chefs in France" |
| ~ involve | contain as a part.; "Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses" |
| ~ subsume | contain or include.; "This new system subsumes the old one" |
| ~ contain, bear, carry, hold | contain or hold; have within.; "The jar carries wine"; "The canteen holds fresh water"; "This can contains water" |
| ~ inhere in, attach to | be part of.; "This problem inheres in the design" |
| v. (cognition) | 2. include | consider as part of something.; "I include you in the list of culprits" |
| ~ count | include as if by counting.; "I can count my colleagues in the opposition" |
| ~ colligate, subsume | consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle. |
| ~ consider, regard, view, reckon, see | deem to be.; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do" |
| ~ carry | include, as on a list.; "How many people are carried on the payroll?" |
| v. (change) | 3. include | add as part of something else; put in as part of a set, group, or category.; "We must include this chemical element in the group" |
| ~ chemical science, chemistry | the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions. |
| ~ add | make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of.; "We added two students to that dorm room"; "She added a personal note to her letter"; "Add insult to injury"; "Add some extra plates to the dinner table" |
| v. (social) | 4. admit, include, let in | allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of.; "admit someone to the profession"; "She was admitted to the New Jersey Bar" |
| ~ countenance, permit, allow, let | consent to, give permission.; "She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband"; "I won't let the police search her basement"; "I cannot allow you to see your exam" |
| ~ admit, take on, accept, take | admit into a group or community.; "accept students for graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member" |
| ~ induct, initiate | accept people into an exclusive society or group, usually with some rite.; "African men are initiated when they reach puberty" |
| ~ readmit | admit again or anew.; "After paying a penalty, the player was readmitted" |
| ~ involve | engage as a participant.; "Don't involve me in your family affairs!" |
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