| omen | | |
| n. (event) | 1. omen, portent, presage, prodigy, prognostic, prognostication | a sign of something about to happen.; "he looked for an omen before going into battle" |
| ~ augury, foretoken, preindication, sign | an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.; "he hoped it was an augury"; "it was a sign from God" |
| ~ auspice | a favorable omen. |
| ~ foreboding | an unfavorable omen. |
| ~ death knell | an omen of death or destruction. |
| v. (communication) | 2. augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate | indicate by signs.; "These signs bode bad news" |
| ~ threaten | to be a menacing indication of something:.; "The clouds threaten rain"; "Danger threatens" |
| ~ bespeak, betoken, indicate, signal, point | be a signal for or a symptom of.; "These symptoms indicate a serious illness"; "Her behavior points to a severe neurosis"; "The economic indicators signal that the euro is undervalued" |
| ~ foreshow | foretell by divine inspiration. |
| phenomenon | | |
| n. (tops) | 1. phenomenon | any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning. |
| ~ physical process, process | a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states.; "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls" |
| ~ natural phenomenon | all phenomena that are not artificial. |
| ~ levitation | the phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by apparently supernatural means. |
| ~ metempsychosis, rebirth | after death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body. |
| ~ consequence, effect, result, upshot, outcome, event, issue | a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon.; "the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"; "his decision had depressing consequences for business"; "he acted very wise after the event" |
| ~ fortune, chance, hazard, luck | an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another.; "bad luck caused his downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure chance" |
| ~ fortune, luck | an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome.; "it was my good luck to be there"; "they say luck is a lady"; "it was as if fortune guided his hand" |
| ~ pulsation | a periodically recurring phenomenon that alternately increases and decreases some quantity. |
| n. (event) | 2. phenomenon | a remarkable development. |
| ~ development | a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation.; "recent developments in Iraq"; "what a revolting development!" |
| portent | | |
| inept | | |
| adj. | 1. awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, ill-chosen, inapt, inept | not elegant or graceful in expression.; "an awkward prose style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?" |
| ~ infelicitous | not appropriate in application; defective.; "an infelicitous remark"; "infelicitous phrasing"; "the infelicitous typesetting was due to illegible copy" |
| adj. | 2. feckless, inept | generally incompetent and ineffectual.; "feckless attempts to repair the plumbing"; "inept handling of the account" |
| ~ incompetent | not qualified or suited for a purpose.; "an incompetent secret service"; "the filming was hopeless incompetent" |
| adj. | 3. inept, tactless | revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse.; "an inept remark"; "it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable" |
| ~ maladroit | not adroit.; "a maladroit movement of his hand caused the car to swerve"; "a maladroit translation"; "maladroit propaganda" |
| unskillful | | |
| adj. | 1. botchy, butcherly, unskillful | poorly done.; "a botchy piece of work"; "it was an unskillful attempt" |
| ~ unskilled | not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency.; "unskilled in the art of rhetoric"; "an enthusiastic but unskillful mountain climber"; "unskilled labor"; "workers in unskilled occupations are finding fewer and fewer job opportunities"; "unskilled workmanship" |
| bullet | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. bullet, slug | a projectile that is fired from a gun. |
| ~ cartridge | ammunition consisting of a cylindrical casing containing an explosive charge and a bullet; fired from a rifle or handgun. |
| ~ dumdum, dumdum bullet | a soft-nosed small-arms bullet that expands when it hits a target and causes a gaping wound. |
| ~ full metal jacket | a lead bullet that is covered with a jacket of a harder metal (usually copper). |
| ~ projectile, missile | a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled. |
| ~ rifle ball | a bullet designed to be fired from a rifle; no longer made spherical in shape. |
| ~ rubber bullet | a bullet made of hard rubber; designed for use in crowd control. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. bullet, bullet train | a high-speed passenger train. |
| ~ passenger train | a train that carries passengers. |
| n. (act) | 3. bullet, fastball, heater, hummer, smoke | (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity.; "he swung late on the fastball"; "he showed batters nothing but smoke" |
| ~ pitch, delivery | (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter. |
| ~ slider | a fastball that curves slightly away from the side from which it was thrown. |
| ~ baseball, baseball game | a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs.; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" |
| cartridge | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. cartridge | ammunition consisting of a cylindrical casing containing an explosive charge and a bullet; fired from a rifle or handgun. |
| ~ ammo, ammunition | projectiles to be fired from a gun. |
| ~ ball cartridge | a general purpose cartridge having a primer and a ball and a full charge of powder. |
| ~ blank shell, blank, dummy | a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet. |
| ~ bullet, slug | a projectile that is fired from a gun. |
| ~ cartouch, cartouche | a cartridge (usually with paper casing). |
| n. (artifact) | 2. cartridge, magazine | a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required. |
| ~ camera, photographic camera | equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other). |
| ~ supply chamber | a mechanical device for holding something and supplying it as needed. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. cartridge | a module designed to be inserted into a larger piece of equipment.; "he loaded a cartridge of fresh tape into the tape deck" |
| ~ ink cartridge | a cartridge that contains ink and can be replaced. |
| ~ module | a self-contained component (unit or item) that is used in combination with other components. |
| ~ tape cartridge | a cartridge containing magnetic tape; for use with audio or video recorders or computer systems. |
| n. (artifact) | 4. cartridge, pickup | an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable. |
| ~ crystal pickup | a cartridge in which an output voltage is produced by the vibration of a piezoelectric crystal. |
| ~ electro-acoustic transducer | a transducer that converts electrical to acoustic energy or vice versa. |
| ~ phonograph, record player | machine in which rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically or electronically. |
| ~ stylus | a sharp pointed device attached to the cartridge of a record player. |
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