| uninformed | | |
| adj. | 1. uninformed | not informed; lacking in knowledge or information.; "the uninformed public" |
| ~ uneducated | not having a good education. |
| ~ unenlightened | not enlightened; ignorant.; "the devices by which unenlightened men preserved the unjust social order" |
| ~ clueless | totally uninformed about what is going on; not having even a clue from which to infer what is occurring. |
| ~ unknowing, unknowledgeable, ignorant, unwitting | unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge.; "he was completely ignorant of the circumstances"; "an unknowledgeable assistant"; "his rudeness was unwitting" |
| ~ unacquainted, innocent | not knowledgeable about something specified.; "American tourists wholly innocent of French"; "a person unacquainted with our customs" |
| ~ newsless | not having or receiving news or information. |
| ~ unadvised | having received no information.; "a defendant unadvised of her legal rights" |
| ~ uninstructed, unenlightened, naive | lacking information or instruction.; "lamentably unenlightened as to the laws" |
| ~ unread | not informed through reading.; "he seems to have been wholly unread in political theory" |
| ~ naif, naive | marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.; "a teenager's naive ignorance of life"; "the naive assumption that things can only get better"; "this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances" |
| knowledge | | |
| n. (tops) | 1. cognition, knowledge, noesis | the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning. |
| ~ psychological feature | a feature of the mental life of a living organism. |
| ~ mind, psyche, nous, brain, head | that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason.; "his mind wandered"; "I couldn't get his words out of my head" |
| ~ place | an abstract mental location.; "he has a special place in my thoughts"; "a place in my heart"; "a political system with no place for the less prominent groups" |
| ~ general knowledge, public knowledge | knowledge that is available to anyone. |
| ~ episteme | the body of ideas that determine the knowledge that is intellectually certain at any particular time. |
| ~ ability, power | possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done.; "danger heightened his powers of discrimination" |
| ~ inability | lack of ability (especially mental ability) to do something. |
| ~ lexis | all of the words in a language; all word forms having meaning or grammatical function. |
| ~ lexicon, mental lexicon, vocabulary | a language user's knowledge of words. |
| ~ practice | knowledge of how something is usually done.; "it is not the local practice to wear shorts to dinner" |
| ~ cognitive factor | something immaterial (as a circumstance or influence) that contributes to producing a result. |
| ~ equivalent | a person or thing equal to another in value or measure or force or effect or significance etc.; "send two dollars or the equivalent in stamps" |
| ~ cognitive operation, cognitive process, mental process, process, operation | (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents.; "the process of thinking"; "the cognitive operation of remembering" |
| ~ unconscious process, process | a mental process that you are not directly aware of.; "the process of denial" |
| ~ perception | knowledge gained by perceiving.; "a man admired for the depth of his perception" |
| ~ structure | the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations.; "his lectures have no structure" |
| ~ cognitive content, mental object, content | the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned. |
| ~ information | knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction. |
| ~ history | all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge.; "the dawn of recorded history"; "from the beginning of history" |
| ~ attitude, mental attitude | a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways.; "he had the attitude that work was fun" |
| talent | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. endowment, gift, natural endowment, talent | natural abilities or qualities. |
| ~ natural ability | ability that is inherited. |
| ~ hang, knack, bent | a special way of doing something.; "he had a bent for it"; "he had a special knack for getting into trouble"; "he couldn't get the hang of it" |
| ~ flair, genius | a natural talent.; "he has a flair for mathematics"; "he has a genius for interior decorating" |
| ~ raw talent | powerfully impressive talent. |
| n. (person) | 2. talent | a person who possesses unusual innate ability in some field or activity. |
| ~ expert | a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully. |
| understanding | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. apprehension, discernment, savvy, understanding | the cognitive condition of someone who understands.; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect" |
| ~ knowing | a clear and certain mental apprehension. |
| ~ comprehension | an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result).; "how you can do that is beyond my comprehension"; "he was famous for his comprehension of American literature" |
| ~ self-knowledge | an understanding of yourself and your goals and abilities. |
| ~ smattering | a slight or superficial understanding of a subject. |
| ~ appreciation, grasp, hold | understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something.; "he has a good grasp of accounting practices" |
| ~ grasping | understanding with difficulty.; "the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings" |
| ~ hindsight | understanding the nature of an event after it has happened.; "hindsight is always better than foresight" |
| ~ brainstorm, brainwave, insight | the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation. |
| ~ realization, realisation, recognition | coming to understand something clearly and distinctly.; "a growing realization of the risk involved"; "a sudden recognition of the problem he faced"; "increasing recognition that diabetes frequently coexists with other chronic diseases" |
| n. (communication) | 2. agreement, understanding | the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises.; "they had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business"; "there was an understanding between management and the workers" |
| ~ conspiracy, confederacy | a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act. |
| ~ fair-trade agreement | an agreement (illegal in the United States) between the manufacturer of a trademarked item of merchandise and its retail distributors to sell the item at a price at or above the price set by the manufacturer. |
| ~ covenant | (Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return. |
| ~ unilateral contract | a one-sided agreement whereby you promise to do (or refrain from doing) something in return for a performance (not a promise). |
| ~ sales agreement, sale | an agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer).; "the salesman faxed the sales agreement to his home office" |
| ~ statement | a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc.; "according to his statement he was in London on that day" |
| ~ term, condition | (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement.; "the contract set out the conditions of the lease"; "the terms of the treaty were generous" |
| ~ bargain, deal | an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each.; "he made a bargain with the devil"; "he rose to prominence through a series of shady deals" |
| ~ working agreement | an informal agreement to work together. |
| ~ gentlemen's agreement | a personal agreement based on honor and not legally binding. |
| ~ written agreement | a legal document summarizing the agreement between parties. |
| ~ submission | an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter. |
| ~ entente, entente cordiale | a friendly understanding between political powers. |
| ~ oral contract | an agreement that is not in writing and is not signed by the parties but is a real existing contract that lacks only the formal requirement of a memorandum to render it enforceable in litigation. |
| ~ reservation | the written record or promise of an arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance. |
| ~ settlement | a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it. |
| ~ severance agreement | an agreement on the terms on which an employee will leave. |
| ~ suicide pact | an agreement by two or more people to commit suicide together at a given place and time.; "the two lovers killed themselves in a suicide pact" |
| n. (cognition) | 3. sympathy, understanding | an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion.; "his sympathies were always with the underdog"; "I knew I could count on his understanding" |
| ~ inclination, tendency, disposition | an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others.; "he had an inclination to give up too easily"; "a tendency to be too strict" |
| n. (cognition) | 4. intellect, reason, understanding | the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination.; "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil" |
| ~ faculty, mental faculty, module | one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind. |
| adj. | 5. understanding | characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy.; "an understanding friend" |
| ~ perceptive | having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment.; "a perceptive eye"; "a perceptive observation" |
| loop | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. cringle, eyelet, grommet, grummet, loop | fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines. |
| ~ fastening, holdfast, fastener, fixing | restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place. |
| n. (shape) | 2. loop | anything with a round or oval shape (formed by a curve that is closed and does not intersect itself). |
| ~ band | a thin flat strip or loop of flexible material that goes around or over something else, typically to hold it together or as a decoration. |
| ~ belt | endless loop of flexible material between two rotating shafts or pulleys. |
| ~ drip loop | a downward hanging loop in a line that runs to a building.; "when it rained water would fall from the drip loop before it reached the building" |
| ~ running noose, slip noose, noose | a loop formed in a cord or rope by means of a slipknot; it binds tighter as the cord or rope is pulled. |
| ~ lobe | the enhanced response of an antenna in a given direction as indicated by a loop in its radiation pattern. |
| ~ jordan curve, simple closed curve | a closed curve that does not intersect itself. |
| ~ bight | a loop in a rope. |
| n. (process) | 3. iteration, loop | (computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated.; "the solution took hundreds of iterations" |
| ~ 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" |
| ~ computer science, computing | the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures. |
| n. (group) | 4. loop | an inner circle of advisors (especially under President Reagan).; "he's no longer in the loop" |
| ~ clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, camp, pack | an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose. |
| n. (communication) | 5. loop | the basic pattern of the human fingerprint. |
| ~ fingerprint | a print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger; often used for biometric identification in criminal investigations. |
| n. (communication) | 6. loop | a computer program that performs a series of instructions repeatedly until some specified condition is satisfied. |
| ~ computer program, computer programme, programme, program | (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute.; "the program required several hundred lines of code" |
| n. (cognition) | 7. loop, loop topology | the topology of a network whose components are serially connected in such a way that the last component is connected to the first component. |
| ~ network topology, topology | the configuration of a communication network. |
| n. (artifact) | 8. loop | an intrauterine device in the shape of a loop. |
| ~ intrauterine device, iud | contraceptive device consisting of a piece of bent plastic or metal that is inserted through the vagina into the uterus. |
| n. (artifact) | 9. closed circuit, loop | a complete electrical circuit around which current flows or a signal circulates. |
| ~ circuit, electric circuit, electrical circuit | an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow. |
| ~ parallel circuit, shunt circuit | a closed circuit in which the current divides into two or more paths before recombining to complete the circuit. |
| n. (act) | 10. loop, loop-the-loop | a flight maneuver; aircraft flies a complete circle in the vertical plane. |
| ~ inside loop | a loop consisting of a climb followed by inverted flight followed by a dive that returns to horizontal flight. |
| ~ outside loop | a loop consisting of a dive followed by inverted flight followed by a climb that returns to horizontal flight. |
| ~ airplane maneuver, flight maneuver | a maneuver executed by an aircraft. |
| v. (motion) | 11. loop | move in loops.; "The bicycle looped around the tree" |
| ~ circle, circulate | move in circles. |
| v. (creation) | 12. intertwine, loop | make a loop in.; "loop a rope" |
| ~ entwine, knit | tie or link together. |
| ~ crochet, hook | make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle.; "She sat there crocheting all day" |
| ~ noose | make a noose in or of. |
| v. (motion) | 13. loop | fly loops, perform a loop.; "the stunt pilot looped his plane" |
| ~ circle, circulate | move in circles. |
| v. (contact) | 14. coil, curl, loop | wind around something in coils or loops. |
| ~ twine, wrap, wind, roll | arrange or or coil around.; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"; "She wrapped her arms around the child" |
| v. (contact) | 15. loop | fasten or join with a loop.; "He looped the watch through his belt" |
| ~ tie, bind | fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord.; "They tied their victim to the chair" |
| needlefish | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. billfish, gar, needlefish | elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters. |
| ~ teleost, teleost fish, teleostan | a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei. |
| ~ belonidae, family belonidae | ferocious fishes of warm regions resembling but unrelated to the freshwater gars. |
| ~ timucu | found in warm waters of western Atlantic. |
| n. (animal) | 2. needlefish, pipefish | fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates. |
| ~ family syngnathidae, syngnathidae | pipefishes. |
| ~ dwarf pipefish, syngnathus hildebrandi | small (4 inches) fish found off the Florida Gulf Coast. |
| ~ cosmocampus profundus, deepwater pipefish | a fish 8 inches long; found from eastern Florida to western Caribbean. |
| ~ sea horse, seahorse | small fish with horse-like heads bent sharply downward and curled tails; swim in upright position. |
| ~ teleost, teleost fish, teleostan | a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei. |
| widow | | |
| n. (person) | 1. widow, widow woman | a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried. |
| ~ dowager | a widow holding property received from her deceased husband. |
| ~ war widow | a woman whose husband has died in war. |
| ~ adult female, woman | an adult female person (as opposed to a man).; "the woman kept house while the man hunted" |
| v. (change) | 2. widow | cause to be without a spouse.; "The war widowed many women in the former Yugoslavia" |
| ~ leave behind, leave | be survived by after one's death.; "He left six children"; "At her death, she left behind her husband and 11 cats" |
| widower | | |
| n. (person) | 1. widower, widowman | a man whose wife is dead especially one who has not remarried. |
| ~ adult male, man | an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman).; "there were two women and six men on the bus" |
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