aminotransferase | (noun) a class of transferases that catalyze transamination (that transfer an amino group from an amino acid to another compound) | Synonyms: aminopherase, transaminase |
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astrantia | (noun) any plant of the genus Astrantia | Synonyms: masterwort |
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citrange | (noun) more aromatic and acid tasting than oranges; used in beverages and marmalade | - |
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(noun) more aromatic and acidic than oranges | Synonyms: citrange tree, Citroncirus webberi |
countertransference | (noun) the psychoanalyst's displacement of emotion onto the patient or more generally the psychoanalyst's emotional involvement in the therapeutic interaction | - |
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entrance | (noun) the act of entering | Synonyms: entering, entry, incoming, ingress |
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(noun) something that provides access (to get in or get out) | Synonyms: entranceway, entree, entry, entryway |
(noun) a movement into or inward | Synonyms: entering |
entrancement | (noun) a feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment | Synonyms: ravishment |
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entranceway | (noun) something that provides access (to get in or get out) | Synonyms: entrance, entree, entry, entryway |
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entrant | (noun) a commodity that enters competition with established merchandise | - |
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(noun) one who enters a competition | - |
(noun) any new participant in some activity | Synonyms: fledgeling, fledgling, freshman, neophyte, newbie, newcomer, starter |
(noun) someone who enters | - |
estrangement | (noun) the feeling of being alienated from other people | Synonyms: alienation, disaffection |
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(noun) separation resulting from hostility | Synonyms: alienation |
extraneity | (noun) The state of not forming an essential or vital part. | Synonyms: extraneousness |
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extraneousness | (noun) The state of not forming an essential or vital part. | Synonyms: extraneity |
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(noun) unrelatedness by virtue of falling outside the matter at hand | - |
intranet | (noun) a restricted computer network; a private network created using World Wide Web software | - |
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intransigence | (noun) the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise | Synonyms: intransigency |
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intransigency | (noun) the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise | Synonyms: intransigence |
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intransitive | (noun) a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object | Synonyms: intransitive verb, intransitive verb form |
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intransitiveness | (noun) the grammatical relation created by an intransitive verb | Synonyms: intransitivity |
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intransitivity | (noun) the grammatical relation created by an intransitive verb | Synonyms: intransitiveness |
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mestranol | (noun) a synthetic form of estrogen used in combination with a progestin in oral contraceptives | - |
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ministrant | (noun) someone who serves as a minister | - |
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mistranslation | (noun) an incorrect translation | - |
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monstrance | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a vessel (usually of gold or silver) in which the consecrated Host is exposed for adoration | Synonyms: ostensorium |
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(noun) proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion | Synonyms: demonstration |
neurotransmitter | (noun) a neurochemical that transmits nerve impulses across a synapse | - |
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pesantran | (noun) a Muslim school in Indonesia operated by religious leaders | Synonyms: pesantren |
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plectranthus | (noun) any of various ornamental plants of the genus Plectranthus | - |
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recalcitrance | (noun) the trait of being unmanageable | Synonyms: recalcitrancy, refractoriness, unmanageableness |
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recalcitrancy | (noun) the trait of being unmanageable | Synonyms: recalcitrance, refractoriness, unmanageableness |
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registrant | (noun) a person who is formally entered (along with others) in a register (and who obtains certain rights thereby) | - |
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remonstrance | (noun) the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest | Synonyms: expostulation, objection, remonstration |
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semitrance | (noun) a trancelike state in which the person can follow instructions but voluntary action is weak or absent | - |
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semitransparency | (noun) the quality of allowing light to pass diffusely | Synonyms: translucence, translucency |
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strand | (noun) a necklace made by stringing objects together | Synonyms: chain, string |
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(noun) line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable | - |
(noun) a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole | - |
(noun) a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides) | - |
(noun) a very slender natural or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: fibril, filament |
strangeness | (noun) unusualness as a consequence of not being well known | Synonyms: unfamiliarity |
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(noun) the quality of being alien or not native | Synonyms: curiousness, foreignness |
(noun) (physics) one of the six flavors of quark, the third lightest of all quarks | - |
stranger | (noun) anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found | Synonyms: alien, unknown |
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(noun) an individual that one is not acquainted with | - |
stranglehold | (noun) a wrestling hold in which the arms are pressed against the opponent's windpipe | - |
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(noun) complete power over a person or situation | Synonyms: chokehold, throttlehold |
strangler | (noun) someone who kills by strangling | Synonyms: choker, garroter, garrotter, throttler |
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(noun) an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree | Synonyms: strangler tree |
strangles | (noun) an acute bacterial disease of horses characterized by inflammation of the mucous membranes | Synonyms: equine distemper |
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strangling | (noun) the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe | Synonyms: choking, strangulation, throttling |
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strangulation | (noun) the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe | Synonyms: choking, strangling, throttling |
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(noun) (pathology) constriction of a body part so as to cut off the flow of blood or other fluid | - |
(noun) the condition of having respiration stopped by compression of the air passage | - |
tetranychid | (noun) web-spinning mite that attacks garden plants and fruit trees | Synonyms: spider mite |
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trance | (noun) a state of mind in which consciousness is fragile and voluntary action is poor or missing; a state resembling deep sleep | - |
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(noun) A genre of electronic dance music with a fast tempo, repetitive phrasing, and often a hypnotic effect. | - |
(noun) a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation | Synonyms: enchantment, spell |
tranche | (noun) a portion of something (especially money) | - |
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trandolapril | (noun) an ACE inhibiting drug (trade name Mavik) used in some patients after a heart attack or to treat hypertension | Synonyms: Mavik |
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tranquility | (noun) a disposition free from stress or emotion | Synonyms: placidity, quiet, repose, serenity, tranquillity |
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(noun) a state of peace and quiet | Synonyms: quietness, quietude, tranquillity |
(noun) an untroubled state; free from disturbances | Synonyms: quiet, tranquillity |
tranquilizer | (noun) a drug used to reduce stress or tension without reducing mental clarity | Synonyms: antianxiety agent, ataractic, ataractic agent, ataractic drug, tranquilliser, tranquillizer |
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tranquilliser | (noun) a drug used to reduce stress or tension without reducing mental clarity | Synonyms: antianxiety agent, ataractic, ataractic agent, ataractic drug, tranquilizer, tranquillizer |
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tranquillity | (noun) a disposition free from stress or emotion | Synonyms: placidity, quiet, repose, serenity, tranquility |
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(noun) a state of peace and quiet | Synonyms: quietness, quietude, tranquility |
(noun) an untroubled state; free from disturbances | Synonyms: quiet, tranquility |
tranquillizer | (noun) a drug used to reduce stress or tension without reducing mental clarity | Synonyms: antianxiety agent, ataractic, ataractic agent, ataractic drug, tranquilizer, tranquilliser |
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transactinide | (noun) any of the artificially produced elements with atomic numbers greater than 103 | - |
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transaction | (noun) the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities) | Synonyms: dealing, dealings |
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transactions | (noun) a written account of what transpired at a meeting | Synonyms: minutes, proceedings |
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transactor | (noun) someone who conducts or carries on business or negotiations | - |
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transalpine | (noun) one living on or coming from the other side of the Alps from Italy | - |
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transaminase | (noun) a class of transferases that catalyze transamination (that transfer an amino group from an amino acid to another compound) | Synonyms: aminopherase, aminotransferase |
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transamination | (noun) the process of transferring an amino group from one compound to another | - |
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(noun) the process of transposing an amino group within a chemical compound | - |
transcendence | (noun) a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience | Synonyms: transcendency |
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(noun) the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits | Synonyms: superiority, transcendency |
transcendency | (noun) a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience | Synonyms: transcendence |
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(noun) the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits | Synonyms: superiority, transcendence |
transcendentalism | (noun) any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material | Synonyms: transcendental philosophy |
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transcendentalist | (noun) advocate of transcendentalism | - |
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transcriber | (noun) someone who makes a written version of spoken material | - |
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(noun) someone who represents the sounds of speech in phonetic notation | - |
(noun) a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance | Synonyms: adapter, arranger |
(noun) a person who translates written messages from one language to another | Synonyms: translator |
(noun) someone who rewrites in a different script | - |
transcript | (noun) a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record) | Synonyms: copy |
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(noun) something that has been transcribed; a written record (usually typewritten) of dictated or recorded speech | - |
transcriptase | (noun) the enzyme that copies DNA into RNA | Synonyms: RNA polymerase |
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transcription | (noun) the act of making a record (especially an audio record) | Synonyms: recording |
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(noun) the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music | Synonyms: arrangement, arranging |
(noun) a sound or television recording (e.g., from a broadcast to a tape recording) | - |
(noun) something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation | Synonyms: written text |
(noun) (genetics) the organic process whereby the DNA sequence in a gene is copied into mRNA; the process whereby a base sequence of messenger RNA is synthesized on a template of complementary DNA | - |
transducer | (noun) an electrical device that converts one form of energy into another | - |
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transduction | (noun) the process whereby a transducer accepts energy in one form and gives back related energy in a different form | - |
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(noun) (genetics) the process of transferring genetic material from one cell to another by a plasmid or bacteriophage | - |
transept | (noun) structure forming the transverse part of a cruciform church; crosses the nave at right angles | - |
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transexual | (noun) a person whose sexual identification is entirely with the opposite sex | Synonyms: transsexual |
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(noun) a person who has undergone a sex change operation | Synonyms: transgendered, transsexual |
transfer | (noun) the act of moving something from one location to another | Synonyms: conveyance, transferral, transport, transportation |
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(noun) transferring ownership | Synonyms: transference |
(noun) the act of transferring something from one form to another | Synonyms: transference |
(noun) application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation | Synonyms: carry-over, transfer of training |
(noun) a ticket that allows a passenger to change conveyances | - |
(noun) someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another | Synonyms: transferee |
transferability | (noun) the quality of being transferable or exchangeable | - |
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transferase | (noun) any of various enzymes that move a chemical group from one compound to another compound | - |
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transferee | (noun) someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another | Synonyms: transfer |
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(noun) (law) someone to whom a title or property is conveyed | - |
transference | (noun) transferring ownership | Synonyms: transfer |
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(noun) the act of transferring something from one form to another | Synonyms: transfer |
(noun) (psychoanalysis) the process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another; during psychoanalysis the displacement of feelings toward others (usually the parents) is onto the analyst | - |
transferer | (noun) someone who transfers something | Synonyms: transferrer |
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transferor | (noun) (law) someone who conveys a title or property to another | - |
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transferral | (noun) the act of moving something from one location to another | Synonyms: conveyance, transfer, transport, transportation |
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transferrer | (noun) someone who transfers something | Synonyms: transferer |
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transferrin | (noun) a globulin in blood plasma that carries iron | Synonyms: beta globulin, siderophilin |
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transfiguration | (noun) the act of transforming so as to exalt or glorify | - |
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(noun) a striking change in appearance or character or circumstances | Synonyms: metamorphosis |
transformation | (noun) the act of changing in form or shape or appearance | Synonyms: translation |
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(noun) (genetics) modification of a cell or bacterium by the uptake and incorporation of exogenous DNA | - |
(noun) a rule describing the conversion of one syntactic structure into another related syntactic structure | - |
(noun) a qualitative change | Synonyms: shift, transmutation |
(noun) (mathematics) a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system | - |
transformer | (noun) an electrical device by which alternating current of one voltage is changed to another voltage | - |
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transfusion | (noun) the introduction of blood or blood plasma into a vein or artery | Synonyms: blood transfusion |
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(noun) the action of pouring a liquid from one vessel to another | - |
transgendered | (noun) a person who has undergone a sex change operation | Synonyms: transexual, transsexual |
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transgene | (noun) an exogenous gene introduced into the genome of another organism | - |
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transgression | (noun) the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle | Synonyms: evildoing |
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(noun) the action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit | - |
(noun) the spreading of the sea over land as evidenced by the deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata | - |
transgressor | (noun) someone who transgresses; someone who violates a law or command | - |
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transience | (noun) an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying | Synonyms: transiency, transitoriness |
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(noun) the attribute of being brief or fleeting | Synonyms: brevity, briefness |
transiency | (noun) an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying | Synonyms: transience, transitoriness |
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transient | (noun) (physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load | - |
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(noun) one who stays for only a short time | - |
transistor | (noun) a semiconductor device capable of amplification | Synonyms: electronic transistor, junction transistor |
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transit | (noun) a journey usually by ship | Synonyms: passage |
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(noun) a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod | Synonyms: theodolite |
(noun) a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods | Synonyms: transportation, transportation system |
transition | (noun) the act of passing from one state or place to the next | Synonyms: passage |
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(noun) a passage that connects a topic to one that follows | - |
(noun) a musical passage moving from one key to another | Synonyms: modulation |
(noun) an event that results in a transformation | Synonyms: changeover, conversion |
(noun) a change from one place or state or subject or stage to another | - |
transitive | (noun) a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical | Synonyms: transitive verb, transitive verb form |
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transitiveness | (noun) the grammatical relation created by a transitive verb | Synonyms: transitivity |
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transitivity | (noun) the grammatical relation created by a transitive verb | Synonyms: transitiveness |
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(noun) (logic and mathematics) a relation between three elements such that if it holds between the first and second and it also holds between the second and third it must necessarily hold between the first and third | - |
transitoriness | (noun) an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying | Synonyms: transience, transiency |
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translation | (noun) the act of uniform movement | Synonyms: displacement |
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(noun) the act of changing in form or shape or appearance | Synonyms: transformation |
(noun) a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language | Synonyms: interlingual rendition, rendering, version |
(noun) rewording something in less technical terminology | - |
(noun) a uniform movement without rotation | - |
(noun) (genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasm | - |
(noun) (mathematics) a transformation in which the origin of the coordinate system is moved to another position but the direction of each axis remains the same | - |
translator | (noun) a program that translates one programming language into another | Synonyms: translating program |
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(noun) someone who mediates between speakers of different languages | Synonyms: interpreter |
(noun) a person who translates written messages from one language to another | Synonyms: transcriber |
transliteration | (noun) a transcription from one alphabet to another | - |
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translocation | (noun) (genetics) an exchange of chromosome parts | - |
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(noun) the transport of dissolved material within a plant | - |
translucence | (noun) the quality of allowing light to pass diffusely | Synonyms: semitransparency, translucency |
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translucency | (noun) the quality of allowing light to pass diffusely | Synonyms: semitransparency, translucence |
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