adiposis | (noun) the property of excessive fatness | Synonyms: corpulence, overweight, stoutness |
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adiposity | (noun) having the property of containing fat | Synonyms: adiposeness, fattiness |
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antiredeposition | (noun) the process of preventing redeposition | - |
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aposiopesis | (noun) breaking off in the middle of a sentence (as by writers of realistic conversations) | - |
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aposiopetic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of aposiopesis | - |
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apposite | (adjective) being of striking appropriateness and pertinence | Synonyms: apt, pertinent |
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appositeness | (noun) appropriateness for the occasion | Synonyms: aptness |
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apposition | (noun) the act of positioning close together (or side by side) | Synonyms: collocation, juxtaposition |
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(noun) (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material | - |
(noun) a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows | - |
appositional | (adjective) relating to or being in apposition | Synonyms: appositive |
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appositive | (adjective) relating to or being in apposition | Synonyms: appositional |
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appositively | (adverb) in an appositive manner | Synonyms: in apposition |
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composing | (noun) musical creation | Synonyms: composition |
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(noun) the spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole | Synonyms: composition |
composite | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Compositae | - |
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(adjective) consisting of separate interconnected parts | - |
(noun) a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts | Synonyms: complex |
(noun) considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers | Synonyms: composite plant |
compositeness | (noun) the property of being a composite number | - |
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composition | (noun) the act of creating written works | Synonyms: authorship, penning, writing |
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(noun) musical creation | Synonyms: composing |
(noun) something that is created by arranging several things to form a unified whole | - |
(noun) the way in which someone or something is composed | Synonyms: constitution, make-up, makeup, physical composition |
(noun) the spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole | Synonyms: composing |
(noun) an essay (especially one written as an assignment) | Synonyms: paper, report, theme |
(noun) a musical work that has been created | Synonyms: musical composition, opus, piece, piece of music |
(noun) art and technique of printing with movable type | Synonyms: typography |
(noun) a mixture of ingredients | - |
compositional | (adjective) arranging or grouping | - |
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compositor | (noun) one who sets written material into type | Synonyms: setter, typesetter, typographer |
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decomposition | (noun) the analysis of a vector field | Synonyms: vector decomposition |
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(noun) the organic phenomenon of rotting | Synonyms: decay |
(noun) (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action | Synonyms: breakdown, putrefaction, rot, rotting |
(noun) (chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance | Synonyms: breakdown, chemical decomposition reaction, decomposition reaction |
(noun) in a decomposed state | Synonyms: disintegration |
decompositional | (adjective) causing organic decay | - |
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deposit | (noun) the act of putting something somewhere | Synonyms: deposition |
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(noun) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | Synonyms: depositary, depository, repository |
(noun) a payment given as a guarantee that an obligation will be met | - |
(noun) matter that has been deposited by some natural process | Synonyms: sediment |
(noun) the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating | Synonyms: alluviation, sedimentation |
(noun) a partial payment made at the time of purchase; the balance to be paid later | Synonyms: down payment |
(noun) money deposited in a bank or some similar institution | Synonyms: bank deposit |
(noun) money given as security for an article acquired for temporary use | - |
(noun) the natural process of laying down a deposit of something | Synonyms: deposition |
(verb) put, fix, force, or implant | Synonyms: lodge, stick, wedge |
(verb) put (something somewhere) firmly | Synonyms: fix, posit, situate |
(verb) put into a bank account | Synonyms: bank |
depositary | (noun) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | Synonyms: deposit, depository, repository |
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deposition | (noun) the act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office | Synonyms: dethronement |
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(noun) the act of putting something somewhere | Synonyms: deposit |
(noun) (law) a pretrial interrogation of a witness; usually conducted in a lawyer's office | - |
(noun) the natural process of laying down a deposit of something | Synonyms: deposit |
depositor | (noun) a person who has deposited money in a bank or similar institution | - |
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depository | (noun) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | Synonyms: deposit, depositary, repository |
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disposition | (noun) the act or means of getting rid of something | Synonyms: disposal |
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(noun) your usual mood | Synonyms: temperament |
(noun) a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing | - |
(noun) an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others | Synonyms: inclination, tendency |
electrodeposition | (noun) the deposition of a substance on an electrode by the action of electricity (especially by electrolysis) | - |
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electropositive | (adjective) having a positive charge | Synonyms: positive, positively charged |
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exposit | (verb) state | Synonyms: expound, set forth |
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(verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
exposition | (noun) a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic | Synonyms: expounding |
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(noun) an account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing or discourse | - |
(noun) (music) the section of a movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes first occur | - |
(noun) a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display | Synonyms: exhibition, expo |
expositive | (adjective) serving to expound or set forth | Synonyms: expository |
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expositor | (noun) a person who explains | Synonyms: expounder |
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expository | (adjective) serving to expound or set forth | Synonyms: expositive |
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hypotyposis | (noun) vivid picturesque description. | - |
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imposing | (adjective) used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person | Synonyms: distinguished, grand, magisterial |
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(adjective) impressive in size, manner, or appearance | Synonyms: baronial, noble, stately |
imposingly | (adverb) in an impressive manner | Synonyms: impressively |
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imposition | (noun) the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo) | Synonyms: infliction |
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(noun) an uncalled-for burden | - |
inapposite | (adjective) of an inappropriate or misapplied nature | Synonyms: out of place |
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inappositeness | (noun) inappropriateness | Synonyms: inaptness |
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indisposition | (noun) a certain degree of unwillingness | Synonyms: disinclination, hesitancy, hesitation, reluctance |
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(noun) a slight illness | - |
interposition | (noun) the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts | Synonyms: interjection, interpellation, interpolation |
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(noun) the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others | Synonyms: intervention |
juxtaposition | (noun) the act of positioning close together (or side by side) | Synonyms: apposition, collocation |
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(noun) a side-by-side position | - |
malposition | (noun) faulty position | Synonyms: misplacement |
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opposing | (adjective) characterized by active hostility | Synonyms: opponent |
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opposite | (adjective) of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of a stem | Synonyms: paired |
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(adjective) characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed | Synonyms: diametric, diametrical, polar |
(adjective) the other one of a complementary pair | - |
(adjective) being directly across from each other; facing | - |
(adjective) altogether different in nature or quality or significance | - |
(adjective) moving or facing away from each other | - |
(noun) a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other | Synonyms: antonym, opposite word |
(noun) a contestant that you are matched against | Synonyms: opponent, opposition |
(noun) a relation of direct opposition | Synonyms: contrary, reverse |
(noun) something inverted in sequence or character or effect | Synonyms: inverse |
(adverb) directly facing each other | Synonyms: face-to-face, face to face |
oppositely | (adverb) in an opposite position | - |
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oppositeness | (noun) the relation between opposed entities | Synonyms: opposition |
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opposition | (noun) the act of hostile groups opposing each other | Synonyms: confrontation |
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(noun) the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with | Synonyms: resistance |
(noun) a body of people united in opposing something | - |
(noun) an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force) | Synonyms: enemy, foe, foeman |
(noun) a contestant that you are matched against | Synonyms: opponent, opposite |
(noun) a direction opposite to another | - |
(noun) the relation between opposed entities | Synonyms: oppositeness |
oppositionality | (noun) The quality of opposing or of being in conflict. | - |
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oppositive | (adjective) expressing antithesis or opposition | Synonyms: adversative |
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ovipositor | (noun) egg-laying tubular structure at the end of the abdomen in many female insects and some fishes | - |
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pomposity | (noun) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness |
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posing | (noun) (photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait) | Synonyms: sitting |
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posit | (noun) (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning | Synonyms: postulate |
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(verb) take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom | Synonyms: postulate |
(verb) put before | Synonyms: put forward, state, submit |
(verb) put (something somewhere) firmly | Synonyms: deposit, fix, situate |
position | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: emplacement, locating, location, placement, positioning |
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(noun) a job in an organization | Synonyms: berth, office, place, post, situation |
(noun) (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player | - |
(noun) the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another | Synonyms: lieu, place, stead |
(noun) the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom | - |
(noun) the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated | Synonyms: spatial relation |
(noun) the arrangement of the body and its limbs | Synonyms: attitude, posture |
(noun) a way of regarding situations or topics etc. | Synonyms: perspective, view |
(noun) a rationalized mental attitude | Synonyms: posture, stance |
(noun) an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute | Synonyms: side |
(noun) an item on a list or in a sequence | Synonyms: place |
(noun) the particular portion of space occupied by something | Synonyms: place |
(noun) a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons | Synonyms: military position |
(noun) the appropriate or customary location | - |
(noun) the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society | Synonyms: status |
(noun) a condition or position in which you find yourself | Synonyms: situation |
(verb) put into a certain place or abstract location | Synonyms: lay, place, pose, put, set |
(verb) cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation | - |
positionable | (adjective) capable of being positioned | - |
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positional | (adjective) of or relating to or determined by position | - |
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positioner | (noun) (computer science) the actuator that moves a read/write head to the proper data track | Synonyms: rotary actuator |
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(noun) a device used to control the opening or closing of the actuator based on electric, or pneumatic signals. | - |
positioning | (adjective) causing to fall into line or into position | Synonyms: aligning |
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(noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: emplacement, locating, location, placement, position |
positive | (adjective) characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc. | - |
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(adjective) indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen | Synonyms: confirming |
(adjective) reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion | - |
(adjective) of or relating to positivism | Synonyms: positivist, positivistic |
(adjective) involving advantage or good | Synonyms: plus |
(adjective) persuaded of; very sure | Synonyms: confident, convinced |
(adjective) having a positive charge | Synonyms: electropositive, positively charged |
(adjective) marked by excessive confidence | Synonyms: cocksure, overconfident |
(adjective) formally laid down or imposed | Synonyms: prescribed |
(adjective) greater than zero | - |
(adjective) impossible to deny or disprove | Synonyms: incontrovertible, irrefutable |
(noun) a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject | - |
(noun) the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution | Synonyms: positive degree |
positively | (adverb) downright | - |
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(adverb) so as to be positive; in a positive manner | - |
positiveness | (noun) a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness | Synonyms: positivism, positivity |
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(noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: advantageousness, favorableness, favourableness, positivity, profitableness |
(noun) the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about | Synonyms: incontrovertibility, incontrovertibleness, positivity |
(noun) an amount greater than zero | Synonyms: positivity |
(noun) the character of the positive electric pole | Synonyms: positivity |
positivism | (noun) a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness | Synonyms: positiveness, positivity |
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(noun) the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation) | Synonyms: logical positivism |
positivist | (adjective) of or relating to positivism | Synonyms: positive, positivistic |
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(noun) someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes | Synonyms: rationalist |
positivistic | (adjective) of or relating to positivism | Synonyms: positive, positivist |
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positivity | (noun) a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness | Synonyms: positiveness, positivism |
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(noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: advantageousness, favorableness, favourableness, positiveness, profitableness |
(noun) the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about | Synonyms: incontrovertibility, incontrovertibleness, positiveness |
(noun) an amount greater than zero | Synonyms: positiveness |
(noun) the character of the positive electric pole | Synonyms: positiveness |
positron | (noun) an elementary particle with positive charge; interaction of a positron and an electron results in annihilation | Synonyms: antielectron |
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postposition | (noun) (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element after another (as placing a modifier after the word that it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix after the base to which it is attached) | - |
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postpositive | (adjective) (of a modifier) placed after another word | - |
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predisposition | (noun) a disposition in advance to react in a particular way | - |
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(noun) an inclination beforehand to interpret statements in a particular way | - |
(noun) susceptibility to a pathogen | Synonyms: sensitivity |
preposition | (noun) a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word | - |
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(noun) (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element before another (as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix before the base to which it is attached) | - |
prepositional | (adjective) of or relating to or formed with a preposition | - |
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prepositionally | (adverb) as a preposition | - |
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presupposition | (noun) the act of presupposing; a supposition made prior to having knowledge (as for the purpose of argument) | - |
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proposition | (noun) a task to be dealt with | - |
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(noun) (logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false | - |
(noun) a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: proffer, suggestion |
(noun) the act of making a proposal | Synonyms: proposal |
(noun) an offer for a private bargain (especially a request for sexual favors) | - |
(verb) suggest sex to | - |
propositus | (noun) the person immediately affected by or concerned with an action | - |
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purposive | (adjective) having or showing or acting with a purpose or design | - |
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(adjective) having a purpose | Synonyms: goal-directed |
redeposit | (verb) deposit anew | - |
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(verb) deposit once again | - |
redeposition | (noun) deposition from one deposit to another | - |
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redisposition | (noun) the withdrawal and redistribution of forces in an attempt to use them more effectively | Synonyms: redeployment |
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reimposition | (noun) imposition again | - |
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reposit | (verb) put (something) in a place for storage | - |
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repositing | (noun) depositing in a warehouse | Synonyms: reposition, storage, warehousing |
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reposition | (noun) depositing in a warehouse | Synonyms: repositing, storage, warehousing |
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(verb) place into another position | - |
(verb) change place or direction | Synonyms: dislodge, shift |
repositioning | (noun) the act of placing in a new position | - |
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repository | (noun) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | Synonyms: deposit, depositary, depository |
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(noun) a burial vault (usually for some famous person) | Synonyms: monument |
(noun) a person to whom a secret is entrusted | Synonyms: secretary |
superposition | (noun) the placement of one thing on top of another | - |
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(noun) (geometry) the placement of one object ideally in the position of another one in order to show that the two coincide | - |
(noun) (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest | Synonyms: principle of superposition, superposition principle |
(noun) (geology) the deposition of one geological stratum on another | - |
supposition | (noun) a hypothesis that is taken for granted | Synonyms: assumption, supposal |
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(noun) the cognitive process of supposing | Synonyms: supposal |
(noun) a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence | Synonyms: conjecture, guess, hypothesis, speculation, surmisal, surmise |
suppositional | (adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositious, supposititious |
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suppositious | (adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, supposititious |
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supposititious | (adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious |
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suppository | (noun) a small plug of medication designed for insertion into the rectum or vagina where it melts | - |
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symposiarch | (noun) the person who proposes toasts and introduces speakers at a banquet | Synonyms: toastmaster |
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symposiast | (noun) someone who participates in a symposium | - |
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symposium | (noun) a meeting or conference for the public discussion of some topic especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations | - |
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transposition | (noun) the act of reversing the order or place of | Synonyms: reversal |
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(noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards | - |
(noun) (mathematics) the transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign | - |
(noun) (electricity) a rearrangement of the relative positions of power lines in order to minimize the effects of mutual capacitance and inductance | - |
(noun) (genetics) a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transfered to a new position on the same or another chromosome | - |
(noun) an event in which one thing is substituted for another | Synonyms: permutation, replacement, substitution, switch |
(noun) any abnormal position of the organs of the body | Synonyms: heterotaxy |
unimposing | (adjective) lacking in impressiveness | - |
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