arrival | (noun) accomplishment of an objective | Synonyms: reaching |
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(noun) the act of arriving at a certain place | - |
(noun) someone who arrives (or has arrived) | Synonyms: arriver, comer |
cerivastatin | (noun) an oral drug (trade name Baycol) to reduce blood cholesterol levels | Synonyms: Baycol |
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charivari | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: belling, callathump, callithump, chivaree, shivaree |
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contrivance | (noun) the act of devising something | Synonyms: devisal |
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(noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contraption, convenience, gadget, gismo, gizmo, widget |
(noun) any improvised arrangement for temporary use | Synonyms: lash-up |
(noun) an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade | Synonyms: dodge, stratagem |
(noun) the faculty of contriving; inventive skill | - |
(noun) an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc. | - |
deprivation | (noun) act of depriving someone of food or money or rights | Synonyms: privation |
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(noun) the disadvantage that results from losing something | Synonyms: loss |
(noun) a state of extreme poverty | Synonyms: neediness, privation, want |
derivable | (adjective) capable of being derived | - |
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derivation | (noun) the act of deriving something or obtaining something from a source or origin | - |
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(noun) drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation | - |
(noun) drawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body | - |
(noun) inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline | Synonyms: ancestry, filiation, lineage |
(noun) a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions | - |
(noun) (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase | Synonyms: deriving, etymologizing |
(noun) the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues) | - |
(noun) (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation | - |
derivational | (adjective) characterized by inflections indicating a semantic relation between a word and its base | - |
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derivative | (adjective) resulting from or employing derivation | - |
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(noun) the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx | Synonyms: derived function, differential, differential coefficient, first derivative |
(noun) (linguistics) a word that is derived from another word | - |
(noun) a financial instrument whose value is based on another security | Synonyms: derivative instrument |
(noun) a compound obtained from, or regarded as derived from, another compound | - |
outrival | (verb) be more of a rival than | Synonyms: outvie |
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privacy | (noun) the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others | Synonyms: privateness, seclusion |
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(noun) the condition of being concealed or hidden | Synonyms: concealment, privateness, secrecy |
private | (adjective) confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy | - |
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(adjective) not expressed | Synonyms: secret |
(adjective) concerning one person exclusively | Synonyms: individual |
(adjective) concerning things deeply private and personal | Synonyms: intimate |
(noun) an enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines | Synonyms: buck private, common soldier |
privateer | (noun) a privately owned warship commissioned to prey on the commercial shipping or warships of an enemy nation | - |
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(noun) an officer or crew member of a privateer | Synonyms: privateersman |
privateersman | (noun) an officer or crew member of a privateer | Synonyms: privateer |
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privately | (adverb) kept private or confined to those intimately concerned | Synonyms: in camera, in private |
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(adverb) by a private person or interest | - |
privateness | (noun) the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others | Synonyms: privacy, seclusion |
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(noun) the condition of being concealed or hidden | Synonyms: concealment, privacy, secrecy |
privates | (noun) external sex organ | Synonyms: crotch, genital organ, genitalia, genitals, private parts |
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privation | (noun) act of depriving someone of food or money or rights | Synonyms: deprivation |
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(noun) a state of extreme poverty | Synonyms: deprivation, neediness, want |
privatisation | (noun) changing something from state to private ownership or control | Synonyms: denationalisation, denationalization, privatization |
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privatise | (verb) change from governmental to private control or ownership | Synonyms: privatize |
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privatization | (noun) changing something from state to private ownership or control | Synonyms: denationalisation, denationalization, privatisation |
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privatize | (verb) change from governmental to private control or ownership | Synonyms: privatise |
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rival | (adjective) as a rival in a competition | - |
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(noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: challenger, competition, competitor, contender |
(verb) be the rival of, be in competition with | - |
(verb) be equal to in quality or ability | Synonyms: equal, match, touch |
rivalrous | (adjective) eager to surpass others | Synonyms: emulous |
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rivalry | (noun) the act of competing as for profit or a prize | Synonyms: competition, contention |
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semiprivate | (adjective) confined to a small number of hospital patients | - |
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trivalent | (adjective) having a valence of three | - |
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underivative | (adjective) not derivative or imitative | - |
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unrivaled | (adjective) eminent beyond or above comparison | Synonyms: matchless, nonpareil, one, one and only, peerless, unmatchable, unmatched, unrivalled |
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unrivalled | (adjective) eminent beyond or above comparison | Synonyms: matchless, nonpareil, one, one and only, peerless, unmatchable, unmatched, unrivaled |
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