Related Words:
- veto
collapse - a vote that blocks a decision
- the power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act (especially the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature)
- vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent; "The President vetoed the bill" related words >
- absolute veto,
- ban,
- block,
- constitute,
- decline,
- decree,
- defeat,
- denial,
- deny,
- disallow,
- disallowance,
- embargo,
- enact,
- enact laws,
- executive veto,
- filibuster,
- forbid,
- get the floor,
- have the floor,
- interdict,
- interdiction,
- item veto,
- kill,
- killing,
- legislate,
- limited negative,
- limited veto,
- lobby through,
- logroll,
- negative,
- nix,
- ordain,
- outlaw,
- pass,
- pigeonhole,
- pocket,
- pocket veto,
- preclude,
- preclusion,
- prevent,
- prevention,
- prohibit,
- prohibition,
- proscribe,
- proscription,
- put in force,
- put through,
- quash,
- quashing,
- railroad through,
- refuse,
- reject,
- rejection,
- roll logs,
- rule against,
- rule out,
- senatorial courtesy,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- suspensory veto,
- table,
- taboo,
- take the floor,
- turn down,
- veto message,
- veto power,
- yield the floor
- fathom
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- (mining) a unit of volume (equal to 6 cubic feet) used in measuring bodies of ore
- a linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth
- measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line related words >
- absorb,
- answer,
- appraise,
- appreciate,
- apprehend,
- ascertain,
- assay,
- assess,
- assimilate,
- be acquainted with,
- be apprised of,
- be aware of,
- be cognizant of,
- be conscious of,
- be conversant with,
- be informed,
- be with one,
- bottom,
- calculate,
- calibrate,
- caliper,
- cast the lead,
- catch,
- catch on,
- check a parameter,
- clear up,
- cognize,
- comprehend,
- compute,
- conceive,
- conceptualize,
- crack,
- debug,
- decipher,
- decode,
- delve into,
- determine,
- dial,
- dig,
- dig into,
- digest,
- discern,
- disentangle,
- divide,
- divine,
- do,
- dope,
- dope out,
- estimate,
- evaluate,
- explain,
- explore,
- figure out,
- find out,
- find the answer,
- find the solution,
- follow,
- gauge,
- get,
- get hold of,
- get right,
- get the drift,
- get the idea,
- get the picture,
- go into,
- graduate,
- grasp,
- guess,
- guess right,
- have,
- have information about,
- have it,
- have it taped,
- have knowledge of,
- hit it,
- indagate,
- interpret,
- investigate,
- ken,
- know,
- learn,
- look into,
- make a sounding,
- make out,
- master,
- measure,
- mensurate,
- mete,
- meter,
- open the lock,
- pace,
- peer into,
- penetrate,
- perceive,
- pierce,
- plumb,
- plumb the depths,
- plumb-line,
- poke into,
- possess,
- prehend,
- prize,
- probe,
- pry into,
- psych,
- psych out,
- puzzle out,
- quantify,
- quantize,
- rate,
- ravel,
- ravel out,
- read,
- realize,
- recognize,
- resolve,
- riddle,
- savvy,
- search into,
- search out,
- see,
- seize,
- seize the meaning,
- sense,
- sift,
- size,
- size up,
- sling the lead,
- solve,
- sort out,
- sound,
- span,
- step,
- survey,
- take,
- take a reading,
- take in,
- take soundings,
- triangulate,
- understand,
- undo,
- unlock,
- unravel,
- unriddle,
- unscramble,
- untangle,
- untwist,
- unweave,
- valuate,
- value,
- weigh,
- work,
- work out,
- wot,
- wot of
- self-government
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- government of a political unit by its own people related words >
- Declaration of Independence,
- absolute monarchy,
- aplomb,
- aristocracy,
- autarchy,
- autarky,
- autocracy,
- automatic control,
- automation,
- automatism,
- automatization,
- autonomy,
- coalition government,
- colonialism,
- commonwealth,
- composure,
- constitutional government,
- constitutional monarchy,
- constraint,
- control,
- democracy,
- dictatorship,
- discipline,
- dominion rule,
- duarchy,
- duumvirate,
- dyarchy,
- federal government,
- federation,
- feudal system,
- freedom,
- garrison state,
- gerontocracy,
- heteronomy,
- hierarchy,
- hierocracy,
- home rule,
- independence,
- individualism,
- inner-direction,
- internationalism,
- internationality,
- limited monarchy,
- martial law,
- meritocracy,
- militarism,
- military government,
- mob rule,
- mobocracy,
- monarchy,
- nationalism,
- nationality,
- nationhood,
- neocolonialism,
- ochlocracy,
- oligarchy,
- pantisocracy,
- patriarchate,
- patriarchy,
- peoplehood,
- police state,
- possession,
- pure democracy,
- regency,
- representative democracy,
- representative government,
- republic,
- restraint,
- rugged individualism,
- self-action,
- self-activity,
- self-command,
- self-conquest,
- self-containment,
- self-control,
- self-denial,
- self-determination,
- self-direction,
- self-discipline,
- self-mastery,
- self-motion,
- self-possession,
- self-propulsion,
- self-regulation,
- self-reliance,
- self-restraint,
- self-sufficiency,
- social democracy,
- sovereign nationhood,
- sovereignty,
- statehood,
- stratocracy,
- technocracy,
- thearchy,
- theocracy,
- totalitarian government,
- totalitarian regime,
- triarchy,
- triumvirate,
- tyranny,
- welfare state,
- willpower
- absolutism
collapse
- the doctrine of an absolute being
- the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government
- dominance through threat of punishment and violence related words >
- Caesarism,
- Stalinism,
- absolute monarchy,
- absolute power,
- autarchy,
- authoritarianism,
- authority,
- autocracy,
- benevolent despotism,
- bond service,
- bondage,
- captivity,
- competence,
- competency,
- constituted authority,
- control,
- czarism,
- debt slavery,
- delegated authority,
- deprivation of freedom,
- despotism,
- dictatorship,
- disenfranchisement,
- disfranchisement,
- divine right,
- domination,
- enslavement,
- enthrallment,
- faculty,
- feudalism,
- feudality,
- helotism,
- helotry,
- indentureship,
- indirect authority,
- inherent authority,
- jus divinum,
- kaiserism,
- lawful authority,
- legal authority,
- legitimacy,
- monarchy,
- one-man rule,
- one-party rule,
- paternalism,
- peonage,
- power,
- prerogative,
- regality,
- restraint,
- right,
- rightful authority,
- royal prerogative,
- serfdom,
- serfhood,
- servility,
- servitude,
- slavery,
- subjection,
- subjugation,
- the say,
- the say-so,
- thrall,
- thralldom,
- totalitarianism,
- tyranny,
- vassalage,
- vested authority,
- vicarious authority,
- villenage
- welfare state
collapse
- a government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc. related words >
- ADC,
- Medicaid,
- Medicare,
- absolute monarchy,
- aristocracy,
- autarchy,
- autocracy,
- autonomy,
- child welfare,
- coalition government,
- colonialism,
- commonweal,
- commonwealth,
- constitutional government,
- constitutional monarchy,
- cradle-to-grave security,
- democracy,
- dictatorship,
- dominion rule,
- duarchy,
- duumvirate,
- dyarchy,
- federal government,
- federation,
- feudal system,
- garrison state,
- gerontocracy,
- guaranteed annual income,
- guaranteed income,
- health insurance,
- heteronomy,
- hierarchy,
- hierocracy,
- home rule,
- limited monarchy,
- martial law,
- meritocracy,
- militarism,
- military government,
- mob rule,
- mobocracy,
- monarchy,
- neocolonialism,
- ochlocracy,
- old-age assistance,
- oligarchy,
- pantisocracy,
- patriarchate,
- patriarchy,
- police state,
- public assistance,
- public welfare,
- pure democracy,
- regency,
- relief,
- representative democracy,
- representative government,
- republic,
- self-determination,
- self-government,
- sickness insurance,
- social democracy,
- social insurance,
- social security,
- social service,
- social welfare,
- social work,
- socialized medicine,
- state medicine,
- stratocracy,
- technocracy,
- thearchy,
- theocracy,
- totalitarian government,
- totalitarian regime,
- triarchy,
- triumvirate,
- tyranny,
- unemployment compensation,
- unemployment insurance,
- welfare,
- welfare capitalism,
- welfare payments,
- welfare statism,
- welfare work,
- welfarism,
- womb-to-tomb security
- dictatorship
collapse
- a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) related words >
- Caesarism,
- Stalinism,
- absolute monarchy,
- absolutism,
- aedileship,
- archbishopric,
- archiepiscopacy,
- archiepiscopate,
- aristocracy,
- autarchy,
- authoritarianism,
- autocracy,
- autonomy,
- benevolent despotism,
- bishopric,
- captainship,
- chairmanship,
- chancellery,
- chancellorate,
- chancellorship,
- chiefery,
- chiefry,
- chieftaincy,
- chieftainry,
- chieftainship,
- coalition government,
- colonialism,
- commonwealth,
- constitutional government,
- constitutional monarchy,
- consulate,
- consulship,
- convenership,
- custody,
- czarism,
- deanery,
- democracy,
- despotism,
- dictature,
- directorate,
- directorship,
- dominion rule,
- duarchy,
- duumvirate,
- dyarchy,
- emirate,
- episcopacy,
- federal government,
- federation,
- feudal system,
- foremanship,
- garrison state,
- generalship,
- gerontocracy,
- governorship,
- guardianship,
- headship,
- hegemony,
- heteronomy,
- hierarchy,
- hierocracy,
- home rule,
- intendancy,
- kaiserism,
- leadership,
- limited monarchy,
- lordship,
- magistracy,
- magistrateship,
- magistrature,
- managership,
- martial law,
- masterdom,
- mastership,
- mastery,
- mayoralty,
- mayorship,
- meritocracy,
- metropolitanate,
- metropolitanship,
- militarism,
- military government,
- mob rule,
- mobocracy,
- monarchy,
- neocolonialism,
- nobility,
- ochlocracy,
- oligarchy,
- one-man rule,
- one-party rule,
- overseership,
- pantisocracy,
- papacy,
- pashadom,
- pashalic,
- paternalism,
- patriarchate,
- patriarchy,
- police state,
- pontificality,
- pontificate,
- popedom,
- popehood,
- popeship,
- prefectship,
- prefecture,
- premiership,
- presidency,
- presidentship,
- prime-ministership,
- prime-ministry,
- princedom,
- princeship,
- principality,
- proconsulate,
- proconsulship,
- proctorship,
- protectorate,
- protectorship,
- provostry,
- provostship,
- pure democracy,
- rectorate,
- rectorship,
- regency,
- regentship,
- representative democracy,
- representative government,
- republic,
- ruling class,
- seigniory,
- self-determination,
- self-government,
- seneschalship,
- seneschalsy,
- sheikhdom,
- sheriffalty,
- sheriffcy,
- sheriffdom,
- shrievalty,
- social democracy,
- sovereignty,
- stewardship,
- stratocracy,
- superintendence,
- superintendency,
- supervisorship,
- suzerainship,
- suzerainty,
- technocracy,
- thearchy,
- theocracy,
- totalitarian government,
- totalitarian regime,
- totalitarianism,
- triarchy,
- tribunate,
- triumvirate,
- tyranny,
- vizierate,
- viziership,
- welfare state
- irrevocably
collapse
- in an irrevocable manner related words >
- absolutely,
- certainly,
- clean,
- fatefully,
- indefeasibly,
- ineluctably,
- inescapably,
- inevasibly,
- inevitably,
- inexorably,
- inflexibly,
- irreclaimably,
- irrecoverably,
- irredeemably,
- irremediably,
- irreparably,
- irretrievably,
- irreversibly,
- necessarily,
- perfectly,
- plain,
- plumb,
- quite,
- relentlessly,
- right,
- sheer,
- stark,
- surely,
- unavoidably,
- uncontrollably,
- unpreventably,
- unrelievedly,
- unsalvably,
- unsalvageably,
- unyieldingly
- dilemma
collapse
- state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options related words >
- Aristotelian sorites,
- Goclenian sorites,
- Gordian knot,
- Scylla and Charybdis,
- baffle,
- bafflement,
- bewilderment,
- bind,
- bother,
- box,
- catch-22,
- categorical syllogism,
- choice of Hercules,
- confoundment,
- confusion,
- corner,
- crux,
- deadlock,
- difficulty,
- discomposure,
- disconcert,
- disconcertedness,
- disconcertion,
- disconcertment,
- disturbance,
- embarrassment,
- enigma,
- enthymeme,
- figure,
- fix,
- hole,
- impasse,
- jam,
- knot,
- knotty point,
- mode,
- modus tollens,
- mood,
- mystery,
- mystification,
- no choice,
- node,
- nodus,
- nonplus,
- only choice,
- oxymoron,
- paradox,
- paralogism,
- perplexity,
- perturbation,
- pickle,
- plight,
- pons asinorum,
- poser,
- pother,
- predicament,
- problem,
- prosyllogism,
- pseudosyllogism,
- puzzle,
- puzzlement,
- quandary,
- riddle,
- rule,
- rule of deduction,
- scrape,
- snooker,
- sorites,
- spot,
- squeeze,
- stalemate,
- stew,
- stymie,
- syllogism,
- teaser,
- trouble,
- unassuredness,
- upset,
- vexed question
- awake,
- awaken,
- be begotten,
- be born,
- be incarnated,
- come into being,
- come into existence,
- come to,
- come to life,
- descry,
- discern,
- get up,
- live again,
- make out,
- penetrate,
- perceive,
- pierce,
- plumb,
- quicken,
- reanimate,
- resurge,
- resuscitate,
- return to life,
- revive,
- rise again,
- rouse,
- see,
- see daylight,
- see into,
- see the light,
- see through,
- stir,
- wake,
- wake up
- republic
collapse
- a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch; "the head of state in a republic is usually a president" related words >
- absolute monarchy,
- ally,
- archduchy,
- archdukedom,
- aristocracy,
- autarchy,
- autocracy,
- autonomy,
- body politic,
- buffer state,
- captive nation,
- chieftaincy,
- chieftainry,
- city-state,
- coalition government,
- colonialism,
- colony,
- commonweal,
- commonwealth,
- constitutional government,
- constitutional monarchy,
- country,
- county,
- democracy,
- dictatorship,
- domain,
- dominion,
- dominion rule,
- duarchy,
- duchy,
- dukedom,
- duumvirate,
- dyarchy,
- earldom,
- empery,
- empire,
- federal government,
- federation,
- feudal system,
- free city,
- garrison state,
- gerontocracy,
- grand duchy,
- heteronomy,
- hierarchy,
- hierocracy,
- home rule,
- kingdom,
- land,
- limited monarchy,
- mandant,
- mandate,
- mandated territory,
- mandatee,
- mandatory,
- martial law,
- meritocracy,
- militarism,
- military government,
- mob rule,
- mobocracy,
- monarchy,
- nation,
- nationality,
- neocolonialism,
- ochlocracy,
- oligarchy,
- pantisocracy,
- patriarchate,
- patriarchy,
- police state,
- polis,
- polity,
- possession,
- power,
- principality,
- principate,
- protectorate,
- province,
- puppet government,
- puppet regime,
- pure democracy,
- realm,
- regency,
- representative democracy,
- representative government,
- satellite,
- self-determination,
- self-government,
- seneschalty,
- settlement,
- social democracy,
- sovereign nation,
- state,
- stratocracy,
- sultanate,
- superpower,
- technocracy,
- territory,
- thearchy,
- theocracy,
- toparchia,
- toparchy,
- totalitarian government,
- totalitarian regime,
- triarchy,
- triumvirate,
- tyranny,
- welfare state
- colonialism
collapse
- exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one; the use of the weaker country's resources to strengthen and enrich the stronger country related words >
- Eisenhower Doctrine,
- Monroe Doctrine,
- Nixon Doctrine,
- Truman Doctrine,
- absolute monarchy,
- appeasement,
- aristocracy,
- autarchy,
- autocracy,
- autonomy,
- balance of power,
- brinkmanship,
- coalition government,
- coexistence,
- commonwealth,
- compromise,
- constitutional government,
- constitutional monarchy,
- containment,
- democracy,
- detente,
- deterrence,
- dictatorship,
- diplomacy,
- diplomatic,
- diplomatics,
- dollar diplomacy,
- dollar imperialism,
- dominion rule,
- duarchy,
- duumvirate,
- dyarchy,
- expansionism,
- federal government,
- federation,
- feudal system,
- foreign affairs,
- foreign policy,
- garrison state,
- gerontocracy,
- good-neighbor policy,
- heteronomy,
- hierarchy,
- hierocracy,
- home rule,
- imperialism,
- internationalism,
- isolationism,
- limited monarchy,
- manifest destiny,
- martial law,
- meritocracy,
- militarism,
- military government,
- mob rule,
- mobocracy,
- monarchy,
- nationalism,
- neocolonialism,
- neutralism,
- nonresistance,
- ochlocracy,
- oligarchy,
- open door,
- open-door policy,
- pantisocracy,
- patriarchate,
- patriarchy,
- peace offensive,
- peaceful coexistence,
- police state,
- preparedness,
- pure democracy,
- regency,
- representative democracy,
- representative government,
- republic,
- self-determination,
- self-government,
- shirt-sleeve diplomacy,
- shuttle diplomacy,
- social democracy,
- spheres of influence,
- stratocracy,
- technocracy,
- the big stick,
- thearchy,
- theocracy,
- totalitarian government,
- totalitarian regime,
- tough policy,
- triarchy,
- triumvirate,
- tyranny,
- welfare state,
- world politics
- up and down
collapse
- moving backward and forward along a given course; "he walked up and down the locker room"; "all up and down the Eastern seaboard"
- alternately upward and downward; "he eyed him up and down" related words >
- alternately,
- aplomb,
- at right angles,
- back and forth,
- backward and forward,
- backwards and forwards,
- by turns,
- completely,
- every other,
- exhaustively,
- hitch and hike,
- in and out,
- in rotation,
- in turns,
- inside out,
- make and break,
- off and on,
- perpendicularly,
- plumb,
- reciprocally,
- ride and tie,
- round and round,
- seesaw,
- sheer,
- sheerly,
- shuttlewise,
- square,
- to and fro,
- turn about
- prevail
collapse
- use persuasion successfully; "He prevailed upon her to visit his parents"
- prove superior; "The champion prevailed, though it was a hard fight"
- continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of Elvis endures"
- be valid, applicable, or true; "This theory still holds" related words >
- abide,
- affect,
- argue into,
- be,
- be blooded,
- be extant,
- be found,
- be in,
- be in existence,
- be in force,
- be met with,
- be present,
- be successful,
- be the case,
- be the rage,
- be the rule,
- be the thing,
- be there,
- be victorious,
- beat,
- best,
- bestride,
- better,
- bide,
- break the record,
- breathe,
- bring around,
- bring round,
- cap,
- carry on,
- catch on,
- click,
- come off,
- connect,
- continue,
- continue the same,
- continue to be,
- convince,
- defeat time,
- defy time,
- dictate,
- dispose,
- dominate,
- domineer,
- drag along,
- drag on,
- draw,
- drone,
- dwell,
- endure,
- exceed,
- excel,
- exist,
- extend,
- farewell,
- get,
- go,
- go great guns,
- go off,
- go on,
- go one better,
- go over,
- go over big,
- go to town,
- graduate,
- happen to be,
- have being,
- have place,
- have the ascendancy,
- hold,
- hold on,
- hold out,
- hum,
- impress,
- improve on,
- incline,
- induce,
- influence,
- keep,
- keep on,
- last,
- last long,
- last out,
- live,
- live on,
- live through,
- maintain,
- make a hit,
- master,
- meet with success,
- obtain,
- occur,
- outweigh,
- overbalance,
- overbear,
- overcome,
- overpass,
- overtop,
- pass,
- perdure,
- perennate,
- perfect,
- persist,
- persuade,
- play first fiddle,
- predominate,
- preponderate,
- prompt,
- prosper,
- qualify,
- reign,
- remain,
- rule,
- rule the roost,
- run,
- run on,
- run through,
- stand,
- stay,
- stay on,
- subsist,
- succeed,
- surpass,
- survive,
- sustain,
- sway,
- take,
- take the lead,
- talk into,
- tarry,
- tide over,
- top,
- tower above,
- tower over,
- transcend,
- triumph,
- trump,
- twist,
- wear,
- wear the pants,
- wear well,
- win,
- win out,
- win over,
- work well,
- work wonders
- aslant,
- aslope,
- atilt,
- bevel,
- beveled,
- bias,
- biased,
- canting,
- careening,
- inclinational,
- inclinatory,
- inclined,
- inclining,
- leaning,
- listing,
- out of plumb,
- out of square,
- pitched,
- raking,
- recumbent,
- shelving,
- shelvy,
- sideling,
- sidelong,
- slant,
- slanted,
- slanting,
- slantways,
- slantwise,
- sloped,
- sloping,
- tilted,
- tilting,
- tipped,
- tipsy
- aslant,
- aslope,
- atilt,
- bevel,
- bias,
- biased,
- canting,
- careening,
- inclinational,
- inclinatory,
- inclined,
- inclining,
- leaning,
- listing,
- out of plumb,
- out of square,
- pitched,
- raking,
- recumbent,
- shelving,
- shelvy,
- sideling,
- sidelong,
- slant,
- slanted,
- slanting,
- slantways,
- slantwise,
- sloped,
- sloping,
- tilted,
- tilting,
- tipped,
- tipping,
- tipsy
- truth
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- a fact that has been verified; "at last he knew the truth"; "the truth is that he didn't want to do it"
- a true statement; "he told the truth"; "he thought of answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe it"
- United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883)
- conformity to reality or actuality; "they debated the truth of the proposition"; "the situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat"; "he was famous for the truth of his portraits"; "he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities" related words >
- a priori truth,
- absolute certainty,
- absolute credibility,
- absoluteness,
- accomplished fact,
- accuracy,
- actuality,
- actually,
- assurance,
- assuredness,
- authenticity,
- axiom,
- brocard,
- candor,
- certain knowledge,
- certainness,
- certainty,
- certitude,
- correctness,
- credibility,
- dead certainty,
- definiteness,
- determinacy,
- determinateness,
- dictate,
- dictum,
- fact,
- facts,
- factuality,
- fait accompli,
- formula,
- genuineness,
- golden rule,
- gospel,
- grim reality,
- historicity,
- in fact,
- in truth,
- ineluctability,
- inerrability,
- inerrancy,
- inevitability,
- infallibilism,
- infallibility,
- law,
- necessity,
- nonambiguity,
- noncontingency,
- not a dream,
- objective existence,
- positiveness,
- postulate,
- precision,
- predestination,
- predetermination,
- principium,
- principle,
- probatum,
- proposition,
- proved fact,
- reality,
- really,
- rightness,
- rule,
- self-evident truth,
- settled principle,
- sureness,
- surety,
- theorem,
- trueness,
- truism,
- truly,
- truth-loving,
- truth-speaking,
- truth-telling,
- truthfulness,
- unambiguity,
- unequivocalness,
- universal truth,
- univocity,
- unmistakableness,
- veraciousness,
- veracity,
- veridicality,
- verity
- absolutely,
- dead,
- definitely,
- directly,
- even,
- exactly,
- expressly,
- faithfully,
- in all respects,
- in every respect,
- ipsissimis verbis,
- just,
- literally,
- literatim,
- plumb,
- point-blank,
- positively,
- precisely,
- right,
- rigidly,
- rigorously,
- square,
- squarely,
- straight,
- strictly,
- undeviatingly,
- unerringly,
- verbally,
- verbatim,
- verbatim et litteratim,
- word by word,
- word for word
- disqualify
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- make unfit or unsuitable; "Your income disqualifies you"
- declare unfit; "She was disqualified for the Olympics because she was a professional athlete" related words >
- orthogonal
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- having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles; "wind and sea may displace the ship's center of gravity along three orthogonal axes"; "a rectangular Cartesian coordinate system"
- statistically unrelated related words >
- cube-shaped,
- cubed,
- cubic,
- cubiform,
- cuboid,
- diced,
- foursquare,
- normal,
- oblong,
- orthodiagonal,
- orthometric,
- perpendicular,
- plumb,
- plunging,
- precipitous,
- quadrangular,
- quadrate,
- quadriform,
- quadrilateral,
- rectangular,
- rhombic,
- rhomboid,
- right-angle,
- right-angled,
- right-angular,
- sheer,
- square,
- steep,
- straight-up,
- straight-up-and-down,
- tetragonal,
- tetrahedral,
- trapezohedral,
- trapezoid,
- up-and-down
- aslant,
- aslope,
- atilt,
- bevel,
- beveled,
- bias,
- biased,
- canting,
- careening,
- inclinational,
- inclinatory,
- inclined,
- inclining,
- leaning,
- listing,
- oblique,
- out of plumb,
- out of square,
- pitched,
- pitching,
- raking,
- recumbent,
- shelving,
- shelvy,
- sideling,
- sidelong,
- slant,
- slanted,
- slanting,
- slantways,
- slantwise,
- sloped,
- sloping,
- tilted,
- tipped,
- tipping,
- tipsy
- sloping
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- having a slanting form or direction; "an area of gently sloping hills"; "a room with a sloping ceiling" related words >
- aslant,
- aslope,
- atilt,
- bevel,
- beveled,
- bias,
- biased,
- canting,
- careening,
- inclinational,
- inclinatory,
- inclined,
- inclining,
- leaning,
- listing,
- oblique,
- out of plumb,
- out of square,
- pitched,
- pitching,
- raking,
- recumbent,
- shelving,
- shelvy,
- sideling,
- sidelong,
- slant,
- slanted,
- slanting,
- slantways,
- slantwise,
- sloped,
- tilted,
- tilting,
- tipped,
- tipping,
- tipsy
- empiricism
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- the application of empirical methods in any art or science
- (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience related words >
- Christian ethics,
- Marxism,
- R and D,
- Stoicism,
- altruistic ethics,
- animalism,
- aretaics,
- atomism,
- behaviorism,
- casuistry,
- categorical imperative,
- commonsense realism,
- comparative ethics,
- control,
- control experiment,
- controlled experiment,
- cut and try,
- deontology,
- dialectical materialism,
- earthliness,
- egoistic ethics,
- epiphenomenalism,
- ethical formalism,
- ethical philosophy,
- ethology,
- ethonomics,
- eudaemonics,
- evolutionism,
- experiment,
- experimental design,
- experimental method,
- experimental proof,
- experimentalism,
- experimentation,
- golden rule,
- hedonism,
- historical materialism,
- hit and miss,
- hylomorphism,
- hylotheism,
- hylozoism,
- intuitionism,
- materialism,
- mechanism,
- moral philosophy,
- natural realism,
- naturalism,
- new realism,
- noble experiment,
- perfectionism,
- physicalism,
- physicism,
- positive philosophy,
- positivism,
- pragmaticism,
- pragmatism,
- realism,
- representative realism,
- research and development,
- rule of thumb,
- secularism,
- situation ethics,
- substantialism,
- temporality,
- tentative method,
- tentativeness,
- testing,
- trial,
- trial and error,
- trying,
- utilitarianism,
- worldliness
- norm
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- a standard or model or pattern regarded as typical; "the current middle-class norm of two children per family" related words >
- Procrustean law,
- Ten Commandments,
- Weltanschauung,
- Zeitgeist,
- average,
- axiology,
- balance,
- barometer,
- behavioral norm,
- benchmark,
- business ethics,
- canon,
- center,
- check,
- climate,
- climate of opinion,
- code,
- code of ethics,
- code of morals,
- commandment,
- convention,
- criterion,
- decalogue,
- degree,
- dictum,
- ethic,
- ethical system,
- ethics,
- ethos,
- form,
- formality,
- formula,
- formulary,
- gauge,
- general principle,
- generality,
- golden mean,
- golden rule,
- graduated scale,
- guideline,
- guiding principle,
- happy medium,
- ideology,
- imperative,
- intellectual climate,
- juste-milieu,
- law,
- law of nature,
- legal ethics,
- maxim,
- mean,
- measure,
- median,
- medical ethics,
- mediocrity,
- medium,
- middle,
- middle course,
- middle ground,
- middle point,
- middle position,
- middle state,
- middle-of-the-road,
- midpoint,
- mitzvah,
- model,
- moral,
- moral climate,
- moral code,
- moral principles,
- morals,
- mores,
- new morality,
- norma,
- normal,
- normative system,
- norms,
- order of nature,
- ordinance,
- par,
- parameter,
- pattern,
- prescribed form,
- prescription,
- principium,
- principle,
- principles,
- professional ethics,
- quantity,
- reading,
- readout,
- regulation,
- rubric,
- rule,
- run,
- scale,
- set form,
- settled principle,
- social ethics,
- spiritual climate,
- standard,
- standards,
- standing order,
- tenet,
- test,
- touchstone,
- type,
- universal law,
- usual,
- value,
- value system,
- via media,
- working principle,
- working rule,
- world view,
- yardstick
- literally
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- (intensifier before a figurative expression) without exaggeration; "our eyes were literally pinned to TV during the Gulf War"
- in a literal sense; "literally translated"; "he said so literally" related words >
- absolutely,
- actually,
- closely,
- dead,
- definitely,
- direct,
- directly,
- even,
- exactly,
- expressly,
- faithfully,
- in all respects,
- in every respect,
- in fact,
- ipsissimis verbis,
- just,
- literatim,
- plumb,
- point-blank,
- positively,
- precisely,
- really,
- right,
- rigidly,
- rigorously,
- square,
- squarely,
- straight,
- strictly,
- to the letter,
- truly,
- undeviatingly,
- unerringly,
- verbally,
- verbatim,
- verbatim et litteratim,
- word by word,
- word for word
- self-determination
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- determination of one's own fate or course of action without compulsion related words >
- Communist threat,
- Declaration of Independence,
- Western imperialism,
- absolute monarchy,
- aristocracy,
- atrocity story,
- autarchy,
- autarky,
- autocracy,
- automatic control,
- automation,
- automatism,
- automatization,
- autonomousness,
- autonomy,
- banner,
- battle hymn,
- bloody shirt,
- coalition government,
- colonialism,
- colors,
- commonwealth,
- constitutional government,
- constitutional monarchy,
- crostarie,
- democracy,
- dictatorship,
- dominion rule,
- duarchy,
- duumvirate,
- dyarchy,
- expansionism,
- face,
- federal government,
- federation,
- feudal system,
- fiery cross,
- free will,
- garrison state,
- gerontocracy,
- gonfalon,
- gratuitousness,
- heteronomy,
- hierarchy,
- hierocracy,
- home rule,
- imperialist threat,
- independence,
- individualism,
- inner-direction,
- internationalism,
- internationality,
- limited monarchy,
- manifest destiny,
- martial law,
- martial music,
- meritocracy,
- militarism,
- military government,
- mob rule,
- mobocracy,
- monarchy,
- national anthem,
- nationalism,
- nationality,
- nationhood,
- neocolonialism,
- ochlocracy,
- oligarchy,
- pantisocracy,
- patriarchate,
- patriarchy,
- peoplehood,
- police state,
- pure democracy,
- regency,
- representative democracy,
- representative government,
- republic,
- rugged individualism,
- self-action,
- self-activity,
- self-containment,
- self-direction,
- self-government,
- self-motion,
- self-propulsion,
- self-regulation,
- self-reliance,
- self-sufficiency,
- social democracy,
- sovereign nationhood,
- sovereignty,
- spontaneity,
- spontaneousness,
- statehood,
- stratocracy,
- technocracy,
- thearchy,
- theocracy,
- totalitarian government,
- totalitarian regime,
- triarchy,
- triumvirate,
- tyranny,
- unforcedness,
- voluntariness,
- voluntarism,
- voluntaryism,
- volunteer,
- volunteering,
- war song,
- welfare state,
- yellow peril
- martial law
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- the body of law imposed by the military over civilian affairs (usually in time of war or civil crisis); overrides civil law related words >
- Corpus Juris Canonici,
- Roman law,
- absolute monarchy,
- activation,
- admiralty law,
- aristocracy,
- arms race,
- autarchy,
- autocracy,
- autonomy,
- blue law,
- canon law,
- case law,
- chancery law,
- civil law,
- coalition government,
- colonialism,
- commercial law,
- common law,
- commonwealth,
- constitutional government,
- constitutional law,
- constitutional monarchy,
- corporation law,
- criminal law,
- crown law,
- decree law,
- democracy,
- dictatorship,
- dominion rule,
- droit des gens,
- dry law,
- duarchy,
- duumvirate,
- dyarchy,
- ecclesiastical law,
- equity,
- federal government,
- federation,
- feudal system,
- gag law,
- garrison state,
- gerontocracy,
- heteronomy,
- hierarchy,
- hierocracy,
- home rule,
- international law,
- jus civile,
- jus commune,
- jus inter gentes,
- jus publicum,
- law merchant,
- lex domicilii,
- lex fori,
- lex loci,
- lex mercatorum,
- lex non scripta,
- lex scripta,
- lex situs,
- limited monarchy,
- local law,
- meritocracy,
- militarism,
- militarization,
- military government,
- mob rule,
- mobilization,
- mobocracy,
- monarchy,
- neocolonialism,
- ochlocracy,
- oligarchy,
- pantisocracy,
- patriarchate,
- patriarchy,
- penal law,
- police state,
- positive law,
- public law,
- pure democracy,
- reactivation,
- regency,
- remilitarization,
- representative democracy,
- representative government,
- republic,
- sea law,
- self-determination,
- self-government,
- social democracy,
- statute law,
- stratocracy,
- substantive law,
- technocracy,
- thearchy,
- theocracy,
- totalitarian government,
- totalitarian regime,
- triarchy,
- triumvirate,
- tyranny,
- unwritten law,
- war clouds,
- war footing,
- wartime footing,
- welfare state,
- written law
- as usual
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- in the usual manner; "as usual, she arrived late" related words >
- yardstick
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- a ruler or tape that is three feet long
- a measure or standard used for comparison; "on what kind of yardstick is he basing his judgment?" related words >
- aslant,
- aslope,
- atilt,
- bent,
- bevel,
- beveled,
- bias,
- biased,
- canting,
- careening,
- comprehend,
- contain,
- inclinational,
- inclinatory,
- inclined,
- leaning,
- listing,
- out of plumb,
- out of square,
- pitched,
- raking,
- receive,
- recumbent,
- shelving,
- shelvy,
- sideling,
- sidelong,
- slant,
- slanted,
- slanting,
- slantways,
- slantwise,
- sloped,
- sloping,
- tendency,
- tendent,
- tendential,
- tendentious,
- tending,
- tilted,
- tilting,
- tipped,
- tipping,
- tipsy
- blot,
- blot out,
- cancel,
- cross out,
- delete,
- efface,
- erase,
- expunge,
- obliterate,
- raze,
- rub out,
- rule out,
- scratch,
- scratch out,
- sponge,
- sponge out,
- strike out,
- wipe out
- aslant,
- aslope,
- atilt,
- bevel,
- beveled,
- bias,
- biased,
- canting,
- careening,
- cooked,
- doctored,
- garbled,
- inclinational,
- inclinatory,
- inclined,
- inclining,
- leaning,
- listing,
- misquoted,
- misrepresented,
- out of plumb,
- out of square,
- perverted,
- pitched,
- raking,
- recumbent,
- shelving,
- shelvy,
- sideling,
- sidelong,
- slant,
- slanting,
- slantways,
- slantwise,
- sloped,
- sloping,
- strained,
- tilted,
- tilting,
- tipped,
- tipping,
- tipsy,
- tortured,
- twisted
- tipped
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- having a tip; or having a tip as specified (used in combination); "a rubber-tipped cane" related words >
- aslant,
- aslope,
- atilt,
- bevel,
- beveled,
- bias,
- biased,
- canting,
- capped,
- careening,
- crested,
- crowned,
- headed,
- inclinational,
- inclinatory,
- inclined,
- inclining,
- leaning,
- listing,
- oblique,
- out of plumb,
- out of square,
- peaked,
- pitched,
- pitching,
- plumed,
- raking,
- recumbent,
- shelving,
- shelvy,
- sideling,
- sidelong,
- slant,
- slanted,
- slanting,
- slantways,
- slantwise,
- sloped,
- sloping,
- tilted,
- tilting,
- tipping,
- tipsy,
- topped
- act,
- bill,
- bylaw,
- canon,
- decree,
- dictate,
- dictation,
- edict,
- enactment,
- form,
- formality,
- formula,
- formulary,
- institution,
- law,
- legislation,
- lex,
- measure,
- ordinance,
- ordonnance,
- prescript,
- prescription,
- regulation,
- rubric,
- rule,
- ruling,
- standing order,
- statute
- act,
- bill,
- bylaw,
- canon,
- decree,
- dictate,
- dictation,
- edict,
- enactment,
- form,
- formality,
- formula,
- formulary,
- institution,
- jus,
- law,
- legislation,
- measure,
- ordinance,
- ordonnance,
- prescript,
- prescription,
- regulation,
- rubric,
- rule,
- ruling,
- standing order,
- statute
- bylaw
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- a rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs related words >
- act,
- bill,
- canon,
- decree,
- dictate,
- dictation,
- edict,
- enactment,
- form,
- formality,
- formula,
- formulary,
- institution,
- jus,
- law,
- legislation,
- lex,
- measure,
- ordinance,
- ordonnance,
- prescript,
- prescription,
- regulation,
- rubric,
- rule,
- ruling,
- standing order,
- statute
- antitype
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- an opposite or contrasting type
- a person or thing represented or foreshadowed by a type or symbol; especially a figure in the Old Testament having a counterpart in the New Testament related words >
- count out
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- declare the loser related words >
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