Words that rhyme with commision

n 1: the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery); "the abolition of capital punishment" [syn: abolition, abolishment]

n 1: someone elected to honorary membership in an academy 2: a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation [syn: academician, schoolman] 3: an educator who works at a college or university [syn: academician, academic, faculty member]

n 1: the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something; "the acquisition of wealth"; "the acquisition of one company by another" 2: something acquired; "a recent acquisition by the museum" 3: the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge; "the child's acquisition of language" [syn: learning, acquisition] 4: an ability that has been acquired by training [syn: skill, accomplishment, acquirement, acquisition, attainment]

n 1: a component that is added to something to improve it; "the addition of a bathroom was a major improvement"; "the addition of cinnamon improved the flavor" [syn: addition, add-on, improver] 2: the act of adding one thing to another; "the addition of flowers created a pleasing effect"; "the addition of a leap day every four years" [ant: deduction, subtraction] 3: a quantity that is added; "there was an addition to property taxes this year"; "they recorded the cattle's gain in weight over a period of weeks" [syn: addition, increase, gain] 4: something added to what you already have; "the librarian shelved the new accessions"; "he was a new addition to the staff" [syn: accession, addition] 5: a suburban area laid out in streets and lots for a future residential area 6: the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers; "the summation of four and three gives seven"; "four plus three equals seven" [syn: summation, addition, plus]

n 1: the act of admitting someone to enter; "the surgery was performed on his second admission to the clinic" [syn: admission, admittance] 2: an acknowledgment of the truth of something 3: the fee charged for admission [syn: entrance fee, admission, admission charge, admission fee, admission price, price of admission, entrance money] 4: the right to enter [syn: entree, access, accession, admission, admittance]

n 1: cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness); "a letter of admonition about the dangers of immorality"; "the warning was to beware of surprises"; "his final word of advice was not to play with matches" [syn: admonition, monition, warning, word of advice] 2: a firm rebuke [syn: admonition, admonishment, monition]

n 1: a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business" [syn: ambition, aspiration, dream] 2: a strong drive for success [syn: ambition, ambitiousness] v 1: have as one's ambition

n 1: projectiles to be fired from a gun [syn: ammunition, ammo] 2: any nuclear or chemical or biological material that can be used as a weapon of mass destruction 3: information that can be used to attack or defend a claim or argument or viewpoint; "his admission provided ammunition for his critics"

n 1: a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us" [syn: apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, specter, spectre] 2: the appearance of a ghostlike figure; "I was recalled to the present by the apparition of a frightening specter" 3: something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight" [syn: apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, shadow] 4: an act of appearing or becoming visible unexpectedly; "natives were amazed at the apparition of this white stranger"

n 1: erosion by friction [syn: abrasion, attrition, corrasion, detrition] 2: the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice [syn: grinding, abrasion, attrition, detrition] 3: sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation [syn: attrition, contrition, contriteness] 4: a wearing down to weaken or destroy; "a war of attrition" 5: the act of rubbing together; wearing something down by friction

n 1: the ability to hear; the auditory faculty; "his hearing was impaired" [syn: hearing, audition, auditory sense, sense of hearing, auditory modality] 2: a test of the suitability of a performer [syn: audition, tryout] v 1: perform in order to get a role; "She auditioned for a role on Broadway" [syn: audition, try out]

n 1: a practitioner (of medicine or psychology) who does clinical work instead of laboratory experiments

n 1: an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty [syn: alliance, coalition, alignment, alinement] [ant: nonalignment, nonalinement] 2: the state of being combined into one body [syn: coalition, fusion] 3: the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts [syn: coalescence, coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination]

n 1: the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning [syn: cognition, knowledge, noesis]

n 1: a special group delegated to consider some matter; "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle [syn: committee, commission] 2: a fee for services rendered based on a percentage of an amount received or collected or agreed to be paid (as distinguished from a salary); "he works on commission" 3: the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions [syn: commission, commissioning] 4: the state of being in good working order and ready for operation; "put the ships into commission"; "the motor was out of commission" 5: a group of representatives or delegates [syn: deputation, commission, delegation, delegacy, mission] 6: a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something; "the judge's charge to the jury" [syn: commission, charge, direction] 7: an official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces [syn: commission, military commission] 8: the act of committing a crime [syn: perpetration, commission, committal] 9: a special assignment that is given to a person or group; "a confidential mission to London"; "his charge was deliver a message" [syn: mission, charge, commission] v 1: put into commission; equip for service; of ships 2: place an order for 3: charge with a task

n 1: a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers; "business competition can be fiendish at times" 2: an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants [syn: contest, competition] 3: the act of competing as for profit or a prize; "the teams were in fierce contention for first place" [syn: competition, contention, rivalry] [ant: cooperation] 4: the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing" [syn: rival, challenger, competitor, competition, contender]

n 1: the spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole; "harmonious composition is essential in a serious work of art" [syn: composition, composing] 2: the way in which someone or something is composed [syn: constitution, composition, physical composition, makeup, make-up] 3: a mixture of ingredients 4: a musical work that has been created; "the composition is written in four movements" [syn: musical composition, opus, composition, piece, piece of music] 5: musical creation [syn: composing, composition] 6: the act of creating written works; "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship" [syn: writing, authorship, composition, penning] 7: art and technique of printing with movable type [syn: typography, composition] 8: an essay (especially one written as an assignment); "he got an A on his composition" [syn: composition, paper, report, theme] 9: something that is created by arranging several things to form a unified whole; "he envied the composition of their faculty"

n 1: a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations" [syn: condition, status] 2: an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else [syn: condition, precondition, stipulation] 3: a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing; "the human condition" 4: information that should be kept in mind when making a decision; "another consideration is the time it would take" [syn: circumstance, condition, consideration] 5: the state of (good) health (especially in the phrases `in condition' or `in shape' or `out of condition' or `out of shape') [syn: condition, shape] 6: an illness, disease, or other medical problem; "a heart condition"; "a skin condition" 7: (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement; "the contract set out the conditions of the lease"; "the terms of the treaty were generous" [syn: condition, term] 8: the procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition [syn: condition, experimental condition] v 1: establish a conditioned response 2: develop (children's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control; "Parents must discipline their children"; "Is this dog trained?" [syn: discipline, train, check, condition] 3: specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement; "The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life"; "The contract stipulates the dates of the payments" [syn: stipulate, qualify, condition, specify] 4: put into a better state; "he conditions old cars" 5: apply conditioner to in order to make smooth and shiny; "I condition my hair after washing it"

n 1: sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation [syn: attrition, contrition, contriteness]

v 1: withdraw from active service; "The warship was decommissioned in 1998"

n 1: the analysis of a vector field [syn: decomposition, vector decomposition] 2: in a decomposed state [syn: decomposition, disintegration] 3: (chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance [syn: decomposition, decomposition reaction, chemical decomposition reaction] 4: (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action [syn: decomposition, rot, rotting, putrefaction] 5: the organic phenomenon of rotting [syn: decay, decomposition]

n 1: a concise explanation of the meaning of a word or phrase or symbol 2: clarity of outline; "exercise had given his muscles superior definition"

n 1: an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something [syn: destruction, demolition, wipeout] 2: the act of demolishing

n 1: the eruption through the gums of baby teeth [syn: teething, dentition, odontiasis] 2: the kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal [syn: dentition, teeth]

n 1: the natural process of laying down a deposit of something [syn: deposition, deposit] 2: (law) a pretrial interrogation of a witness; usually conducted in a lawyer's office 3: the act of putting something somewhere [syn: deposit, deposition] 4: the act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office [syn: deposition, dethronement]

n 1: a specialist in the study of nutrition [syn: dietician, dietitian, nutritionist]

n 1: your usual mood; "he has a happy disposition" [syn: disposition, temperament] 2: the act or means of getting rid of something [syn: disposal, disposition] 3: an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others; "he had an inclination to give up too easily"; "a tendency to be too strict" [syn: inclination, disposition, tendency] 4: a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing; "a swelling with a disposition to rupture"

n 1: the form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published 2: all of the identical copies of something offered to the public at the same time; "the first edition appeared in 1920"; "it was too late for the morning edition"; "they issued a limited edition of Bach recordings" 3: an issue of a newspaper; "he read it in yesterday's edition of the Times" 4: something a little different from others of the same type; "an experimental version of the night fighter"; "a variant of the same word"; "an emery wheel is the modern variation of a grindstone"; "the boy is a younger edition of his father" [syn: version, variant, variation, edition]

n 1: a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines [syn: electrician, lineman, linesman]

n 1: the act of emitting; causing to flow forth [syn: emission, emanation] 2: a substance that is emitted or released [syn: discharge, emission] 3: the release of electrons from parent atoms 4: any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body; "the discharge of pus" [syn: discharge, emission, expelling] 5: the occurrence of a flow of water (as from a pipe)

n 1: profound scholarly knowledge [syn: eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship, encyclopedism, encyclopaedism]

n 1: the act of exhibiting; "a remarkable exhibition of musicianship" 2: a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display [syn: exhibition, exposition, expo]

n 1: a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country [syn: expedition, military expedition, hostile expedition] 2: an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose; "an expedition was sent to explore Mars" 3: a journey organized for a particular purpose 4: a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field" [syn: excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, expedition, sashay] 5: the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch" [syn: dispatch, despatch, expedition, expeditiousness]

n 1: a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic [syn: exposition, expounding] 2: a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display [syn: exhibition, exposition, expo] 3: an account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing or discourse; "we would have understood the play better if there had been some initial exposition of the background" 4: (music) the section of a movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes first occur

n 1: the surrender of an accused or convicted person by one state or country to another (usually under the provisions of a statute or treaty)

n 1: reproduction of some unicellular organisms by division of the cell into two more or less equal parts 2: a nuclear reaction in which a massive nucleus splits into smaller nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy [syn: fission, nuclear fission]

n 1: the condition of bearing fruit 2: enjoyment derived from use or possession 3: something that is made real or concrete; "the victory was the realization of a whole year's work" [syn: realization, realisation, fruition]

n 1: a specialist in gerontology [syn: gerontologist, geriatrician]

n 1: the process of initiating combustion or catching fire 2: the mechanism that ignites the fuel in an internal-combustion engine [syn: ignition, ignition system] 3: the act of setting something on fire [syn: ignition, firing, lighting, kindling, inflammation]

n 1: the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo) [syn: imposition, infliction] 2: an uncalled-for burden; "he listened but resented the imposition"

v 1: lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life" [syn: imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand] 2: confine as if in a prison; "His daughters are virtually imprisoned in their own house; he does not let them go out without a chaperone"

n 1: (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires [syn: inhibition, suppression] 2: the quality of being inhibited 3: (physiology) the process whereby nerves can retard or prevent the functioning of an organ or part; "the inhibition of the heart by the vagus nerve" 4: the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof); "they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter"; "a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages"; "he ignored his parents' forbiddance" [syn: prohibition, inhibition, forbiddance]

n 1: a former tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church (1232-1820) created to discover and suppress heresy 2: a severe interrogation (often violating the rights or privacy of individuals)

n 1: the act of suspending activity temporarily 2: a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something [syn: pause, intermission, break, interruption, suspension]

n 1: instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes) 2: an impression that something might be the case; "he had an intuition that something had gone wrong" [syn: intuition, hunch, suspicion]

n 1: the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors" [syn: juxtaposition, apposition, collocation] 2: a side-by-side position

n 1: a person skilled at symbolic logic [syn: logician, logistician]

n 1: someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience [syn: magician, prestidigitator, conjurer, conjuror, illusionist] 2: one who practices magic or sorcery [syn: sorcerer, magician, wizard, necromancer, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist]

n 1: a state of poor nutrition; can result from insufficient or excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb foods

n 1: an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work [syn: mission, missionary post, missionary station, foreign mission] 2: an operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters; "the planes were on a bombing mission" [syn: mission, military mission] 3: a special assignment that is given to a person or group; "a confidential mission to London"; "his charge was deliver a message" [syn: mission, charge, commission] 4: the organized work of a religious missionary [syn: mission, missionary work] 5: a group of representatives or delegates [syn: deputation, commission, delegation, delegacy, mission]

n 1: third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy [syn: mizzenmast, mizenmast, mizzen, mizen] 2: fore-and-aft sail set on the mizzenmast [syn: mizzen, mizen]

n 1: one whose business is the management of funerals [syn: mortician, undertaker, funeral undertaker, funeral director]

n 1: someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession) [syn: musician, instrumentalist, player] 2: artist who composes or conducts music as a profession

n 1: (physiology) the organic process of nourishing or being nourished; the processes by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance 2: a source of materials to nourish the body [syn: nutriment, nourishment, nutrition, sustenance, aliment, alimentation, victuals] 3: the scientific study of food and drink (especially in humans)

n 1: a physician specializing in obstetrics [syn: obstetrician, accoucheur]

n 1: a mistake resulting from neglect [syn: omission, skip] 2: something that has been omitted; "she searched the table for omissions" 3: any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases [syn: omission, deletion] 4: neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something

n 1: the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with; "he encountered a general feeling of resistance from many citizens"; "despite opposition from the newspapers he went ahead" [syn: resistance, opposition] 2: the relation between opposed entities [syn: opposition, oppositeness] 3: the act of hostile groups opposing each other; "the government was not ready for a confrontation with the unions"; "the invaders encountered stiff opposition" [syn: confrontation, opposition] 4: a contestant that you are matched against [syn: opposition, opponent, opposite] 5: a body of people united in opposing something 6: a direction opposite to another 7: an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force); "a soldier must be prepared to kill his enemies" [syn: enemy, foe, foeman, opposition] 8: the major political party opposed to the party in office and prepared to replace it if elected; "Her Majesty's loyal opposition"

n 1: a worker who makes glasses for remedying defects of vision [syn: optician, lens maker]

n 1: a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another) [syn: partition, divider] 2: (computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit 3: (anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism 4: the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart [syn: division, partition, partitioning, segmentation, sectionalization, sectionalisation] v 1: divide into parts, pieces, or sections; "The Arab peninsula was partitioned by the British" [syn: partition, partition off] 2: separate or apportion into sections; "partition a room off" [syn: partition, zone]

adj 1: befitting a person of noble origin; "a patrician nose" 2: belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy; "an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue family"; "blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy"; "of gentle blood"; "patrician landholders of the American South"; "aristocratic bearing"; "aristocratic features"; "patrician tastes" [syn: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician] n 1: a person of refined upbringing and manners 2: a member of the aristocracy [syn: aristocrat, blue blood, patrician]

n 1: approval to do something; "he asked permission to leave" 2: the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization [syn: license, permission, permit]

n 1: a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority [syn: request, petition, postulation] 2: reverent petition to a deity [syn: prayer, petition, orison] v 1: write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing

n 1: a licensed medical practitioner; "I felt so bad I went to see my doctor" [syn: doctor, doc, physician, MD, Dr., medico]

n 1: a leader engaged in civil administration 2: a person active in party politics [syn: politician, politico, pol, political leader] 3: a schemer who tries to gain advantage in an organization in sly or underhanded ways

n 1: the particular portion of space occupied by something; "he put the lamp back in its place" [syn: position, place] 2: a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons [syn: military position, position] 3: a way of regarding situations or topics etc.; "consider what follows from the positivist view" [syn: position, view, perspective] 4: the arrangement of the body and its limbs; "he assumed an attitude of surrender" [syn: position, posture, attitude] 5: the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society; "he had the status of a minor"; "the novel attained the status of a classic"; "atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life" [syn: status, position] 6: a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury" [syn: position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation] 7: the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated; "the position of the hands on the clock"; "he specified the spatial relations of every piece of furniture on the stage" [syn: position, spatial relation] 8: the appropriate or customary location; "the cars were in position" 9: (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player; "what position does he play?" 10: the act of putting something in a certain place [syn: placement, location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement] 11: a condition or position in which you find yourself; "the unpleasant situation (or position) of having to choose between two evils"; "found herself in a very fortunate situation" [syn: situation, position] 12: a rationalized mental attitude [syn: position, stance, posture] 13: an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute; "there are two sides to every question" [syn: side, position] 14: an item on a list or in a sequence; "in the second place"; "moved from third to fifth position" [syn: place, position] 15: the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another; "can you go in my stead?"; "took his place"; "in lieu of" [syn: stead, position, place, lieu] 16: the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom v 1: cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation 2: put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point" [syn: put, set, place, pose, position, lay]

n 1: an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else [syn: condition, precondition, stipulation] 2: an assumption that is taken for granted [syn: given, presumption, precondition] 3: a condition that is a prerequisite v 1: put into the required condition beforehand

n 1: susceptibility to a pathogen [syn: sensitivity, predisposition] 2: an inclination beforehand to interpret statements in a particular way 3: a disposition in advance to react in a particular way

n 1: a feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case" [syn: foreboding, premonition, presentiment, boding] 2: an early warning about a future event [syn: forewarning, premonition]

n 1: the act of presupposing; a supposition made prior to having knowledge (as for the purpose of argument)

n 1: a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment [syn: prison, prison house] 2: a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement [syn: prison, prison house]

n 1: a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages; "in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US" 2: a decree that prohibits something [syn: prohibition, ban, proscription] 3: the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment [syn: prohibition, prohibition era] 4: refusal to approve or assent to 5: the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof); "they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter"; "a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages"; "he ignored his parents' forbiddance" [syn: prohibition, inhibition, forbiddance]

n 1: (logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false 2: a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection; "it was a suggestion we couldn't refuse" [syn: suggestion, proposition, proffer] 3: an offer for a private bargain (especially a request for sexual favors) 4: the act of making a proposal; "they listened to her proposal" [syn: proposal, proposition] 5: a task to be dealt with; "securing adequate funding is a time-consuming proposition" v 1: suggest sex to; "She was propositioned by a stranger at the party"

n 1: the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged; "the partners were delighted with the recognition of their work"; "she seems to avoid much in the way of recognition or acknowledgement of feminist work prior to her own" [syn: recognition, acknowledgment, acknowledgement] 2: the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering; "a politician whose recall of names was as remarkable as his recognition of faces"; "experimental psychologists measure the elapsed time from the onset of the stimulus to its recognition by the observer" [syn: recognition, identification] 3: approval; "give her recognition for trying"; "he was given credit for his work"; "give her credit for trying" [syn: recognition, credit] 4: coming to understand something clearly and distinctly; "a growing realization of the risk involved"; "a sudden recognition of the problem he faced"; "increasing recognition that diabetes frequently coexists with other chronic diseases" [syn: realization, realisation, recognition] 5: (biology) the ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape; "molecular recognition drives all of biology, for instance, hormone and receptor or antibody-antigen interactions or the organization of molecules into larger biologically active entities" 6: the explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country; "territorial disputes were resolved in Guatemala's recognition of Belize in 1991" 7: an acceptance (as of a claim) as true and valid; "the recognition of the Rio Grande as a boundary between Mexico and the United States" 8: designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body; "he was unable to make his motion because he couldn't get recognition by the chairman"

v 1: bring into an improved condition; "He reconditioned the old appliances"

n 1: the act of giving a new definition; "words like `conservative' require periodic redefinition"; "she provided a redefinition of his duties"

n 1: an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease); "his cancer is in remission" [syn: remission, remittal, subsidence] 2: a payment of money sent to a person in another place [syn: remittance, remittal, remission, remitment] 3: (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court) [syn: remission, remitment, remit] 4: the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance [syn: absolution, remission, remittal, remission of sin]

n 1: a performance of a musical composition or a dramatic role etc.; "they heard a live rendition of three pieces by Schubert" [syn: rendition, rendering] 2: an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious; "the edict was subject to many interpretations"; "he annoyed us with his interpreting of parables"; "often imitations are extended to provide a more accurate rendition of the child's intended meaning" [syn: interpretation, interpreting, rendition, rendering] 3: handing over prisoners to countries where torture is allowed 4: the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance; "her rendition of Milton's verse was extraordinarily moving" [syn: rendition, rendering, interpretation]

n 1: an event that repeats; "the events today were a repeat of yesterday's" [syn: repeat, repetition] 2: the act of doing or performing again [syn: repetition, repeating] 3: the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device

n 1: depositing in a warehouse; "they decided to reposition their furniture in a recommended repository in Brooklyn"; "my car is in storage"; "publishers reduced print runs to cut down the cost of warehousing" [syn: repositing, reposition, storage, warehousing] v 1: change place or direction; "Shift one's position" [syn: shift, dislodge, reposition] 2: place into another position

n 1: the act of requiring; an authoritative request or demand, especially by a military or public authority that takes something over (usually temporarily) for military or public use 2: an official form on which a request in made; "first you have to fill out the requisition" [syn: requisition, requisition form] 3: seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized [syn: sequestration, requisition] v 1: make a formal request for official services 2: demand and take for use or service, especially by military or public authority for public service [ant: derequisition]

n 1: a person who delivers a speech or oration [syn: orator, speechmaker, rhetorician, public speaker, speechifier]

adj 1: (of e.g. celestial bodies) above the horizon; "the risen sun"

n 1: an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government

n 1: a mathematician who specializes in statistics [syn: statistician, mathematical statistician] 2: someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums) [syn: statistician, actuary]

n 1: something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition); "several of his submissions were rejected by publishers"; "what was the date of submission of your proposal?" [syn: submission, entry] 2: the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another [syn: submission, compliance] 3: the condition of having submitted to control by someone or something else; "the union was brought into submission"; "his submission to the will of God" 4: the feeling of patient, submissive humbleness [syn: meekness, submission] 5: a legal document summarizing an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter 6: an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter 7: (law) a contention presented by a lawyer to a judge or jury as part of the case he is arguing

n 1: an irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear [syn: superstition, superstitious notion]

n 1: a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence [syn: guess, conjecture, supposition, surmise, surmisal, speculation, hypothesis] 2: a hypothesis that is taken for granted; "any society is built upon certain assumptions" [syn: assumption, supposition, supposal] 3: the cognitive process of supposing [syn: supposition, supposal]

n 1: an impression that something might be the case; "he had an intuition that something had gone wrong" [syn: intuition, hunch, suspicion] 2: doubt about someone's honesty [syn: misgiving, mistrust, distrust, suspicion] 3: the state of being suspected; "he tried to shield me from suspicion" 4: being of a suspicious nature; "his suspiciousness destroyed his marriage" [syn: suspicion, suspiciousness]

n 1: a person who is skilled at planning tactics

n 1: someone whose occupation involves training in a specific technical process 2: someone known for high skill in some intellectual or artistic technique

n 1: someone who theorizes (especially in science or art) [syn: theorist, theoretician, theorizer, theoriser, idealogue]

n 1: old master of the Venetian school (1490-1576) [syn: Titian, Tiziano Vecellio]

n 1: an inherited pattern of thought or action 2: a specific practice of long standing [syn: custom, tradition]

n 1: the act of passing from one state or place to the next [syn: passage, transition] 2: an event that results in a transformation [syn: conversion, transition, changeover] 3: a change from one place or state or subject or stage to another 4: a musical passage moving from one key to another [syn: transition, modulation] 5: a passage that connects a topic to one that follows v 1: cause to convert or undergo a transition; "the company had to transition the old practices to modern technology" 2: make or undergo a transition (from one state or system to another); "The airline transitioned to more fuel-efficient jets"; "The adagio transitioned into an allegro"

n 1: the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted [syn: transmission, transmittal, transmitting] 2: communication by means of transmitted signals 3: the fraction of radiant energy that passes through a substance [syn: transmittance, transmission] 4: an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted [syn: infection, contagion, transmission] 5: the gears that transmit power from an automobile engine via the driveshaft to the live axle [syn: transmission, transmission system]

n 1: a fee paid for instruction (especially for higher education); "tuition and room and board were more than $25,000" [syn: tuition, tuition fee] 2: teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately) [syn: tutelage, tuition, tutorship]

n 1: the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention; "the exercise of their volition we construe as revolt"- George Meredith [syn: volition, will] 2: the act of making a choice; "followed my father of my own volition" [syn: volition, willing]

n 1: weapons considered collectively [syn: weaponry, arms, implements of war, weapons system, munition] 2: military supplies [syn: munition, ordnance, ordnance store] 3: defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it [syn: fortification, munition] v 1: supply with weapons

n 1: (law) the act of rescinding; the cancellation of a contract and the return of the parties to the positions they would have had if the contract had not been made; "recission may be brought about by decree or by mutual consent" [syn: recission, rescission]

n 1: a specialist in the study of nutrition [syn: dietician, dietitian, nutritionist]