The meaning of Terms

noun

The process or activity of running a business, organization, etc.

Usage examples:

The day-to-day administration of the company

noun

The management or control of an organization

Usage examples:

[ u ] he’s studying business administration., [ c ] the clinton administration has been full of sur…

noun

The activity of managing or dealing with a business activity

Usage examples:

Administration of the scheme is costly in terms of time., she studied business administration at ne…

noun

A name or title.

Usage examples:

The city fully justifies its appellation ‘the pearl of the orient’

noun

An appellation contrôlée.

Usage examples:

About 20 per cent of french wines with an appellation come from alsace

verb

Give (a baby or animal) a specified name.

Usage examples:

They called their daughter hannah

noun

A cry made as a summons or to attract someone's attention.

Usage examples:

A nearby fisherman heard their calls for help

verb

(of sums of money) be expressed in a specified monetary unit.

Usage examples:

The borrowings were denominated in us dollars

verb

To use a particular currency to do something

Usage examples:

Denominate sth in dollars/euros, etc. foreign sales are denominated in us dollars.

noun

A recognized autonomous branch of the christian church.

Usage examples:

The presbyterian community is the second largest denomination in the country

noun

A religious group whose beliefs differ in some ways from other groups in the same religion

Usage examples:

The petition was signed by clergy from over 20 protestant denominations., the machines take coins o…

noun

A unit of value stated on a coin, bank note, etc.

Usage examples:

High/large denomination notes, small/low denomination coins

verb

Appoint (someone) to a specified office or post.

Usage examples:

He was designated as prime minister

adjective

Appointed to an office or post but not yet installed.

Usage examples:

The director designate

verb

To choose someone or something for a special job or purpose, or to state that something has a particular character or purpose

Usage examples:

The chairman designated his daughter as his successor., north-south streets are designated by numbe…

noun

The action of choosing someone to hold an office or post.

Usage examples:

A leader's designation of his own successor

noun

The act of choosing someone or something for a special job, or stating that something has a particular character or purpose

Usage examples:

[ c ] associate professor is her official designation (= title).

noun

An official title or name

Usage examples:

What's her official designation now she's been promoted?, the area qualifies for designation as a s…

verb

Give an unofficial name or nickname to.

Usage examples:

The media dubbed anorexia ‘the slimming disease’

noun

An instance of dubbing sound effects or music.

Usage examples:

The level of the dub can be controlled manually

verb

Misplay (a shot).

noun

The time during which something continues.

Usage examples:

Bicycle hire for the duration of your holiday

noun

The length of time that something lasts

Usage examples:

He planned a stay of two years’ duration.

noun

The length of time that something lasts

Usage examples:

A two-year/ten-month/six-week, etc. duration most placements of agency it staff are of a three-mont…

verb

Give (someone) a legal right or a just claim to receive or do something.

Usage examples:

Employees are normally entitled to redundancy pay

verb

To give someone the right to do or have something

Usage examples:

He’s entitled to his opinion even if you don’t agree with him., being over 65 entitles you to a dis…

verb

To give someone the right to do or have something

Usage examples:

Entitle sb to (do) sth the chief executive will face protest at the agm over his contract, which co…

noun

The action of making known one's thoughts or feelings.

Usage examples:

The prisoners developed a dialect as an everyday means of expression

noun

A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g. over the moon, see the light ).

noun

A group of words whose meaning considered as a unit is different from the meanings of each word considered separately

Usage examples:

Mastering the use of idioms can be hard for a learner., “shoot yourself in the foot” is an idiom th…

noun

The holding of an office or the period during which one is held.

Usage examples:

During his incumbency he established an epidemic warning system

noun

The period during which someone has a particular official position

Usage examples:

Incumbency (as) during her incumbency (as commissioner), several changes were introduced.

noun

An intervening time.

Usage examples:

After his departure, there was an interval of many years without any meetings

noun

A period between two events or times, or the space between two points

Usage examples:

If there is a fire, the alarm will sound at 15-second intervals., we’ve positioned guards around th…

noun

A small piece of paper, fabric, plastic, or similar material attached to an object and giving information about it.

Usage examples:

The alcohol content is clearly stated on the label

verb

Another term for dripstone.

noun

A piece of paper or other material that gives information about the object it is attached to

Usage examples:

The address/mailing label, follow the instructions on the label., everything we produce goes out un…

noun

A word or phrase, especially with regard to style or idiom.

Usage examples:

These locutions are determinedly descriptive.

noun

A word or phrase

Usage examples:

If you think about it, "before his death" is an odd locution., his pompous locution

noun

A word or set of words by which a person or thing is known, addressed, or referred to.

Usage examples:

My name is john parsons

verb

Give a name to.

Usage examples:

Hundreds of diseases had not yet been isolated or named

adjective

(of a person or product) having a well-known name.

Usage examples:

Specialized name brands geared to niche markets

noun

A familiar or humorous name given to a person or thing instead of or as well as the real name.

Usage examples:

Mallender's fair complexion gave rise to his nickname ‘ghost’

verb

Give a nickname to.

Usage examples:

An area nicknamed sniper's alley

noun

A length or portion of time.

Usage examples:

He had long periods of depression

adjective

Belonging to or characteristic of a past historical time, especially in style or design.

Usage examples:

An attractive and beautifully modernized period house

noun

A distinct period or stage in a series of events or a process of change or development.

Usage examples:

The final phases of the war

verb

Carry out (something) in gradual stages.

Usage examples:

The work is being phased over a number of years

noun

Any stage in a series of events or in a process of development

Usage examples:

The project is only in its first phase of planning, so we haven’t yet established the cost.

noun

A small group of words standing together as a conceptual unit, typically forming a component of a clause.

Usage examples:

‘to improve standards’ is the key phrase here

verb

Put into a particular form of words.

Usage examples:

It's important to phrase the question correctly

An expression consisting of one or more words

noun

Each of four equal or corresponding parts into which something is or can be divided.

Usage examples:

She cut each apple into quarters

verb

Divide into four equal or corresponding parts.

Usage examples:

Peel and quarter the bananas

verb

Move at a speed faster than a walk, never having both or all the feet on the ground at the same time.

Usage examples:

The dog ran across the road

noun

An act or spell of running.

Usage examples:

I usually go for a run in the morning

verb

Move fast by using one's feet

noun

A half-year term in a school or university, especially in north america, typically lasting for fifteen to eighteen weeks.

Usage examples:

The opening week of harvard's autumn semester

One of two divisions of an academic year

noun

A meeting of an official body, especially a legislature, council, or court of law, to conduct its business.

Usage examples:

The governor called this week's special session to reconsider the decision

noun

A formal meeting of an organization, esp. of a legislature or law court

Usage examples:

[ c ] he wanted to introduce the bill before the present session of the state legislature adjourned…

noun

A period of time or meeting arranged for a particular activity

Usage examples:

I'm having a session with her this afternoon for a briefing., there are regular training sessions a…

verb

Write or name the letters that form (a word) in correct sequence.

Usage examples:

Dolly spelled her name

noun

A form of words used as a magical charm or incantation.

Usage examples:

A spell is laid on the door to prevent entry

verb

Allow (someone) to rest briefly by taking their place in an activity.

Usage examples:

I got sleepy and needed her to spell me for a while at the wheel

verb

Supply a very ungenerous or inadequate amount of (something).

Usage examples:

Stowage room hasn't been stinted

noun

A person's fixed or allotted period of work.

Usage examples:

His varied career included a stint as a magician

noun

A small short-legged sandpiper of northern eurasia and alaska, with a brownish back and white underparts.

Usage examples:

More than half a dozen species of birds have come to roost, which include black-winged stilts, catt…

verb

(of something soft or elastic) be made or be capable of being made longer or wider without tearing or breaking.

Usage examples:

My jumper stretched in the wash

noun

An act of stretching one's limbs or body.

Usage examples:

I got up and had a stretch

verb

To reach across a distance or become longer or wider, or to cause something to do this

Usage examples:

[ i ] rubber stretches when you pull it., [ t ] the banner was stretched across the street., [ m ] …

noun

A particular procedure by which something is done; a manner or way.

Usage examples:

Different styles of management

verb

Archaic term for stylus (sense 2).

suffix

(forming adjectives and adverbs) in a manner characteristic of.

Usage examples:

Family-style

noun

A label attached to someone or something for the purpose of identification or to give other information.

Usage examples:

He gave his pet a collar with a metal name tag

verb

Attach a label to.

Usage examples:

Mothers suspected that their babies had been wrongly tagged during an alarm at the hospital

verb

Touch (someone being chased) in a game of tag.

Usage examples:

Freeze tag is a game where one person is selected to chase and tag the others.

noun

The indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole.

Usage examples:

Travel through space and time

verb

Plan, schedule, or arrange when (something) should happen or be done.

Usage examples:

The first track race is timed for 11.15

noun

The seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, etc., in which existence is measured, or the past, present, and future considered as a whole

Usage examples:

I really don’t have time to call her today., the children spent most of their time outdoors., we’d …

noun

The name of a book, composition, or other artistic work.

Usage examples:

The author and title of the book

verb

Give a name to (a book, composition, or other work).

Usage examples:

A report titled the lost land

noun

A period of three months, especially as a division of the duration of pregnancy.

Usage examples:

Placental tissue of a foetus aborted during the first trimester of pregnancy was tested for cmv inf…

noun

A trimester is any of the three, three-month periods that a human pregnancy is divided into.

noun

A three-month period

noun

A single distinct meaningful element of speech or writing, used with others (or sometimes alone) to form a sentence and typically shown with a space on either side when written or printed.

Usage examples:

I don't like the word ‘unofficial’

verb

Express (something spoken or written) in particular words.

Usage examples:

He words his request in a particularly ironic way

exclamation

Used to express agreement or affirmation.

Usage examples:

Word, that's a good record, man