| Main Entry: | classification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | categorization |
Synonyms: |
allocation, alloting, allotment, analysis, apportionment, arrangement, assignment, assortment, cataloguing, categorizing, codification, collocation, consignment, coordination, denomination, department, designation, disposal, disposition, distributing, distribution, division, echelon, gradation, grade, grading, graduation, group, grouping, kind, order, ordering, ordination, organization, pigeonholing, regulation, sizing, sorting, systematization, tabulating, taxonomy, typecasting |
| Main Entry: | legislation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | law of a government |
Synonyms: |
act, bill, charter, codification, constitution, enactment, lawmaking, measure, prescription, regulation, ruling, statute |
| Notes: | legislation is the act of making or enacting laws, while legislature is the body of people who make or amend or repeal laws |
| Main Entry: | nomenclature |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | vocabulary |
Synonyms: |
classification, codification, glossary, locution, phraseology, taxonomy, terminology |
| Main Entry: | order |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | arrangement, organization |
Synonyms: |
adjustment, aligning, array, assortment, cast, categorization, classification, codification, composition, computation, disposal, disposition, distribution, establishment, form, grouping, harmony, layout, line, lineup, management, method, neatness, ordering, orderliness, pattern, placement, plan, procedure, procession, progression, propriety, regularity, regulation, rule, scale, scheme, sequence, series, setup, standardization, structure, succession, symmetry, system, tidiness, uniformity |
Antonyms: |
confusion, disorder, disorganization, mess, muddle |
| Main Entry: | regulation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | managing, organizing |
Synonyms: |
adjustment, administration, arrangement, classification, codification, control, coordination, direction, governance, governing, government, guidance, handling, management, moderation, modulation, reconciliation, regimentation, reorganization, settlement, standardization, superintendence, supervision, systematization, tuning |
Antonyms: |
deregulation, disorganization, mismanagement |
| Main Entry: | scheme |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | course of action |
Synonyms: |
arrangement, blueprint, chart, codification, contrivance, design, device, diagram, disposition, draft, expedient, game plan, layout, order, ordering, outline, pattern, plan, presentation, program, project, proposal, proposition, purpose, schedule, schema, strategy, suggestion, system, tactics, theory |
| Main Entry: | theory |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hypothesis, belief |
Synonyms: |
approach, argument, assumption, base, basis, code, codification, concept, conditions, conjecture, doctrine, dogma, feeling, formularization, foundation, grounds, guess, guesswork, hunch, idea, ideology, impression, method, outlook, philosophy, plan, position, postulate, premise, presentiment, presumption, proposal, provision, rationale, scheme, shot*, speculation, stab*, supposal, suppose, supposition, surmise, suspicion, system, systemization, theorem, thesis, understanding |
Antonyms: |
certainty, fact, proof, reality |
| Main Entry: | statute book |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | book of laws |
Synonyms: |
codification, codified law, lawbook, legal code, statute law, written law |
| Concept: | Order. |
| Category: | 1. ORDER |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
order, regularity, uniformity, symmetry, lucidus ordo; music of the spheres., gradation, progression; series (continuity)., subordination; course, even tenor, routine; method, disposition, arrangement, array, system, economy, discipline; orderliness., rank, place (term).
-verbs
be in order, become in order; form, fall in, draw up; arrrange itself, range itself, place itself; fall into one's place, take one's place, take one's rank; rally round., adjust, methodize, regulate, systematize.
-adjectives
orderly, regular; in order, in trim, in apple-pie order, in its proper place; neat, tidy, en regle, well regulated, correct, methodical, uniform, symmetrical, shipshape, businesslike, systematic; unconfused; arranged.
-adverbs
in order; methodically; in turn, in its turn; step by step; by regular steps, by gradations, by stages, by intervals; seriatim, systematically, by clockwork, gradatim; at stated periods (periodically).
-phrases
natura non facit saltum; "order is heaven's first law" [Pope]; "order from disorder sprung" [Paradise Lost]; ordo est parium dispariumque rerum sua loca
|
Antonyms: |
disorder |
| Browse Concept Index » | |
| Concept: | Nomenclature. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; language generally |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
nomenclature; naming; nuncupation, nomination, baptism; orismology; onomatopoeia; antonomasia; onomasiology., name; appelation, appelative; designation title; heading; caption; denomination; by-name, epithet., style, proper name; praenomen, agnomen, cognomen; patronymic, surname; cognomination; eponym; compellation, description, antonym; empty title, empty name; handle to one's name; namesake., term, expression, noun;.byword; convertible terms; technical term; cant.
-verbs
name, call, term, denominate designate, style, entitle, clepe, dub, christen, baptize, characterize, specify, define, distinguish by the name of; label (mark)., be called; take the name of, bear the name of, go by the name of, be known by the name of, go (or pass) under the name of, rejoice in the name of.
-adjectives
named; hight, yeleped, known as; what one may well, call fairly, call properly, call fitly., nuncupatory, nuncupative; cognominal, titular, nominal, orismological.
-phrases
"beggar'd all description" [Antony and Cleopatra].
|
| Browse Concept Index » | |