| abstract |
depicting reality not as it appears to the senses of most people but in the way that an individual interprets it or wishes to suggest it; nonrepresentational. [1/13 definitions] |
| acronym |
a type of abbreviation used as a word and pronounced as a word. An acronym is formed by combining the initial letters (or initial parts) of a string of words. The pronunciation of an acronym is based on the typical rules of pronouncing words in a language and is not made up of the sounds of the names of individual letters. The abbreviations "AIDS," "FICA," and "PIN" are acronyms, but the abbreviations "FBI," ATM," and "DVD" are not. |
| aggregation |
a collection or mass of individual persons, things, or substances. [1/2 definitions] |
| all-American |
pertaining to an individual or group of players selected as the best in the United States in any particular sport. [2/5 definitions] |
| anomie |
the alienated feeling of an individual or class resulting from such a breakdown. [1/3 definitions] |
| apartment building |
a building containing a number of individual apartments; apartment house. |
| apartment house |
a building containing a number of individual apartments; apartment building. |
| asymptomatic |
not showing any symptoms of a disease (usu. used in reference to an individual who does, in fact, have the disease and may or may not be a carrier). |
| atman |
in Hinduism, the individual soul striving for enlightenment; breath of life. [2 definitions] |
| atomism |
in psychology, the theory that all social institutions arise from the acts and interests of individual people. [1/2 definitions] |
| attn. |
abbreviation of "attention," consideration or notice (usu. used beneath an address on an envelope to refer to a specific individual, department, or the like, to whom the envelope should be delivered upon receipt). |
| authoritarian |
of, pertaining to, or advocating complete obedience or subjection to authority, esp. political authority, without concern for individual rights. [1/3 definitions] |
| benefactor |
one who benefits or helps an individual or an institution, usu. by giving money. |
| Binet-Simon scale |
a series of tests graded according to the mental abilities at different ages of the average population, esp. children, with which the abilities of the individual test-taker can be compared. |
| bisexual |
of an individual, having both male and female sexual organs; hermaphroditic. [1/5 definitions] |
| bodyguard |
a person, often armed, who is employed to protect an individual or group from bodily harm. |
| box lunch |
an individual light meal, prepared and put in a box to be eaten later, as during travel or at a picnic. |
| box spring |
a cloth-covered bedspring having rows of individual but connected helical springs inside a boxlike frame. |
| byname |
an alternate but secondary name for an individual or thing. [2 definitions] |
| casework |
social work with one individual or family, treated as a single case. |
| cf. |
abbreviation of "confer" (Latin); compare, to note the likenesses and differences of (pronounced as individual letters or as word "compare"). |