synthetical
1: involving or of the nature of synthesis (combining separate elements to form a coherent whole) as opposed to analysis; "limnology is essentially a synthetic science composed of elements...that exte...
synthetically
1: by synthesis; in a synthetic manner; "some of these drugs have been derived from opium and others have been produced synthetically"
synthetism
1: a genre of French painting characterized by bright flat shapes and symbolic treatments of abstract ideas
syph
1: a common venereal disease caused by the Treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta) [syn: {syphilis}, {pox}]
syphilis
1: a common venereal disease caused by the Treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta) [syn: {syph}, {pox}]
syphilitic
1: of or relating to or infected with syphilis; "syphilitic symptoms" n : a person suffering from syphilis
syphon
1: a tube running from the liquid in a vessel to a lower level outside the vessel so that atmospheric pressure forces the liquid through the tube [syn: {siphon}] v : convey, draw off, or empty by or a...
Syracuse
1: a city in central New York 2: a city in southeastern Sicily that was founded by Corinthians in the 8th century BC [syn: {Siracusa}] 3: the Roman siege of Syracuse (214-212 BC) was eventually won by...
Syria
1: an Asian republic in the Middle East at the east end of the Mediterranean; site of some of the world's most ancient centers of civilization; involved in state-sponsored terrorism [syn: {Syrian Arab...
Syrian
1: of or relating to or characteristic of Syria or its people or culture; "the Syrian government" n : a native or inhabitant of Syria
Syrian Arab Republic
1: an Asian republic in the Middle East at the east end of the Mediterranean; site of some of the world's most ancient centers of civilization; involved in state-sponsored terrorism [syn: {Syria}]
Syrian bean caper
1: perennial shrub of the eastern Mediterranean region and southwestern Asia having flowers whose buds are used as capers [syn: {bean caper}, {Zygophyllum fabago}]
Syrian bear
1: yellowish-gray Syrian brown bear [syn: {Ursus arctos syriacus}]
Syrian hamster
1: small light-colored hamster often kept as a pet [syn: {golden hamster}, {Mesocricetus auratus}]
Syrian pound
1: the basic unit of money in Syria; equal to 100 piasters [syn: {pound}]
syringa
1: large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes [syn: {mock orange}, {Philadelphus coronarius}] 2: genus of Old World shrubs or low trees having fr...
Syringa amurensis japonica
1: small tree of Japan having narrow pointed leaves and creamy-white flowers [syn: {Japanese tree lilac}, {Syringa reticulata}]
Syringa emodi
1: robust upright shrub of mountains of northern India having oblong-elliptic leaves and pale lilac or white malodorous flowers [syn: {Himalayan lilac}]
Syringa josikaea
1: central European upright shrub having elliptic leaves and upright clusters of lilac or deep violet flowers [syn: {Hungarian lilac}, {Syringa josikea}]
Syringa josikea
1: central European upright shrub having elliptic leaves and upright clusters of lilac or deep violet flowers [syn: {Hungarian lilac}, {Syringa josikaea}]
Syringa persica
1: small densely branching Asiatic shrub having lanceolate leaves and panicles of fragrant lilac flowers [syn: {Persian lilac}]
Syringa reticulata
1: small tree of Japan having narrow pointed leaves and creamy-white flowers [syn: {Japanese tree lilac}, {Syringa amurensis japonica}]
Syringa villosa
1: lilac of northern China having ovate leaves and profuse early summer rose-lilac flowers [syn: {Japanese lilac}]
Syringa vulgaris
1: large European lilac naturalized in North America having heart-shaped ovate leaves and large panicles of highly fragrant lilac or white flowers [syn: {common lilac}]
syringe
1: a medical instrument used to inject or withdraw fluids v : spray or irrigate (a body part) with a syringe
syrinx
1: a primitive wind instrument consisting of several parallel pipes bound together [syn: {panpipe}, {pandean pipe}] 2: the vocal organ of a bird [also: {syringes} (pl)]
Syrrhaptes
1: a genus of Pteroclididae [syn: {genus Syrrhaptes}]
Syrrhaptes paradoxus
1: Eurasiatic sandgrouse with a black patch on the belly [syn: {pallas's sandgrouse}]
syrup
1: a thick sweet sticky liquid [syn: {sirup}]
syrupy
1: overly sweet [syn: {cloying}, {saccharine}, {treacly}] 2: having a relatively high resistance to flow [syn: {viscous}] 3: with honey added [syn: {honeyed}, {honied}]
system
1: a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole; "a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going" [syn: {scheme}] 2: instrumentality...
system administrator
1: a person in charge of managing and maintaining a computer system of telecommunication system (as for a business or institution)
system call
1: an instruction that interrupts the program being executed and passes control to the supervisor [syn: {supervisor call instruction}]
system clock
1: a time-of-day clock in a computer system 2: an electronic device in a computer that issues a steady high-frequency signal that synchronizes all the internal components
system command
1: a computer user's instruction (not part of a program) that calls for action by the computer's executive program
system error
1: an instruction that is either not recognized by an operating system or is in violation of the procedural rules
system of macrophages
1: a widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow [syn: {mononuclear phagocyte system}, {MPS}]
system of measurement
1: a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic [syn: {metric}]
system of numeration
1: any notation for the representation of numbers [syn: {numeration system}, {number system}, {number representation system}]
system of rules
1: a complex of methods or rules governing behavior; "they have to operate under a system they oppose"; "that language has a complex system for indicating gender" [syn: {system}]
system of weights
1: a system of units used to express the weight of something [syn: {weight}]
system program
1: a program (as an operating system or compiler or utility program) that controls some aspect of the operation of a computer [syn: {systems program}, {systems software}]
systema alimentarium
1: the system that makes food absorbable into the body [syn: {digestive system}, {gastrointestinal system}, {systema digestorium}]
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systema digestorium
1: the system that makes food absorbable into the body [syn: {digestive system}, {gastrointestinal system}, {systema alimentarium}]
systema lymphaticum
1: the interconnected system of spaces and vessels between body tissues and organs by which lymph circulates throughout the body [syn: {lymphatic system}]
systema nervosum
1: the sensory and control apparatus consisting of a network of nerve cells [syn: {nervous system}]
systema nervosum centrale
1: the portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord [syn: {central nervous system}, {CNS}]
systema respiratorium
1: the system for taking in oxygen and giving off carbon dioxide; in terrestrial animals this is accomplished by breathing [syn: {respiratory system}]
systema skeletale
1: the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal [syn: {skeletal system}, {skeleton}, {frame}]
systema urogenitale
1: the system that includes all organs involved in reproduction and in the formation and voidance of urine [syn: {urogenital system}, {urogenital apparatus}, {urinary system}, {urinary apparatus}, {ge...
systematic
1: characterized by order and planning; "the investigation was very systematic"; "a systematic administrator" [ant: {unsystematic}] 2: not haphazard; "a series of orderly actions at regular hours" [sy...
systematic desensitisation
1: a technique used in behavior therapy to treat phobias and other behavior problems involving anxiety; client is exposed to the threatening situation under relaxed conditions until the anxiety reacti...
systematic desensitization
1: a technique used in behavior therapy to treat phobias and other behavior problems involving anxiety; client is exposed to the threatening situation under relaxed conditions until the anxiety reacti...
systematically
1: in a systematic or consistent manner; "they systematically excluded women" [syn: {consistently}] [ant: {unsystematically}, {inconsistently}]
systematics
1: the science of systematic classification
systematisation
1: systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale [syn: {systematization}, {rationalization}, {rationalisation}]
systematise
1: arrange according to a system or reduce to a system; "systematize our scientific knowledge" [syn: {systematize}, {systemize}, {systemise}]
systematised
1: reduced to a system; "systematized knowledge" [syn: {systematized}]
systematiser
1: an organizer who puts things in order; "Aristotle was a great orderer of ideas" [syn: {orderer}, {systematizer}, {systemizer}, {systemiser}, {systematist}]
systematism
1: the habitual practice of systematization and classification
systematist
1: a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior [syn: {taxonomist}, {taxonomer}] 2: an organizer who puts things i...
systematization
1: systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale [syn: {systematisation}, {rationalization}, {rationalisation}]
systematize
1: arrange according to a system or reduce to a system; "systematize our scientific knowledge" [syn: {systematise}, {systemize}, {systemise}]
systematized
1: reduced to a system; "systematized knowledge" [syn: {systematised}]
systematizer
1: an organizer who puts things in order; "Aristotle was a great orderer of ideas" [syn: {orderer}, {systematiser}, {systemizer}, {systemiser}, {systematist}]
Systeme International
1: a complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists; fundamental quantities are length (meter) and mass (kilogram) and time (second) and electric current (ampere) and temperature (kelvi...
Systeme International d'Unites
1: a complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists; fundamental quantities are length (meter) and mass (kilogram) and time (second) and electric current (ampere) and temperature (kelvi...
systemic
1: affecting an entire system; "a systemic poison"
systemic lupus erythematosus
1: an inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms [syn: {SLE}, {dissemin...
systemise
1: arrange according to a system or reduce to a system; "systematize our scientific knowledge" [syn: {systematize}, {systematise}, {systemize}]
systemiser
1: an organizer who puts things in order; "Aristotle was a great orderer of ideas" [syn: {orderer}, {systematizer}, {systematiser}, {systemizer}, {systematist}]
systemize
1: arrange according to a system or reduce to a system; "systematize our scientific knowledge" [syn: {systematize}, {systematise}, {systemise}]
systemizer
1: an organizer who puts things in order; "Aristotle was a great orderer of ideas" [syn: {orderer}, {systematizer}, {systematiser}, {systemiser}, {systematist}]
systems analysis
1: analysis of all aspects of a project along with ways to collect information about the operation of its parts
systems program
1: a program (as an operating system or compiler or utility program) that controls some aspect of the operation of a computer [syn: {system program}, {systems software}]
systems software
1: a program (as an operating system or compiler or utility program) that controls some aspect of the operation of a computer [syn: {system program}, {systems program}]
systole
1: the contraction of the chambers of the heart (especially the ventricles) to drive blood into the aorta and pulmonary artery
systolic
1: of or relating to a systole or happing during a systole
systolic pressure
1: the blood pressure (as measured by a sphygmomanometer) during the contraction of the left ventricle of the heart
Syzygium
1: a tropical evergreen tree of the myrtle family native to the East Indies but cultivated elsewhere [syn: {genus Syzygium}]
Syzygium aromaticum
1: moderate sized very symmetrical red-flowered evergreen widely cultivated in the tropics for its flower buds which are source of cloves [syn: {clove}, {clove tree}, {Eugenia aromaticum}, {Eugenia ca...
syzygy
1: the straight line configuration of 3 celestial bodies (as the sun and earth and moon) in a gravitational system
Szechuan
1: a populous province of south central China [syn: {Szechwan}, {Sichuan}, {Szechwan province}]
Szechwan
1: a populous province of south central China [syn: {Sichuan}, {Szechuan}, {Szechwan province}]
Szechwan province
1: a populous province of south central China [syn: {Szechwan}, {Sichuan}, {Szechuan}]
Szell
1: United States conductor (born in Hungary) (1897-1970) [syn: {George Szell}]
Szent-Gyorgyi
1: United States biochemist (born in Hungary) who was the first to isolate vitamin C (1893-1986) [syn: {Albert Szent-Gyorgyi}, {Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi}]
Szilard
1: United States physicist and molecular biologist who helped develop the first atom bomb and later opposed the use of all nuclear weapons (1898-1964) [syn: {Leo Szilard}]
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