n. an associate degree in nursing

n. a very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms; arsenic and arsenic compounds are used as herbicides and insecticides and various alloys; found in arsenopyrite and orpiment and realgar

n. one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen; "what option did I have?"; "there no other alternative"; "my only choice is to refuse"

n. formerly the basic unit of money in Austria

v. see fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way; "She chose not to attend classes and now she failed the exam"

v. select as an alternative; choose instead; prefer as an alternative; "I always choose the fish over the meat courses in this restaurant"; "She opted for the job on the East coast"

v. pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her"

adv. "They were equally beautiful"

adj. pertaining to unconventional choices; "an alternative life style"

adj. necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities; "`either' and `or' in `either this or that'"

adj. allowing a choice; "an alternative plan"

n. the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished

n. refined taste; tact

n. a strong liking; "my own preference is for good literature"; "the Irish have a penchant for blarney"

n. a predisposition in favor of something; "a predilection for expensive cars"; "his sexual preferences"; "showed a Marxist orientation"

v. like better; value more highly; "Some people prefer camping to staying in hotels"; "We prefer sleeping outside"

v. be parallel to; "Their roles are paralleled by ours"

v. feel or have a desire for; want strongly; "I want to go home now"; "I want my own room"

v. have a yen for

v. find enjoyable or agreeable; "I like jogging"; "She likes to read Russian novels"

v. hold dear; "I prize these old photographs"

v. look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers"

v. pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her"

v. mention and identify by name; "name your accomplices!"

v. assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to; "He was appointed deputy manager"; "She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance"

v. look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers"

v. give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)

v. charge with a function; charge to be; "She was named Head of the Committee"; "She was made president of the club"

v. engage somebody to enter the army

v. appoint to a clerical posts; "he was ordained in the Church"

v. put into an office or a position; "the new president was installed immediately after the election"

v. put a frock on

v. select as an alternative; choose instead; prefer as an alternative; "I always choose the fish over the meat courses in this restaurant"; "She opted for the job on the East coast"

v. give preference to one creditor over another

v. divide into components or constituents; "Separate the wheat from the chaff"

v. remove (a commodity) from (a supply source); "She drew $2,000 from the account"; "The doctors drew medical supplies from the hospital's emergency bank"

v. design or destine; "She was intended to become the director"

adj. under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon; "probationary employees"; "a provisional government"; "just a tentative schedule"

adj. acting as substitute for another

adj. providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties; "foster parent"; "foster child"; "foster home"; "surrogate father"

adj. conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics"

adj. marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness; "a cocktail party given by some...raffish bachelors"- Crary Moore

adj. informal terms; strikingly unconventional

adj. expressing antithesis or opposition; "the adversative conjunction `but' in `poor but happy'"

adj. syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence; "disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function"

adj. serving to divide or marking a division; "the divisional line between two states"

adj. serving to separate or divide into parts; "partitive tendencies in education"; "the uniting influence was stronger than the separative"

adj. used of an accent in Hebrew orthography; indicates that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it

adj. functioning in a subsidiary or supporting capacity; "the main library and its auxiliary branches"

adj. accompany, concomitant; "collateral target damage from a bombing run"

adj. derived from what is primary or original; not firsthand; "a secondhand report"; "a secondhand account of a memory of something once read"; "most of our knowledge is secondhand"

adj. being a replacement or substitute for a regular member of a team

adj. of a stream; flowing into a larger stream

adj. capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team; "a utility infielder"

adj. experienced at secondhand; "read about mountain climbing and felt vicarious excitement"

v. refuse to accept or acknowledge; "I reject the idea of starting a war"; "The journal rejected the student's paper"