When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of phobias - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_phobias

    The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...

  3. Enclosure (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure_(disambiguation)

    Enclosed religious orders, religious orders separated from the external world; Oppidum, a large fortified Iron Age settlement; Cloister (from Latin claustrum, "enclosure"), a feature running along the walls of buildings forming a quadrangle; Close (disambiguation) Cover (disambiguation) Container (disambiguation) Receptacle (disambiguation)

  4. Opposite - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposite

    An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.

  5. Compound (enclosure) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(enclosure)

    1) Inside compound, hut congery - Bathurst, Gambia - December 1910 2) Inside compound - House and huts - Bathurst, Gambia - December 1910 3) Pig sty in compound - Bathurst, Gambia - December 1910

  6. -onym - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-onym

    antonym: a word with the exact opposite meaning of another word; an antithesis: often shown in opposite word pairs such as "high" and "low" (compare with "synonym") apronym : a word which, as an acronym or backronym, has a meaning related to the meaning of the words constituting the acronym or backronym; such as PLATO for "Programmed Logic for ...

  7. Confined space - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confined_space

    Alternative names for a confined space are enclosed space and dangerous space. [1] An example is the interior of a storage tank , occasionally entered by maintenance workers but not intended for human occupancy.

  8. Enclosure - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure

    It was the re-allocation of scattered strips of land into large new fields that were enclosed either by hedges, walls or fences. [21] The newly created enclosed fields were reserved for the sole use of individual owners or their tenants. [21] Inclosure. Inclosure is the statutory and legal form of the word "enclosure". Enclosure is the process. [1]

  9. Office - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office

    Private office: an enclosed workspace for one person; suitable for activities that are confidential, demand a lot of concentration, or include many small meetings. Shared office : a compact, semi-private workspace designed for two or three individuals, facilitating both focused work and small group collaboration.