| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | means, procedure |
| Synonyms: | adjustment, approach, arrangement, channels, course, custom, design, disposal, disposition, fashion, form, formula, habit, line, manner, mechanism, method, mode, modus, modus operandi, nuts and bolts, plan, practice, proceeding, process, program, receipt, recipe, red tape, ritual, rote, routine, rubric, rule, rut, schema, scheme, shortcut, style, system, tack, tactics, technic, technique, tenor, the book, usage, way, ways and means, wise, wrinkle |
| Notes: | a method is a way of doing things; a methodology is a set or system of methods |
| Main Entry: | mode |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | manner, way |
| Synonyms: | approach, book, channels, condition, course, custom, fashion, form, mechanism, method, modus, nuts and bolts, plan, posture, practice, procedure, process, quality, rule, situation, state, status, style, system, technique, tone, vein, wise |
| Main Entry: | modus operandi |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | manner of operating |
| Synonyms: | M.O., MO, approach, manner, manner of working, means, method, method of functioning, method of operating, method of operation, mode of operation, modus vivendi, procedure, process, rule of thumb, system, technique, way, way of doing things, workings |
| Main Entry: | operation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | movement, working |
| Synonyms: | act, action, activity, affair, agency, application, ballgame, bit, carrying on, conveyance, course, deal, deed, doing, effect, effort, employment, engagement, enterprise, exercise, exercising, exertion, exploitation, force, handiwork, happening, influence, instrumentality, labor, manipulation, motion, movement, performance, play, procedure, proceeding, process, progress, progression, scene, service, transaction, transference, trip, undertaking, use, work, workmanship |
| Antonyms: | idleness, inaction, inutility, uselessness |
| Main Entry: | organ |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | means, tool |
| Synonyms: | agency, agent, channel, device, element, forum, implement, instrument, journal, magazine, medium, member, ministry, mouthpiece, newspaper, paper, part, periodical, process, publication, review, structure, unit, vehicle, voice, way |
| Main Entry: | outgrowth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | projection |
| Synonyms: | bulge, enlargement, excrescence, jut, node, offshoot, outcrop, process, prolongation, prominence, protuberance, shoot, sprout, swelling |
| Antonyms: | ingrowth |
| Main Entry: | practice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | routine, usual procedure |
| Synonyms: | convenance, convention, custom, fashion, form, habit, habitude, manner, method, mode, praxis, proceeding, process, rule, system, tradition, trick, usage, use, usefulness, utility, way, wont |
| Antonyms: | abstention, refrain |
| Main Entry: | proceeding |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | undertaking, course of action |
| Synonyms: | act, action, adventure, casualty, circumstance, come off, deed, exercise, experiment, go-down, goings-on, happening, incident, maneuver, measure, move, movement, occurrence, operation, performance, procedure, process, step, transaction, venture |
| Main Entry: | procession |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | parade, sequence |
| Synonyms: | advance, autocade, cavalcade, column, consecution, cortege, course, cycle, file, march, motorcade, movement, order, process, run, series, string, succession, train |
| Notes: | a choir entering a church is a procession; leaving is a recession |