Word Meanings - METHOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Classification; a mode or system of classifying natural objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of Theophrastus; the method of Ray; the Linnæan method. Syn. -- Order; system; rule; regularity; way; manner; mode; course;

Additional info about word: METHOD

Classification; a mode or system of classifying natural objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of Theophrastus; the method of Ray; the Linnæan method. Syn. -- Order; system; rule; regularity; way; manner; mode; course; process; means. -- Method, Mode, Manner. Method implies arrangement; mode, mere action or existence. Method is a way of reaching a given end by a series of acts which tend to secmode relates to a single action, or to the form which a series of acts, viewed as a whole, exhibits. Manner is literally the handling of a thing, and has a wider sense, embracing both method and mode. An instructor may adopt a good method of teaching to write; the scholar may acquire a bad mode of holding his pen; the manner in which he is corrected will greatly affect his success or failure. (more info) 1. An orderly procedure or process; regular manner of doing anything; hence, manner; way; mode; as, a method of teaching languages; a method of improving the mind. Addison. 2. Orderly arrangement, elucidation, development, or classification; clear and lucid exhibition; systematic arrangement peculiar to an individual. Though this be madness, yet there's method in it. Shak. All method is a rational progress, a progress toward an end. Sir W. Hamilton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of METHOD)

• Course
• Order
• sequence
• continuity
• direction
• progress
• line
• way
• mode
• race
• career
• road
• route
• series
• passage
• succession
• round
• manner
• plan
• conduct
• method
• Law
• Rule
• edict
• regulation
• decree
• command
• order
• statute
• enactment
• principle
• code
• legislation
• adjudication
• jurisdiction
• jurisprudence
• Line
• Cord
• thread
• length
• outline
• row
• verse
• course
• Manner
• Mode
• style
• form
• fashion
• carriage
• behavior
• deportment
• habit
• sort
• kind
• Arrangement
• condition
• rank
• grade
• class
• injunction
• precept

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of METHOD)

• Supplicate
• entreat
• persuade
• beg
• petition
• suggest
• represent

Related words: (words related to METHOD)

• CLASSIFIC
  Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
• SUPPLICATE
  supplicate; of uncertain origin, cf. supplex, supplicis, humbly begging or entreating; perhaps fr. sub under + a word akin to placare to reconcile, appease , or fr. sub under + plicare to fold, whence the idea of bending the knees . Cf. 1. To
• CLASSIFICATORY
  Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
• CLASSICISM
  A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• VERSET
  A verse. Milton.
• SUGGEST
  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
• PERSUADER
  One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton.
• ENACTMENT
  1. The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law. 2. That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as,
• HABITURE
  Habitude.
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• VERSEMAN
  See PRIOR
• CLASSIS
  An ecclesiastical body or judicat (more info) 1. A class or order; sort; kind. His opinion of that classis of men. Clarendon.
• PERSUADED
  Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n.
• PRECEPTIAL
  Preceptive. would give preceptial medicine to rage. Shak.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• STYLET
  A small poniard; a stiletto. An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum. A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape
• SERIES DYNAMO
  A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others.
• SUGGESTRESS
  A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.
• CONTROVERSER
  A disputant.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• INCONSEQUENCE
  The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• ARAEOSTYLE
  See INTERCOLUMNIATION
• AVERSENESS
  The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness.
• CYCLOSTYLE
  A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred
• COHABITER
  A cohabitant. Hobbes.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• PHYSOGRADE
  Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float, as the Physalia.