English words for 'Alternative spelling of life support.'
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noun
- (medicine) The equipment and special procedures used for life support.
- (medicine) The maintenance of vital functions of a critically ill or comatose person or a person undergoing surgery.
- (figuratively) A means of sustaining existence or continuation of something, usually in an artificial manner when it should have changed or terminated in its natural environment.
- An artificial system designed to provide oxygen and other conditions necessary for human life in an inhospitable environment.
- equipment that makes life possible in otherwise deadly environmental conditions
- medical equipment that assists or replaces important bodily functions and so enables a patient to live who otherwise might not survive
noun
- Acronym of hazardous area life-support organization.
- (aviation) Acronym of high altitude, low orbiting.
- (finance) Acronym of heavy assets, low obsolescence (“AI-resistant stocks”).
- (parachuting) Acronym of high altitude, low opening (“a type of skydiving where one leaves the launch platform from a high altitude and opens the parachute at a very low altitude”).
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noun
- An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.
- (Scotland, slang) An idiot.
- (surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
- (Canada, US, colloquial) A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.
- (Australia, slang) A tin can containing beer.
- (British, colloquial, often capitalised as Tube, a trademark) The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.)
- Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
- electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope
- an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city)
- conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases
- a hollow cylindrical shape
- (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure
noun
- (idiomatic, UK) Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
- an emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration; the first treatment for a person who has collapsed and has no pulse and has stopped breathing; attempts to restore circulation of the blood and prevent death or brain damage due to lack of oxygen
adj
noun
- (statistics) Initialism of instrumental variable.
- (cryptography) Initialism of initialization vector.
- Initialism of immigrant visa.
- (medicine) Initialism of intravenous injection.
- (chemistry) Initialism of iodine value
- administration of nutrients through a vein
- the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
noun
- (medicine) The medical practice of trying to prolong someone's life.
- (psychology) The idea that a person develops cognition through explicit instruction by others, and not merely by being nurtured and allowed to develop individually.
- (politics) The political practice of intervening in a sovereign state's affairs.
noun
- A lifesaver: a rescuer, usually an expert swimmer, employed to save swimmers in trouble or near drowning at a body of water.
- (rail transport) A sturdy metal bracket fixed in front of each of the leading wheels of a train to deflect small objects away from the wheels to prevent derailment.
- (uncommon) A bodyguard or unit of bodyguards, a guard of someone's (especially a king's) life or person.
- an attendant employed at a beach or pool to protect swimmers from accidents
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- (medicine) Chiefly in intensive care: of care or treatment: involving a great degree of life support, monitoring, and other forms of effort in order to manage life-threatening conditions.
- Done with intensity or to a great degree; thorough.
- (agriculture, economics) Of agriculture: increasing the productivity of an area of land.
- Of or pertaining to innate or internal intensity or strength rather than outward extent.
- Being made more intense.
- Chiefly suffixed to a noun: using something with intensity; requiring a great amount of something; demanding.
- Involving much activity in a short period of time; highly concentrated.
- (linguistics) Of a word: serving to give emphasis or force.
- characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form
- tending to give force or emphasis
- of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor
noun
- (education) A course taught intensively, involving much activity in a short period of time.
- A thing which makes something more intense; specifically (linguistics), a form of a word with a more forceful or stronger sense than the root on which it is built.
- a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies
noun
- (medicine) The equipment and special procedures used for life support.
- (medicine) The maintenance of vital functions of a critically ill or comatose person or a person undergoing surgery.
- (figuratively) A means of sustaining existence or continuation of something, usually in an artificial manner when it should have changed or terminated in its natural environment.
- An artificial system designed to provide oxygen and other conditions necessary for human life in an inhospitable environment.
- equipment that makes life possible in otherwise deadly environmental conditions
- medical equipment that assists or replaces important bodily functions and so enables a patient to live who otherwise might not survive
noun
- Acronym of hazardous area life-support organization.
- (aviation) Acronym of high altitude, low orbiting.
- (finance) Acronym of heavy assets, low obsolescence (“AI-resistant stocks”).
- (parachuting) Acronym of high altitude, low opening (“a type of skydiving where one leaves the launch platform from a high altitude and opens the parachute at a very low altitude”).
noun
- (idiomatic, UK) Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
- an emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration; the first treatment for a person who has collapsed and has no pulse and has stopped breathing; attempts to restore circulation of the blood and prevent death or brain damage due to lack of oxygen
noun
- (medicine) The medical practice of trying to prolong someone's life.
- (psychology) The idea that a person develops cognition through explicit instruction by others, and not merely by being nurtured and allowed to develop individually.
- (politics) The political practice of intervening in a sovereign state's affairs.
noun
- A lifesaver: a rescuer, usually an expert swimmer, employed to save swimmers in trouble or near drowning at a body of water.
- (rail transport) A sturdy metal bracket fixed in front of each of the leading wheels of a train to deflect small objects away from the wheels to prevent derailment.
- (uncommon) A bodyguard or unit of bodyguards, a guard of someone's (especially a king's) life or person.
- an attendant employed at a beach or pool to protect swimmers from accidents
noun
adj
verb
noun
- An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.
- (Scotland, slang) An idiot.
- (surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
- (Canada, US, colloquial) A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.
- (Australia, slang) A tin can containing beer.
- (British, colloquial, often capitalised as Tube, a trademark) The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.)
- Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
- electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope
- an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city)
- conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases
- a hollow cylindrical shape
- (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure
adj
noun
- (statistics) Initialism of instrumental variable.
- (cryptography) Initialism of initialization vector.
- Initialism of immigrant visa.
- (medicine) Initialism of intravenous injection.
- (chemistry) Initialism of iodine value
- administration of nutrients through a vein
- the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
adj
- (medicine) Chiefly in intensive care: of care or treatment: involving a great degree of life support, monitoring, and other forms of effort in order to manage life-threatening conditions.
- Done with intensity or to a great degree; thorough.
- (agriculture, economics) Of agriculture: increasing the productivity of an area of land.
- Of or pertaining to innate or internal intensity or strength rather than outward extent.
- Being made more intense.
- Chiefly suffixed to a noun: using something with intensity; requiring a great amount of something; demanding.
- Involving much activity in a short period of time; highly concentrated.
- (linguistics) Of a word: serving to give emphasis or force.
- characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form
- tending to give force or emphasis
- of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor
noun
- (education) A course taught intensively, involving much activity in a short period of time.
- A thing which makes something more intense; specifically (linguistics), a form of a word with a more forceful or stronger sense than the root on which it is built.
- a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies