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| Sounds | sih'stahm |
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| Rhymes | abolitionism, absenteeism, absolutism, and 544 more rhymes in ahm at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | A group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole. |
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| Examples | "a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going" |
| Synonyms | scheme |
| Parts | hierarchy |
| Narrower | language system; judiciary, judicature, judicatory, judicial system; economy, economic system; ecosystem; social organization, social organisation, social structure, social system, structure; dragnet; machinery; network, web; nonlinear system; subsystem; organism; syntax; body; shebang; solar system; water system; rootage, root system |
| Broader | group, grouping |
| Meaning | Instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity. |
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| Examples | "he bought a new stereo system"; "the system consists of a motor and a small computer" |
| Parts | infrastructure, substructure; module |
| Narrower | audio system, sound system; communication system; computer system, computing system, automatic data processing system, ADP system, ADPS; containment; control system; data system, information system; drainage system; exhaust, exhaust system; explosive detection system, EDS; explosive trace detection, ETD; guidance system, guidance device; hookup, assemblage; inertial guidance system, inertial navigation system; lockage; maze, labyrinth; mechanical system; navigational system; network, electronic network; network; propulsion system; resonator; scaffolding, staging; security system; selsyn, synchro; shipboard system; solar thermal system; sprinkler system; synchromesh |
| Broader | instrumentality, instrumentation |
| Meaning | A complex of methods or rules governing behavior. |
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| Examples | "they have to operate under a system they oppose"; "that language has a complex system for indicating gender" |
| Synonyms | system of rules |
| Narrower | accounting; discipline; frame of reference; gambling system; government; honor system; logic, logical system, system of logic; merit system; point system; spoils system; organon; program, programme; theology, theological system; ethic, ethical code |
| Broader | method |
| Meaning | A procedure or process for obtaining an objective. |
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| Examples | "they had to devise a system that did not depend on cooperation" |
| Narrower | credit system; legal system; pricing system; promotion system |
| Broader | plan of action |
| Meaning | A group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts. |
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| Examples | "the body has a system of organs for digestion" |
| Narrower | articulatory system; digestive system, gastrointestinal system, systema alimentarium, systema digestorium; endocrine system; venation, venous blood system; immune system; integumentary system; reticuloendothelial system, RES; mononuclear phagocyte system, MPS, system of macrophages; muscular structure, musculature, muscle system; musculoskeletal system; nervous system, systema nervosum; central nervous system, CNS, systema nervosum centrale; peripheral nervous system, systema nervosum periphericum; reproductive system, genital system; urogenital system, urogenital apparatus, urinary system, urinary apparatus, genitourinary system, genitourinary apparatus, systema urogenitale, apparatus urogenitalis; respiratory system, systema respiratorium; sensory system; tract; vascular system; skeletal system, skeleton, frame, systema skeletale |
| Broader | body part |
| Meaning | An organized structure for arranging or classifying. |
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| Examples | "he tried to understand their system of classification" |
| Synonyms | arrangement, organization, organisation |
| Narrower | classification system; contrivance; coordinate system, frame of reference, reference system, reference frame; data structure; design, plan; distribution, statistical distribution; genetic map; lattice; living arrangement; calendar |
| Broader | structure |
| Verbs | systemize, systemise |
| Meaning | (physical chemistry) a sample of matter in which substances in different phases are in equilibrium. |
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| Examples | "in a static system oil cannot be replaced by water on a surface"; "a system generating hydrogen peroxide" |
| Category | physical chemistry |
| Broader | substance, matter |
| Meaning | The living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole. |
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| Examples | "exercise helped him get the alcohol out of his system" |
| Broader | live body |
| Meaning | An ordered manner. Orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized. |
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| Examples | "we can't do it unless we establish some system around here" |
| Synonyms | organization, organisation |
| Broader | orderliness, methodicalness |
| Verbs | systemize, systemise |