Roget's Thesaurus Part 20

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#174. Moderation.-- N. moderation, lenity &c. 740; temperateness, gentleness &c. adj.; sobriety; quiet; mental calmness &c. (inexcitability) 826[obs3].

moderating &c. v.; anaphrodisia[obs3]; relaxation, remission, mitigation, tranquilization[obs3], a.s.suagement, contemporation[obs3], pacification.

measure, juste milieu[Fr], golden mean, [Grk].

moderator; lullaby, sedative, lenitive, demulcent, antispasmodic, carminative, laudanum; rose water, balm, poppy, opiate, anodyne, milk, opium, "poppy or mandragora"; wet blanket; palliative.

V. be -moderate &c. adj.; keep within bounds, keep within compa.s.s; sober down, settle down; keep the peace, remit, relent, take in sail.

moderate, soften, mitigate, temper, accoy ; attemper[obs3], contemper[obs3]; mollify, lenify[obs3], dulcify[obs3], dull, take off the edge, blunt, obtund[obs3], sheathe, subdue, chasten; sober down, tone down, smooth down; weaken &c. 160; lessen &c. (decrease) 36; check palliate.

tranquilize, pacify, a.s.suage, appease, swag, lull, soothe, compose, still, calm, calm down, cool, quiet, hush, quell, sober, pacify, tame, damp, lay, allay, rebate, slacken, smooth, alleviate, rock to sleep, deaden, smooth, throw cold water on, throw a wet blanket over, turn off; slake; curb &c. (restrain) 751; tame &c. (subjugate) 749; smooth over; pour oil on the waves, pour oil on the troubled waters; pour balm into, mattre de l'eau dans son vin[Fr].

go out like a lamb, "roar you as gently as any sucking dove,"

[Midsummer-Night's Dream].

Adj. moderate; lenient &c. 740; gentle, mild, mellow; cool, sober, temperate, reasonable, measured; tempered &c. v.; calm, unruffled, quiet, tranquil, still; slow, smooth, untroubled; tame; peaceful, peaceable; pacific, halcyon.

unexciting, unirritating[obs3]; soft, bland, oily, demulcent, lenitive, anodyne; hypnotic &c. 683; sedative; antiorgastic[obs3], anaphrodisiac[obs3].

mild as mother's milk; milk and water.

Adv. moderately &c. adj.; gingerly; piano; under easy sail, at half speed; within bounds, within compa.s.s; in reason.

Phr. est modue in rebus[obs3]; pour oil on troubled waters.

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#175. Influence.-- N. influence; importance &c. 642; weight, pressure, preponderance, prevalence, sway; predominance, predominancy[obs3]; ascendency[obs3]; dominance, reign; control, domination, pull*; authority &c.737; capability &c. (power) 157; effect &c. 154; interest.

synergy (cooperation) 709.

footing; purchase &c. (support) 215; play, leverage, vantage ground.

tower of strength, host in himself; protection, patronage, auspices.

V. have -influence &c. n.; be -influential &c. adj.; carry weight, weigh, tell; have a hold upon, magnetize, bear upon, gain a footing, work upon; take root, take hold; strike root in.

run through, pervade; prevail, dominate, predominate; out weigh, over weigh; over-ride, over-bear; gain head; rage; be -rife &c. adj.; spread like wildfire; have the upper hand, get the upper hand, gain the upper hand, have full play, get full play, gain full play.

be recognized, be listened to; make one's voice heard, gain a hearing; play a part, play a leading part, play a leading part in; take the lead, pull the strings; turn the scale, throw one's weight into the scale; set the fashion, lead the dance.

Adj. influential, effective; important &c. 642; weighty; prevailing &c. v.; prevalent, rife, rampant, dominant, regnant, predominant, in the ascendant, hegemonical[obs3].

Adv. with telling effect.

Phr. tel maure tel valet[Fr].

#175a. Absence of Influence.-- N. impotence &c. 158; powerlessness; inertness &c. 172; irrelevancy &c. 10.

V. have no -influence &c. 175.

Adj. uninfluential[obs3], ineffective; inconsequential, nugatory; unconducing, unconducive, unconducting to[obs3]; powerless &c. 158; irrelevant &c. 10.

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#176. Tendency.-- N. tendency; aptness, apt.i.tude; p.r.o.neness, proclivity, bent, turn, tone, bias, set, leaning to, predisposition, inclination, propensity, susceptibility; conatus[Lat], nisus[Lat]; liability &c. 177; quality, nature, temperament; idiocrasy[obs3], idiosyncrasy; cast, vein, grain; humor, mood; drift &c. (direction) 278; conduciveness, conducement[obs3]; applicability &c. (utility) 644; subservience &c. (instrumentality) 631.

V. tend, contribute, conduce, lead, dispose, incline, verge, bend to, trend, affect, carry, redound to, bid fair to, gravitate towards; promote &c. (aid) 707.

Adj. tending &c. v.; conducive, working towards, in a fair way to, calculated to; liable &c. 177; subservient &c. (instrumental) 631; useful &c. 644; subsidiary &c. (helping) 707.

Adv. for, whither.

#177. Liability.-- N. liability, liableness[obs3]; possibility, contingency; susceptivity[obs3], susceptibility, exposure.

V. be -liable &c. adj.; incur, lay oneself open to; run the chance, stand a chance; lie under, expose oneself to, open a door to.

Adj. liable, subject; in danger &c. 665; open to, exposed to, obnoxious to; answerable; unexempt from[obs3]; apt to; dependent on; incident to.

contingent, incidental, possible, on the cards, within range of, at the mercy of.

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#178. Concurrence.-- N. concurrence, cooperation, coagency[obs3]; union; agreement &c. 23; consilience[obs3]; consent, coincidence &c.

(a.s.sent) 488; alliance; concert, additivity, synergy &c. 709; partnership &c. 712.

common cause.

V. concur, conduce, conspire, contribute; agree, unite; hang together, pull together, join forces, make common cause.

&c. (cooperate) 709; help to &c. (aid) 707.

keep pace with, run parallel; go with, go along with, go hand in hand with, coincide.

Adj. concurring &c. v.; concurrent, in alliance with, banded together, of one mind, at one with, coinciding.

Adv. with one consent.

#179. Counteraction.-- N. counteraction, opposition; contrariety &c.

14; antagonism, polarity; clashing &c. v.; collision, interference, inhibition, resistance, renitency, friction; reaction; retroaction &c.

(recoil) 277; counterblast[obs3]; neutralization &c. (compensation) 30; vis inertiae[Lat]; check &c. (hindrance) 706.

voluntary opposition &c. 708, voluntary resistance &c. 719; repression &c. (restraint) 751.

opposites, action and reaction, yang and yin, yang-yin (contrariety) 14.

V. counteract; run counter, clash, cross; interfere with, conflict with; contravene; jostle; go against, run against, beat against, militate against; stultify; antagonize, block, oppose &c. 708; traverse; withstand &c. (resist) 719; hinder &c. 706; repress &c. (restrain) 751; react &c.

(recoil) 277.

undo, neutralize; counterpoise &c. (compensate) 30; overpoise[obs3].

Adj. counteracting &c. v.; antagonistic, conflicting, retroactive, renitent, reactionary; contrary &c. 14.

Adv. although &c. 30; in spite of &c. 708; against.

Phr. "for every action there is a reaction, equal in force and opposite in direction" [Newton].

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SECTION I. s.p.a.cE IN GENERAL

1. ABSTRACT s.p.a.cE -- <-- dimensions="" must="" be="" broken="" down="" separately="" --="">

#180. [Indefinite s.p.a.ce.] s.p.a.ce.-- N. s.p.a.ce, extension, extent, superficial extent, expanse, stretch, hypers.p.a.ce; room, scope, range, field, way, expansion, compa.s.s, sweep, swing, spread.

dimension, length &c. 200; distance &c. 196; size &c. 192; volume; hypervolume.

lat.i.tude, play, leeway, purchase, tolerance, room for maneuver.

spare room, elbow room, house room; stowage, roomage[obs3], margin; opening, sphere, arena.

open s.p.a.ce, free s.p.a.ce; void &c. (absence) 187; waste; wildness, wilderness; moor, moorland; campagna[obs3].

abyss &c. (interval) 198; unlimited s.p.a.ce; infinity &c. 105; world; ubiquity &c. (presence) 186; length and breadth of the land.

proportions, acreage; acres, acres and perches, roods and perches, hectares, square miles; square inches, square yards, square centimeters, square meters, yards (clothing) &c.; ares, arpents[obs3].

Adj. s.p.a.cious, roomy, extensive, expansive, capacious, ample; widespread, vast, world-wide, uncirc.u.mscribed; boundless &c. (infinite) 105; sh.o.r.eless[obs3], trackless, pathless; extended.

Adv. extensively &c. adj.; wherever; everywhere; far and near, far and wide; right and left, all over, all the world over; throughout the world, throughout the length and breadth of the land; under the sun, in every quarter; in all quarters, in all lands; here there and everywhere; from pole to pole, from China to Peru [Johnson], from Indus to the pole [Pope], from Dan to Beersheba, from end to end; on the face of the earth, in the wide world, from all points of the compa.s.s; to the four winds, to the uttermost parts of the earth.

#180a. Inextension.-- N. inextension[obs3], nonextension[obs3], point; dot; atom &c. (smallness) 32.

#181. [Definite s.p.a.ce.] Region.-- N. region, sphere, ground, soil, area, field, realm, hemisphere, quarter, district, beat, orb, circuit, circle; reservation, pale &c. (limit) 233; compartment, department; clearing.

[political divisions: see property &c. 780 and Government &c. 737a.].

arena, precincts, enceinte, walk, march; patch, plot, parcel, inclosure, close, field, court; enclave, reserve, preserve; street &c.

(abode) 189.

clime, climate, zone, meridian, lat.i.tude.

biosphere; lithosphere.

Adj. territorial, local, parochial, provincial, regional.

#182. [Limited s.p.a.ce.] Place.-- N. place, lieu, spot, point, dot; niche, nook &c. (corner) 244; hole; pigeonhole &c. (receptacle) 191; compartment; premises, precinct, station; area, courtyard, square; abode &c. 189; locality &c. (situation) 183.

ins and outs; every hole and corner.

Adv. somewhere, in some place, wherever it may be, here and there, in various places, pa.s.sim.