Word Finder - system

definition

A collection of organized things; a whole composed of relationships among its members.

example

There are eight planets in the solar system.

synonyms

• arrangement
• complex
• composition
• organization
• set up
• structure

definition

A method or way of organizing or planning.

example

Followers should have a system to follow that works in their interests, not against them.

The whole distribution system broke down.

The security system didn't recognize her thumbprint.

It looks like the messaging system is back up.

My security system is top notch though I've had little need to utilize it.

Jackson found the sound system and turned it on.

Whatever was working through her system was making her sick.

Lana hacked into the federal system, changing her own profile.

We have a police force and a court system to apply the laws equally to all.

The future system I foresee will not be different in substance, but only in degree.

I can, of course, see everything in it, or if I prefer, set the system to "minimum supplements" or "maximum supplements" and let the system decide.

With the proceeds of a recent stock sale, Fred O'Connor had invested in a complete computer system and was off and running.

It was a system--a concurrence of circumstances.

My purpose is to explain the net effect of free trade, technological advance, and outsourcing on the overall economic system of the planet.

Fred was frightened enough of the court system already.

This abuse resulted in an overhaul of the system that sought to tie the poor to their original parish.

The system was revised in the 1830s because it was viewed as discouraging work by interfering with the laws of supply and demand relating to labor.

Still others argue for a system of government price supports, incentives, and subsidies, as is found in the United States and Europe.

The Communist system eschewed political liberties in favor of economic ones.

Since Bishop Brooks died I have read the Bible through; also some philosophical works on religion, among them Swedenborg's "Heaven and Hell" and Drummond's "Ascent of Man," and I have found no creed or system more soul-satisfying than Bishop Brooks's creed of love.

We have a system.

Do not anchor to any manmade structures including the penstock system large metal pipe.

Brady asked, gazing at the empty highway system on one side of them and the city on the other.

She'd been safe for ten days on her own; maybe hacking into the fed system to change her profile was enough to draw the attention of someone working for General Greene.

The late night storm had blown Wednesday's hazy whiteness east to New Jersey and the Atlantic beyond, leaving in its place a high pressure system, a sky painted deep blue and patched with just enough puffy clouds for contrast.

We have a comparatively decent system of common schools, schools for infants only; but excepting the half-starved Lyceum in the winter, and latterly the puny beginning of a library suggested by the State, no school for ourselves.

Such a rule of the two diameters not only guides us toward the sun in the system and the heart in man, but draws lines through the length and breadth of the aggregate of a man's particular daily behaviors and waves of life into his coves and inlets, and where they intersect will be the height or depth of his character.

The Emperor said that the fiscal system must be reorganized and the accounts published, recounted Bitski, emphasizing certain words and opening his eyes significantly.

Finally, when I use the word "wisdom," I am talking about applying a value system to knowledge to suggest a course of action.

While not confining myself to any special system of instruction, I have tried to add to her general information and intelligence, to enlarge her acquaintance with things around her, and to bring her into easy and natural relations with people.

It will tide them over while they try to repair their water system.

The courtroom was half filled, mostly with pensioners who looked to the system for their daily entertainment.

Real bikers weren't bothered by a little rain, he tried to tell himself, but the car radio spoke of a storm system moving up from the south, bringing with it high winds and torren­tial rain.

Delaware is served by the Pennsylvania, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis (New York Central system), and the Hocking Valley railways, and by two interurban lines.

Both to the east and to the west of this depression the Archean and Palaeozoic rocks which form the greater part of the island are strongly folded, with the exception of the uppermost beds, which belong to the Permian system.

Innovations were carried out in the tactical system of the army which were to modify considerably the methods of future battle-fields.

It is served by the Southern, the Louisville & Nashville, the Seaboard Air Line, the Central of Georgia, the Alabama Great Southern (of the Queen & Crescent Route), the Illinois Central, the Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic, the Birmingham Southern (for freight only), and the Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham (Frisco system) railways.

In 1870 the site was a cotton field, where two railways, the South & North, and the Alabama & Chattanooga, now part respectively of the Louisville & Nashville and the Southern System, met.

His work is not essentially different from that of his predecessors Rhazes and Ali; all present the doctrine of Galen, and through Galen the doctrine of Hippocrates, modified by the system of Aristotle.

South of the Drin is another complex mountain system, including the highlands inhabited by the Mirdites and the Mat tribe; among the principal summits are Deia Mazzuklit, Mal-i Vels, Kraba, Toli and Mnela.

The expenditure of the government has several times been regulated for as long as six months upon this system.

Smith, worked out a system of communicating between railway stations and moving trains.

Dean let him get it out of his system.

But, in attempting to make this conception quite clear and thinkable, we are forced to represent the connexion of things as a universal substance, the essence of which we conceive as a system of laws which underlies everything and in its own self connects everything, but imperceptible, and known to us merely through the impressions it produces on us, which we call things.

Bellamy's "system" of divinity was in general similar to that of Edwards.

He introduced into medical theory the four causes of the Peripatetic system.

A new foundation had to be laid on which a new system of legality might be reared.

Mr Robertson found them without education, without religion, without laws and without any system of government, but living comfortably on clearings of cultivated land.

But he was chiefly attracted to the philosophical system represented by Reid and Stewart.

The former contributed nothing new to the system except a more emphatic statement of the distinction between psychology and physiology.

He founded no system; he contributed nothing of importance to philosophical science; he initiated nothing which has survived him.