CONVENTION Synonyms

• a confidential or secret meeting

• a prearranged meeting for consultation or exchange of information or discussion (especially one with a formal agenda)

• an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members

• a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic

• a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church

• an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together

• the act of congregating

• a meeting of elected or appointed representatives

• the legislature of the United States government

• a national legislative assembly

• the social act of assembling for some common purpose

• a group of persons together in one place

• the social act of assembling

• the act of gathering something

• sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching

• (informal) a quick private conference

• a disorganized and densely packed crowd

• crowd or draw together

• crouch or curl up

• a formally arranged gathering

• a small informal social gathering

• a casual or unexpected convergence

• the social act of assembling for some common purpose

• the act of joining together as one

• a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers)

• (informal) a quick private conference

• a council of or with Native Americans

• hold a powwow, talk, conference or meeting

• a large gathering of people intended to arouse enthusiasm

• the feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort

• a marked recovery of strength or spirits during an illness

• an automobile race run over public roads

• (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes

• gather

• call to arms; of military personnel

• gather or bring together

• return to a former condition

• harass with persistent criticism or carping

• the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development

• the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)

• a meeting of heads of governments

• reach the summit (of a mountain)

• a meeting or conference for the public discussion of some topic especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations

• the act of convening

• orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional

• conformity with conventional thought and behavior

• unoriginality as a result of being too conventional

• orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional

• a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement

• directions for making something

• a conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle

• a representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements

• something regarded as a normative example

• a liquid food for infants

• (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems

• conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal

• in accordance with scientific laws

• being approximately average or within certain limits in e.g. intelligence and development

• something regarded as a normative example

• forming a right angle

• a perceptual structure

• a customary way of operation or behavior

• a decorative or artistic work

• something regarded as a normative example

• a model considered worthy of imitation

• something intended as a guide for making something else

• the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport

• graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle

• plan or create according to a model or models

• form a pattern

• a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior

• something regarded as a normative example

• prescribed guide for conduct or action

• (linguistics) a rule describing (or prescribing) a linguistic practice

• a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct

• the duration of a monarch's or government's power

• dominance or power through legal authority

• directions that define the way a game or sport is to be conducted

• any one of a systematic body of regulations defining the way of life of members of a religious order

• a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system

• (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems

• measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths

• exercise authority over; as of nations

• decide with authority

• be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance

• decide on and make a declaration about

• have an affinity with; of signs of the zodiac

• mark or draw with a ruler

• keep in check