MODALITIES Synonyms

• to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end

• considerable capital (wealth or income)

• an artifact (that is instrumental in accomplishing some end) for accomplishing some end

• structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired

• ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation

• the act of drawing spatially closer to something

• a way of entering or leaving

• the final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing

• the event of one object coming closer to another

• a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others

• the temporal property of becoming nearer in time

• a close approximation

• a relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green

• move towards

• come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character

• begin to deal with

• come near in time

• make advances to someone, usually with a proposal or suggestion

• a way of doing something, especially a systematic way; implies an orderly logical arrangement (usually in steps)

• an acting technique introduced by Stanislavsky in which the actor recalls emotions or reactions from his or her own life and uses them to identify with the character being portrayed

• a particular course of action intended to achieve a result

• a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work

• a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program

• a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings

• an elaborate and systematic plan of action

• the branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war

• instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity

• a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole

• (physical chemistry) a sample of matter in which substances in different phases are in equilibrium

• a complex of methods or rules governing behavior

• an organized structure for arranging or classifying

• a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts

• a procedure or process for obtaining an objective

• the living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole

• an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized

• a practical method or art applied to some particular task

• skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity

• how something is done or how it happens

• a particular functioning condition or arrangement

• a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility

• verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker

• any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave

• the most frequent value of a random variable

• a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling

• the prevailing psychological state

• verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker

• a particular sense

• a particular sense

• the body's system of sense organs