Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
Display options for sense: (gloss) "an example sentence"
Display options for word: word (sense key)
Noun
S: (n) law (law%1:14:00::), jurisprudence (jurisprudence%1:14:00::) (the collection of rules imposed by authority) "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
S: (n) law (law%1:10:00::) (legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity) "there is a law against kidnapping"
S: (n) law (law%1:09:00::), natural law (natural_law%1:09:00::) (a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society)
S: (n) quantity (quantity%1:09:01::) (the concept that something has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variable)
S: (n) whole (whole%1:09:00::) (all of something including all its component elements or parts) "Europe considered as a whole"; "the whole of American literature"
S: (n) law (law%1:09:00::), natural law (natural_law%1:09:00::) (a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society)
S: (n) hypothesis (hypothesis%1:09:00::), possibility (possibility%1:09:00::), theory (theory%1:09:01::) (a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena) "a scientific hypothesis that survives experimental testing becomes a scientific theory"; "he proposed a fresh theory of alkalis that later was accepted in chemical practices"
S: (n) law (law%1:04:00::), practice of law (practice_of_law%1:04:00::) (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system) "he studied law at Yale"