| has gloss | (noun) a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole; "a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going"
system, scheme |
| lexicalization | eng: scheme |
| lexicalization | eng: system |
| subclass of | (noun) any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
group, grouping |
| has subclass | (noun) a developed system of roots
rootage, root system |
| has subclass | (noun) a system of linguistic units or elements used in a particular language
language system |
| has subclass | (noun) the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government
judicial system, judicatory, judicature, judiciary |
| has subclass | (noun) the system of production and distribution and consumption
economic system, economy |
| has subclass | (noun) a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment
ecosystem |
| has subclass | (noun) the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships; "the social organization of England and America is very different"; "sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family"
structure, social organization, social structure, social organisation, social system |
| has subclass | (noun) a system of coordinated measures for apprehending (criminals or other individuals); "caught in the police dragnet"
dragnet |
| has subclass | (noun) a system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions; "the complex machinery of negotiation"; "the machinery of command labored and brought forth an order"
machinery |
| has subclass | (noun) an interconnected system of things or people; "he owned a network of shops"; "retirement meant dropping out of a whole network of people who had been part of my life"; "tangled in a web of cloth"
web, network |
| has subclass | (noun) a system whose performance cannot be described by equations of the first degree
nonlinear system |
| has subclass | (noun) a system that is part of some larger system
subsystem |
| has subclass | (noun) a system considered analogous in structure or function to a living body; "the social organism"
organism |
| has subclass | (noun) a systematic orderly arrangement
syntax |
| has subclass | (noun) a collection of particulars considered as a system; "a body of law"; "a body of doctrine"; "a body of precedents"
body |
| has subclass | (noun) an entire system; used in the phrase `the whole shebang'
shebang |
| has subclass | (noun) the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field
solar system |
| has subclass | (noun) a river and all of its tributaries
water system |