emergency als zelfstandig naamwoord: - 1
- 2
- 3
emergency
zelfstandig naamwoord
1 emergency
A sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action:
— He never knew what to do in an emergency.
synoniemen: exigency, pinch.
Roget 8:
circumstance,
situation,
phase,
position,
posture,
attitude,
place,
point;
terms;
regime;
footing,
standing,
status.
occasion,
juncture,
conjunctive;
contingency
etc.
(event)
151.
predicament;
emergence,
emergency;
exigency,
crisis,
pinch,
pass,
push;
occurrence;
turning point.
bearings,
how the land lies.
surroundings,
context,
environment
232;
location
184.
contingency,
dependence
(uncertainty)
475;
causation
153,
attribution
155.
... meer laten zien
Roget 151:
eventuality,
event,
occurrence,
incident,
affair,
matter,
thing,
episode,
happening,
proceeding,
contingency,
juncture,
experience,
fact;
matter of fact;
naked fact,
bare facts,
just the facts;
phenomenon;
advent.
business,
concern,
transaction,
dealing,
proceeding;
circumstance,
particular,
casualty,
accident,
adventure,
passage,
crisis,
pass,
emergency,
contingency,
consequence;
opportunity
(occasion)
143.
the world,
life,
things,
doings,
affairs in general;
things in general,
affairs in general;
the times,
state of affairs,
order of the day;
course of things,
tide of things,
stream of things,
current of things,
run of things,
march of things,
course of events;
ups and downs of life,
vicissitudes of life;
chapter of accidents
etc.
(chance)
156;
situation
etc.
(circumstances)
8.
... meer laten zien
Roget 704:
difficulty;
hardness
etc.
adj.;
impracticability
etc.
(impossibility)
471;
tough work,
hard work,
uphill work;
hard task,
Herculean task,
Augean task†;
task of Sisyphus,
Sisyphean labor,
tough job,
teaser,
rasper†,
dead lift.
dilemma,
embarrassment;
deadlock;
perplexity
etc.
(uncertainty)
475;
intricacy;
entanglement,
complexity
etc.
59;
cross fire;
awkwardness,
delicacy,
ticklish card to play,
knot,
Gordian knot,
dignus vindice nodus [Lat.],
net,
meshes,
maze;
coil
etc.
(convolution)
248;
crooked path;
involvement.
nice point,
delicate point,
subtle point,
knotty point;
vexed question,
vexata quaestio [Lat.],
poser;
puzzle
etc.
(riddle)
533;
paradox;
hard nut to crack,
nut to crack;
bone to pick,
crux,
pons asinorum [Lat.],
where the shoe pinches.
nonplus,
quandary,
strait,
pass,
pinch,
pretty pass,
stress,
brunt;
critical situation,
crisis;
trial,
rub,
emergency,
exigency,
scramble.
scrape,
hobble,
slough,
quagmire,
hot water,
hornet's nest;
sea of troubles,
peck of troubles;
pretty kettle of fish;
pickle,
stew,
imbroglio,
mess,
ado;
false position.
set fast,
stand,
standstill;
deadlock,
dead set.
fix,
horns of a dilemma,
cul de sac [Fr.];
hitch;
stumbling block
etc.
(hindrance)
706.
[difficult person]
crab;
curmudgeon.
... meer laten zien
Nederlands: nood, noodgeval
2 emergency
A state in which martial law applies.
3 emergency
Moby betekeniswoordenboek: X ray, blood bank, breakers ahead, cardhouse, cause for alarm, charity ward, climacteric, clinic, clutch, consultation room, contingency, convergence of events, crisis, critical juncture, critical point, crossroads, crucial period, crunch, danger, dangerous ground, delivery room, difficulty, dispensary, endangerment, examining room, exigency, extremity, fever ward, gaping chasm, gathering clouds, hazard, high pressure, hinge, hospital room, house of cards, imperativeness, imperilment, intensive care, isolation, jeopardy, labor room, laboratory, maternity ward, menace, nursery, operating room, pass, peril, pharmacy, pinch, plight, predicament, press, pressure, prison ward, private room, push, quicksand, recovery room, risk, rocks ahead, rub, semi-private room, storm clouds, strait, stress, surgery, tension, therapy, thin ice, threat, treatment room, turn, turn of events, turning, turning point, urgency, ward ... meer laten zien.
debug info: 0.0303