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CONVENIENCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A device or control that is very useful for a particular job
Synonyms:
appliance; contraption; contrivance; convenience; gadget; gismo; gizmo; widget
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("convenience" is a kind of...):
device (an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "convenience"):
gadgetry (appliances collectively)
gimbal (an appliance that allows an object (such as a ship's compass) to remain horizontal even as its support tips)
injector (a contrivance for injecting (e.g., water into the boiler of a steam engine or particles into an accelerator etc.))
mod con (modern convenience; the appliances and conveniences characteristic of a modern house)
Derivation:
convenient (suited to your comfort or purpose or needs)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A toilet that is available to the public
Synonyms:
comfort station; convenience; public convenience; public lavatory; public toilet; restroom; toilet facility; wash room
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("convenience" is a kind of...):
facility (something designed and created to serve a particular function and to afford a particular convenience or service)
bathroom; can; john; lav; lavatory; privy; toilet (a room or building equipped with one or more toilets)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "convenience"):
ladies' room; powder room (a woman's restroom in a public (or semipublic) building)
latrine (a public toilet in a military area)
men's; men's room (a public toilet for men)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The quality of being useful and convenient
Example:
they offered the convenience of an installment plan
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("convenience" is a kind of...):
suitability; suitableness (the quality of having the properties that are right for a specific purpose)
Attribute:
convenient (suited to your comfort or purpose or needs)
inconvenient (not suited to your comfort, purpose or needs)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "convenience"):
opportuneness; patness; timeliness (timely convenience)
accessibility; availability; availableness; handiness (the quality of being at hand when needed)
Antonym:
inconvenience (the quality of not being useful or convenient)
Derivation:
convenient (suited to your comfort or purpose or needs)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The state of being suitable or opportune
Example:
chairs arranged for his own convenience
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("convenience" is a kind of...):
comfort; comfortableness (a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain)
Derivation:
convenient (suited to your comfort or purpose or needs)
Context examples:
It would be a compact of convenience, and the world would be satisfied.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
They began by using him as a short-cut, a convenience; now he has made himself an essential.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Everything was made to yield to her wishes and her convenience.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
“You will tell Sir Charles that his wishes shall be carried out, and that we shall expect him at his own convenience.”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A Non-Probability Sample: any of a variety of other sampling processes, such as convenience sampling or invitation to volunteer.
(Observational Study Protocol Version Sampling Method Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
Thus, in the course of half an hour with his forms, Martin could frame up a dozen or so storiettes, which he put aside and filled in at his convenience.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I had gone camping but once in my life, and then I left the party almost at its start and returned to the comforts and conveniences of a roof.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
In this approach, a health worker applies dilute acetic acid to the cervix and inspects the cervix with the naked eye, looking for "aceto whitening, which indicates possible disease. Because of its convenience and low cost, VIA is widely used where more advanced screening methods are not available. However, it is known to be inaccurate and needs improvement.
(AI approach outperformed human experts in identifying cervical precancer, National Institutes of Health)
There might really have been a liking formerly, though convenience and accident had drawn him a different way; and now that he could afford to please himself, he might mean to pay his addresses to her.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
I merely wish to say, that as a slight token of my gratitude for the honor done me, and as a means of promoting friendly relations between adjoining nations, I have set up a post office in the hedge in the lower corner of the garden, a fine, spacious building with padlocks on the doors and every convenience for the mails, also the females, if I may be allowed the expression.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
