Synonyms of the word

rubric

• n. A heading in a book highlighted in red.
• n. A title of a category or a class.
• n. An established rule or custom, a guideline.
• n. (education) A printed set of scoring criteria for evaluating student work and for giving feedback.
• adj. Coloured or marked with red; placed in rubrics.
• adj. Of or relating to the rubric or rubrics; rubrical.
• v. (transitive) To adorn with red; to redden.

account

• n. (accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings…
• n. (banking) A sum of money deposited at a bank and subject to withdrawal.
• n. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action…
• n. A reason, grounds, consideration, motive.
• n. (business) A business relationship involving the exchange of money and credit.
• n. A record of events; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description.
• n. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
• n. Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
• n. An authorization to use a service.
• n. (archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
• n. Profit; advantage.
• v. to provide explanation.
• v. to count.

category

• n. A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
• n. (mathematics) A collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows…

direction

• n. A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination.
• n. An general trend for future action.
• n. Guidance, instruction.
• n. The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc.
• n. (archaic) An address.

explanation

• n. The act or process of explaining.
• n. Something that explains, makes understandable.
• n. (euphemistic) An excuse, apologetic justification not based on enough evidence.

gloss

• n. A surface shine or luster/lustre.
• n. (figuratively) A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.
• v. (transitive) To give a gloss or sheen to.
• v. (transitive) To make (something) attractive by deception.
• v. (intransitive) To become shiny.
• n. (countable) A brief explanatory note or translation of a foreign, archaic, technical, difficult, complex,…
• n. (countable) A glossary; a collection of such notes.
• n. (countable, obsolete) An expression requiring such explanatory treatment.
• n. (countable) An extensive commentary on some text.
• n. (countable) A brief explanation in speech or in a written work, including a synonym used with the intent…
• n. (countable, law, US) An interpretation by a court of specific point within a statute or case law.
• v. (transitive) To add a gloss to (a text).

head

• n. (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense…
• n. (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
• n. (social, countable) A leader or expert.
• n. A significant or important part.
• n. Headway; progress.
• n. Topic; subject.
• n. (uncountable) Denouement; crisis.
• n. (fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
• n. (slang) The glans penis.
• n. (slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
• n. (obsolete) Power; armed force.
• adj. Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
• adj. Foremost in rank or importance.
• adj. Placed at the top or the front.
• adj. Coming from in front.
• v. (transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.).
• v. (transitive) To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball.
• v. (intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
• v. (fishing) To remove the head from a fish.
• v. (intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
• v. (intransitive) To form a head.
• v. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
• v. To cut off the top of; to lop off.
• v. (obsolete) To behead; to decapitate.
• v. To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain.
• v. To set on the head.

header

• n. The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.
• n. Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it.
• n. Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table.
• n. (informal) A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.
• n. a brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall or within the brickwork with the short side showing;…
• n. a horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening.
• n. a machine that cuts the heads off of grain etc.
• n. (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with the head.
• n. a headlong fall or jump.
• n. (computing) the first part of a file or record that describes its contents.
• n. (programming) Clipping of header file.
• n. (networking) the first part of a packet, often containing its address and descriptors.
• n. A raised tank that supplies water at constant pressure, especially to a central heating and hot water…
• n. A pipe which connects several smaller pipes.
• v. (sports, transitive) To strike (a ball) with one's head.

heading

• v. present participle of head.
• n. The title or topic of a document, article, chapter, or of a section thereof.
• n. (nautical) The direction into which a seagoing or airborne vessel's bow is pointing (apparent heading)…
• n. Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.
• n. (mining) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.
• n. (sewing) The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.
• n. (masonry) The end of a stone or brick which is presented outward.

instruction

• n. (uncountable) The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with information or knowledge.
• n. (countable) An instance of the information or knowledge so furnished.
• n. (countable) An order or command.
• n. (computing) A single operation of a processor defined by an instruction set architecture.
• n. A set of directions provided by a manufacturer for the users of a product or service.

prescript

• n. Something prescribed; a rule, regulation or dictate.
• n. (obsolete) A medical prescription.
• adj. Directed; prescribed.

rubify

• v. (rare, transitive) to make red; to cause to redden.
• v. (rare, intransitive) to redden; to become red.

rule

• n. A regulation, law, guideline.
• n. A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
• n. A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as…
• n. A regulating principle.
• n. The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
• n. A normal condition or state of affairs.
• n. (obsolete) Conduct; behaviour.
• n. (law) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or…
• n. (mathematics) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
• n. (printing, dated) A thin plate of brass or other metal, of the same height as the type, and used for printing…
• v. (transitive) To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
• v. (slang, intransitive) To excel.
• v. (transitive) To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines).
• v. (intransitive) To decide judicially.
• v. (transitive) To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by…

title

• n. A prefix (honorific) or suffix (post-nominal) added to a person's name to signify either veneration, official…
• n. (law) Legal right to ownership of a property; a deed or other certificate proving this.
• n. In canon law, that by which a beneficiary holds a benefice.
• n. A church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside.
• n. The name of a book, film, musical piece, painting, or other work of art.
• n. A publication.
• n. A section or division of a subject, as of a law or a book.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) A written title, credit, or caption shown with a film, video, or performance.
• n. (bookbinding) The panel for the name, between the bands of the back of a book.
• n. The subject of a writing; a short phrase that summarizes the entire topic.
• n. A division of an act of Congress or Parliament.
• n. (sports) The recognition given to the winner of a championship in sports.
• v. (transitive) To assign a title to; to entitle.