Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
crucial — 1. Crucial means ‘decisive, critical’, and is often used as a more effective and more expressive alternative for important or significant: • There are four crucial stages in cheesemaking J. G. Davis, 1976 • I understand that you must edit letters … Modern English usage
crucial — crucial, iale, iaux [ krysjal, jo ] adj. • 1560; du lat. crux, crucis→ croix 1 ♦ Didact. Fait en croix. Incision cruciale. 2 ♦ (du lat. experimentum crucis, de F. Bacon, « expérience de la croix », par allus. aux poteaux indicateurs des… … Encyclopédie Universelle
Crucial — may refer to: Crucial Technology, a brand used by semiconductor manufacturer Micron Technology The Crucial Conspiracy, an album by The Dingees The Crucial Squeegie Lip, a recording by Ween Crucial Three, a short lived band, several of whose… … Wikipedia
Point-to-point construction — is the way most electronics circuits were constructed before the 1950s. Point to point construction is still used to construct prototype equipment with few or heavy electronic components.The crucial invention was soldering. In soldering, an alloy … Wikipedia
crucial feature — index main point Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
crucial moment — index crossroad (turning point) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
Crucial Three — The Crucial Three Origin Liverpool, England Genres Post punk, Alternative rock Years active 1977 Associated acts The Teardrop Explodes Echo the Bunnymen … Wikipedia
crucial — adjective 1) negotiations were at a crucial stage Syn: pivotal, critical, key, climacteric, decisive, deciding; life and death Ant: minor, unimportant 2) confidentiality is crucial in this case Syn … Thesaurus of popular words
point — I n. location, position, place, spot 1) to arrive at, reach a point 2) an assembly; cutoff; focal; jumping off; pressure; rallying; salient; starting; turning; vanishing; vantage point 3) the point of no return 4) at a point (at that point in… … Combinatory dictionary
crucial — adj. VERBS ▪ be, prove, seem ▪ become ▪ remain ▪ consider sth, deem sth, regard sth as … Collocations dictionary
