Crossword clues for congress
congress
- Capitol group
- Formal assembly
- The legislative branch
- The 114th began in 2015
- Two houses, collectively
- Source of laws
- Political group with senators and representatives
- Capitol gathering
- Capitol collective
- Body with a divided House ... and what's spelled out by the letters dividing this puzzle's houses
- "How wonderful for you!"
- The legislature of the United States government
- A meeting of elected or appointed representatives
- A national legislative assembly
- The act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman
- The man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur
- Where American bigwigs may come together for sex?
- Legislative body
- Legislative assembly
- IT conference?
- US legislative body
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Congress \Con"gress\, n.; pl. Congresses. [L. congressus, fr. congredi, p. p. -gressus, to go or come together; con- + grati to go or step, gradus step: cf. F. congr?s. See Grade.]
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A meeting of individuals, whether friendly or hostile; an encounter. [Obs.]
Here Pallas urges on, and Lausus there; Their congress in the field great Jove withstands.
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A sudden encounter; a collision; a shock; -- said of things. [Obs.]
From these laws may be deduced the rules of the congresses and reflections of two bodies.
--Cheyne. The coming together of a male and female in sexual commerce; the act of coition.
--Pennant.A gathering or assembly; a conference.
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A formal assembly, as of princes, deputies, representatives, envoys, or commissioners; esp., a meeting of the representatives of several governments or societies to consider and determine matters of common interest.
The European powers strove to . . . accommodate their differences at the congress of Vienna.
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The collective body of senators and representatives of the people of a nation, esp. of a republic, constituting the chief legislative body of the nation.
Note: In the Congress of the United States (which took the place of the Federal Congress, March 4, 1789), the Senate consists of two Senators from each State, chosen by the State legislature for a term of six years, in such a way that the terms of one third of the whole number expire every year; the House of Representatives consists of members elected by the people of the several Congressional districts, for a term of two years, the term of all ending at the same time. The united body of Senators and Representatives for any term of two years for which the whole body of Representatives is chosen is called one Congress. Thus the session which began in December, 1887, was the first (or long) session, and that which began in December, 1888, was the second (or short) session, of the Fiftieth Congress. When an extra session is had before the date of the first regular meeting of a Congress, that is called the first session, and the following regular session is called the second session.
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The lower house of the Spanish Cortes, the members of which are elected for three years.
The Continental Congress, an assembly of deputies from the thirteen British colonies in America, appointed to deliberate in respect to their common interests. They first met in 1774, and from time thereafter until near the close of the Revolution.
The Federal Congress, the assembly of representatives of the original States of the American Union, who met under the Articles of Confederation from 1781 till 1789.
Congress boot or Congress gaiter, a high shoe or half-boot, coming above the ankle, and having the sides made in part of some elastic material which stretches to allow the boot to be drawn on and off. [U.S.]
Congress water, a saline mineral water from the Congress spring at Saratoga, in the State of New York.
Syn: Assembly; meeting; convention; convocation; council; diet; conclave; parliament; legislature.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "body of attendants; also "meeting of armed forces" (mid-15c.); main modern sense of "coming together of people, a meeting" is from 1520s; from Latin congressus "a friendly meeting; a hostile encounter," past participle of congredi "meet with, fight with," from com- "together" (see com-) + gradi "to walk," from gradus "a step" (see grade (n.)).\n
\nSense of "meeting of delegates" is first recorded 1670s. Meaning "sexual union" is from 1580s. Used in reference to the national legislative body of the American states since 1775 (though since 1765 in America as a name for proposed bodies). Congress of Vienna met Nov. 1, 1814, to June 8, 1815, and redrew the map of Europe with an eye to creating a balance of powers after the disruptions of Napoleon.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic English) A coming-together of two or more people; a meeting. 2 A formal gathering or assembly; a conference held to discuss or decide on a specific question. 3 ''(often capitalized: '''Congress''')'' A legislative body of a state, originally the bicameral legislature of the United States of America. 4 An association, especially one consisting of other associations or representatives of interest groups. 5 coitus; sexual intercourse.
WordNet
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1070
Land area (2000): 37.637348 sq. miles (97.480279 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.031384 sq. miles (0.081284 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 37.668732 sq. miles (97.561563 sq. km)
FIPS code: 15220
Located within: Arizona (AZ), FIPS 04
Location: 34.146068 N, 112.846533 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 85332
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Housing Units (2000): 68
Land area (2000): 0.166342 sq. miles (0.430825 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.166342 sq. miles (0.430825 sq. km)
FIPS code: 18308
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 40.925447 N, 82.053222 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Wikipedia
A congress is a formal meeting of the representatives of different nations, constituent states, independent organizations (such as trade unions), or groups.
The term was chosen for the Continental Congress to emphasize the status of each colony represented there as a self-governing unit. Subsequent to the use of congress by the U.S. legislature, the term has been adopted by many states within unions, and by unitary nation-states in the Americas, to refer to their legislatures.
Congress (Dolo), a group that split away from Indian National Congress in Arunachal Pradesh. Congress (D) was founded July 25, 2003. Together with Gegong Apang of Arunachal Congress, Congress (D) formed a state government. On August 30 Congress (D) merged with Bharatiya Janata Party.
Congress is a solitaire card game using two decks of 52 playing cards each. It is a simple but strategic game which requires skill and careful choosing for it to be completed successfully.
Congress (Secular), is a political party in Kerala, India, formed after the split in Nationalist Congress Party in Kerala. It was led by Kadannappally Ramachandran. It had one MLA Kadannappally Ramachandran from Kannur district. Currently it has very small number of members.
Congress (A) was a political party founded by A. K. Antony when he split from the Indian National Congress (Urs) a splinter group of the Indian National Congress. The party was primarily active in Kerala. The party merged with the Congress(I) in 1982.
Congress is a formal meeting of the representatives of different nations, constituent states, independent organizations (such as trade unions), or groups.
Congress may also refer to:
- Various national legislatures:
- United States Congress, the national legislature of the United States
- Argentine National Congress
- National Congress of Chile
- National People's Congress, People's Republic of China
- Congress of the Dominican Republic
- Congress of Guatemala
- National Congress of Honduras
- General National Congress, Libya, 2012–2014
- Congress of the Union, Mexico
- Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia
- Palau National Congress
- Congress of Paraguay
- Congress of the Republic of Peru
- Congress of the Philippines
- Congress of the Republic of Texas, 1836–1848
- Indian Congress, 1898, the largest gathering of American Indian tribes of its kind to that date
- Indian National Congress, commonly known as Congress, the older of the two major political parties in India
- Congress Poland, created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna, a personal union of the Russian parcel of Poland with the Russian Empire
- The Congress (1988 film), a 1988 documentary film directed by Ken Burns
- The Congress (2013 film), a 2013 action/animation film
- Congress, Ohio, a village
- Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas
- "Congress", an instrumental track on Casualties of Retail, the 2005 album by Enter the Haggis
Usage examples of "congress".
That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted by express to the President of the Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia, to be laid before that body.
It contained some of the ablest and most influential men in the two Houses of Congress, representing different parts of the country.
Perhaps, on the whole, the ablest of the colored men who served with me in Congress, although each of the gentlemen I have named deserves high commendation, was John R.
And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.
To be sure, in cases of flat conflict between an act or acts of Congress regulative of such commerce and a State legislative act or acts, from whatever State power ensuing, the act of Congress is today recognized, and was recognized by Marshall, as enjoying an unquestionable supremacy.
State tax on each passenger arriving on a vessel from a foreign country was set aside, though chiefly in reliance on existing treaties and acts of Congress.
State, as a condition of doing business within its jurisdiction, may exact a license tax from a telegraph company, a large part of whose business is the transmission of messages from one State to another and between the United States and foreign countries, and which is invested with the powers and privileges conferred by the act of Congress passed July 24, 1866, and other acts incorporated in Title LXV of the Revised Statutes?
The result has been that State laws have come under increasingly frequent attack as being incompatible with acts of Congress operating in the same general field.
State legislation involved is found to conflict with certain acts of Congress, and in which the principle of national supremacy is invoked by the Court.
Nor can a State withdraw Indians within its borders from the operation of acts of Congress regulating trade with them by conferring on them rights of citizenship and suffrage, whether by its constitution or its statutes.
Congress passed the first of a series of acts to exclude from the mails publications designed to defraud the public or corrupt its morals.
It denied, in the second place, that there is any principle of law, common or otherwise, which pervades the Union except such as are embodied in the Constitution and the acts of Congress.
It had been John Adams, in the aftermath of Lexington and Concord, who rose in the Congress to speak of the urgent need to save the New England army facing the British at Boston and in the same speech called on Congress to put the Virginian George Washington at the head of the army.
Silas Deane, a Connecticut delegate who joined the procession, assured John Adams that the Congress was to be the grandest, most important assembly ever held in America.
With others of the Massachusetts Congressional delegation still at Philadelphia, Adams was the only member of Congress present as Washington made the case for an attack on Boston, by sending his troops across the frozen bay.