an elaborate and systematic plan of action | a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently |
an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world | a system considered analogous in structure or function to a living body |
a schematic or preliminary plan | |
a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery | |
a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole | |