Benting time () The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe. |
Birth (n.) The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born |
Birth (n.) Lineage |
Birth (n.) The condition to which a person is born |
Birth (n.) The act of bringing forth |
Birth (n.) That which is born |
Birth (n.) Origin |
Birth (n.) See Berth. |
Burying place () The ground or place for burying the dead |
By-place (n.) A retired or private place. |
Cross-birth (n.) Any preternatural labor, in which the body of the child lies across the pelvis of the mother, so that the shoulder, arm, or trunk is the part first presented at the mouth of the uterus. |
Local (a.) Of or pertaining to a particular place, or to a definite region or portion of space |
Local (n.) A train which receives and deposits passengers or freight along the line of the road |
Local (n.) On newspaper cant, an item of news relating to the place where the paper is published. |
Place (n.) Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use |
Place (n.) A broad way in a city |
Place (n.) A position which is occupied and held |
Place (n.) Rank |
Place (n.) Vacated or relinquished space |
Place (n.) A definite position or passage of a document. |
Place (n.) Ordinal relation |
Place (n.) Reception |
Place (n.) Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body |
Place (n.) To assign a place to |
Place (n.) To put or set in a particular rank, office, or position |
Place (n.) To put out at interest |
Place (n.) To set |
Place (n.) To attribute |
Place-proud (a.) Proud of rank or office. |
Resident (a.) Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time |
Resident (a.) Fixed |
Resident (n.) One who resides or dwells in a place for some time. |
Resident (n.) A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court |
Time (n.) Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof. |
Time (n.) A particular period or part of duration, whether past, present, or future |
Time (n.) The period at which any definite event occurred, or person lived |
Time (n.) The duration of one's life |
Time (n.) A proper time |
Time (n.) Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition. |
Time (n.) Performance or occurrence of an action or event, considered with reference to repetition |
Time (n.) The present life |
Time (n.) Tense. |
Time (n.) The measured duration of sounds |
Time (v. t.) To appoint the time for |
Time (v. t.) To regulate as to time |
Time (v. t.) To ascertain or record the time, duration, or rate of |
Time (v. t.) To measure, as in music or harmony. |
Time (v. i.) To keep or beat time |
Time (v. i.) To pass time |
Time-honored (a.) Honored for a long time |
time | the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past |
place kick place-kicking | (sports) a kick in which the ball is placed on the ground before kicking |
breech delivery breech birth breech presentation | delivery of an infant whose feet or buttocks appear first |
avocation by-line hobby pursuit sideline spare-time activity | an auxiliary activity |
place bet | a bet that a horse will finish a race no worse than second |
position post berth office spot billet place situation | a job in an organization, he occupied a post in the treasury |
time and motion study time-and-motion study time-motion study motion study time study work study | an analysis of a specific job in an effort to find the most efficient method in terms of time and effort |
stead position place lieu | the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another, can you go in my stead?, took his place, in lieu of |
waste of time | the devotion of time to a useless activity, the waste of time could prove fatal |
birth control birth prevention family planning | limiting the number of children born |
rhythm method of birth control rhythm method rhythm calendar method of birth control calendar method | natural family planning in which ovulation is assumed to occur days before the onset of a period (the fertile period would be assumed to extend from daythrough day of her cycle) |
time exposure | exposure of a film for a relatively long time (more than half a second) |
harvest harvest time | the season for gathering crops |
haying haying time | the season for cutting and drying and storing grass as fodder |
topolatry place-worship | the worship of places |
respite recess break time out | a pause from doing something (as work), we took a -minute break, he took time out to recuperate |
free time spare time | time that is free from duties or responsibilities |
market marketplace market place | the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold, without competition there would be no market, they were driven from the marketplace |
character printer character-at-a-time printer serial printer | a printer that prints a single character at a time |
contraceptive preventive preventative contraceptive device prophylactic device birth control device | an agent or device intended to prevent conception |
farmplace farm-place farmstead | a farm together with its buildings |
forum assembly meeting place | a public facility to meet for open discussion |
landing landing place | structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods |
line printer line-at-a-time printer | printer that serves as an output device on a computer, prints a whole line of characters at a time |
local | public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops, the local seemed to take forever to get to New York |
local anesthetic local anaesthetic local topical anesthetic topical anaesthetic | anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body |
local area network LAN | a local computer network for communication between computers, especially a network connecting computers and word processors and other electronic office equipment to create a communication system between offices |
local oscillator heterodyne oscillator | an oscillator whose output heterodynes with the incoming radio signal to produce sum and difference tones |
local road local street | a street that is primarily used to gain access to the property bordering it |
marketplace market place mart market | an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up |
page printer page-at-a-time printer | a printer that prints one page at a time |
pill birth control pill contraceptive pill oral contraceptive pill oral contraceptive anovulatory drug anovulant | a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception |
place mat | a mat serving as table linen for an individual place setting |
place of business business establishment | an establishment (a factory or an assembly plant or retail store or warehouse etc.) where business is conducted, goods are made or stored or processed or where services are rendered |
place of worship house of prayer house of God house of worship | any building where congregations gather for prayer |
place setting setting | a table service for one person, a place setting of sterling flatware |
restaurant eating house eating place eatery | a building where people go to eat |
time-ball | a ball that slides down a staff to show a fixed time, especially at an observatory |
time bomb infernal machine | a bomb that has a detonating mechanism that can be set to go off at a particular time |
time capsule | container for preserving historical records to be discovered at some future time |
time clock | clock used to record the hours that people work |
time-delay measuring instrument time-delay measuring system | chronoscope for measuring the time difference between two events |
time exposure | a photograph produced with a relatively long exposure time |
time-fuse | a fuse made to burn for a given time (especially to explode a bomb) |
time machine | a science fiction machine that is supposed to transport people or objects into the past or the future |
time-switch | a switch set to operate at a desired time |
wireless local area network WLAN wireless fidelity WiFi | a local area network that uses high frequency radio signals to transmit and receive data over distances of a few hundred feet, uses ethernet protocol |
vintage time of origin | the oldness of wines |
meter metre time | rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration |
light time | distance measured in terms of the speed of light (or radio waves), the light time from Jupiter to the sun is approximately minutes |