act deed human action human activity | something that people do or cause to happen |
bond trading bond-trading activity | trading in bonds (usually by a broker on the floor of an exchange) |
subversion subversive activity | the act of subverting, as overthrowing or destroying a legally constituted government |
activity | any specific behavior, they avoided all recreational activity |
avocation by-line hobby pursuit sideline spare-time activity | an auxiliary activity |
sexual activity sexual practice sex sex activity | activities associated with sexual intercourse, they had sex in the back seat |
sensory activity | activity intended to achieve a particular sensory result |
smell smelling | the act of perceiving the odor of something |
education instruction teaching pedagogy didactics educational activity | the activities of educating or instructing, activities that impart knowledge or skill, he received no formal education, our instruction was carefully programmed, good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded |
extracurricular activity | educational activities not falling within the scope of the regular curriculum |
creation creative activity | the human act of creating |
intelligence intelligence activity intelligence operation | the operation of gathering information about an enemy |
social activity | activity considered appropriate on social occasions |
business activity commercial activity | activity undertaken as part of a commercial enterprise |
government governing governance government activity administration | the act of governing, exercising authority, regulations for the governing of state prisons, he had considerable experience of government |
discourtesy offense offence offensive activity | a lack of politeness, a failure to show regard for others, wounding the feelings or others |
barn swallow chimney swallow Hirundo rustica | common swallow of North America and Europe that nests in barns etc. |
barn owl Tyto alba | mottled buff and white owl often inhabiting barns and other structures, important in rodent control |
barn spider Araneus cavaticus | an orange and tan spider with darkly banded legs that spins an orb web daily, the barn spider was made famous in E. B. White's book `Charlotte's Web' |
stablemate stable companion | a horse stabled with another or one of several horses owned by the same person |
backdrop background backcloth | scenery hung at back of stage |
background desktop screen background | (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear |
barn | an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals |
barn door | the large sliding door of a barn |
cowbarn cowshed cow barn cowhouse byre | a barn for cows |
livery stable | stable where horses and vehicles are kept for hire |
stable stalls horse barn | a farm building for housing horses or other livestock |
stable gear saddlery tack | gear for a horse |
tithe barn | barn originally built to hold tithes paid in kind and common in England |
activeness activity | the trait of being active, moving or acting rapidly and energetically, the level of activity declines with age |
background | a person's social heritage: previous experience or training, he is a lawyer with a sports background |
pedigree bloodline | ancestry of a purebred animal |
olfactory property smell aroma odor odour scent | any property detected by the olfactory system |
noise level background level | the amplitude level of the undesired background noise |
smell sense of smell olfaction olfactory modality | the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents |
smell odor odour olfactory sensation olfactory perception | the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form, she loved the smell of roses |
background background knowledge | information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem, the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident |
background ground | the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground, he posed her against a background of rolling hills |
background | relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation, when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background |
background background signal | extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured, they got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals |
background noise ground noise | extraneous noise contaminating sound measurements that cannot be separated from the desired signal |
background radiation | radiation coming from sources other than those being observed |
barn dance | a dance party featuring country dancing |
pedigree | line of descent of a purebred animal |
d lineage line line of descent descent bloodline blood line blood pedigree ancestry origin parentage stemma stockb | the descendants of one individual, his entire lineage has been warriors |
Marine Corps Intelligence Activity MCIA | an agency of the United States Marine Corps that provides responsive and broad intelligence support for the worldwide Marine Corps organization |
Advanced Research and Development Activity ARDA | an agency of the Intelligence Community that conducts advanced research and development related to information technology |
cosmic background radiation CBR cosmic microwave background radiation CMBR cosmic microwave background CMB | (cosmology) the cooled remnant of the hot big bang that fills the entire universe and can be observed today with an average temperature of about . kelvin |
barnyard grass barn grass barn millet Echinochloa crusgalli | a coarse annual panic grass, a cosmopolitan weed, occasionally used for hay or grazing |
agglutination agglutinating activity | the coalescing of small particles that are suspended in solution, these larger masses are then (usually) precipitated |