Benting time
() The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe. |
Blanch holding
() A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent (silver) or otherwise. |
Blench holding
() See Blanch holding. |
Detention
(n.) The act of detaining or keeping back |
Detention
(n.) The state of being detained (stopped or hindered) |
Detention
(n.) Confinement |
Dwell
(v. i.) To delay |
Dwell
(v. i.) To abide |
Dwell
(v. i.) To abide as a permanent resident, or for a time |
Dwell
(v. t.) To inhabit. |
Holding
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hold |
Holding
(n.) The act or state of sustaining, grasping, or retaining. |
Holding
(n.) A tenure |
Holding
(n.) That which holds, binds, or influences. |
Holding
(n.) The burden or chorus of a song. |
Retention
(n.) The act of retaining, or the state of being ratined. |
Retention
(n.) The power of retaining |
Retention
(n.) That which contains something, as a tablet |
Retention
(n.) The act of withholding |
Retention
(n.) Place of custody or confinement. |
Retention
(n.) The right of withholding a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right be duly paid |
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-table
(n.) A tabular statement of the time at which, or within which, several things are to take place, as the recitations in a school, the departure and arrival of railroad trains or other public conveyances, the rise and fall of the tides, etc. |
Time-table
(n.) A plane surface divided in one direction with lines representing hours and minutes, and in the other with lines representing miles, and having diagonals (usually movable strings) representing the speed and position of various trains. |
Time-table
(n.) A table showing the notation, length, or duration of the several notes. |
| time | the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past |
avocation
by-line
hobby
pursuit sideline
spare-time activity | an auxiliary activity |
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 |
| waste of time | the devotion of time to a useless activity, the waste of time could prove fatal |
retention
keeping holding | the act of retaining something |
| 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 |
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 |
| detention | a punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home, the detention of tardy pupils |
bullpen
detention cell
detention centre | a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily |
character printer
character-at-a-time printer
serial printer | a printer that prints a single character at a time |
detention home
detention house
house of detention
detention camp | an institution where juvenile offenders can be held temporarily (usually under the supervision of a juvenile court) |
| holding cell | a jail in a courthouse where accused persons can be confined during a trial |
| holding device | a device for holding something |
holding pen
holding paddock
holding yard | a pen where livestock is temporarily confined |
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 |
page printer
page-at-a-time printer | a printer that prints one page at a time |
| 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 |
vintage
time of origin | the oldness of wines |
retentiveness retentivity
retention | the power of retaining liquid, moisture retentivity of soil |
| urinary retention | holding urine in the urinary bladder, he has a problem with urinary retention |
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 |
memory
retention
retentiveness
retentivity | the power of retaining and recalling past experience, he had a good memory when he was younger |
space-time
space-time continuum | the four-dimensional coordinate system ( dimensions of space and of time) in which physical events are located |
| time series | a series of values of a variable at successive times |
| pulse-time modulation | modulation of the time between successive pulses |
| time sheet | a record of the hours worked by employees |
| time signal | a signal (especially electronic or by radio) indicating the precisely correct time |
time signature
musical time signature | a musical notation indicating the number of beats to a measure and kind of note that takes a beat |
good time
blast | a highly pleasurable or exciting experience, we had a good time at the party, celebrating after the game was a blast |
| time | a person's experience on a particular occasion, he had a time holding back the tears, they had a good time together |
semantic error
run-time error
runtime error | an error in logic or arithmetic that must be detected at run time |
time
clip | an instance or single occasion for some event, this time he succeeded, he called four times, he could do ten at a clip |
| holding company | a company with controlling shares in other companies |
| bank holding company | a holding company owning or controlling one or more banks |
| multibank holding company | a bank holding company owning several banks |
| holding pattern | the flight path (usually circular) maintained by an aircraft that is awaiting permission to land |
| detention basin | a storage site (such as a small reservoir) that delays the flow of water downstream |
| retention basin | a storage site similar to a detention basin but the water in storage is permanently obstructed from flowing downstream |