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 |
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 |
winter wren
Troglodytes troglodytes | small wren of coniferous forests of northern hemisphere |
winter flounder
blackback flounder
lemon sole Pseudopleuronectes americanus | important American food fish in the winter |
activeness
activity | the trait of being active, moving or acting rapidly and energetically, the level of activity declines with age |
Winter Olympic Games
Winter Olympics | an Olympics for winter sports |
| winter squash | any of various fruits of the gourd family with thick rinds and edible yellow to orange flesh that mature in the fall and can be stored for several months |
| winter crookneck squash | a squash with a hard rind and an elongated curved neck |
| winter cress | cress cultivated for winter salads |
| winter melon | the fruit of the winter melon vine, a green melon with pale green to orange flesh that keeps well |
| lemon sole winter flounder | flesh of American flounder, important in the winter |
winter savory
winter savoury | resinous leaves used in stews and stuffings and meat loaf |
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 |
| nuclear winter | a long period of darkness and extreme cold that scientists predict would follow a full-scale nuclear war, a layer of dust and smoke in the atmosphere would cover the earth and block the rays of the sun, most living organisms would perish |
Japan allspice
Japanese allspice
winter sweet Chimonanthus praecox | deciduous Japanese shrub cultivated for its fragrant yellow flowers |
winter aconite
Eranthis hyemalis | small Old World perennial herb grown for its bright yellow flowers which appear in early spring often before snow is gone |
Christmas rose
winter rose
black hellebore Helleborus niger | European evergreen plant with white or purplish rose-like winter-blooming flowers |
Winteraceae
family Winteraceae
winter's bark family | small family of chiefly tropical shrubs and trees of genera Drimys and Pseudowintera, sometimes included in Magnoliaceae |
winter's bark winter's bark tree
Drimys winteri | South American evergreen tree yielding winter's bark and a light soft wood similar to basswood |
winter sweet poison arrow plant
Acocanthera oblongifolia
Acocanthera spectabilis | medium-sized shrubby tree of South Africa having thick leathery evergreen leaves and white or pink flowers and globose usually two-seeded purplish black fruits |
winter purslane
miner's lettuce
Cuban spinach
Montia perfoliata | succulent herb sometimes grown as a salad or pot herb, grows on dunes and waste ground of Pacific coast of North America |
winter cress
St. Barbara's herb
scurvy grass | any plant of the genus Barbarea: yellow-flowered Eurasian cresses, widely cultivated for winter salad |
Belle Isle cress
early winter cress
land cress
American cress
American watercress Barbarea verna
Barbarea praecox | of southwestern Europe, cultivated in Florida |
winter heliotrope
sweet coltsfoot Petasites fragrans | European herb with vanilla-scented white-pink flowers |
winter squash
winter squash plant | any of various plants of the species Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall |
winter crookneck
winter crookneck squash
Cucurbita moschata | any of various plants bearing squash having hard rinds and elongated recurved necks |
winter melon
Persian melon
honeydew melon
winter melon vine
Cucumis melo inodorus | any of a variety of muskmelon vines having fruit with a smooth white rind and white or greenish flesh that does not have a musky smell |
winter heath
spring heath
Erica carnea | dwarf European shrub with very early blooming bell-shaped red flowers |
love-in-winter
western prince's pine
Chimaphila umbellata
Chimaphila corymbosa | Eurasian herb with white or pinkish flowers in a terminal corymb |
winter jasmine
Jasminum nudiflorum | deciduous rambling shrub widely cultivated for its winter-blooming yellow flowers |
winter hazel
flowering hazel | any of several Asiatic deciduous shrubs cultivated for their nodding racemes of yellow flowers that appear before the leaves |
field pea
field-pea plant
Austrian winter pea
Pisum sativum arvense
Pisum arvense | variety of pea plant native to the Mediterranean region and North Africa and widely grown especially for forage |
rosebud cherry
winter flowering cherry
Prunus subhirtella | shrub or tree native to Japan cultivated as an ornamental for its rose-pink flowers |
winter currant
Ribes sanguineum | a flowering shrub |
oregano
marjoram
pot marjoram
wild marjoram
winter sweet Origanum vulgare | aromatic Eurasian perennial |
dittany of crete
cretan dittany
crete dittany
hop marjoram
winter sweet Origanum dictamnus | dwarf aromatic shrub of Crete |