Benting time () The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe. |
Engineer (n.) A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Engineering, n. |
Engineer (n.) One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine |
Engineer (n.) One who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance |
Engineer (v. t.) To lay out or construct, as an engineer |
Engineer (v. t.) To use contrivance and effort for |
Study (v. i.) A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject |
Study (v. i.) Mental occupation |
Study (v. i.) Any particular branch of learning that is studied |
Study (v. i.) A building or apartment devoted to study or to literary work. |
Study (v. i.) A representation or rendering of any object or scene intended, not for exhibition as an original work of art, but for the information, instruction, or assistance of the maker |
Study (v. i.) A piece for special practice. See Etude. |
Study (n.) To fix the mind closely upon a subject |
Study (n.) To apply the mind to books or learning. |
Study (n.) To endeavor diligently |
Study (v. t.) To apply the mind to |
Study (v. t.) To consider attentively |
Study (v. t.) To form or arrange by previous thought |
Study (v. t.) To make an object of study |
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 |
double-blind procedure double-blind experiment double-blind study | an experimental procedure in which neither the subjects of the experiment nor the persons administering the experiment know the critical aspects of the experiment, a double-blind procedure is used to guard against both experimenter bias and placebo effects |
avocation by-line hobby pursuit sideline spare-time activity | an auxiliary activity |
survey study | a detailed critical inspection |
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 |
case study | a detailed analysis of a person or group from a social or psychological or medical point of view |
waste of time | the devotion of time to a useless activity, the waste of time could prove fatal |
course course of study course of instruction class | education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings, he took a course in basket weaving, flirting is not unknown in college classes |
directed study | a course of study that is supervised and controlled by a specialist in the subject, he registered for directed study, he got credit for directed study, he did directed study |
work-study program | an educational plan in which students alternate between paid employment and formal study |
home study | a course of study carried out at home rather than in a classroom |
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 |
character printer character-at-a-time printer serial printer | a printer that prints a single character at a time |
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 |
sketch study | preliminary drawing for later elaboration, he made several studies before starting to paint |
study | a room used for reading and writing and studying, he knocked lightly on the closed door of the study |
study hall | a classroom reserved for study |
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 |
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 |
brown study | a state of deep absorption or thoughtfulness |
study | a state of deep mental absorption, she is in a deep study |
study work | applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading), mastering a second language requires a lot of work, no schools offer graduate study in interior design |
cogitation study | attentive consideration and meditation, after much cogitation he rejected the offer |
nature study | the study of animals and plants in the natural world (usually at an elementary level) |
discipline subject subject area subject field field field of study study bailiwick | a branch of knowledge, in what discipline is his doctorate?, teachers should be well trained in their subject, anthropology is the study of human beings |
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 |
literary study | the humanistic study of literature |
pulse-time modulation | modulation of the time between successive pulses |
time sheet | a record of the hours worked by employees |
course of study program programme curriculum syllabus | an integrated course of academic studies, he was admitted to a new program at the university |
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 |
study | a composition intended to develop one aspect of the performer's technique, a study in spiccato bowing |
report study written report | a written document describing the findings of some individual or group, this accords with the recent study by Hill and Dale |