Benting time
() The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe. |
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. |
Waste
(a.) Desolate |
Waste
(a.) Lying unused |
Waste
(a.) Lost for want of occupiers or use |
Waste
(a.) To bring to ruin |
Waste
(a.) To wear away by degrees |
Waste
(a.) To spend unnecessarily or carelessly |
Waste
(a.) To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay. |
Waste
(v. i.) To be diminished |
Waste
(v. i.) To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh |
Waste
(v.) The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted |
Waste
(v.) That which is wasted or desolate |
Waste
(v.) That which is of no value |
Waste
(v.) Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder. |
Waste
(v.) Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse. |
| time | the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past |
laying waste
ruin
ruining
ruination
wrecking | destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined |
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
wastefulness dissipation | useless or profitless activity, using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly, if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste, mindless dissipation of natural resources |
waste of effort
waste of energy | a useless effort |
| waste of material | a useless consumption of material |
| waste of money | money spent for inadequate return, the senator said that the project was a waste of money |
| waste of time | the devotion of time to a useless activity, the waste of time could prove fatal |
| 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 |
| waste permissive waste | (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect |
character printer
character-at-a-time printer
serial printer | a printer that prints a single character at a time |
drain
drainpipe
waste pipe | a pipe through which liquid is carried away |
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 |
wastepaper basket
waste-paper basket
wastebasket
waste basket
circular file | a container with an open top, for discarded paper and other rubbish |
thriftlessness
waste
wastefulness | the trait of wasting resources, a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste, the wastefulness of missed opportunities |
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 |
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 |
barren
waste
wasteland | an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation, the barrens of central Africa, the trackless wastes of the desert |
dump
garbage dump
trash dump
rubbish dump
wasteyard
waste-yard
dumpsite | a piece of land where waste materials are dumped |
toxic waste dump
toxic waste site
toxic dumpsite | a location where toxic wastes can be or have been disposed of (often illegally) |
toxic site
toxic waste area
Superfund site | a site where toxic wastes have been dumped and the Environmental Protection Agency has designated them to be cleaned up |
| time zone | any of the regions of the globe (loosely divided by longitude) throughout which the same standard time is used |
| double time | a doubled wage (for working overtime) |
| time and a half | a rate of pay that is . times the regular rate, for overtime work |