Benting time () The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe. |
Electro-motion (n.) The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit |
Excito-motion (n.) Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory. |
Ideo-motion (n.) An ideo-motor movement. |
Link motion () A valve gear, consisting of two eccentrics with their rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an adjustable connecting bar, called the link, in such a way that the motion of the engine can be reversed, or the cut-off varied, at will |
Motion (n.) The act, process, or state of changing place or position |
Motion (n.) Power of, or capacity for, motion. |
Motion (n.) Direction of movement |
Motion (n.) Change in the relative position of the parts of anything |
Motion (n.) Movement of the mind, desires, or passions |
Motion (n.) A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress |
Motion (n.) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant. |
Motion (n.) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. |
Motion (n.) A puppet show or puppet. |
Motion (v. i.) To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand |
Motion (v. i.) To make proposal |
Motion (v. t.) To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head |
Motion (v. t.) To propose |
Self-motion (n.) Motion given by inherent power, without external impulse |
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 | 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 |
motion movement move | the act of changing location from one place to another, police controlled the motion of the crowd, the movement of people from the farms to the cities, his move put him directly in my path |
progress progression procession advance advancement forward motion onward motion | the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) |
motion movement move motility | a change of position that does not entail a change of location, the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise, movement is a sign of life, an impatient move of his hand, gastrointestinal motility |
rotation rotary motion | the act of rotating as if on an axis, the rotation of the dancer kept time with the music |
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) |
filming cinematography motion-picture photography | the act of making a film |
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 |
motion-picture camera movie camera cineamera | a camera that takes a sequence of photographs that can give the illusion of motion when viewed in rapid succession |
motion-picture film movie film cine-film | photographic film several hundred feet long and wound on a spool, to be used in a movie camera |
page printer page-at-a-time printer | a printer that prints one page at a time |
perpetual motion machine | a machine that can continue to do work indefinitely without drawing energy from some external source, impossible under the law of conservation of energy |
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) |
Kepler's law Kepler's law of planetary motion | (astronomy) one of three empirical laws of planetary motion stated by Johannes Kepler |
Newton's law of motion Newton's law law of motion | one of three basic laws of classical mechanics |
first law of motion Newton's first law of motion Newton's first law | a body remains at rest or in motion with a constant velocity unless acted upon by an external force |