Secretary of Education Education Secretary | the position of the head of the Education Department, the post of Education Secretary was created in |
Secretary of Health Education and Welfare | head of a former executive department created in and divided into two departments in |
education | the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university) |
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 |
continuing education | a program of instruction designed primarily for adult students who participate part-time |
adult education | a course (via lectures or correspondence) for adults who are not otherwise engaged in formal study |
elementary education | education in elementary subjects (reading and writing and arithmetic) provided to young students at a grade school |
higher education | education provided by a college or university |
secondary education | education beyond the elementary grades, provided by a high school or college preparatory school |
course session class period recitation | a regularly scheduled session as part of a course of study |
period piece | any work of art whose special value lies in its evocation of a historical period |
education training breeding | the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior), a woman of breeding and refinement |
education | the gradual process of acquiring knowledge, education is a preparation for life, a girl's education was less important than a boy's |
physical education | training in the development of and care for the human body, stresses athletics, includes hygiene |
self-education selfultivation | the process of educating yourself |
special education | education of physically or mentally handicapped children whose needs cannot be met in an ordinary classroom |
vocational training vocational education | training for a specific vocation in industry or agriculture or trade |
education | knowledge acquired by learning and instruction, it was clear that he had a very broad education |
Master of Education MEd | a master's degree in education |
Doctor of Education EdD DEd | a doctor's degree in education |
period point full stop stop full point | a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations, in England they call a period a stop |
Department of Education Education Department Education | the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students), created |
Department of Health Education and Welfare | a former executive department of the United States government, created in and divided in |
school board board of education | a board in charge of local public schools |
Secretary of Education Education Secretary | the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Education, Carter appointed Shirley Hufstedler as the first Secretary of Education |
menstruation menses menstruum catamenia period flow | the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause, the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation, a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped--Hippocrates, the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females--Aristotle |
General Certificate of Secondary Education GCSE O level | the basic level of a subject taken in school |
time period period of time period | an amount of time, a time period ofyears, hastened the period of time of his recovery, Picasso's blue period |
trial period test period | a period of time during which someone or something is tested |
Quaternary Quaternary period Age of Man | last million years |
Tertiary Tertiary period | from million to million years ago |
Cretaceous Cretaceous period | from million to million years ago, end of the age of reptiles, appearance of modern insects and flowering plants |
Jurassic Jurassic period | frommillion to million years ago, dinosaurs, conifers |
Triassic Triassic period | frommillion tomillion years ago, dinosaurs, marine reptiles, volcanic activity |
Permian Permian period | frommillion tomillion years ago, reptiles |
Carboniferous Carboniferous period | from million tomillion years ago |
Pennsylvanian Pennsylvanian period Upper Carboniferous Upper Carboniferous period | frommillion tomillion years ago, warm climate, swampy land |
Mississippian Missippian period Lower Carboniferous Lower Carboniferous period | from million tomillion years ago, increase of land areas, primitive ammonites, winged insects |
Devonian Devonian period Age of Fishes | frommillion to million years ago, preponderance of fishes and appearance of amphibians and ammonites |
Silurian Silurian period | from million tomillion years ago, first air-breathing animals |
Ordovician Ordovician period | from million to million years ago, conodonts and ostracods and algae and seaweeds |
Cambrian Cambrian period | from million to about million years ago, marine invertebrates |
Precambrian Precambrian eon Precambrian aeon Precambrian period | the eon following the Hadean time and preceding the Phanerozoic eon, from about , million years ago until million years ago |
period | the end or completion of something, death put a period to his endeavors, a change soon put a period to my tranquility |
neonatal period | the first days of life |
latency stage latency phase latency period | (psychoanalysis) the fourth period (from about age or until puberty) during which sexual interests are supposed to be sublimated into other activities |
day twenty-four hours twenty-four hour period -hour interval solar day mean solar day | time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis, two days later they left, they put on two performances every day, there are , passengers per day |
lunchtime lunch period | the customary or habitual hour for eating lunch, he observed a regular lunchtime |
gestation gestation period | the period during which an embryo develops (about days in humans) |
refractory period | (neurology) the time after a neuron fires or a muscle fiber contracts during which a stimulus will not evoke a response |