business stage business byplay | incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect, his business with the cane was hilarious |
loose end unfinished business | work that is left incomplete |
occupation business job line of work line | the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money, he's not in my line of business |
business life professional life | a career in industrial or commercial or professional activities |
language lesson | a period of instruction learning a language |
monkey business | mischievous or deceitful behavior |
language teaching | teaching people to speak and understand a foreign language |
programming programing computer programming computer programing | creating a sequence of instructions to enable the computer to do something |
logic programming logic programing | creating a program that enables the computer to reason logically |
object-oriented programming object-oriented programing | creating a program that can use and support objects |
commercial enterprise business enterprise business | the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects, computers are now widely used in business |
business activity commercial activity | activity undertaken as part of a commercial enterprise |
business | the volume of commercial activity, business is good today, show me where the business was today |
land-office business | very large and profitable volume of commercial activity |
field field of operation line of business | a particular kind of commercial enterprise, they are outstanding in their field |
employee-owned enterprise employee-owned business | a commercial enterprise owned by the people who work for it |
discount business | the business of selling merchandise at a discount |
real-estate business | the business of selling real estate |
meatpacking meat packing meat-packing business | wholesale packaging of meat for future sale (including slaughtering and processing and distribution to retailers) |
deal trade business deal | a particular instance of buying or selling, it was a package deal, I had no further trade with him, he's a master of the business deal |
going-out-of-business sale | a sale of all the tangible assets of a business that is about to close, during the Great Depression going-out-of-business sales were very common |
scheduling programming programing | setting an order and time for planned events |
common shiner silversides Notropis cornutus | the common North American shiner |
common canary Serinus canaria | native to the Canary Islands and Azores, popular usually yellow cage bird noted for its song |
common yellowthroat Maryland yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas | an American warbler |
common starling Sturnus vulgaris | gregarious bird having plumage with dark metallic gloss, builds nests around dwellings and other structures, naturalized worldwide |
common European jay Garullus garullus | fawnolored jay with black-and-white crest and blue-and-black wings |
common nutcracker Nucifraga caryocatactes | Old World nutcracker |
common newt Triturus vulgaris | small semiaquatic salamander |
common snapping turtle snapper Chelydra serpentina | large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water, prone to bite |
common iguana iguana Iguana iguana | large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back, used as human food in Central America and South America |
common kingsnake Lampropeltis getulus | widespread in United States except northern regions, black or brown with yellow bands |
common garter snake Thamnophis sirtalis | a garter snake that is widespread in North America |
common water snake banded water snake Natrix sipedon Nerodia sipedon | in some classifications placed in the genus Nerodia, western United States snake that seldom ventures far from water |
adder common viper Vipera berus | small terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia |
common scoter Melanitta nigra | a variety of scoter |
common brant goose Branta bernicla | the best known variety of brant goose |
common opossum Didelphis virginiana Didelphis marsupialis | omnivorous opossum of the eastern United States, noted for feigning death when in danger, esteemed as food in some areas, considered same species as the crab-eating opossum of South America |
common wallaby Macropus agiles | a small wallaby having a height ofinches |
common shrew Sorex araneus | common American shrew |
common roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides | intestinal parasite of humans and pigs |
common limpet Patella vulgata | marine limpet |
common spoonbill Platalea leucorodia | pure white crested spoonbill of southern Eurasia and northeastern Africa |
common murre Uria aalge | the most frequent variety of murre |
finback finback whale fin whale common rorqual Balaenoptera physalus | large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat, of Atlantic and Pacific |
common dolphin Delphinus delphis | black-and-white dolphin that leaps high out of the water, |
pilot whale black whale common blackfish blackfish Globicephala melaena | small darkolored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States, the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school |
harbor seal common seal Phoca vitulina | small spotted seal of coastal waters of the northern hemisphere |
common lynx Lynx lynx | of northern Eurasia |
common louse Pediculus humanus | head or body louse |