Alabama period () A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic. |
Bond service () The condition of a bond servant |
Bord service () Service due from a bordar |
Catskill period () The closing subdivision of the Devonian age in America. The rocks of this period are well developed in the Catskill mountains, and extend south and west under the Carboniferous formation. See the Diagram under Geology. |
Champlain period () A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period |
Chemung period () A subdivision in the upper part of the Devonian system in America, so named from the Chemung River, along which the rocks are well developed. It includes the Portage and Chemung groups or epochs. See the Diagram under Geology. |
Hamilton period () A subdivision of the Devonian system of America |
Knight service () A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service. See Chivalry, n., 4. |
Niagara period () A subdivision or the American Upper Silurian system, embracing the Medina, Clinton, and Niagara epoch. The rocks of the Niagara epoch, mostly limestones, are extensively distributed, and at Niagara Falls consist of about eighty feet of shale supporting a greater thickness of limestone, which is gradually undermined by the removal of the shale. See Chart of Geology. |
Period (n.) A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies |
Period (n.) A stated and recurring interval of time |
Period (n.) One of the great divisions of geological time |
Period (n.) The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act |
Period (n.) A complete sentence, from one full stop to another |
Period (n.) The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word. |
Period (n.) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in circulating decimals. |
Period (n.) The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission. |
Period (n.) A complete musical sentence. |
Period (v. t.) To put an end to. |
Period (v. i.) To come to a period |
Salina period () The period in which the American Upper Silurian system, containing the brine-producing rocks of central New York, was formed. See the Chart of Geology. |
Service () Alt. of Service |
Service () A name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus Pyrus, as Pyrus domestica and P. torminalis of Europe, the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree, and the American shad bush (see Shad bush, under Shad). They have clusters of small, edible, applelike berries. |
Service (n.) The act of serving |
Service (n.) The deed of one who serves |
Service (n.) Office of devotion |
Service (n.) Hence, a musical composition for use in churches. |
Service (n.) Duty performed in, or appropriate to, any office or charge |
Service (n.) Useful office |
Service (n.) Profession of respect |
Service (n.) The act and manner of bringing food to the persons who eat it |
Service (n.) The act of bringing to notice, either actually or constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law |
Service (n.) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., as spun yarn, small lines, etc. |
Service (n.) The act of serving the ball. |
Service (n.) Act of serving or covering. See Serve, v. t., 13. |
Trenton period () A subdivision in the lower Silurian system of America |
service | the performance of duties by a waiter or servant, that restaurant has excellent service |
curb service | service provided to customers who remain in their vehicles |
self-service | the practice of serving yourself (as in a grocery or cafeteria) |
overhaul inspection and repair service | periodic maintenance on a car or machine, it was time for an overhaul on the tractor |
service serving service of process | the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone, he accepted service of the subpoena |
service cutback | the act of reducing service |
serve service | (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play, his powerful serves won the game |
service | work done by one person or group that benefits another, budget separately for goods and services |
consulting service | service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.) |
advisory service | a consulting service in which a CPA develops findings and conclusions and recommendations that are presented to the client for consideration and decision making |
attestation service attestation report | a consulting service in which a CPA expresses a conclusion about the reliability of a written statement that is the responsibility of someone else |
national service | compulsory service in the military during peacetime |
service | (law) the acts performed by an English feudal tenant for the benefit of his lord which formed the consideration for the property granted to him |
military service | land tenure by service in the lord's army |
knight's service | land tenure by service to the lord as a knight |
welfare work social service | an organized activity to improve the condition of disadvantaged people in society |
service | employment in or work for another, he retired afteryears of service |
public service | employment within a government system (especially in the civil service) |
sea-duty service abroad shipboard duty | naval service aboard a ship at sea |
servicing service | the act of mating by male animals, the bull was worth good money in servicing fees |
extension extension service university extension | an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students |
service religious service divine service | the act of public worship following prescribed rules, the Sunday service |
church service church | a service conducted in a house of worship, don't be late for church |
prayer meeting prayer service | a service at which people sing hymns and pray together |
chapel service chapel | a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar, he was late for chapel |
committal service | service committing a body to the grave, the committal service will be held next Monday |
conscription muster draft selective service | compulsory military service |
service | an act of help or assistance, he did them a service |
disservice ill service ill turn | an act intended to help that turns out badly, he did them a disservice |
community service | an unpaid service for the benefit of the public that is performed by lawbreakers as part (or all) of their sentence |
community service public service | a service that is performed for the benefit of the public or its institutions |
inter-service support | action by one military service to provide logistic (or administrative) support to another military service |
service call | a trip made by a repairman to visit the location of something in need of service |
course session class period recitation | a regularly scheduled session as part of a course of study |
cable cable television cable system cable television service | a television system that transmits over cables |
dinner service dinner set | a table service for serving dinner |
freight elevator service elevator | an elevator designed for carrying freight |
frontage road service road | a local road that runs parallel to an expressway and allows local traffic to gain access to property |
garage service department | a repair shop where cars and trucks are serviced and repaired |
kepi peaked cap service cap yachting cap | a cap with a flat circular top and a visor |
period piece | any work of art whose special value lies in its evocation of a historical period |
service table service | tableware consisting of a complete set of articles (silver or dishware) for use at table |
service club | a recreational center for servicemen |
service door service entrance servant's entrance | an entrance intended for the use of servants or for delivery of goods and removal of refuse |
service station | a station where gasoline and oil are sold and facilities are available for repairing or maintaining automobiles |
tea service tea set | a set of china or silverware for serving tea |
longevity length of service | duration of service, her longevity as a star, had unusual longevity in the company |
combat ceiling service ceiling | altitude above which a plane cannot climb faster than a given rate |
avail help service | a means of serving, of no avail, there's no help for it |
mail mail service postal service post | the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office, the mail handles billions of items every day, he works for the United States mail service, in England they call mail `the post' |