Acquisition
(n.) The act or process of acquiring. |
Acquisition
(n.) The thing acquired or gained |
Benting time
() The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe. |
Date
(n.) The fruit of the date palm |
Date
(n.) That addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (as day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, or executed, or made |
Date
(n.) The point of time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place |
Date
(n.) Assigned end |
Date
(n.) Given or assigned length of life |
Date
(v. t.) To note the time of writing or executing |
Date
(v. t.) To note or fix the time of, as of an event |
Date
(v. i.) To have beginning |
Purchase
(v. t.) To pursue and obtain |
Purchase
(v. t.) To obtain by paying money or its equivalent |
Purchase
(v. t.) To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc. |
Purchase
(v. t.) To expiate by a fine or forfeit. |
Purchase
(v. t.) To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance. |
Purchase
(v. t.) To buy for a price. |
Purchase
(v. t.) To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage |
Purchase
(v. i.) To put forth effort to obtain anything |
Purchase
(v. i.) To acquire wealth or property. |
Purchase
(v. t.) The act of seeking, getting, or obtaining anything. |
Purchase
(v. t.) The act of seeking and acquiring property. |
Purchase
(v. t.) The acquisition of title to, or properly in, anything for a price |
Purchase
(v. t.) That which is obtained, got, or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly |
Purchase
(v. t.) That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent. |
Purchase
(v. t.) Any mechanical hold, or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle, capstan, and the like |
Purchase
(v. t.) Acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement. |
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. |
| time | the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past |
| acquisition | the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something, the acquisition of wealth, the acquisition of one company by another |
| purchase | the acquisition of something for payment, they closed the purchase with a handshake |
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 of time | the devotion of time to a useless activity, the waste of time could prove fatal |
| date rape | rape in which the rapist is known to the victim (as when they are on a date together) |
| 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 |
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 |
page printer
page-at-a-time printer | a printer that prints one page at a time |
| target acquisition system | a shipboard system for the detection and identification and location of a target with enough detail to permit effective weapon employment |
| 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 |
skill accomplishment
acquirement
acquisition
attainment | an ability that has been acquired by training |
learning
acquisition | the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge, the child's acquisition of language |
| audio lingual acquisition | system of language acquisition focusing intensively on listening and speaking |
| stock purchase plan | an organized plan for employees of a company to buy shares of its stock |
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 |
purchase contract
purchase agreement | a contract stating the terms of a purchase |
merger agreement
acquisition agreement | contract governing the merger of two or more companies |
| order purchase order | a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities, IBM received an order for a hundred computers |
| 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 |
| date bar | fruit bar containing chopped dates |
| date bread | bread containing chopped dates |
| date-nut bread | bread containing chopped dates and nuts |
| date | sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed |
jujube Chinese date
Chinese jujube | dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees |