Benting time
() The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe. |
Mixolydian mode
() The seventh ecclesiastical mode, whose scale commences on G. |
Mode
(n.) Manner of doing or being |
Mode
(n.) Prevailing popular custom |
Mode
(n.) Variety |
Mode
(n.) Any combination of qualities or relations, considered apart from the substance to which they belong, and treated as entities |
Mode
(n.) The form in which the proposition connects the predicate and subject, whether by simple, contingent, or necessary assertion |
Mode
(n.) Same as Mood. |
Mode
(n.) The scale as affected by the various positions in it of the minor intervals |
Mode
(n.) A kind of silk. See Alamode, n. |
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. |
Transit
(n.) The act of passing |
Transit
(n.) The act or process of causing to pass |
Transit
(n.) A line or route of passage or conveyance |
Transit
(n.) The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field of a telescope. |
Transit
(n.) The passage of a smaller body across the disk of a larger, as of Venus across the sun's disk, or of a satellite or its shadow across the disk of its primary. |
Transit
(n.) An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors and engineers |
Transit
(v. t.) To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body). |
| time | the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past |
passage
transit | a journey usually by ship, the outward passage tookdays |
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 |
| 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 |
declinometer
transit declinometer | an instrument for measuring magnetic declination |
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 |
| public transit | a public transportation system for moving passengers |
rapid transit
mass rapid transit | an urban public transit system using underground or elevated trains |
theodolite
transit | a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod |
| 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 |
| transit instrument | a telescope mounted on an axis running east and west and used to time the transit of a celestial body across the meridian |
| transit line | a line providing public transit |
transportation system
transportation
transit | a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods |
vintage
time of origin | the oldness of wines |
manner mode
style
way fashion | how something is done or how it happens, her dignified manner, his rapid manner of talking, their nomadic mode of existence, in the characteristic New York style, a lonely way of life, in an abrasive fashion |
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 |
space-time
space-time continuum | the four-dimensional coordinate system ( dimensions of space and of time) in which physical events are located |
mode
modal value | the most frequent value of a random variable |
| time series | a series of values of a variable at successive times |
asynchronous transfer mode
ATM | a means of digital communications that is capable of very high speeds, suitable for transmission of images or voice or video as well as data, ATM is used for both LAN and WAN |
| pulse-time modulation | modulation of the time between successive pulses |
bank identification number
BIN
ABA transit number | an identification number consisting of a two-part code assigned to banks and savings associations, the first part shows the location and the second identifies the bank itself |
| time sheet | a record of the hours worked by employees |
| time signal | a signal (especially electronic or by radio) indicating the precisely correct time |
ecclesiastical mode
Gregorian mode
church mode
medieval mode | any of a system of modes used in Gregorian chants up until , derived historically from the Greek mode |
| Greek mode | any of the descending diatonic scales in the music of classical Greece |
mode
musical mode | any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave |
major key
major mode | a key whose harmony is based on the major scale |
minor key
minor mode | a key based on the minor scale |
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 |