Alabama period
() A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic. |
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 |
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. |
Standard
(n.) A flag |
Standard
(n.) That which is established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, extent, value, or quality |
Standard
(n.) That which is established as a rule or model by authority, custom, or general consent |
Standard
(n.) The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. |
Standard
(n.) A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis. |
Standard
(n.) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla. |
Standard
(n.) An upright support, as one of the poles of a scaffold |
Standard
(n.) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally. |
Standard
(n.) The sheth of a plow. |
Standard
(n.) A large drinking cup. |
Standard
(a.) Being, affording, or according with, a standard for comparison and judgment |
Standard
(a.) Hence: Having a recognized and permanent value |
Standard
(a.) Not supported by, or fastened to, a wall |
Standard
(a.) Not of the dwarf kind |
Standard-bred
(a.) Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trotting-horse Breeders. |
Standard-wing
(n.) A curious paradise bird (Semioptera Wallacii) which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing. |
Study
(v. i.) A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject |
Study
(v. i.) Mental occupation |
Study
(v. i.) Any particular branch of learning that is studied |
Study
(v. i.) A building or apartment devoted to study or to literary work. |
Study
(v. i.) A representation or rendering of any object or scene intended, not for exhibition as an original work of art, but for the information, instruction, or assistance of the maker |
Study
(v. i.) A piece for special practice. See Etude. |
Study
(n.) To fix the mind closely upon a subject |
Study
(n.) To apply the mind to books or learning. |
Study
(n.) To endeavor diligently |
Study
(v. t.) To apply the mind to |
Study
(v. t.) To consider attentively |
Study
(v. t.) To form or arrange by previous thought |
Study
(v. t.) To make an object of study |
Trenton period
() A subdivision in the lower Silurian system of America |
double-blind procedure
double-blind experiment
double-blind study | an experimental procedure in which neither the subjects of the experiment nor the persons administering the experiment know the critical aspects of the experiment, a double-blind procedure is used to guard against both experimenter bias and placebo effects |
| survey study | a detailed critical inspection |
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 |
| case study | a detailed analysis of a person or group from a social or psychological or medical point of view |
course course of study
course of instruction
class | education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings, he took a course in basket weaving, flirting is not unknown in college classes |
| directed study | a course of study that is supervised and controlled by a specialist in the subject, he registered for directed study, he got credit for directed study, he did directed study |
| work-study program | an educational plan in which students alternate between paid employment and formal study |
| home study | a course of study carried out at home rather than in a classroom |
standing operating procedure
standard operating procedure
SOP
standard procedure | a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely, rote memorization has been the educator's standard operating procedure for centuries |
course session
class period
recitation | a regularly scheduled session as part of a course of study |
| standard schnauzer | a medium-sized schnauzer |
| standard poodle | a breed or medium-sized poodles |
Clark cell
Clark standard cell | a form of voltaic cell once used as a standard for electromotive force |
| period piece | any work of art whose special value lies in its evocation of a historical period |
sketch
study | preliminary drawing for later elaboration, he made several studies before starting to paint |
| standard banner | any distinctive flag |
| standard | an upright pole or beam (especially one used as a support), distance was marked by standards every mile, lamps supported on standards provided illumination |
| standard cell | a primary cell used as a standard of electromotive force |
| standard gauge | railroad track having the standard width of . inches |
standard transmission
stick shift | a transmission that is operated manually with a gear lever and a clutch pedal |
| study | a room used for reading and writing and studying, he knocked lightly on the closed door of the study |
| study hall | a classroom reserved for study |
| brown study | a state of deep absorption or thoughtfulness |
| study | a state of deep mental absorption, she is in a deep study |
| study work | applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading), mastering a second language requires a lot of work, no schools offer graduate study in interior design |
cogitation
study | attentive consideration and meditation, after much cogitation he rejected the offer |
| nature study | the study of animals and plants in the natural world (usually at an elementary level) |
| gold standard | a paragon of excellence, academic education is the gold standard against which other educational activity is pejoratively judged |
criterion
standard | the ideal in terms of which something can be judged, they live by the standards of their community |
accounting principle
accounting standard | a principle that governs current accounting practice and that is used as a reference to determine the appropriate treatment of complex transactions |
discipline
subject
subject area
subject field
field
field of study
study bailiwick | a branch of knowledge, in what discipline is his doctorate?, teachers should be well trained in their subject, anthropology is the study of human beings |
| standard deviation | the square root of the variance |
| literary study | the humanistic study of literature |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASCII | (computer science) a code for information exchange between computers made by different companies, a string of binary digits represents each character, used in most microcomputers |
American Standard Version
American Revised Version | a revised version of the King James Version |
| Revised Standard Version | a revision of the American Standard Version |
Standard and Poor's
Standard and Poor's Index | a broadly based stock market index |
| double standard | an ethical or moral code that applies more strictly to one group than to another |
| double standard of sexual behavior | a code that permits greater sexual freedom for men than for women (associated with the subordination of women) |
course of study
program programme curriculum
syllabus | an integrated course of academic studies, he was admitted to a new program at the university |
standard generalized markup language
SGML | (computer science) a standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents, a set of rules for using whatever markup vocabulary is adopted |
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 |
| study | a composition intended to develop one aspect of the performer's technique, a study in spiccato bowing |
| non-standard speech | speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community |
report study
written report | a written document describing the findings of some individual or group, this accords with the recent study by Hill and Dale |
| case study | a careful study of some social unit (as a corporation or division within a corporation) that attempts to determine what factors led to its success or failure |
standard
criterion
measure touchstone | a basis for comparison, a reference point against which other things can be evaluated, the schools comply with federal standards, they set the measure for all subsequent work |
procrustean standard
procrustean rule
procrustean bed | a standard that is enforced uniformly without regard to individuality |
color bearer
standard-bearer | the soldier who carries the standard of the unit in military parades or in battle |
quick study
sponge | someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily, she soaks up foreign languages like a sponge |