locomotion
travel | self-propelled movement |
travel
traveling
travelling | the act of going from one place to another, he enjoyed selling but he hated the travel |
air travel
aviation
air | travel via aircraft, air travel involves too much waiting in airports, if you've time to spare go by air |
spaceflight
space travel
spacefaring | a voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere |
water travel
seafaring | travel by water |
course session
class period
recitation | a regularly scheduled session as part of a course of study |
| period piece | any work of art whose special value lies in its evocation of a historical period |
toilet kit
travel kit | a kit for carrying toilet articles while traveling |
| travel iron | a small lightweight iron that can be carried while traveling |
travel plan
itinerary | a proposed route of travel |
travel guidebook
itinerary | a guidebook for travelers |
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 |
change of location
travel | a movement through space that changes the location of something |
| travel agency | an agency that arranges personal travel |
| travel agent | someone who sells or arranges trips or tours for customers |
| travel bargain | a bargain rate for travellers on commercial routes (usually air routes) |
travel allowance
travel reimbursement | a sum allowed for travel |
| travel expense | (frequently plural) expenses incurred by an employee in the performance of the job and usually reimbursed by the employer |
expense account
travel and entertainment account | an account to which salespersons or executives can charge travel and entertainment expenses |
menstruation
menses
menstruum
catamenia
period
flow | the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause, the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation, a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped--Hippocrates, the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females--Aristotle |
time period
period of time
period | an amount of time, a time period ofyears, hastened the period of time of his recovery, Picasso's blue period |
trial period
test period | a period of time during which someone or something is tested |
| travel time | a period of time spent traveling, workers were not paid for their travel time between home and factory |
Quaternary
Quaternary period
Age of Man | last million years |
Tertiary
Tertiary period | from million to million years ago |
Cretaceous
Cretaceous period | from million to million years ago, end of the age of reptiles, appearance of modern insects and flowering plants |
Jurassic
Jurassic period | frommillion to million years ago, dinosaurs, conifers |
Triassic
Triassic period | frommillion tomillion years ago, dinosaurs, marine reptiles, volcanic activity |
Permian
Permian period | frommillion tomillion years ago, reptiles |
Carboniferous
Carboniferous period | from million tomillion years ago |
Pennsylvanian
Pennsylvanian period
Upper Carboniferous
Upper Carboniferous period | frommillion tomillion years ago, warm climate, swampy land |
Mississippian
Missippian period
Lower Carboniferous
Lower Carboniferous period | from million tomillion years ago, increase of land areas, primitive ammonites, winged insects |
Devonian
Devonian period
Age of Fishes | frommillion to million years ago, preponderance of fishes and appearance of amphibians and ammonites |
Silurian
Silurian period | from million tomillion years ago, first air-breathing animals |
Ordovician
Ordovician period | from million to million years ago, conodonts and ostracods and algae and seaweeds |
Cambrian
Cambrian period | from million to about million years ago, marine invertebrates |
Precambrian
Precambrian eon
Precambrian aeon
Precambrian period | the eon following the Hadean time and preceding the Phanerozoic eon, from about , million years ago until million years ago |
| period | the end or completion of something, death put a period to his endeavors, a change soon put a period to my tranquility |
| neonatal period | the first days of life |
latency stage
latency phase
latency period | (psychoanalysis) the fourth period (from about age or until puberty) during which sexual interests are supposed to be sublimated into other activities |
day
twenty-four hours
twenty-four hour period
-hour interval
solar day
mean solar day | time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis, two days later they left, they put on two performances every day, there are , passengers per day |
lunchtime
lunch period | the customary or habitual hour for eating lunch, he observed a regular lunchtime |
gestation
gestation period | the period during which an embryo develops (about days in humans) |
| refractory period | (neurology) the time after a neuron fires or a muscle fiber contracts during which a stimulus will not evoke a response |
| overtime period | a period of overtime play to resolve a tie, e.g. basketball |
| period geological period | a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed, ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods |
historic period
age | an era of history having some distinctive feature, we live in a litigious age |
ice age
glacial period
glacial epoch | any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface, the most recent ice age was during the Pleistocene |
playing period
period of play
play | (in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds, rain stopped play in the th inning |
| first period | the first division into which the play of a game is divided |