course session class period recitation | a regularly scheduled session as part of a course of study |
idle pulley idler pulley idle wheel | a pulley on a shaft that presses against a guide belt to guide or tighten it |
period piece | any work of art whose special value lies in its evocation of a historical period |
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 |
wind malarkey malarky idle words jazz nothingness | empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk, that's a lot of wind, don't give me any of that jazz |
prate prattle idle talk blether chin music | idle or foolish and irrelevant talk |
weather weather condition conditions atmospheric condition | the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation, they were hoping for good weather, every day we have weather conditions and yesterday was no exception, the conditions were too rainy for playing in the snow |
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 |
conditions | the set of circumstances that affect someone's welfare, hazardous working conditions, harsh living conditions |
conditions | the prevailing context that influences the performance or the outcome of a process, there were wide variations in the conditions of observation |
noise conditions | the condition of being noisy (as in a communication channel) |
ski conditions | the amount and state of snow for skiing |
idle | the state of an engine or other mechanism that is idling, the car engine was running at idle |
meteorological conditions | the prevailing environmental conditions as they influence the prediction of weather |
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 |
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 |
second period | the second division into which the play of a game is divided |
final period | the final division into which the play of a game is divided |
period | (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games |
Baroque Baroque era Baroque period | the historic period from about untilwhen the baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in Europe |
Reconstruction Reconstruction Period | the period after the American Civil War when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union, - |
latent period | the time that elapses before the presence of a disease is manifested by symptoms |
reaction time response time latency latent period | the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it |