Benting time () The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe. |
Electro-motion (n.) The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit |
Excito-motion (n.) Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory. |
Ideo-motion (n.) An ideo-motor movement. |
Link motion () A valve gear, consisting of two eccentrics with their rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an adjustable connecting bar, called the link, in such a way that the motion of the engine can be reversed, or the cut-off varied, at will |
Motion (n.) The act, process, or state of changing place or position |
Motion (n.) Power of, or capacity for, motion. |
Motion (n.) Direction of movement |
Motion (n.) Change in the relative position of the parts of anything |
Motion (n.) Movement of the mind, desires, or passions |
Motion (n.) A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress |
Motion (n.) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant. |
Motion (n.) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. |
Motion (n.) A puppet show or puppet. |
Motion (v. i.) To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand |
Motion (v. i.) To make proposal |
Motion (v. t.) To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head |
Motion (v. t.) To propose |
Self-motion (n.) Motion given by inherent power, without external impulse |
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. |
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 | the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past |
motion movement move | the act of changing location from one place to another, police controlled the motion of the crowd, the movement of people from the farms to the cities, his move put him directly in my path |
progress progression procession advance advancement forward motion onward motion | the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) |
motion movement move motility | a change of position that does not entail a change of location, the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise, movement is a sign of life, an impatient move of his hand, gastrointestinal motility |
rotation rotary motion | the act of rotating as if on an axis, the rotation of the dancer kept time with the music |
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) |
filming cinematography motion-picture photography | the act of making a film |
harvest harvest time | the season for gathering crops |
haying haying time | the season for cutting and drying and storing grass as fodder |
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 |
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 |
standard schnauzer | a medium-sized schnauzer |
standard poodle | a breed or medium-sized poodles |
character printer character-at-a-time printer serial printer | a printer that prints a single character at a time |
Clark cell Clark standard cell | a form of voltaic cell once used as a standard for electromotive force |
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 |
motion-picture camera movie camera cineamera | a camera that takes a sequence of photographs that can give the illusion of motion when viewed in rapid succession |
motion-picture film movie film cine-film | photographic film several hundred feet long and wound on a spool, to be used in a movie camera |
page printer page-at-a-time printer | a printer that prints one page at a time |
perpetual motion machine | a machine that can continue to do work indefinitely without drawing energy from some external source, impossible under the law of conservation of energy |
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 |
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 |
Kepler's law Kepler's law of planetary motion | (astronomy) one of three empirical laws of planetary motion stated by Johannes Kepler |
Newton's law of motion Newton's law law of motion | one of three basic laws of classical mechanics |
first law of motion Newton's first law of motion Newton's first law | a body remains at rest or in motion with a constant velocity unless acted upon by an external force |
second law of motion Newton's second law of motion Newton's second law | the rate of change of momentum is proportional to the imposed force and goes in the direction of the force |
third law of motion Newton's third law of motion Newton's third law law of action and reaction | action and reaction are equal and opposite |
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 |
space-time space-time continuum | the four-dimensional coordinate system ( dimensions of space and of time) in which physical events are located |