Alabama period
() A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic. |
Blindman's holiday
() The time between daylight and candle light. |
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 |
Holiday
(n.) A consecrated day |
Holiday
(n.) A day of exemption from labor |
Holiday
(n.) A day fixed by law for suspension of business |
Holiday
(a.) Of or pertaining to a festival |
Holiday
(a.) Occurring rarely |
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. |
Season
(n.) One of the divisions of the year, marked by alternations in the length of day and night, or by distinct conditions of temperature, moisture, etc., caused mainly by the relative position of the earth with respect to the sun. In the north temperate zone, four seasons, namely, spring, summer, autumn, and winter, are generally recognized. Some parts of the world have three seasons, -- the dry, the rainy, and the cold |
Season
(n.) Hence, a period of time, especially as regards its fitness for anything contemplated or done |
Season
(n.) A period of time not very long |
Season
(n.) That which gives relish |
Season
(v. t.) To render suitable or appropriate |
Season
(v. t.) To fit for any use by time or habit |
Season
(v. t.) Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices |
Season
(v. t.) To fit for taste |
Season
(v. t.) Hence, to fit for enjoyment |
Season
(v. t.) To qualify by admixture |
Season
(v. t.) To imbue |
Season
(v. t.) To copulate with |
Season
(v. i.) To become mature |
Season
(v. i.) To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance |
Season
(v. i.) To give token |
Trenton period
() A subdivision in the lower Silurian system of America |
package tour
package holiday | a tour arranged by a travel agent, transportation and food and lodging are all provided at an inclusive price |
| busman's holiday | a holiday where you do the same things you do at work |
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 |
commutation ticket
season ticket | a ticket good for several trips or to attend a season of entertainments, sold at a reduced rate |
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 |
resort
resort hotel
holiday resort | a hotel located in a resort area |
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 |
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 |
vacation
holiday | leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure, we get two weeks of vacation every summer, we took a short holiday in Puerto Rico |
| half-holiday | a day on which half is free from work or duty |
| 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 |
| holiday | a day on which work is suspended by law or custom, no mail is delivered on federal holidays, it's a good thing that New Year's was a holiday because everyone had a hangover |
religious holiday
holy day | a day specified for religious observance |
High Holy Day
High Holiday | Jewish holy days observed with particular solemnity |
legal holiday
national holiday
public holiday | authorized by law and limiting work or official business |
| bank holiday | any of several weekdays when banks are closed, a legal holiday in Britain |
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 |
| silly season | a time usually late summer characterized by exaggerated news stories about frivolous matters for want of real news |
| overtime period | a period of overtime play to resolve a tie, e.g. basketball |
season
time of year | one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions, the regular sequence of the seasons |
| growing season | the season during which a crop grows best |
| holiday season | a time when many people take holidays |
high season
peak season | the season when travel is most active and rates are highest, they traveled to Europe in high season |
| off-season | the season when travel is least active and rates are lowest |
| rainy season | one of the two seasons in tropical climates |
| dry season | one of the two seasons in tropical climates |
| season | a recurrent time marked by major holidays, it was the Christmas season |
| season | a period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field, he celebrated his th season with the ballet company, she always looked forward to the avocado season |
| baseball season | the season when baseball is played |