Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
- mid-twenties
- the time of life between 20 and 30
- day
- the time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar day
- game
- (tennis) a division of play during which one player serves
- drinking age
- the age at which is legal for a person to buy alcoholic beverages
- rag
- a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities
- playday
- time for play or diversion
- time-out
- a brief suspension of play
- Quaternary period
- last 2 million years
- Rabi I
- the third month of the Islamic calendar
- moment of truth
- the moment in a bullfight when the matador kills the bull
- compensatory time
- time off that is granted to a worker as compensation for working overtime
- starting point
- earliest limiting point
- Groundhog Day
- if the ground hog emerges and sees his shadow on this day, there will be 6 more weeks of winter
- New York minute
- a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
- furlough
- a temporary leave of absence from military duty
- frame
- (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat
- lactation
- the period following birth during which milk is secreted
- speed
- distance travelled per unit time
- half
- one of two divisions into which some games or performances are divided: the two divisions are separated by an interval
- triple time
- musical time with three beats in each bar
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