occur between other event or between certain points of time; "the war intervened between the birth of her two children"
get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force; "Why did the U.S. not intervene earlier in WW II?"
be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events; "This interludes intervenes between the two movements"; "Eight days intervened"
the act of testing something; "in the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately"; "he called each flip of the coin a new trial"
the act of undergoing testing; "he survived the great test of battle"; "candidates must compete in a trial of skill"
any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc; "the test was standardized on a large sample of students"
a hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins
undergo a test; "She doesn't test well"
determine the presence or properties of (a substance)
achieve a certain score or rating on a test; "She tested high on the LSAT and was admitted to all the good law schools"
put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to; "This approach has been tried with good results"; "Test this recipe"
show a certain characteristic when tested; "He tested positive for HIV"
a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
the flared opening of a tubular device
the sound of a bell being struck; "saved by the bell"; "she heard the distant toll of church bells"
United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)
English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)
a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)
the shape of a bell
(nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
a score in American football; a player is tackled behind his own goal line
a safe place; "He ran to safety"
the state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions; "insure the safety of the children"; "the reciprocal of safety is risk"
any backward region that is isolated from the world and resists progress
a body of water that was created by a flood or tide or by being held or forced back by a dam; "the bayous and backwaters are breeding grounds for mosquitos"
relative darkness or lightness of a color; "I establish the colors and principal values by organizing the painting into three values--dark, medium...and light"-Joe Hing Lowe
the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable; "the Shakespearean Shylock is of dubious value in the modern world"
a numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed; "the value assigned was 16 milliseconds"
an ideal accepted by some individual or group; "he has old-fashioned values"
the amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else; "he tried to estimate the value of the produce at normal prices"
(music) the relative duration of a musical note
fix or determine the value of; assign a value to; "value the jewelry and art work in the estate"
a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped
a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children