Word Finder - season

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Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter

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• yeartide
• yeartime

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A part of a year when something particular happens

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mating season

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That which gives relish; seasoning.

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The period over which a series of Test matches are played.

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A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals with a long break between each group, usually with one year between the beginning of each.

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The third season of Friends aired from 1996 to 1997.

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• series (British English)

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An extended, undefined period of time.

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The full set of downloadable content for a game, which can be purchased with a season pass.

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A fixed period of time in a massively multiplayer online game in which new content (themes, rules, modes, etc.) becomes available, sometimes replacing earlier content.

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To make fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure.

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to season oneself to a climate

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(by extension) To prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices.

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The timber needs to be seasoned.

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To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.

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To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance.

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The wood has seasoned in the sun.

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To mingle: to moderate, temper, or qualify by admixture.

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To copulate with; to impregnate.

It isn't hunting season, is it?

I have few opportunities like this and the season is so short.

And, if practice makes perfect, Ouray, blessed with a beautiful but long winter season, gave its citizens ample opportunity to do just that.

However, I was released the next day, obtained my mended shoe, and returned to the woods in season to get my dinner of huckleberries on Fair Haven Hill.

According to Katie's letter, kidding season was almost on them and they were getting the barn ready.

In the United Kingdom the regular bowling season extends from May day till the end of September or the middle of October.

Now it was open season, as they had no idea of the skeleton's age—provided Jennifer Radisson's report of Josh Mulligan's later death was credible.

Which reminds me, you've got a ten o'clock today with your producer to plan out shooting for the next season, Ingrid said.

Consequently, during the hot season in Upper India, and at all times except during the rains in the more southern districts, elephants keep much to the denser parts of the forests.

At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.

The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour.

It couldn't be deer season, so that meant the dog was chasing the deer for pleasure - or worse.

The mean winter reading of the thermometer is 54.7, and accompanied as this is by clear skies and an absence of snow, the season is both pleasant and invigorating.

The Christmas season has furnished many lessons, and added scores of new words to Helen's vocabulary.

Of two patterns which differ only by a few threads more or less of a particular color, the one will be sold readily, the other lie on the shelf, though it frequently happens that after the lapse of a season the latter becomes the most fashionable.

I can take classes in the off season.

The whole lot contains eleven acres, mostly growing up to pines and hickories, and was sold the preceding season for eight dollars and eight cents an acre.

Another time when Winslow visited them, it being a season of plenty with them, there was no deficiency in this respect.

Also there is a bar across the entrance of our every cove, or particular inclination; each is our harbor for a season, in which we are detained and partially land-locked.

It indicates better than any water hereabouts the absolute progress of the season, being least affected by transient changes of temperature.

As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.

It's the heart of the season and still early enough to hitch a ride with a Jeep tour or a tourist.

One of my most expensive shirts with the pants that went out of season five years ago.

The winter season precluded the front porch rocking chair conferences of last summer and since the past autumn the group's confabs had been replaced with side-of-the-bed meetings in the Deans' quarters.

A season before, his father was called in by his brother, the king, to personally travel to the barbarian lands after a tribe of barbarians invited them to trade with them.

When the cruising season of the lake was nearly over he in his turn retired to Sackett's Harbor, and did not leave it for the rest of the war.

The elevated plateaus between these ranges are semiarid and inhospitable, and are covered with extensive saline basins, which become lagoons in the wet season and morasses or dry saltpans in the dry season.

Our moulting season, like that of the fowls, must be a crisis in our lives.

In almost all climes the tortoise and the frog are among the precursors and heralds of this season, and birds fly with song and glancing plumage, and plants spring and bloom, and winds blow, to correct this slight oscillation of the poles and preserve the equilibrium of nature.

It was Friday, a week day, and the height of the season, so he had expected most of the town's folk to be too busy for political small talk.

It was early in the season for the little fellows—they usually stayed outside until the cold weather coaxed them indoors.

You're always testing because surface changes, by the season, the time of day, how many climbers hack away at it, sometimes by the hour.

It was barely evening but the darkening clouds and winter season begrimed the outside as black as a slum landlord's heart.

The frightened creature is as ill prepared for the season as I and scurries about frantically in the deepening snow in search of sustenance.

One hearty soul was clothed in shorts, as if trying to wow his neighbors with an out of season, near full body tan.

He was able to tolerate it for the hour a day during the season when they shot his show.

The prevailing winds in this region, which the sea traverses longitudinally, are westerly, but the sea itself causes the formation of bands of low barometric pressure during the winter season, within which cyclonic disturbances frequently develop, while in summer the region comes under the influence of the polar margin of the tropical high pressure belt.

The result was that the houses were free from mosquitoes and no malaria occurred throughout the entire season, though there had been 40 cases in the previous year.

It was very exciting at that season to roam the then boundless chestnut woods of Lincoln--they now sleep their long sleep under the railroad--with a bag on my shoulder, and a stick to open burs with in my hand, for I did not always wait for the frost, amid the rustling of leaves and the loud reproofs of the red squirrels and the jays, whose half-consumed nuts I sometimes stole, for the burs which they had selected were sure to contain sound ones.

Their kisses were usually shared after dark, but as the season progressed, that was getting later in the evening.

The Buen was nearly full, but as the season crept toward the Fourth of July and the heart of summer, finding a dinner seat anywhere in Ouray would often require patience.

He repeated his intentions to continue his education in the off season, skirting the fact he'd be kissing off the final year of his scholarship.

Tickets were sold throughout the tourist season, and the winner's name was drawn at Oktoberfest in the fall.

Unfortunately, most of the motels that remained open in the winter season were located in that direction.

On Mountains Much Seems To Depend On Whether There Are Rising Or Falling Air Currents, And Results From A Single Season May Not Be Fairly Representative.

It has more than one advantage over the meadow mushroom in its extreme commonness, its profuse growth, the length of the season in which it may be gathered, the total absence of varietal forms, its adaptability for being dried and preserved for years, and its persistent delicious taste.

The wet season, during which heavy rain falls almost daily, lasts from April to October, coinciding with the south-west monsoon.

The pitchers accumulate vast quantities of insects in the course of a season, and must thus abundantly manure the surrounding soil when they die.

At the end of this century and a half, five principal powers divided the peninsula; and their confederated action during the next forty-five years (1447-1492) secured for Italy a season of peace and brilliant pro,sperity.

During their season of ascendancy Pisa was enslaved, and Florence gained the access to the sea.