marking time
11mark time — 1) move one s feet up and down to music He was marking time to the music as he was driving his car. 2) be idle, waiting for something to happen He has been marking time for over a month now as he waits to hear about the new job …
12mark time — phrasal 1. : to keep the time of a marching step (as in military drill) by moving the feet alternately without advancing 2. : to function or operate in a lackadaisical, listless, or unproductive manner : merely go through the motions of activity …
13mark time — phrasal 1. to keep the time of a marching step by moving the feet alternately without advancing 2. to maintain a static state of readiness < the House was marking time while the Senate talked F. L. Paxson > …
14mark time — to do something which is not very interesting while you are waiting to start doing something more important. She s just marking time in her father s shop until it s time to go to university. (usually in continuous tenses) …
15mark time — 1) to do nothing, or to make no progress, because you are waiting for something to happen I feel like I m just marking time in this job. 2) if soldiers mark time, they make movements with their arms and legs as if they were marching, but they… …
16Road surface marking — is any kind of device or material that is used on a road surface in order to convey official information. Road surface markings are used on paved roadways to provide guidance and information to drivers and pedestrians. Uniformity of the markings… …
17Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time — [http://books.google.com/books?id=hrT xNaDkgQC printsec=frontcover Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time] (University of Chicago Press, 1992) is linguist Johanna Nichols s best known work, pioneering the use of linguistic typology as a tool for… …
18Shared lane marking — The shared lane marking is a roadway marking installed at locations in the UK, Germany, Australia, France, Switzerland and the United States. This marking is used within travel lanes shared by bicyclists and other vehicles.HistoryIn the English… …
19Differential object marking — Linguistics …
20One-time pad — Excerpt from a one time pad In cryptography, the one time pad (OTP) is a type of encryption, which has been proven to be impossible to crack if used correctly. Each bit or character from the plaintext is encrypted by a modular addition with a bit …
