Phase vs Season - What's the difference?
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A distinguishable part of a sequence or cycle occurring over time.
That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object.
Any appearance or aspect of an object of mental apprehension or view.
(astronomy) A particular appearance or state in a regularly recurring cycle of changes with respect to quantity of illumination or form, or the absence, of its enlightened disk; as, the phases of the moon or planets''. Illustrated in .
(physics) Any one point or portion in a recurring series of changes, as in the changes of motion of one of the particles constituting a wave or vibration; one portion of a series of such changes, in distinction from a contrasted portion, as the portion on one side of a position of equilibrium, in contrast with that on the opposite side.
(chemistry) A component in a material system that is distinguished by chemical composition and/or physical state (solid, liquid or gas) and/or crystal structure. It is delineated from an adjoining phase by an abrupt change in one or more of those conditions.
(rugby union) The period of play between consecutive breakdowns.
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(genetics) A haplotype.
To begin—if construed with "in"—or to discontinue—if construed with out—(doing) something over a period of time (i.e. in phases).
(genetics, informal, transitive) To determine haplotypes in (data) when genotypes are known.
To pass into or through a solid object.
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Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn and winter; yeartide.
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A part of a year when something particular happens: mating season'', ''rainy season'', ''football season .
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, title= (obsolete) That which gives relish; seasoning.
* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) ,
* 1605 , (Shakespeare), The Tragedy of Macbeth, III, 4
(cricket) The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
(North America, broadcasting) 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.
(obsolete) An extended, undefined period of time.
* 1656 , , The Mortification of Sin
To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.
To make fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure; to ripen; to mature; as, to season one to a climate.
Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices; as, to season timber.
To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance; as, timber seasons in the sun.
(obsolete) To copulate with; to impregnate.
In obsolete terms the difference between phase and season
is that phase is passover while season is to copulate with; to impregnate.As a proper noun phase
is passover.phase
English
Etymology 1
From ; compare phantasm and see face.Noun
(en noun)- The problem has many phases .
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Verb
(phas)- The use of the obsolete machines was gradually phased''' out as the new models were '''phased in.
Usage notes
See notes at faze .Derived terms
* phase in * phase out * unphasedEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* PhaseReferences
Anagrams
* * * English terms with homophones ----season
English
(wikipedia season)Noun
(en noun)- the several seasons of the year in their beauty
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- O! she is fallen
- Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea
- Hath drops too few to wash her clean again,
- And salt too little which may season give
- To her foul-tainted flesh.
- You lack the season of all natures, sleep.
- The third season of ''Friends'' aired from 1996 to 1997.
- So it is in a person when a breach hath been made upon his conscience, quiet, perhaps credit, by his lust, in some eruption of actual sin; — carefulness, indignation, desire, fear, revenge are all set on work about it and against it, and lust is quiet for a season , being run down before them; but when the hurry is over and the inquest is past, the thief appears again alive, and is as busy as ever at his work.
Usage notes
In British English, a year-long group of episodes is called a series, whereas in North American English the word "series" is a synonym of "program" or "show".Synonyms
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* end-of-season * high season * in season * low season * mating season * midseason * mid-season form * open season * out of season * rutting season * seasonable * seasonal * seasonally * silly season * unseasonally * unseasonable * unseasonablyVerb
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