Season vs. Episode — What's the Difference?

A season is a division of the year based on changes in weather, ecology, and the number of daylight hours in a given region. On Earth, seasons are the result of Earth's orbit around the Sun and Earth's axial tilt relative to the ecliptic plane.

An episode is a narrative unit within a larger dramatic work or documentary production, such as a series intended for radio, television or on-line consumption. Episode derives from the Greek term (Ancient Greek: ἐπεισόδιον / epeisodion), meaning the material contained between two songs or odes in a Greek tragedy.

Each of the four divisions of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter) marked by particular weather patterns and daylight hours, resulting from the earth's changing position with regard to the sun.

A separate part of a serialized work, such as a novel or television series.

A set or sequence of related television programmes; a series

A section of a classic Greek tragedy that occurs between two choric songs.

A period when a female mammal is ready to mate

An incident or event that is part of a progression or a larger sequence

Add salt, herbs, pepper, or other spices to (food)

One of a series of events in the course of a narrative or drama.

Make (wood) suitable for use as timber by adjusting its moisture content to that of the environment in which it will be used

(Music) A passage between statements of a main subject or theme, as in a rondo or fugue.

One of the four natural divisions of the year, spring, summer, fall, and winter, in the North and South Temperate zones. Each season, beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, is characterized by specific meteorological or climatic conditions.

An incident, action, or time period standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events.

The two divisions of the year, rainy and dry, in some tropical regions.

An instalment of a drama told in parts, as in a TV series.

A recurrent period characterized by certain occurrences, occupations, festivities, or crops

A separate incident, story, or action, introduced for the purpose of giving a greater variety to the events related; an incidental narrative, or digression, separable from the main subject, but naturally arising from it.

A suitable, natural, or convenient time

A happening that is distinctive in a series of related events

A period of time

A brief section of a literary or dramatic work that forms part of a connected series

To improve or enhance the flavor of (food) by adding salt, spices, herbs, or other flavorings.

A part of a broadcast serial

To add zest, piquancy, or interest to

Film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie

To treat or dry (lumber, for example) until ready for use; cure.

To render competent through trial and experience

To accustom or inure; harden

To moderate; temper.

To become usable, competent, or tempered.

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

A part of a year when something particular happens.

A period of the year in which a place is most busy or frequented for business, amusement, etc.

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

(obsolete) That which gives relish; seasoning.

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.

(archaic) An extended, undefined period of time.

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

(video games) 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.

(transitive) To habituate, accustom, or inure (someone or something) to a particular use, purpose, or circumstance.

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

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

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

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

(obsolete) To impregnate (literally or figuratively).

(transitive) To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.

One of the divisions of the year, marked by alterations in the length of day and night, or by distinct conditions of temperature, moisture, etc., caused mainly by the relative position of the earth with respect to the sun. In the north temperate zone, four seasons, namely, spring, summer, autumn, and winter, are generally recognized. Some parts of the world have three seasons, - the dry, the rainy, and the cold; other parts have but two, - the dry and the rainy.

Hence, a period of time, especially as regards its fitness for anything contemplated or done; a suitable or convenient time; proper conjuncture; as, the season for planting; the season for rest.

A period of time not very long; a while; a time.

That which gives relish; seasoning.

To render suitable or appropriate; to prepare; to fit.

To 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 fit for taste; to render palatable; to give zest or relish to; to spice; as, to season food.

Hence, to fit for enjoyment; to render agreeable.

To qualify by admixture; to moderate; to temper.

To imbue; to tinge or taint.

To copulate with; to impregnate.

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.

To give token; to savor.

A period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field;

One of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions;

A recurrent time marked by major holidays;

Lend flavor to;

Make fit;

Make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate;