time.
The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
Meaning & usage
The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
Time stops for nobody. the ebb and flow of time
The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events. The feeling of the passage of events and their relative duration, as experienced by an individual.
Time flies when you're having fun.
The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events. A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
Both science-fiction writers and physicists have written about travel through time.
The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events. Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.
Time slows down when you approach the speed of light.
The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events. The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.
An essential definition of time should entail neither speed nor direction, just change.
A duration of time. A quantity of availability of duration.
More time is needed to complete the project.
You had plenty of time, but you waited until the last minute.
A duration of time. A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
a long time
Record the individual times for the processes in each batch.
A duration of time. The serving of a prison sentence.
The judge leniently granted a sentence with no hard time.
He is not living at home because he is doing time.
A duration of time. An experience.
We had a wonderful time at the party.
A duration of time. An era; (articulated, sometimes in the plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.
Roman times
the time of the dinosaurs
A duration of time. A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
In my time, we respected our elders.
A duration of time. Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.
An instant of time. The duration of time of a given day that has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.
Excuse me, have you got the time?
What time is it, do you guess? Ten o’clock?
An instant of time. A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).
it’s time for (you to go to) bed; it’s time to sleep; we must wait for the right time; it's time we were going
An instant of time. A numerical indication of a particular moment.
At what times do the trains arrive?
These times were erroneously converted between zones
An instant of time. An instance or occurrence.
one more time
When was the last time we went out? I don’t remember.
An instant of time. Closing time.
Last call: it's almost time.
An instant of time. The hour of childbirth.
An instant of time. The end of someone’s life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined.
It was his time.
The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
Let's synchronize our watches so we're not on different time.
A ratio of comparison (see also usage notes and prepositional sense at 'times').
Your car runs three times faster than mine.
That is four times as heavy as this.
The measured duration of sounds.
dance time; march time
The measured duration of sounds. Tempo; a measured rate of movement.
The musician keeps good time.
The measured duration of sounds. Rhythmical division, meter.
common or triple time; time signature
The measured duration of sounds. A straight rhythmic pattern, free from fills, breaks and other embellishments.
After the introduction, the drummer is to play time.
Synonym of tense
the time of a verb
Clipping of a long time.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English tyme, time, from Old English tīma (“time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favorable time, opportunity”), from Proto-West Germanic *tīmō, from Proto-Germanic *tīmô (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂imō, from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (“to divide”). Related to tide. Not related to Latin tempus. Cognates * Scots tym, tyme (“time”) * Alemannic German Zimen, Zīmmän (“time, time of the year, opportune time, opportunity”) * Danish time (“hour, lesson”) * Elfdalian taime (“hour”) * Faroese tími (“hour, lesson, time”) * Icelandic tími (“time, season”) * Norwegian time (“lesson, hour”) * Swedish timma, timme (“hour”).
To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of something.
I used a stopwatch to time myself running around the block.
To choose when something commences or its duration.
The President timed his speech badly, coinciding with the Super Bowl.
The bomb was timed to explode at 9:20 p.m.
To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
To pass time; to delay.
To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
To measure, as in music or harmony.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English tyme, time, from Old English tīma (“time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favorable time, opportunity”), from Proto-West Germanic *tīmō, from Proto-Germanic *tīmô (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂imō, from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (“to divide”). Related to tide. Not related to Latin tempus. Cognates * Scots tym, tyme (“time”) * Alemannic German Zimen, Zīmmän (“time, time of the year, opportune time, opportunity”) * Danish time (“hour, lesson”) * Elfdalian taime (“hour”) * Faroese tími (“hour, lesson, time”) * Icelandic tími (“time, season”) * Norwegian time (“lesson, hour”) * Swedish timma, timme (“hour”).
Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause.
The umpire's call in prizefights, etc.
A call by a bartender to warn patrons that the establishment is closing and no more drinks will be served.
Time gentlemen please!
Where this word comes from
From Middle English tyme, time, from Old English tīma (“time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favorable time, opportunity”), from Proto-West Germanic *tīmō, from Proto-Germanic *tīmô (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂imō, from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (“to divide”). Related to tide. Not related to Latin tempus. Cognates * Scots tym, tyme (“time”) * Alemannic German Zimen, Zīmmän (“time, time of the year, opportune time, opportunity”) * Danish time (“hour, lesson”) * Elfdalian taime (“hour”) * Faroese tími (“hour, lesson, time”) * Icelandic tími (“time, season”) * Norwegian time (“lesson, hour”) * Swedish timma, timme (“hour”).
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