Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future.
- n. An interval separating two points on this continuum; a duration: a long time since the last war; passed the time reading.
- n. A number, as of years, days, or minutes, representing such an interval: ran the course in a time just under four minutes.
- n. A similar number representing a specific point on this continuum, reckoned in hours and minutes: checked her watch and recorded the time, 6:17 A.M.
- n. A system by which such intervals are measured or such numbers are reckoned: solar time.
- n. An interval, especially a span of years, marked by similar events, conditions, or phenomena; an era. Often used in the plural: hard times; a time of troubles.
- n. The present with respect to prevailing conditions and trends: You must change with the times.
- n. A suitable or opportune moment or season: a time for taking stock of one's life.
- n. Periods or a period designated for a given activity: harvest time; time for bed.
- n. Periods or a period necessary or available for a given activity: I have no time for golf.
- n. A period at one's disposal: Do you have time for a chat?
- n. An appointed or fated moment, especially of death or giving birth: He died before his time. Her time is near.
- n. One of several instances: knocked three times; addressed Congress for the last time before retirement.
- n. Used to indicate the number of instances by which something is multiplied or divided: This tree is three times taller than that one. My library is many times smaller than hers.
- n. One's lifetime.
- n. One's period of greatest activity or engagement.
- n. A person's experience during a specific period or on a certain occasion: had a good time at the party.
- n. A period of military service.
- n. A period of apprenticeship.
- n. Informal A prison sentence.
- n. The customary period of work: hired for full time.
- n. The period spent working.
- n. The hourly pay rate: earned double time on Sundays.
- n. The period during which a radio or television program or commercial is broadcast: "There's television time to buy” ( Brad Goldstein).
- n. The rate of speed of a measured activity: marching in double time.
- n. Music The meter of a musical pattern: three-quarter time.
- n. Music The rate of speed at which a piece of music is played; the tempo.
- n. Chiefly British The hour at which a pub closes.
- n. Sports A time-out.
- adj. Of, relating to, or measuring time.
- adj. Constructed so as to operate at a particular moment: a time release.
- adj. Payable on a future date or dates.
- adj. Of or relating to installment buying: time payments.
- v. To set the time for (an event or occasion).
- v. To adjust to keep accurate time.
- v. To adjust so that a force is applied or an action occurs at the desired time: timed his swing so as to hit the ball squarely.
- v. To record the speed or duration of: time a runner.
- v. To set or maintain the tempo, speed, or duration of: time a manufacturing process.
- idiom. against time With a quickly approaching time limit: worked against time to deliver the manuscript before the deadline.
- idiom. at one time Simultaneously.
- idiom. at one time At a period or moment in the past.
- idiom. at the same time However; nonetheless.
- idiom. at times On occasion; sometimes.
- idiom. behind the times Out-of-date; old-fashioned.
- idiom. for the time being Temporarily.
- idiom. from time to time Once in a while; at intervals.
- idiom. high time The appropriate or urgent time: It's high time that you started working.
- idiom. in good time In a reasonable length of time.
- idiom. in good time When or before due.
- idiom. in good time Quickly.
- idiom. in no time Almost instantly; immediately.
- idiom. in time Before a time limit expires.
- idiom. in time Within an indefinite time; eventually: In time they came to accept the harsh facts.
- idiom. in time In the proper tempo.
- idiom. in time Played with a meter.
- idiom. on time According to schedule; punctual or punctually.
- idiom. on time By paying in installments.
- idiom. time after time Again and again; repeatedly.
- idiom. time and again Again and again; repeatedly.
- idiom. time of (one's) life A highly pleasurable experience: We had the time of our lives at the beach.
- idiom. time on (one's) hands An interval with nothing to do.
- idiom. time was There was once a time: "Time was when [urban gangs] were part of a . . . subculture that inner-city adolescence outgrew” ( George F. Will).
Wiktionary
- interj. tennis reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause
- n. uncountable The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past.
- n. uncountable A quantity of availability of duration.
- n. countable A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
- n. uncountable, slang The serving of a prison sentence.
- n. uncountable How much of a day has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.
- n. countable A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).
- n. countable The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
- n. countable A numerical indication of a particular moment.
- n. countable An instance or occurrence.
- n. countable Ratio of comparison.
- n. countable An experience.
- n. countable An era; (with the, sometimes in plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.
- n. uncountable A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
- n. only in singular Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.
- n. UK Closing time.
- v. To measure seconds, hours etc passed, especially using a clock of some kind.
- v. To choose when something begins or how long it lasts.
- v. obsolete To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
- v. obsolete To pass time; to delay.
Etymologies
- From Middle English time, tyme, from Old English tīma ("time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favorable time, opportunity"), from Proto-Germanic *tīmô (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *dī- (“time”). Cognate with Scots tym, tyme ("time"), Alemannic German Zimen, Zīmmän ("time, time of the year, opportune time, opportunity"), Danish time ("stound, hour, lesson"), Swedish timme ("stound, hour"), Norwegian time ("time, stound, hour"), Faroese tími ("hour, lesson, time"), Icelandic tími ("time, season"). See also tide. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English tīma. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“A short time later, Grassley sent, "Pres Obama while u sightseeing in Paris u said \'time to delivr on healthcare\ 'When you are a \'hammer\' u think evrything is NAIL I\'m no NAIL."”
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“The next time it checks it will wait for _slightly less time_ before it checks again.”
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“Take care they did: A recent article by the National Park Service reports that Hugh Kwong Liang, only 15 at the time, recalled, "I turned away from my dear old Chinatown for the last time& city officials directing the refugees 'march approached us and told us to proceed toward the open grounds at the Presidio Army Post.”
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“You can also press the search button on any screen and enter @time to get the time and the date.”
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“My wife and I took time off to go to Canada's Wonderland just for kicks and, while there, repeatedly encoutered a man who was dragging his son and daughter around the park and talking in his bluetooth handset the *entire time*.”
“Given the state of world at the time, what they knew *at the time* were the correct decisions taken?”
“I try to refuse to think about them; when that doesn't work and they're too intrusive, I schedule time to think about them. 15 minutes a day, 10 minutes 3 times a day -- it matters to have specific times and *spend that entire time* thinking about them.”
“He would even come out to skate with the grad school crew from time to time** and one day he asked Prez and I about this girl Laura who used to play with us occasionally.”
“Is it actual search issue or just a bug in search where they are showing time as time+ 3hours reply”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘time’.
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Sweet tooth fairy dominoes
As originally suggested on sweet tooth fairy domino:
Each person adds one word trying to create a single, potentially infinite sweet tooth fairy (please look it up if you are not familiar wit...banana, boat, house, arrest, warrant, peace, sign, post, box, clever, Hans, device and 119 more...
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Curling, The Roaring Game
Terms and phrases associated with the game and sport of curling.
hack, tee, hogscore, hatch, trigger, stone, end, sweeper, broom, curling sheet, hog line, centre line and 288 more...
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The Universal Calculator
Obviates the need for other devices or calculations--it will have a button for everything, and it will solve everything.
qwerty keyboard, shift key, control, home, end, pause, log, sin, space, enter, plus, numb and 241 more...
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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FUN - Beatles song titles
Typical words from Beatles song titles. Can you recreate the titles?
(Grammatical words have been omitted)another, three, place, work, eyes, new, said, give, face, day, going, like and 388 more...
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RELI - words with Biblical connotations
Words in the Bible evoking biblical stories or with special spiritual meaning. Proper names have been reduced to the minimum.
ark, judgement, holy, saint, baptism, spirit, love, eternal, altar, balsam, covenant, flood and 1115 more...
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POL - campaign tokenisms
Positive words and vague promises. THE words and expressions to use when you want to win over the masses or just don't know what to say.
"CAPITAL" stands for the administrative capital...grow, greatest country, greatest, grow the economy, great nation, great decisions, great, government, great NATIONAL su..., good times, good job, good and generous... and 751 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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SCIE - neurology
abducens.....draw..., ablation.....carr..., acetylcholine......., adrenalin.....nea..., afferent.....to c..., agnosia.....no kn..., alar.....wing-like, alexia.....no words, alveus.....canal, amacrine.....no l..., ambidextrous........, ambiguus.....doub... and 701 more...
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Words Heard Too Often In Songs
Words overused in modern pop music.
Also see ruzuzu's list: Words that should be heard in songs more often.love, heart, dance, dancefloor, down, take, want, night, fight, baby, like, ooooh and 136 more...
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Capitonyms or capitonyms
Capitonyms are, properly, words which change meaning and sound when they change case. This particular list may also erringly include words which change meaning, but not sound. These are improper. S...
Turkey, turkey, China, china, August, august, Bill, bill, Catholic, catholic, Ionic, ionic and 94 more...
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Time
Words related to time
time, occurrence, duration, schedule, calendar, period, continuance, event, before, until, since, after and 28 more...
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Arcadia, a play by Tom Stoppard
theodolite, Arcadia, carnal embrace, QED, sin of Onan, Fermat's last the..., landskip, bootboy, yesterday's upsta..., whole numbers, rice pudding, cabbages and 86 more...
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Gillian Welch, revelator
Gillian Welch, acony bell, time, revelator, barroom girls, bright morning stars, yesterday's pearls, last night's span..., David Rawlings, archtop guitar, ruination, revival and 43 more...
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Capitonyms, capitonyms
Words that change meaning when capitalized
worms, welsh, turkey, time, tangier, tang, slough, seat, scotch, scone, said, russian and 70 more...
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161 Unit 3: Ch.5 Earth's Atmosphere
This list contains required vocabulary words included in the three Readings in Unit 3, Chapter 5, titled: Earth's Atmosphere. This list is intended for all Kuwait University students enrolled in Sc...
time, a, at, one, words, add, composition, meteor, blanket, blanketed, lungs, shield and 8 more...
Tweets
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Prolagus bilby's link is borked. :( Nov 7, 2010
ruzuzu "We watch our loved ones age and die, and we assume that an external entity called time is responsible for the crime. But experiments increasingly cast doubt on the existence of time as we know it. In fact, the reality of time has long been questioned by philosophers and physicists. When we speak of time, we're usually referring to change. But change isn't the same thing as time."
--The Huffington Post, Is Death the End? Experiments Suggest You Create Time, by Robert Lanza, M.D., November 4, 2010.
Nov 6, 2010
ruzuzu Ha! Sep 8, 2010
bilby miao. Sep 8, 2010
milosrdenstvi I like this definition: "A nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future." Feb 13, 2010
Telofy “You don’t get past it, it just becomes part of who you are.”
—Echo/Rebecca in Dollhouse season 2 episode 8 Dec 12, 2009
muamor I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. 1913 SHAKS.: Richard II., Act v., Sc. 5. Feb 26, 2008
oroboros Emit in reverse. Jul 22, 2007