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  1. noun A nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future.
  2. noun An interval separating two points on this continuum; a duration: a long time since the last war; passed the time reading.
  3. noun A number, as of years, days, or minutes, representing such an interval: ran the course in a time just under four minutes.
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day ·  place ·  moment ·  life ·  thing ·  part ·  period ·  word

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time:   timing ·  times ·  timed
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  1. Middle English, from Old English tīma; see dā- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also tyme; from Middle English time, tyme, from Anglo-Saxon tīma, time, season, = Icelandic tīmi, time, season, = Norwegian time, time, an hour, = Swedish timme, an hour, = Danish time, an hour, a lesson; with formative suffix -ma, from the √ ti seen in tide: see tide, and cf. till. Not connected with L. tempus, time: see tense.
  2. from Middle English timen, happen, from Anglo-Saxon ge-tīmian, fall out, happen, from tīma, time: see time, n. (Cf. tide, v., happen, from tide, n., time.) In later uses the verb time is from the modern noun.
 

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