Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A period during which something takes place or is projected to occur: "a start of deployment in the 1993 time frame” ( Harold Brown).
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. a time period during which something occurs or is expected to occur
Etymologies
- From time + frame. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“While Metellus Piggle-wiggle was trailing around the courts behind Cassius Ravilla and learning how to secure condemnations of Vestal Virgins — well, I mean it in an apocryphal sense only, the time frame is quite wrong — I was soldiering.”
“The next investigatory step was a complete paper chase: men capable of making dentures cross-probed against “tall, middle-aged,” “grayhaired,” “O+ blood” and time frame opportunity.”
“The frequently long time frame between getting a vaccine and developing autoantibodies as a result can make it hard to cast such associations as cause and effect.”
“Danny flipped forward, finding a meeting on 1/4/50, the same people in attendance during the time frame of the Wiltsie/Lindenaur killings, the same strange crossout, the same boring topics discussed.”
“In another paper, the Geiers referred to figures for the total number of vaccines distributed during a given time frame as if they were the total number of vaccines that had actually been administered.”
“Involvement with family traditions and regular family contact contribute both to developing a positive-past time frame and to shaping a more viable vision of the future.”
“It was a by-the-book statement for which search-and-rescue leaders sometimes use the acronym LAST—for locate, access, stabilize, and transport—with a necessarily ambitious time frame to have me out of the wilderness in the first ten hours.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘time frame’.
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ENVI - Collocations TUVWXYZ
An extract from the "Zold Tolmacs" project, a HU-EN environmental dictionary compiled by Robert Gulyas in 2000.
T rolls, table sugar, table wine, tabular block, tabular ice, tackle habitat de..., tackle hunger, tackle problems, tackle the crisis, tackle the escala..., tackle the waste ..., tagged image file... and 3050 more...
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its time
its about time
time to time, time after time, time zone, time honored, time horizon, long time, idle time, take time, short time, on time, time lag, time bomb and 198 more...
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What Time Is It?
stupid o'clock, oh dark thirty, one million o'clock, miller time, the long dark tea..., the wee hours, eleventh hour, happy hour, triple witching hour, betimes, airtime, flextime and 56 more...
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