Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- prep. Multiplied by: Five times two is ten.
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of time.
- n. The circumstances of a certain time.
- n. A person's experiences or biography.
- prep. Product of the previous number and the following number.
- v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of time.
- v. informal, arithmetic To multiply.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a more or less definite period of time now or previously present
- n. an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed
Examples
“If someone wants to ask me a question I've been asked a hundred times, I'm glad to answer it, because it means I won't have be answering a question that I've been asked a thousand times but seriously, folks, try the fish.”
“Celebrating at stated times by this Remembrance Supper would help you to remember Him also _between times_.”
"Say Fellows—" Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues
“~At times it seemed as if~ ~At one time it appeared as though~ ~At one time~ ~At times~ ~At 2284 Mayfair~”
“Why_ means _for what reason; how -- in what mind, mood, mode_, or _manner; exceedingly -- to a great degree; very -- in an eminent degree; often_ and _seldom_ signify _many times, few times_.”
“Carthage; (3) _sinking_, the times of the Gracchi; (4) _gave way more and more_, those of Sulla; (5) _precipitate_, those of Cæsar; (6) _the present times_, those of Augustus after the battle of”
“He could not proceed in both at the same time; and thus we see that it would be impossible for any landlord, however oppressive, _to have proceeded by ejectment more than three times within the period in which this veracious compiler of grievances positively asserts Shee proceeded nine times_.”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844
“_Three times in succession_ were they attacked, with most desperate valor and fury, by well disciplined and veteran troops, and _three times_ did they successfully repel the assault, and thus preserve our army from capture.”
“Otterbourne story ends, as the times are no longer _old times_.”
“Petrarch says, "that there had been no greater event in his times" (_our times_ literally), "nostri tempi," in Italy.”
“And now being arrived at a temporal dominion, and a power above all human judicature, he reigned [17] _with a look more stout than his fellows_, and [18] _times and laws were_ henceforward _given into his hands, for a time times and half a time_, or three times and an half; that is, for 1260 solar years, reckoning a time for a Calendar year of 360 days, and a day for a solar year.”
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘times’.
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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...21st century, a high level of a..., a long way, a long way to go, a lot to be done, a lot to do, achievement, action, action plan, action team, actual implementa..., advantage and 751 more...
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US - What is Bill talking about - Sep...
The 100 most frequent words of Bill Clinton’s Speech to the Democratic National Convention
trillion, together, welfare, shared, romney, republican, reasons, recovery, record, really, re-elect, program and 86 more...
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Masthead Staples
Words from newspaper names/titles. Not the place names or titles of specific publications, just the reusable bits.
times, courier, advocate, news, telegraph, mirror, mail, bulletin, the, post, tribune, chronical and 108 more...
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newspaper names
Feel free to combine these in any way to create your own newspaper. Use lots of hyphens! (And yes, these are all used at real newspapers.)
times, union, post, dispatch, outlook, star, news, courier, herald, advertiser, daily, eagle and 178 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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The Wordie Times Courier Life Bulleti...
Newspaper names.
times, courier, globe, bugle, chronicle, gazette, herald, ledger, sentinel, tribune, digest, news and 46 more...
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TT1 Lesson 1
Busch Gardens, parrot, coast, heart, nest, nestled, spectacular, Africa, fashioned, century, excitement, excited and 31 more...
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OM3 Lesson 26
employee, responsibility, deliver, country, advice, courteous, shortcut, order, rest, tide, quadruplets, times and 7 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for times.
qroqqa The verb 'times' is so common that I suspect it's now the normal word for the thing amongst—what shall we call non-mathematicians?—Loggles. "Multiply it by" only outnumbers "times it by" by 4 to 1 on Google. The inflected forms 'timesing' and 'timesed' are very rare there, but possibly that reflects the contexts it's actually used in: people say, 'Times it by 2' or 'You need to times it by 2', but don't much describe doing it in the past or repeatedly. Aug 29, 2008
chained_bear I had to edit a piece recently which used the following phrase: "the sevens-times table." I kept changing it--the seven times-table, the seven times table, anything, but the writer kept changing it back. I'm not even sure what it should have read, but the way it was written bugs me. Still. And the thing's gone to print. *ugh*
I realize that's not exactly what we're talking about here... Oct 17, 2007
skipvia Kad, ask her about subtraction. When I taught K-12, many kids used "minus" in the same way--to find the answer, you minus the first number from the second. Oct 17, 2007
chained_bear aaaaagh!! aaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!!! Oct 17, 2007
kad One of my pet peeves is when someone says 'you times the first number by the second' instead of 'you multiply the the first number by the second.' Much to my chagrin, one of the *graduate students* in a class I'm teaching said this today. I think I have to fail her. Oct 17, 2007