TIME
time
(noun) the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past; “he waited for along time”; “it took some time before he got an answer”; “time flies like an arrow”
meter, metre, time
(noun) rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
time
(noun) a person’s experience on a particular occasion; “he had a time holding back the tears”; “they had a good time together”
time, clip
(noun) an instance or single occasion for some event; “this time he succeeded”; “he called four times”; “he could do ten at a clip”
time
(noun) an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities); “the time of year for planting”; “he was a great actor in his time”
time
(noun) a suitable moment; “it is time to go”
time
(noun) a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something; “take time to smell the roses”; “I didn’t have time to finish”; “it took more than half my time”; “he waited for a long time”
time
(verb) adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time; “The good player times his swing so as to hit the ball squarely”
time
(verb) regulate or set the time of; “time the clock”
clock, time
(verb) measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time; “he clocked the runners”
time
(verb) assign a time for an activity or event; “The candidate carefully timed his appearance at the disaster scene”
time
(verb) set the speed, duration, or execution of; “we time the process to manufacture our cars very precisely”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
time (countable and uncountable, plural times)
(uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past.
(physics, usually, uncountable) A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
(physics, uncountable) Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.
(physics, uncountable, reductionistic definition) The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.
A duration of time.
(uncountable) A quantity of availability of duration.
(countable) A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
(uncountable, slang) The serving of a prison sentence.
(countable) An experience.
(countable) An era; (with the, sometimes in plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.
(uncountable, with possessive) A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
(only in singular, sports and figuratively) Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.
An instant of time.
(uncountable) How much of a day has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.
(countable) A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).
(countable) A numerical indication of a particular moment.
(countable) An instance or occurrence.
(UK, in public houses) Closing time.
The hour of childbirth.
(as someone's time) The end of someone's life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined.
(countable) The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
(countable) Ratio of comparison.
(grammar, dated) Tense.
(music) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division.
Usage notes
For the number of occurrences and the ratio of comparison, once and twice are typically used instead of one time and two times. Thrice is uncommon but not obsolescent.
Typical collocations with time or time expressions.
• spend - To talk about the length of time of an activity.
- We spent a long time driving along the motorway.
- I've spent most of my life working here. (Time expression)
• take - To talk about the length of time of an activity.
- It took a long time to get to the front of the queue. See also - take one's time
- It only takes five minutes to get to the shop from here. (Time expression)
- How long does it take to do that? (Time expression)
• waste - see waste time
Hyponyms
(Hyponyms of time (proper names)):
• African time
• Alaska Standard Time
• Alaska time
• Alaska-Hawaii Time
• Amsterdam Time
• ASEAN Common Time
• Atlantic Daylight Time
• Atlantic Standard Time
• Atlantic Time
• Australian Central Daylight Time
• Australian Eastern Daylight Time
• Australian Eastern Standard Time
• Barycentric Coordinate Time
• Bering Time
• Berlin Time
• Bhutan Time
• Bombay time
• Borneo Time
• Buck Rodgers time
• Calcutta time
• Cape Verde Time
• Caribbean time
• Central Africa Time
• Central Daylight Time
• Central Europe Time
• Central European Midsummer Time
• Central European Time
• Central Standard Time
• Central Time
• Chatham Daylight Time
• Christmas time
• Christmas-time
• Colored People's Time
• Coordinated Universal Time
• CP Time
• Dutch Time
• East Africa Time
• Eastern Daylight Time
• Eastern European Time
• Eastern Standard Time
• Eastern Time
• Father Time
• free time
• French Revolutionary Time
• Geocentric Coordinate Time
• Greenwich Mean Time
• Greenwich time
• Hadean time
• Hawaii time
• Hawaii-Aleutian time
• Hong Kong Time
• Hubble time
• International Atomic Time
• International Time Bureau
• Israel Daylight Time
• Japan Standard Time
• Joda-Time
• Krasnoyarsk Time
• Madras time
• Mauritius Time
• Maxwell time
• Maytime
• Middle Eastern Time
• Middle European Time
• Moscow Time
• Mountain Daylight Time
• Mountain Standard Time
• Mountain Time
• Nepal Time
• New Zealand Daylight Time
• Newtonian time
• Novosibirsk Time
• Old Father Time
• Omsk Time
• Operation Market Time
• Ordinary Time
• Pacific Daylight Time
• Pacific Standard Time
• Pacific Time
• Patients Out of Time
• Philippine Time
• POSIX time
• Samoa Time
• Seychelles Time
• Spacecraft Event Time
• Sri Lanka Time
• Standard Zone Time
• Starving Time
• Swatch Internet Time
• Terrestrial Time
• Tipper and See-Saw Time
• Unix time
• Uzbekistan Time
• Washington meridian time
• West Africa Time
• Western European Time
• Yukon Time
• Zulu time
(Other hyponyms of time):
• A-H conduction time
• absolute time
• access time
• Achilles tendon reflex time
• acquisition feeding time
• acquisition time
• activated clotting time
• activated partial thromboplastin time
• active braking time
• actual flying time
• adjusted flow time
• administrative lead time
• advanced time
• amortized constant time
• apex time
• apostolic times
• apparent time
• APTIME
• arrival time
• assembly time
• association time
• astronomical time
• attack time
• average access time
• average handle time
• average seek time
• back time
• background radiation equivalent time
• bathtime
• bedtime
• binding time
• biologic time
• biological time
• birth-time
• bit time
• black people's time
• bleeding time
• block time
• blood circulation time
• borrowed time
• bottom time
• bowel transit time
• braking time
• break-even time
• breakfast time
• breaktime
• breathing time
• call time
• centrelink time
• chair time
• characteristic time
• check-in time
• check-out time
• chow time
• chowtime
• Christmas time
• chromoscopy time
• chucking-out time
• circulation time
• civil time
• civilian time
• clearance time
• clock time
• close time
• closed assembly time
• closing time
• clot retraction time
• clotting time
• coagulation time
• cock-shut-time
• coding time
• coherence time
• collision time
• colonic transit time
• command processing overhead time
• common time
• comp time
• company time
• compensatory time
• compile time
• compile-time
• compound common time
• compound time
• computation time
• concentration time
• conditioning time
• conduction time
• confinement time
• conformal time
• connect time
• constant time
• contact time
• continental time
• contract time
• controlled variable time
• convective mixing time
• cooking time
• cooling time
• coordinate time
• core time
• corner time
• corrected time
• cosmic time
• CPU time
• crossing time
• crunch time
• cubic time
• cucumber time
• cure time
• curing time
• curtain time
• cut time
• cut-off time
• cycle time
• damage over time
• dance-time
• daylight-saving time
• daylight-savings time
• daytime
• dead time
• decay time
• decimal reduction time
• decimal time
• decoherence time
• decorrelation time
• decree time
• deep time
• deferred time
• delay time
• departure time
• detention time
• dextrinizing time
• dial-in time
• dilute Russell's viper venom time
• dining-time
• dinner time
• dinnertime
• discrete-time signal
• disinfectant time
• disk access time
• do time
• docky time
• down time
• downtime
• dream time
• dreamtime
• drinking-up time
• drive time
• driving time
• drying time
• DTIME
• duple time
• dwell time
• dynamical time
• earliest anticipated launch time
• early time
• ecarin clotting time
• elapsed flying time
• elapsed time
• energy confinement time
• energy payback time
• energy replacement time
• engaged time
• ephemeris time
• equal time
• equilibrium time
• equinoctial time
• estimated time of arrival
• euglobulin clot lysis time
• euglobulin lysis time
• event time
• execution time
• exit time
• expiration time
• exponential time
• exposure time
• EXPTIME
• extended playing time
• extra time
• face time
• fade time
• fading time
• fall time
• fence time
• final setting time
• find time
• first exit time
• first hit time
• first passage time
• first return time
• flash-to-bang time
• flat time
• flexible time
• flexitime
• floodtime
• floortime
• forced expiratory time
• forecast lead time
• foretime
• formation exposure time
• four-four time
• frame time
• frame-alignment recovery time
• free time
• free-fall time
• fringe time
• fruit-time
• full time
• fully automatic time
• functioning time
• gain time
• game time
• garbage time
• gate time
• gelation time
• generation time
• geologic time
• geological time
• glide time
• golden time
• good time
• grass time
• gust decay time
• gust formation time
• handling time
• hang time
• happy time
• hard time
• harvest time
• haying time
• heaking-time
• heat time
• hexadecimal time
• high time
• hitting time
• hold time
• holding time
• holiday-time
• H-V conduction time
• hydraulic retention time
• hypertime
• ice time
• idle time
• imaginary time
• imperfect time
• improper time
• incubation time
• inertia time
• initial setting time
• injury time
• instruction time
• integration time
• intermediate time
• interval time
• interval transit time
• intra-atrial conduction time
• intravaginal ejaculation latency time
• isovolumic relaxation time
• junk time
• killing time
• kipper time
• lag time
• lake retention time
• land before time
• lap time
• last time
• latency time
• latent time
• launch-time
• laytime
• lead time
• least time
• left ventricular ejection time
• leisure time
• lethal time
• lifetime
• light time
• lighting-up time
• linear time
• link time
• live time
• lived time
• load time
• local sidereal time
• local solar time
• local time
• lock time
• longitudinal relaxation time
• lookahead time
• look-back time
• lunchtime
• lunch-time
• magnetic local time
• main standard time
• march-time
• mark time
• maximum holding time
• maximum seek time
• mealtime
• mean free time
• mean hitting time
• mean solar time
• mean survival time
• median effective time
• median lethal time
• median survival time
• metric time
• midtime
• military time
• minimum connecting time
• minimum seek time
• missing time
• mixing time
• modern times
• morning time
• musical time
• naptime
• near real time
• needle time
• network option time
• Network Time Protocol
• network time
• NEXPTIME
• next time
• nick-time
• night time
• nighttime
• non-Archimedean time
• non-deterministic polynomial time
• non-uniform polynomial-time
• noontime
• normal time
• NP time
• NTIME
• occurrence time
• off time
• offset time
• ofttimes
• old time
• old tyme
• olde tyme
• olden time
• olden times
• one-stage prothrombin time
• onetime
• one-way light time
• one-way time
• open assembly time
• open time
• opening time
• operating time
• P-A conduction time
• partial thromboplastin time
• past time
• pastime
• peacetime
• peace-time
• pea-time
• perfect time
• pessimistic time
• P-H conduction time
• physiological time
• place manner time
• playing time
• playtime
• please-time
• PoincarĂ© recurrence time
• polarisation time
• polarization time
• polynomial time
• POSIX time
• preparation time
• press time
• pressed for time
• primary time
• prime time
• pro time
• process time
• processing time
• processor time
• procurement lead time
• propagation time
• proper time
• prothrombin time
• pseudo-polynomial time
• pseudotime
• psychophysical time
• pudding time
• pulse decay time
• pulse repetition time
• pumping time
• push time
• quadratic time
• quadruple time
• quality time
• question time
• quick time
• Quick's thrombin time
• quiesce time
• quintuple time
• quitting-time
• ragtime
• railway time
• randomised polynomial time
• randomized polynomial time
• reaction time
• real time
• realtime
• real-world time
• reap-time
• reasonable time
• receiving time
• reclacification time
• recoat time
• recognition time
• recovery time
• recurrence time
• recycling time
• redeem the time
• reduced time
• reference time
• reframing time
• regulation time
• relative time
• relaxation time
• release time
• released time
• repetition time
• reptilase time
• residence time
• response time
• retarded time
• retention time
• return time
• reverberation time
• revisit time
• riding time
• ring-time
• rise time
• round-trip delay time
• round-trip light time
• round-trip time
• running time
• runtime
• Russell's viper venom clotting time
• Russell's viper venom time
• rustle time
• rutey-time
• sack time
• Sandringham time
• sandwich time
• schooltime
• screen time
• seating time
• second happy time
• sedimentation time
• seedtime
• seek time
• sensation time
• serve the time
• serve time
• setting time
• settling time
• setup time
• shepster time
• shop time
• short time
• shortening time
• shortest remaining time
• show time
• shriving-time
• sidereal time
• simple time
• single time
• sinoatrial conduction time
• sinoatrial recovery time
• slot time
• slow time
• slowing-down time
• socially necessary labour time
• sojourn time
• solar time
• some time
• spacecraft clock time
• spare time
• speech time
• spindown time
• spin-lattice relaxation time
• spin-spin relaxation time
• spinup time
• split-time
• springtime
• spring-time
• squeaky bum time
• standard time
• standby time
• start time
• starting time
• startup time
• stay time
• step time
• stimulus-response time
• stoppage time
• stopping time
• stop-time
• storage time
• story time
• straight time
• Stypven time
• subjective time
• subquadratic time
• sugartime
• summer time
• summertime
• suppertime
• survival time
• synodic time
• system real-time
• system time
• T1 relaxation time
• T2 relaxation time
• tact time
• talk time
• teatime
• tee time
• tell time
• terrestrial dynamical time
• terrestrial time
• thermal death time
• thermal relaxation time
• thickening time
• think time
• three-four time
• three-quarter time
• thrombin clotting time
• thrombin time
• till time
• Tipper and See-Saw Time
• tissue thromboplastin inhibition time
• total running time
• total story time
• track-to-track seek time
• train time
• transaction time
• transition time
• transmission time
• transtime
• transverse relaxation time
• travel time
• traveltime
• triple time
• true time
• tunneling time
• tunnelling time
• turnaround time
• turn-off time
• turn-on time
• two-four time
• two-part time
• two-time
• two-way traveltime
• undern-time
• undertime
• under-time
• universal time
• Unix time
• unproductive time
• uptime
• user time
• utilisation time
• utilization time
• valid time
• vampire time
• vintage time
• voice onset time
• wait time
• waiting time
• waketime
• wall time
• wall-clock time
• wartime
• waste time
• wet edge time
• whole blood coagulation time
• wholetime
• wikitime
• windshield time
• wintertime
• winter-time
• word time
• work time
• working time
• worst-case execution time
• Z time
• zone time
• zonetime
Verb
time (third-person singular simple present times, present participle timing, simple past and past participle timed)
To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of.
To choose when something begins or how long it lasts.
(obsolete) To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
(obsolete) 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.
Synonyms
• (to measure time): clock
• (to choose the time for): set
Interjection
time
(tennis) 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.
Anagrams
• emit, it me, item, mite
Source: Wiktionary
Time, n.; pl. Times. Etym: [OE. time, AS. tima, akin to tid time, and to Icel. timi, Dan. time an hour, Sw. timme. *58. See Tide, n.]
1. Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof. The time wasteth [i. e. passes away] night and day. Chaucer. I know of no ideas . . . that have a better claim to be accounted simple and original than those of space and time. Reid.
2. A particular period or part of duration, whether past, present, or future; a point or portion of duration; as, the time was, or has been; the time is, or will be. God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets. Heb. i. 1.
3. The period at which any definite event occurred, or person lived; age; period; era; as, the Spanish Armada was destroyed in the time of Queen Elizabeth; -- often in the plural; as, ancient times; modern times.
4. The duration of one's life; the hours and days which a person has at his disposal. Believe me, your time is not your own; it belongs to God, to religion, to mankind. Buckminster.
5. A proper time; a season; an opportunity. There is . . . a time to every purpose. Eccl. iii. 1. The time of figs was not yet. Mark xi. 13.
6. Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition. She was within one month of her time. Clarendon.
7. Performance or occurrence of an action or event, considered with reference to repetition; addition of a number to itself; repetition; as, to double cloth four times; four times four, or sixteen. Summers three times eight save one. Milton.
8. The present life; existence in this world as contrasted with immortal life; definite, as contrasted with infinite, duration. Till time and sin together cease. Keble.
9. (Gram.)
Definition: Tense.
10. (Mus.)
Definition: The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division; as, common or triple time; the musician keeps good time. Some few lines set unto a solemn time. Beau. & Fl.
Note: Time is often used in the formation of compounds, mostly self- explaining; as, time-battered, time-beguiling, time-consecrated, time-consuming, time-enduring, time-killing, time-sanctioned, time- scorner, time-wasting, time-worn, etc. Absolute time, time irrespective of local standards or epochs; as, all spectators see a lunar eclipse at the same instant of absolute time.
– Apparent time, the time of day reckoned by the sun, or so that 12 o'clock at the place is the instant of the transit of the sun's center over the meridian.
– Astronomical time, mean solar time reckoned by counting the hours continuously up to twenty-four from one noon to the next.
– At times, at distinct intervals of duration; now and then; as, at times he reads, at other times he rides.
– Civil time, time as reckoned for the purposes of common life in distinct periods, as years, months, days, hours, etc., the latter, among most modern nations, being divided into two series of twelve each, and reckoned, the first series from midnight to noon, the second, from noon to midnight.
– Common time (Mil.), the ordinary time of marching, in which ninety steps, each twenty-eight inches in length, are taken in one minute.
– Equation of time. See under Equation, n.
– In time. (a) In good season; sufficiently early; as, he arrived in time to see the exhibition. (b) After a considerable space of duration; eventually; finally; as, you will in time recover your health and strength.
– Mean time. See under 4th Mean.
– Quick time (Mil.), time of marching, in which one hundred and twenty steps, each thirty inches in length, are taken in one minute.
– Sidereal time. See under Sidereal.
– Standard time, the civil time that has been established by law or by general usage over a region or country. In England the standard time is Greenwich mean solar time. In the United States and Canada four kinds of standard time have been adopted by the railroads and accepted by the people, viz., Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific time, corresponding severally to the mean local times of the 75th, 90th, 105th, and 120th meridians west from Greenwich, and being therefore five, six, seven, and eight hours slower than Greenwich time.
– Time ball, a ball arranged to drop from the summit of a pole, to indicate true midday time, as at Greenwich Observatory, England. Nichol.
– Time bargain (Com.), a contract made for the sale or purchase of merchandise, or of stock in the public funds, at a certain time in the future.
– Time bill. Same as Time-table. [Eng.] -- Time book, a book in which is kept a record of the time persons have worked.
– Time detector, a timepiece provided with a device for registering and indicating the exact time when a watchman visits certain stations in his beat.
– Time enough, in season; early enough. "Stanly at Bosworth field, . . . came time enough to save his life." Bacon.
– Time fuse, a fuse, as for an explosive projectile, which can be so arranged as to ignite the charge at a certain definite interval after being itself ignited.
– Time immemorial, or Time out of mind. (Eng. Law) See under Immemorial.
– Time lock, a lock having clockwork attached, which, when wound up, prevents the bolt from being withdrawn when locked, until a certain interval of time has elapsed.
– Time of day, salutation appropriate to the times of the day, as "good morning," "good evening," and the like; greeting.
– To kill time. See under Kill, v. t.
– To make time. (a) To gain time. (b) To occupy or use (a certain) time in doing something; as, the trotting horse made fast time.
– To move, run, or go, against time, to move, run, or go a given distance without a competitor, in the quickest possible time; or, to accomplish the greatest distance which can be passed over in a given time; as, the horse is to run against time.
– True time. (a) Mean time as kept by a clock going uniformly. (b) (Astron.) Apparent time as reckoned from the transit of the sun's center over the meridian.
Time, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Timed; p. pr. & vb. n. Timing.]
1. To appoint the time for; to bring, begin, or perform at the proper season or time; as, he timed his appearance rightly. There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things. Bacon.
2. To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement. Who overlooked the oars, and timed the stroke. Addison. He was a thing of blood, whose every motion Was timed with dying cries. Shak.
3. To ascertain or record the time, duration, or rate of; as, to time the speed of horses, or hours for workmen.
4. To measure, as in music or harmony.
Time, v. i.
1. To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time. With oar strokes timing to their song. Whittier.
2. To pass time; to delay. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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