time
IPA: tˈaɪm
noun
- (uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
- (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, reductionist 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 the 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.
- (slang, MLE) Clipping of a long time.
verb
- 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.
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Examples of "time" in Sentences
- The future is the time after the present.
- Now is not the time for joviality and happiness.
- Take the time to rewrite the stuff in the future.
- Now is not the time for joviality and shenanigans
- The position of the shadow marked the hour in local time.
- I was standing in the scorching sun for 5 hours at that time.
- A little bit of time and leeway would be appreciated in the future.
- The position of the bead on the hour lines of the card gives the time.
- The hourly time signal causes the watch to beep every hour on the hour.
- In future, please select the licence at the time of uploading the picture.
- The next time it checks it will wait for _slightly less time_ before it checks again.
- You can also press the search button on any screen and enter @time to get the time and the date.
- Is it actual search issue or just a bug in search where they are showing time as time+ 3hours reply
- Given the state of world at the time, what they knew *at the time* were the correct decisions taken?
- I. i.162 (366,9) And what's to come of my despised time] [W: despited] _Despised time_, is _time of no value_; time in which
- 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.
- 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."'
- 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*.
- 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.
- 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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