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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