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/taɪm/
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[tʰaɪ̯m]
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/təɪm/
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/taɪm/
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- Canada
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/tʌɪm/
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[təi̯m]
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/tɑem/
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- Australia
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[tʰɑe̯m]
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- Australia
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taɪm
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tɑem
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Noun
The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
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Time passes quickly when we are together.
Time stops for nobody. the ebb and flow of time
Time is the fire in which we burn.
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One of the most common truisms on Earth is the advice to value or at least not waste time. Why has it become so widespread? Every person eventually realizes that time is the most valuable resource on the planet. Not oil or uranium. Not lithium or anything else, but time. Time. The very flow of time convinces us of this. Some people realize this sooner, and these are the lucky ones. Others realize it too late when they lose someone or something. People cannot avoid it, this is just a matter of time. But there is a fundamental difference that comes down to the question of time. The time of your life is under your control. The time of life of our force on the front line, the time of life of all Ukrainians who are forced to live through this terrible Russian aggression unfortunately is subject to many factors that are not all in their control. I do not wish anyone to feel like they are in my shoes, and it's impossible to give a manual on how to go through life so as not to waste time. However, one piece of advice always works. You have to know exactly why you need today and how you want your tomorrows to look like.
The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events. The feeling of the passage of events and their relative duration, as experienced by an individual.
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Time flies when you're having fun.
The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events. A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
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Both science-fiction writers and physicists have written about travel through time.
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So long as I travelled at a high velocity through time, this scarcely mattered; I was, so to speak, attenuated – was slipping like a vapour through the interstices of intervening substances!
We all have a visceral understanding of what it means for the universe to have multiple space dimensions, since we live in a world in which we constantly deal with a plurality — three. But what would it mean to have multiple times? Would one align with time as we presently experience it psychologically while the other would somehow be "different"?
The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events. Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.
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Time slows down when you approach the speed of light.
Given the connection between increasing entropy and the arrow of time, does the Big Crunch mean that time would run backwards as soon as collapse began?
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Eventually time would also die because no processes would continue, no light would flow.
The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events. The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.
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An essential definition of time should entail neither speed nor direction, just change.
A duration of time. A quantity of availability of duration.
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Do you have time to help me?
More time is needed to complete the project.
You had plenty of time, but you waited until the last minute.
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Are you finished yet? Time’s up!
During the whole time of his abode in the Univerſity he generally ſpent 13 hours of the day in Study ;[…]
The teacher greeted us and moved methodically through the room, placing an object on each student's desk. It was a thin book―a spiral-bound planner. She strode to the front of the room. "If you want to succeed," she said, her syllables clear and careful, "you must learn to manage your time."
A duration of time. A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
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The journey took a long time.
a long time
Record the individual times for the processes in each batch.
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Only your best time is compared with the other competitors.
The algorithm runs in O(n²) time.
I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.
The shock of the water, of course, woke him, and he swam for quite a time.
A duration of time. The serving of a prison sentence.
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The judge leniently granted a sentence with no hard time.
He is not living at home because he is doing time.
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Arrested on duty at Fort Richardson, both parents had worked hard at blaming the other for their son’s death, but Kate’s meticulous recording of the detail of the bruising found on the child’s body and the physical evidence surrounding the scene, plus patient, painstaking interviews with neighbors above and below stairs had resulted in time for both.
A duration of time. An experience.
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We had a wonderful time.
We had a wonderful time at the party.
A duration of time. An era; (articulated, sometimes in the plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.
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These are difficult times.
Roman times
the time of the dinosaurs
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That’s the way things were in those times.
The time is out of ioynt: O curſed ſpight, That euer I was borne to ſet it right.
Dr. Manuel: You're wasting your time. The age of humanity is over. Our extinction is inevitable.[...] Shepard: I don't have time for this. Dr. Manuel: Time? Our time is over.
A duration of time. A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
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- with possessive
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In my time, we respected our elders.
A duration of time. Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.
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- Figurative
- singular
- Uncountable
An instant of time. The duration of time of a given day that has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.
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What time is it?
Excuse me, have you got the time?
What time is it, do you guess? Ten o’clock?
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A computer keeps time using a clock battery.
They will be asleep by this time, don'tcha think?
Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
An instant of time. A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).
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It is time to leave.
it’s time for (you to go to) bed; it’s time to sleep; we must wait for the right time; it's time we were going
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The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.
It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime.
An instant of time. A numerical indication of a particular moment.
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At what times do the trains arrive?
These times were erroneously converted between zones
An instant of time. An instance or occurrence.
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I called her three times.
one more time
When was the last time we went out? I don’t remember.
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See you another time.
That’s three times he’s made the same mistake.
Okay, but this is the last time. No more after that!
Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
An instant of time. Closing time.
Usage- UK usage
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- Uncountable
- in public houses
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Last call: it's almost time.
An instant of time. The hour of childbirth.
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[…]came well to Exeter; where ſhe intended to ſtay, till ſhe was deliver’d; for ſhe was within little more than one Month of her time;[…]
An instant of time. The end of someone’s life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined.
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It was his time.
The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
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Let's synchronize our watches so we're not on different time.
A ratio of comparison (see also usage notes and prepositional sense at 'times').
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This bag costs two times as much.
Your car runs three times faster than mine.
That is four times as heavy as this.
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Canton is the regional primate city of Kuangtung. Its population of three million is ten times that of the second largest city, Shant'ou.
A mature silkworm is an impressive 2¾ inches (70 mm) long and eats 50,000 times its mature body weight over the course of its development.
The measured duration of sounds.
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dance time; march time
The measured duration of sounds. Tempo; a measured rate of movement.
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The musician keeps good time.
some few lines set unto a solemn time
The measured duration of sounds. Rhythmical division, meter.
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common or triple time; time signature
The measured duration of sounds. A straight rhythmic pattern, free from fills, breaks and other embellishments.
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After the introduction, the drummer is to play time.
Synonym of tense
Usage- Countable
- Obsolete
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the time of a verb
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Though we have, in the notes under the thirteenth rule of the Grammar, explained in general the principles, on which the time of a verb in the infinitive mood may be ascertained, and its form determined;[…]
The participles of the future time active, and perfect passive, when joined with the verb esse, were sometimes used as indeclinable;[…]
Verb
To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of something.
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Can you time my run?
I used a stopwatch to time myself running around the block.
To choose when something commences or its duration.
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The President timed his speech badly, coinciding with the Super Bowl.
The bomb was timed to explode at 9:20 p.m.
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There is surely no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
The human body uses light to correctly time myriad processes, ensuring that liver enzymes are made on schedule, hair cells divide at the right time, and blood pressure stays at a healthy level.
To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
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With oar strokes timing to their song.
To pass time; to delay.
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To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
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Who overlooked the oars, and timed the stroke.
He was a thing of blood, whose every motion / Was timed with dying cries.
To measure, as in music or harmony.
Interjection
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.
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Time gentlemen please!
Noun
an instance or single occasion for some event
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this time he succeeded
he called four times
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he could do ten at a clip
a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something
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take time to smell the roses
I didn't have time to finish
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it took more than half my time
he waited for a long time
an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities)
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the time of year for planting
he was a great actor in his time
a suitable moment
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it is time to go
the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
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he waited for along time
it took some time before he got an answer
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time flies like an arrow
a person's experience on a particular occasion
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he had a time holding back the tears
they had a good time together
a reading of a point in time as given by a clock
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do you know what time it is?
the time is 10 o'clock
the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
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rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
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the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned
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he served a prison term of 15 months
his sentence was 5 to 10 years
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he is doing time in the county jail
Verb
measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time
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he clocked the runners
assign a time for an activity or event
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The candidate carefully timed his appearance at the disaster scene
set the speed, duration, or execution of
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we time the process to manufacture our cars very precisely
regulate or set the time of
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time the clock
adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time
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The good player times his swing so as to hit the ball squarely