TIME

/tɑem/ ► audio Scrabble 6 Words With Friends 7

Definition

  1. verb measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time. — synonyms: clock
  2. verb assign a time for an activity or event.
  3. verb set the speed, duration, or execution of.
  4. verb regulate or set the time of.
  5. verb adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time.
  6. noun an instance or single occasion for some event. — synonyms: clip
  7. noun a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something.
  8. noun an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities).
  9. noun a suitable moment.
  10. noun the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past.
  11. noun a person's experience on a particular occasion.
  12. noun a reading of a point in time as given by a clock. — synonyms: clock_time
  13. noun the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event. — synonyms: fourth_dimension
  14. noun rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration. — synonyms: meter, metre
  15. noun the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned. — synonyms: prison_term, sentence

Examples

  • “Time stops for nobody.   the ebb and flow of time”
  • “Let's synchronize our watches so we're not on different time.”
  • “your car runs three times faster than mine;  that is four times as heavy as this”

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