TIME
/tɑem/ ► audio Scrabble 6 Words With Friends 7
Definition
- 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
- verb assign a time for an activity or event.
- verb set the speed, duration, or execution of.
- verb regulate or set the time of.
- verb adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time.
- noun an instance or single occasion for some event.
— synonyms: clip
- noun a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something.
- noun an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities).
- noun a suitable moment.
- noun the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past.
- noun a person's experience on a particular occasion.
- noun a reading of a point in time as given by a clock.
— synonyms: clock_time
- noun the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event.
— synonyms: fourth_dimension
- noun rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration.
— synonyms: meter, metre
- 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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