time

noun

dimension in which events can be ordered from the past through the present into the future
a particular point in or stretch of time
an instance of a repeated action or event

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verb

to plan, arrange, schedule time when something happens; to synchronize
measure the time it takes to do an action, measuring time it takes

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /taɪm/ / [tʰaɪ̯m] / /tɑɪm/

intj

Etymology: From Middle English tyme, time, from Old English tīma (“time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favorable time, opportunity”), from Proto-West Germanic *tīmō, from Proto-Germanic *tīmô (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂imō, from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (“to divide”). Related to tide. Not related to Latin tempus. Cognates * Scots tym, tyme (“time”) * Alemannic German Zimen, Zīmmän (“time, time of the year, opportune time, opportunity”) * Danish time (“hour, lesson”) * Elfdalian taime (“hour”) * Faroese tími (“hour, lesson, time”) * Icelandic tími (“time, season”) * Norwegian time (“lesson, hour”) * Swedish timma, timme (“hour”).

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.
“Time gentlemen please!”

noun

The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
“Time stops for nobody. the ebb and flow of time”
“Time is the fire in which we burn.”
The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
“Time flies when you're having fun.”
The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
“Both science-fiction writers and physicists have written about travel through time.”
“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!”
The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
“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?”
The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
“An essential definition of time should entail neither speed nor direction, just change.”
A duration of time.
“More time is needed to complete the project.”
“You had plenty of time, but you waited until the last minute.”
A duration of time.
“a long time”
“Record the individual times for the processes in each batch.”
A duration of time.
“The judge leniently granted a sentence with no hard time.”
“He is not living at home because he is doing time.”
A duration of time.
“We had a wonderful time at the party.”
A duration of time.
“Roman times”
“the time of the dinosaurs”
A duration of time.
“In my time, we respected our elders.”
A duration of time.
An instant of time.
“Excuse me, have you got the time?”
“What time is it, do you guess? Ten o’clock?”
An instant of time.
“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”
“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.”
An instant of time.
“At what times do the trains arrive?”
“These times were erroneously converted between zones”
An instant of time.
“one more time”
“When was the last time we went out? I don’t remember.”
An instant of time.
“Last call: it's almost time.”
An instant of time.
“[…]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.
“It was his time.”
The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
“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').
“Your car runs three times faster than mine.”
“That is four times as heavy as this.”
The measured duration of sounds.
“dance time; march time”
The measured duration of sounds.
“The musician keeps good time.”
“some few lines set unto a solemn time”
The measured duration of sounds.
“common or triple time; time signature”
The measured duration of sounds.
“After the introduction, the drummer is to play time.”
Synonym of tense
“the time of a verb”
“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;[…]”
Clipping of a long time.
“I used to pay for things but that was time ago.”
“Ats' mum is looking for him, says he ain't been back in time”

verb

To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of something.
“I used a stopwatch to time myself running around the block.”
To choose when something commences or its duration.
“The President timed his speech badly, coinciding with the Super Bowl.”
“The bomb was timed to explode at 9:20 p.m.”
To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
“With oar strokes timing to their song.”
To pass time; to delay.
To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
“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.