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TIME

Definition:

1. [noun] an instance or single occasion for some event; "this time he succeeded"; "he called four times"; "he could do ten at a clip"
   Synonyms: clip
   
   
2. [noun] an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities); "he waited a long time"; "the time of year for planting"; "he was a great actor is his time"
   
   
3. [noun] a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something; "take time to smell the roses"; "I didn't have time to finish"; "it took more than half my time"
   
   
4. [noun] a suitable moment; "it is time to go"
   
   
5. [noun] the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
   
   
6. [noun] the time as given by a clock; "do you know what time it is?"; "the time is 10 o'clock"
   Synonyms: clock
   
   
7. [noun] the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
   Synonyms: fourth dimension
   
   
8. [noun] a person's experience on a particular occasion; "he had a time holding back the tears"; "they had a good time together"
   
   
9. [noun] rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time
   Synonyms: meter, metre
   
   
10. [noun] the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned; "he served a prison term of 15 months"; "his sentence was 5 to 10 years"; "he is doing time in the county jail"
    Synonyms: prison term, sentence
    
    
11. [verb] measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time; "he clocked the runners"
    Synonyms: clock
    
    
12. [verb] assign a time for an activity or event; "The candidate carefully timed his appearance at the disaster scene"
    
    
13. [verb] set the speed, duration, or execution of; "we time the process to manufacture our cars very precisely"
    
    
14. [verb] regulate or set the time of; "time the clock"
    
    
15. [verb] adjust so that a force is applied an an action occurs at the desired time; "The good player times his swing so as to hit the ball squarely"
    
    

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Related Words:

• mistime
• day
• dead
• hard times
• incarnation
• wee
• while, piece, spell, patch
• moment, minute, second, bit
• ephemera
• space age
• high time
• occasion
• geological time, geologic time
• biological time
• cosmic time
• civil time, standard time, local time
• daylight-saving time, daylight-savings time, daylight saving, daylight savings
• present, nowadays
• past, past times, yesteryear, yore
• future, hereafter, futurity, time to come
• musical time
• continuum
• Greenwich Mean Time, Greenwich Time, GMT, universal time, UT, UT1
• duration, continuance
• eternity, infinity
• spacecraft clock time, SCLK
• prime time
• hour, time of day
• hard time
• life sentence, life

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