time
NOUN:
1. the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
2. duration regarded as belonging to the present life as distinct from the life to come or from eternity; finite duration.
3. (sometimes initial capital letter) a system or method of measuring or reckoning the passage of time:
mean time; apparent time; Greenwich Time.
4. a limited period or interval, as between two successive events:
a long time.
5. a particular period considered as distinct from other periods:
Youth is the best time of life.
6. a prescribed or allotted period, as of one's life, for payment of a debt, etc.
7. the end of a prescribed or allotted period, as of one's life or a pregnancy:
His time had come, but there was no one left to mourn over him; When her time came, her husband accompanied her to the delivery room.
8. a period with reference to personal experience of a specified kind:
to have a good time; a hot time in the old town tonight.
9. a period of work of an employee, or the pay for it; working hours or days or an hourly or daily pay rate.
10. the period necessary for or occupied by something:
The time of the baseball game was two hours and two minutes; The bus takes too much time, so I'll take a plane.
11. leisure time; sufficient or spare time:
to have time for a vacation; I have no time to stop now.
12. a particular or definite point in time, as indicated by a clock:
What time is it?
13. a particular part of a year, day, etc.; season or period:
It's time for lunch.
14. an appointed, fit, due, or proper instant or period:
a time for sowing; the time when the sun crosses the meridian; There is a time for everything.
15. the particular point in time when an event is scheduled to take place:
train time; curtain time.
16. an indefinite, frequently prolonged period or duration in the future:
Time will tell if what we have done here today was right.
17. the right occasion or opportunity:
to watch one's time.
18. each occasion of a recurring action or event:
to do a thing five times; It's the pitcher's time at bat.
19. the continuous passage of existence in which events pass from a state of potentiality in the future, through the present, to a state of finality in the past.
(as modifier):
time travel.
Related adjective: temporal.
20. a specific point on this continuum expressed in terms of hours and minutes:
the time is four o'clock.
21. a system of reckoning for expressing time:
Greenwich mean time.
22. a definite and measurable portion of this continuum
(as modifier):
time limit.
23. an accepted period such as a day, season, etc
(in combination):
springtime.
24. an unspecified interval; a while:
I was there for a time.
25. a sufficient interval or period:
have you got time to help me?
26. an instance or occasion:
I called you three times.
27. an occasion or period of specified quality:
have a good time; a miserable time.
28. the duration of human existence.
29. the heyday of human life:
in her time she was a great star.
30. a suitable period or moment:
it's time I told you.
31. the expected interval in which something is done:
the flying time from New York to London was seven hours.
32. a particularly important moment, esp childbirth or death:
her time had come.
33. a customary or full period of work.
34. the rate of pay for this period.
35. a duration or relation of events expressed in terms of past, present, and future, and measured in units such as minutes, hours, days, months, or years.
36. a certain period during which something is done.
37. a continuous, measurable quantity in which events occur in a sequence proceeding from the past through the present to the future.
See Note at space-time. *
38. an interval separating two points of this quantity; a duration.
39. a system or reference frame in which such intervals are measured or such quantities are calculated.
40. the measured or measurable period during which an action, process, or condition exists or continues; duration.
41. a nonspatial continuum that is measured in terms of events which succeed one another from past through present to future.
42. leisure:
time for reading.
43. the point or period when something occurs; occasion.
44. an appointed, fixed, or customary moment or hour for something to happen, begin, or end:
arrived ahead of time.
45. an opportune or suitable moment:
decided it was time to retire.
—often used in the phrase "about time":
about time for a change.
46. a historical period; age.
47. a division of geologic chronology.
48. the present time:
issues of the time.
49. lifetime.
50. a period of apprenticeship.
51. a term of military service.
52. a prison sentence.
53. season:
very hot for this time of year.
54. a moment, hour, day, or year as indicated by a clock or calendar:
what time is it?
55. any of various systems (such as a sidereal or solar system) of reckoning time.
56. one of a series of recurring instances or repeated actions:
you've been told many times.
57. turn:
three times at bat.
58. finite as contrasted with infinite duration.
59. a person's experience during a specified period or on a particular occasion:
a good time; a hard time.
60. the hours or days required to be occupied by one's work:
make up time; on company time.
61. an hourly pay rate:
straight time.
62. wages paid at discharge or resignation:
pick up your time and get out.
63. a period during which something is used or available for use:
computer time.
Examples:
The two events were separated by time and space. // The poem is a reflection on the passage of time. —Merriam-Webster.
often "times,"
1. a period in the history of the world, or contemporary with the life or activities of a notable person:
prehistoric times; in Lincoln's time.
2. the period or era now or previously present:
a sign of the times; How times have changed!
3. a period considered with reference to its events or prevailing conditions, tendencies, ideas, etc.:
hard times; a time of war.
4. a period or point marked by specific attributes or events:
the Victorian times; time for breakfast.
5. the fashions, thought, etc, of the present age (esp in the phrases "ahead of one's time", "behind the times").
6. conditions at present or at some specified period —usually used in plural:
times are hard; move with the times.
Origin:
before 900; (noun) Middle English; Old English tīma; cognate with Old Norse tīmi; (verb) Middle English timen to arrange a time, derivative of the noun; akin to tide1. British dictionary: Old English tīma; related to Old English tīd time, Old Norse tīmi, Alemannic zīme; see tide 1. —Dictionary.com.
First Known Use of time: Noun: before the 12th century. Verb: 14th century. Adjective: circa 1711. History and Etymology for time: Noun: Middle English, from Old English tīma; akin to Old Norse tīmi time, Old English tīd — more at tide entry 3. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.
1. the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
2. duration regarded as belonging to the present life as distinct from the life to come or from eternity; finite duration.
3. (sometimes initial capital letter) a system or method of measuring or reckoning the passage of time:
mean time; apparent time; Greenwich Time.
4. a limited period or interval, as between two successive events:
a long time.
5. a particular period considered as distinct from other periods:
Youth is the best time of life.
6. a prescribed or allotted period, as of one's life, for payment of a debt, etc.
7. the end of a prescribed or allotted period, as of one's life or a pregnancy:
His time had come, but there was no one left to mourn over him; When her time came, her husband accompanied her to the delivery room.
8. a period with reference to personal experience of a specified kind:
to have a good time; a hot time in the old town tonight.
9. a period of work of an employee, or the pay for it; working hours or days or an hourly or daily pay rate.
10. the period necessary for or occupied by something:
The time of the baseball game was two hours and two minutes; The bus takes too much time, so I'll take a plane.
11. leisure time; sufficient or spare time:
to have time for a vacation; I have no time to stop now.
12. a particular or definite point in time, as indicated by a clock:
What time is it?
13. a particular part of a year, day, etc.; season or period:
It's time for lunch.
14. an appointed, fit, due, or proper instant or period:
a time for sowing; the time when the sun crosses the meridian; There is a time for everything.
15. the particular point in time when an event is scheduled to take place:
train time; curtain time.
16. an indefinite, frequently prolonged period or duration in the future:
Time will tell if what we have done here today was right.
17. the right occasion or opportunity:
to watch one's time.
18. each occasion of a recurring action or event:
to do a thing five times; It's the pitcher's time at bat.
19. the continuous passage of existence in which events pass from a state of potentiality in the future, through the present, to a state of finality in the past.
(as modifier):
time travel.
Related adjective: temporal.
20. a specific point on this continuum expressed in terms of hours and minutes:
the time is four o'clock.
21. a system of reckoning for expressing time:
Greenwich mean time.
22. a definite and measurable portion of this continuum
(as modifier):
time limit.
23. an accepted period such as a day, season, etc
(in combination):
springtime.
24. an unspecified interval; a while:
I was there for a time.
25. a sufficient interval or period:
have you got time to help me?
26. an instance or occasion:
I called you three times.
27. an occasion or period of specified quality:
have a good time; a miserable time.
28. the duration of human existence.
29. the heyday of human life:
in her time she was a great star.
30. a suitable period or moment:
it's time I told you.
31. the expected interval in which something is done:
the flying time from New York to London was seven hours.
32. a particularly important moment, esp childbirth or death:
her time had come.
33. a customary or full period of work.
34. the rate of pay for this period.
35. a duration or relation of events expressed in terms of past, present, and future, and measured in units such as minutes, hours, days, months, or years.
36. a certain period during which something is done.
37. a continuous, measurable quantity in which events occur in a sequence proceeding from the past through the present to the future.
See Note at space-time. *
38. an interval separating two points of this quantity; a duration.
39. a system or reference frame in which such intervals are measured or such quantities are calculated.
40. the measured or measurable period during which an action, process, or condition exists or continues; duration.
41. a nonspatial continuum that is measured in terms of events which succeed one another from past through present to future.
42. leisure:
time for reading.
43. the point or period when something occurs; occasion.
44. an appointed, fixed, or customary moment or hour for something to happen, begin, or end:
arrived ahead of time.
45. an opportune or suitable moment:
decided it was time to retire.
—often used in the phrase "about time":
about time for a change.
46. a historical period; age.
47. a division of geologic chronology.
48. the present time:
issues of the time.
49. lifetime.
50. a period of apprenticeship.
51. a term of military service.
52. a prison sentence.
53. season:
very hot for this time of year.
54. a moment, hour, day, or year as indicated by a clock or calendar:
what time is it?
55. any of various systems (such as a sidereal or solar system) of reckoning time.
56. one of a series of recurring instances or repeated actions:
you've been told many times.
57. turn:
three times at bat.
58. finite as contrasted with infinite duration.
59. a person's experience during a specified period or on a particular occasion:
a good time; a hard time.
60. the hours or days required to be occupied by one's work:
make up time; on company time.
61. an hourly pay rate:
straight time.
62. wages paid at discharge or resignation:
pick up your time and get out.
63. a period during which something is used or available for use:
computer time.
Examples:
The two events were separated by time and space. // The poem is a reflection on the passage of time. —Merriam-Webster.
often "times,"
1. a period in the history of the world, or contemporary with the life or activities of a notable person:
prehistoric times; in Lincoln's time.
2. the period or era now or previously present:
a sign of the times; How times have changed!
3. a period considered with reference to its events or prevailing conditions, tendencies, ideas, etc.:
hard times; a time of war.
4. a period or point marked by specific attributes or events:
the Victorian times; time for breakfast.
5. the fashions, thought, etc, of the present age (esp in the phrases "ahead of one's time", "behind the times").
6. conditions at present or at some specified period —usually used in plural:
times are hard; move with the times.
Origin:
before 900; (noun) Middle English; Old English tīma; cognate with Old Norse tīmi; (verb) Middle English timen to arrange a time, derivative of the noun; akin to tide1. British dictionary: Old English tīma; related to Old English tīd time, Old Norse tīmi, Alemannic zīme; see tide 1. —Dictionary.com.
First Known Use of time: Noun: before the 12th century. Verb: 14th century. Adjective: circa 1711. History and Etymology for time: Noun: Middle English, from Old English tīma; akin to Old Norse tīmi time, Old English tīd — more at tide entry 3. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.