Etimology
From Middle English tyme, time, from Old English tīma (“time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favourable time, opportunity”), from Proto-West Germanic *tīmō, from Proto-Germanic *tīmô (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂imō, from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (“to divide”). Cognate with Scots tym, tyme (“time”), Alemannic German Zimen, Zīmmän (“time, time of the year, opportune time, opportunity”), Danish time (“hour, lesson”), Swedish timme (“hour”), Norwegian time (“lesson, hour”), Faroese tími (“hour, lesson, time”), Icelandic tími (“time, season”). Related to tide. Not related to Latin tempus.
noun
time (countable and uncountable, plural times)
(uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
A duration of time.
An instant of time.
(countable) The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
(countable) A ratio of comparison.
(grammar, dated) A tense.
(music) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division.
(slang, MLE) Clipping of a long time.
Examples
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:time
Time stops for nobody. the ebb and flow of time
Time is the fire in which we burn.
One of the most common truisms on Earth is the advice to value or at least not waste time. Why has it become so widespread? Every person eventually realizes that time is the most valuable resource on the planet. Not oil or uranium. Not lithium or anything else, but time. Time. The very flow of time convinces us of this. Some people realize this sooner, and these are the lucky ones. Others realize it too late when they lose someone or something. People cannot avoid it, this is just a matter of time. But there is a fundamental difference that comes down to the question of time. The time of your life is under your control. The time of life of our force on the front line, the time of life of all Ukrainians who are forced to live through this terrible Russian aggression unfortunately is subject to many factors that are not all in their control. I do not wish anyone to feel like they are in my shoes, and it's impossible to give a manual on how to go through life so as not to waste time. However, one piece of advice always works. You have to know exactly why you need today and how you want your tomorrows to look like.
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!
We all have a visceral understanding of what it means for the universe to have multiple space dimensions, since we live in a world in which we constantly deal with a plurality — three. But what would it mean to have multiple times? Would one align with time as we presently experience it psychologically while the other would somehow be "different"?
Time slows down when you approach the speed of light.
Eventually time would also die because no processes would continue, no light would flow.
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?
An essential definition of time should entail neither speed nor direction, just change.
More time is needed to complete the project. You had plenty of time, but you waited until the last minute. Are you finished yet? Time’s up!
During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]
a long time; Record the individual times for the processes in each batch. Only your best time is compared with the other competitors. The algorithm runs in O time.
I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.
The shock of the water, of course, woke him, and he swam for quite a time.
The judge leniently granted a sentence with no hard time. He is not living at home because he is doing time.
Arrested on duty at Fort Richardson, both parents had worked hard at blaming the other for their son's death, but Kate's meticulous recording of the detail of the bruising found on the child's body and the physical evidence surrounding the scene, plus patient, painstaking interviews with neighbors above and below stairs had resulted in time for both.
"Ain't gone be no Rikers Island for you next time," I warned him. "You get tapped on another gun charge and you looking at some upstate time."
We had a wonderful time at the party.
I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.
Roman times; the time of the dinosaurs; how things were at that time; how things were in those times
The time is out of joint
Dr. Manuel: You're wasting your time. The age of humanity is over. Our extinction is inevitable.[...]Shepard: I don't have time for this.Dr. Manuel: Time? Our time is over.
In my time, we respected our elders.
Excuse me, have you got the time? What time is it, do you guess? Ten o’clock? A computer keeps time using a clock battery.
Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
it’s time for 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.
It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today – with America standing out in the forefront and the UK not far behind.
at what times do the trains arrive?; these times were erroneously converted between zones
When was the last time we went out? I don’t remember.
see you another time; that’s three times he’s made the same mistake
Okay, but this is the last time. No more after that!
Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
One more time. Audio
Audio
Last call: it's almost time.
She was within little more than one month of her time.
It was his 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
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; [...]
The participles of the future time active, and perfect passive, when joined with the verb esse, were sometimes used as indeclinable; thus, [...]
common or triple time; the musician keeps good time.
some few lines set unto a solemn 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
INCHEZ:Man this is long! We've been in here for time!
Synonyms: ages, long
Related words
hyponyms
African time
Alaska-Hawaii Time
Alaska Standard Time
Alaska time
Amsterdam Time
ASEAN Common Time
Atlantic Daylight Time
Atlantic Standard Time
Atlantic Time
Australian Central Daylight Time
Australian Eastern Daylight Time
Australian Eastern Standard Time
Barycentric Coordinate Time
Bering Time
Berlin Time
Bhutan Time
Bombay time
Borneo Time
Buck Rodgers time
Calcutta time
Cape Verde Time
Caribbean time
Central Africa Time
Central Daylight Time
Central European Midsummer Time
Central European Time
Central Europe Time
Central Standard Time
Central Time
Chatham Daylight Time
Christmas time
Christmas-time
Colored People's Time
Coordinated Universal Time
CP Time
Dutch Time
East Africa Time
Eastern Daylight Time
Eastern European Time
Eastern Standard Time
Eastern Time
Father Time
free time
French Revolutionary Time
Geocentric Coordinate Time
Greenwich Mean Time
Greenwich time
Hadean time
Hawaii-Aleutian time
Hawaii time
Hong Kong Time
Hubble time
International Atomic Time
International Time Bureau
Israel Daylight Time
Japan Standard Time
Joda-Time
Krasnoyarsk Time
Madras time
Mauritius Time
Maxwell time
Maytime
Middle Eastern Time
Middle European Time
Moscow Time
Mountain Daylight Time
Mountain Standard Time
Mountain Time
Nepal Time
Newtonian time
New Zealand Daylight Time
Novosibirsk Time
Old Father Time
Omsk Time
Operation Market Time
Ordinary Time
Pacific Daylight Time
Pacific Standard Time
Pacific Time
Patients Out of Time
Philippine Time
POSIX time
Samoa Time
Seychelles Time
Spacecraft Event Time
Sri Lanka Time
Standard Zone Time
Starving Time
Swatch Internet Time
Terrestrial Time
Tipper and See-Saw Time
Unix time
Uzbekistan Time
Washington meridian time
West Africa Time
Western European Time
Yukon Time
Zulu time
verb
time (third-person singular simple present times, present participle timing, simple past and past participle timed)
(transitive) To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of something.
(transitive) To choose when something commences or its duration.
(obsolete) To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
(obsolete) To pass time; to delay.
To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
To measure, as in music or harmony.
Examples
I used a stopwatch to time myself running around the block.
The President timed his speech badly, coinciding with the Super Bowl.
The bomb was timed to explode at 9:20 p.m.
There is surely no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
With oar strokes timing to their song.
Who overlooked the oars, and timed the stroke.
He was a thing of blood, whose every motion / Was timed with dying cries.
Related words
synonyms
(to measure time): clock
(to choose the time for): set
interjection
time
(tennis) 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.