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Time
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Pronunciation
- AHD : tīm
- IPA : /taɪm/
- SAMPA : /taIm/
Homophones
Noun
time (plural: times)
- Distance between the past and the present or between the present and future.
- Some physicists consider time the fourth physical dimension (three spatial, one temporal).
- The moment indicated by a clock or other time-measuring device (What time is it?, The time is ten o'clock).
- A particular occasion: See you another time, Last time I was here.
Translations
- Arabic: عهد , عصر
- Bitruscan: timun
- Breton: amzer f (1), eur f (2), gwech f (3)
- Bulgarian: време , час
- Catalan: temps m
- Chinese: 时间 /時間
- Czech: čas m
- Dutch: tijd m
- Ekspreso: tempo
- Esperanto: tempo (1), horo (2), fojo (3)
- aika (1,2), kerta (3)
- temps m (1), heure f (2), fois f (3)
- Frisian: tiid
- Zeit f (1), Uhrzeit f (2), Mal n (3)
- Greek: (Chronos)
- Guaraní: ára
- Hebrew: זמן f
- Ido: tempo
- Indonesian: waktu
- Interlingua: tempore
- Italian: tempo m
- Japanese: 時間 (じかん, jikan) (amount), 時 (とき , toki) (at)
- Korean: 시간 [時間] (sigan) (amount), 때 (ddae) (at)
- Latin: tempus n (1)
- Norwegian: tid
- Polish: czas m
- Portuguese: tempo m (1), hora f (2), vez f (3)
- Romanian: timp n, vreme f
- Russian: время , час
- Spanish: tiempo m (1), hora (2), vez f (3)
- tid c (1, 2, 3), gång c (3)
- Tupinambá: 'ara
- Volapük: tim, tüp
Verb
to time (timed , timed)
- to measure time, especially using a clock of some kind.
- to choose the time for
- The bomb was timed to explode at 9:20 p.m.
- The president's speech was timed badly: It coincided with the superbowl.
Translations
- kronometri , registri la daŭron de
- Finnish: ottaa aika , kellottaa
- German: die Zeit nehmen (1),die Zeit stoppen (1), die Zeit messen (1), den Zeitpunkt wählen (2), timen (2)
- Interlingua: chronometrar
- Portuguese: cronometrar
- Vietnamese: thoi gian
Derived Terms
- be lost in the mists of time
- behind the times
- in the nick of time
- the mists of time
- time-and-motion
- time-keeper
- time slot
- time travel
- timed
- timer
- timing
See Also
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