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Pronunciation

  • AHD : tīm
  • IPA : /taɪm/
  • SAMPA : /taIm/

Homophones

Noun

time (plural: times)

  1. 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).
  2. The moment indicated by a clock or other time-measuring device (What time is it?, The time is ten o'clock).
  3. A particular occasion: See you another time, Last time I was here.

Translations

Verb

to time (timed , timed)

  1. to measure time, especially using a clock of some kind.
  2. 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

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