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Meaning time meaning

What does time mean?
Definitions in simple English

time

Time is what we measure with a clock. "What time do you finish work?" "At four o'clock (4:00)." I don't have time to talk to you right now. Can we do it later? If you do something one time, you do it once.

time

If you time something, you measure how long it takes in seconds, minutes, hours, etc. Take out your watch and time yourself during the test.

time

(= clip) an instance or single occasion for some event this time he succeeded he called four times he could do ten at a clip 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 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 in his time a suitable moment it is time to go the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past a person's experience on a particular occasion he had a time holding back the tears they had a good time together a reading of a point in time as given by a clock do you know what time it is? the time is 10 o'clock (= fourth dimension) the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event (= clock) 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 assign a time for an activity or event The candidate carefully timed his appearance at the disaster scene set the speed, duration, or execution of we time the process to manufacture our cars very precisely (= meter) rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration regulate or set the time of time the clock adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time The good player times his swing so as to hit the ball squarely (= prison term, sentence) 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 time synonyms

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Topics time topics

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  • What general words refer to the tense of an event?
  • What words indicate that something happens or is done for the first time?
  • What words indicate that when one thing happens something else always happens?

Conjugation time conjugation

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time · verb

Examples time examples

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Simple sentences

I don't know if I have the time.
I can't cut my nails and do the ironing at the same time!
We can travel through time. And we do at the remarkable rate of one second per second.
What time do you usually get up?
Please forgive me for not having written for a long time.
Time goes by quickly when you're having fun.
What time do you get up?
The time has come when we can travel through space.
For one thing, I'm penniless; for another, I don't have the time.
We had a very good time last night.
I wish we had more time.
If I could have a wish, I'd wish I could make up for lost time.
It's already time to go home.
Now it's time to say good night.
One can always find time.
You never have time for important things!
It would take me too much time to explain to you why it's not going to work.
When you start to look like the photo in your passport, it's time to go on vacation.
What time is it?
I was trying to kill time.
I was looking to kill time.
Give me time to give you everything I have!
When I ask people what they regret most about high school, they nearly all say the same thing: that they wasted so much time.
Prime numbers are like life; they are completely logical, but impossible to find the rules for, even if you spend all your time thinking about it.
A schedule is an identity card for time, but, if you don't have a schedule, the time isn't there.
Ten years is a long time to wait.

Movie subtitles

It's about time.
Your mom was a famous movie star a long time ago. And your brother is one of the top singer in our country. Killer, huh?
We should come here all the time.
I heard that I was dying but I didn't find out how much time I have left.
It's your first time seeing me dance, huh?
But there still time till the shooting.
What'd you do all that time Not knowing how to swim.
Helicopters fly from time to time.
Now is the time that we, the Japan Liberation Front, should make a stand!
Um. you know, that time in the bathroom.
You sure have studied it a lot in such a short amount of time.
At that time. for us 10 year olds, the world appeared to be a very sad place.
You'll have to do it another time.
Around the same time, the astronomer Kapteyn became professor of astronomy in Groningen (the Netherlands).
It was this big achievement that lead Kapteyn to first distinguish himself at that time.
Today this is quite normal. But at the time, it was like going to a different continent!
And Henk went to Leiden, and from time to time we received news about his stay, the people at Leiden, the things that were going on there.
But 21 cm receivers did not exist at that time.
Harold Ewen, had detected the emission for the first time.
Henk van de Hulst was at Harvard at that time and he organised the communication between Harvard, Leiden and Kootwijk.
A long time ago, a boat with 10 of our Spanish sisters ran aground here.
Why waste time when France offered you to skip centuries and enter the modern world.
I'll kill you next time.
We spend all of our time trying to keep one step ahead of all the teachers.
This time she'll have the real shit.
The first time was the hardest, man.
Frankie keeps making me do it, and every time I do it, it feels worse, and plus, I'm not a very good liar.
This time it was Johnny, the next time it'll be some other kid.
Hey. Listen, this is my last time.
Now in his time of need you're just going to drop him like that?
Yeah, I knew it the whole time.
All the kids expect me to solve their problems like that, but all of these things take time.
But these things take time.
Stop it with this time!
We are out of time!
What's the time?

News and current affairs

But, at the same time, a wave of idealism swept across the wreckage, a collective sense of determination to build a more equal, peaceful, and safer world.
I just took it for granted that, by the time I was, say, 40, space travel would be a common thing.
It has entered the history books as the beginning of something new, a new era perhaps, but in any case a time of change.
His books - which he found time to write despite the hectic demands of diplomacy - were a unique combination of enormous erudition and crystalline clarity.
At a time when public debate in Israel is torn between pseudo-religious nationalist fanatics and anti-Zionists masquerading as post-modernists, the moral certitudes of Eban, for all their urbanity, may sound shallow.
How it is received may not only determine the state of Israel-Palestine negotiations for a considerable time to come, but Saudi Arabia's domestic peace as well.
Like history, social-scientific theory is written by the victors and shaped by the context and challenges of its time.
Now is the time to set new ambitious goals for Europe.
It is time for the Security Council to try to internationalize the most dangerous parts of the nuclear fuel cycle.
The time for business as usual is over.
At the same time, small farmers would receive a steady flow of income, which they could use for micro-investments to improve their household's wealth, education, and health.
We don't do it, because we give safety a lower priority than our desire to spend less time driving.
And, over time, Israeli settler disengagement from the West Bank and East Jerusalem has become just as impossible as any attempt by Israel to expel its remaining Arabs.
But that doesn't mean that it won't work, at least for a time.
After adjusting for inflation, today's price is nowhere near the all-time high of January 1980.
At the time (2008-2009), large international banks had to be rescued by their home countries' governments when they ran into trouble.
But a financial crisis does not give policymakers the time that they once had to explain to voters why one step required another.
At the same time, the Palestinians become objects of romanticized identifications - one of the leaders of the NAFTHE motion was seen, prior to a meeting, draped in a Palestinian flag - and unwitting condescension.
But, in a currency union with huge differences in income and development levels, the short term can stretch out for a very long time.
At the same time, emerging-market central banks need to accumulate gold reserves, which they still hold in far lower proportion than do rich-country central banks.
A couple of weeks later, I was faced with one of those conflicts: a board meeting here, a conference there, another opportunity at the same time somewhere else.
Given the gravity of the economic crisis, the time has come for the EU to demonstrate its strengths whenever possible.

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