Meaning of time | Babel Free

Definitions

1. a municipality of Rogaland, Norway
2. The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
   uncountable
3. a while, period of time, long time, length of time, indeterminate amount of time
4. The feeling of the passage of events and their relative duration, as experienced by an individual.
   uncountable
5. Computers To be canceled if an expected input is not received after a specified time. Used of processes.
   Computers
6. tense
7. A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
   uncountable, usually
8. With a quickly approaching time limit: worked against time to deliver the manuscript before the deadline.
9. weather (the short-term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc)
10. Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.
    uncountable
11. Used to acknowledge an expression of gratitude.
12. The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.
    uncountable
13. However; nonetheless.
14. A duration of time.
    uncountable
15. A quantity of availability of duration.
    uncountable
16. On occasion; sometimes.
17. A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
    countable
18. Out-of-date; old-fashioned.
19. The serving of a prison sentence.
    slang, uncountable
20. Temporarily.
21. An experience.
    countable
22. Once in a while; at intervals.
23. An era; (articulated, sometimes in the plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.
    countable
24. The appropriate or urgent time: It's high time that you started working.
25. A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
    uncountable
26. Almost instantly; immediately.
27. Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.
    countable, figuratively, singular, uncountable
28. An instant of time.
    uncountable
29. The duration of time of a given day that has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.
    uncountable
30. A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).
    countable
31. A numerical indication of a particular moment.
    countable
32. An instance or occurrence.
    countable
33. Closing time.
    UK, countable, uncountable
34. The hour of childbirth.
    countable, uncountable
35. The end of someone’s life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined.
    countable, uncountable
36. The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
    countable
37. A ratio of comparison (see also usage notes and prepositional sense at 'times').
    countable
38. The measured duration of sounds.
    uncountable
39. Tempo; a measured rate of movement.
    uncountable
40. Rhythmical division, meter.
    uncountable
41. (uncountable) A straight rhythmic pattern, free from fills, breaks and other embellishments.
    countable, uncountable
42. Synonym of tense
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
43. Clipping of a long time.
    Multicultural-London-English, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“Time flies when you're having fun.”

“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.”

“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?”

“Eventually time would also die because no processes would continue, no light would flow.”

“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 13 hours of the day in Study ;[…]”

“The teacher greeted us and moved methodically through the room, placing an object on each student's desk. It was a thin book―a spiral-bound planner. She strode to the front of the room. "If you want to succeed," she said, her syllables clear and careful, "you must learn to manage your time."”

“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(n²) 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.”

“We had a wonderful time at the party.”

“Roman times”

“the time of the dinosaurs”

“That’s the way things were in those times.”

“The time is out of ioynt: O curſed ſpight, That euer I was borne to ſet it right.”

“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.”

“They will be asleep by this time, don'tcha think?”

“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 (you to go to) 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.”

“At what times do the trains arrive?”

“These times were erroneously converted between zones”

“one more time”

“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.”

“Last call: it's almost time.”

“[…]came well to Exeter; where ſhe intended to ſtay, till ſhe was deliver’d; for 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.”

“Canton is the regional primate city of Kuangtung. Its population of three million is ten times that of the second largest city, Shant'ou.”

“dance time; march time”

“The musician keeps good time.”

“some few lines set unto a solemn time”

“common or triple time; time signature”

“After the introduction, the drummer is to play time.”

“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;[…]”

“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!”

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