Time is the movement from past to present to future. You can tell time with a clock, and it takes time to do anything.
Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof.
Noun
the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
Noun
rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time
Noun
a person''s experience on a particular occasion; "he had a time holding back the tears"; "they had a good time together"
Noun
an instance or single occasion for some event; "this time he succeeded"; "he called four times"; "he could do ten at a clip"
Noun
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 is his time"
Noun
the time as given by a clock; "do you know what time it is?"; "the time is 10 o''clock"
Noun
the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
Noun
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"
Noun
a suitable moment; "it is time to go"
Noun
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"
Verb
adjust so that a force is applied an an action occurs at the desired time; "The good player times his swing so as to hit the ball squarely"
Verb
regulate or set the time of; "time the clock"
Verb
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"
Verb
assign a time for an activity or event; "The candidate carefully timed his appearance at the disaster scene"
Verb
set the speed, duration, or execution of; "we time the process to manufacture our cars very precisely"
n.
Duration, considered independently of any system of
measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions
thereof.
n.
A particular period or part of duration, whether past,
present, or future; a point or portion of duration; as, the time was,
or has been; the time is, or will be.
n.
The period at which any definite event occurred, or person
lived; age; period; era; as, the Spanish Armada was destroyed in the
time of Queen Elizabeth; -- often in the plural; as, ancient times;
modern times.
n.
The duration of one's life; the hours and days which a person
has at his disposal.
n.
A proper time; a season; an opportunity.
n.
Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition.
n.
Performance or occurrence of an action or event, considered
with reference to repetition; addition of a number to itself;
repetition; as, to double cloth four times; four times four, or
sixteen.
n.
The present life; existence in this world as contrasted with
immortal life; definite, as contrasted with infinite, duration.
n.
Tense.
n.
The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of
movement; rhythmical division; as, common or triple time; the musician
keeps good time.
v. t.
To appoint the time for; to bring, begin, or perform at
the proper season or time; as, he timed his appearance rightly.
v. t.
To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in
time of movement.
v. t.
To ascertain or record the time, duration, or rate of; as,
to time the speed of horses, or hours for workmen.
v. t.
To measure, as in music or harmony.
v. i.
To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
v. i.
To pass time; to delay.
Time
The time wasteth [i. e. passes away] night and day.
I know of no ideas . . . that have a better claim to be accounted simple and original than those of space and time.2.
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets.3.
Believe me, your time is not your own; it belongs to God, to religion, to mankind.5.
There is . . . a time to every purpose.
The time of figs was not yet.6.
She was within one month of her time.7.
Summers three times eight save one.8.
Till time and sin together cease.9.
Some few lines set unto a solemn time.
Time
There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.2.
Who overlooked the oars, and timed the stroke.
He was a thing of blood, whose every motion Was timed with dying cries.3.
Time
With oar strokes timing to their song.2.
Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof.
To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
Usage Examples
'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.
(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.
A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.
A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.
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Other Usage ExamplesA basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.
A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.
A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort.
A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.
'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'
A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.