time
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(noun) the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past |
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Related Words: GMT, Greenwich Mean Time, Greenwich Time, UT, UT1, abstraction, biological time, civil time, continuance, continuum, cosmic time, daylight saving, daylight savings, daylight-saving time, daylight-savings time, duration, eternity, forever, future, futurity, geologic time, geological time, hereafter, infinity, local time, musical time, nowadays, past, past times, present, standard time, time to come, universal time, yesteryear, yore |
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(verb) regulate or set the time of, as of a clock or watch |
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Related Words: adjust, set |
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(verb) assign a time for an activity or event |
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Related Words: schedule |
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(verb) set the speed, duration, or execution of |
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Related Words: determine, influence, regulate, shape |
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(noun) a person's experience on a particular occasion; "he had a time holding back the tears" or "they had a good time together" |
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Related Words: experience |
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(noun) an instance or single occasion for some event; "This time he succeeded"; "He called four times"; "he could do ten at a clip" |
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Synonyms: clip |
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Related Words: case, example, instance |
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(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" |
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Related Words: amount of time, bit, day, dead, ephemera, hard times, minute, moment, period, period of time, piece, second, space age, spell, time period, wee, while |
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(noun) a suitable moment; "it is time to go" |
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Related Words: high time, instant, minute, moment, occasion, second |
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(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" |
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Related Words: amount of time, period, period of time, time period |
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(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" |
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Synonyms: clock |
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Related Words: measure, mistime, quantify |
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(noun) rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time |
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Synonyms: meter |
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Related Words: rhythmicity |
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(noun) the time as given by a clock; "do you know what time it is?"; "the time is 10 o'clock" |
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Synonyms: clock time |
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Related Words: SCLK, hour, meter reading, prime time, reading, spacecraft clock time, time of day |
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(noun) the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event |
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Synonyms: fourth dimension |
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Related Words: dimension |
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(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" |
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Synonyms: prison term, sentence |
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Related Words: hard time, term |
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