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time verb
Meaning : Measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time.
Example :
He clocked the runners.
Synonyms : clock
Meaning : Assign a time for an activity or event.
Example :
The candidate carefully timed his appearance at the disaster scene.
Meaning : Set the speed, duration, or execution of.
Example :
We time the process to manufacture our cars very precisely.
Meaning : Regulate or set the time of.
Example :
Time the clock.
Meaning : Adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time.
Example :
The good player times his swing so as to hit the ball squarely.
time noun
Meaning : An instance or single occasion for some event.
Example :
This time he succeeded.
He called four times.
He could do ten at a clip.
Synonyms : clip
Meaning : A period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something.
Example :
Take time to smell the roses.
I didn't have time to finish.
It took more than half my time.
He waited for a long time.
Meaning : An indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities).
Example :
The time of year for planting.
He was a great actor in his time.
Meaning : A suitable moment.
Example :
It is time to go.
Meaning : The continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past.
Example :
He waited for along time.
It took some time before he got an answer.
Time flies like an arrow.
Meaning : A person's experience on a particular occasion.
Example :
He had a time holding back the tears.
They had a good time together.
Meaning : A reading of a point in time as given by a clock.
Example :
Do you know what time it is?.
The time is 10 o'clock.
Synonyms : clock time
Meaning : The fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event.
Synonyms : fourth dimension
Meaning : The period of time a prisoner is imprisoned.
Example :
He served a prison term of 15 months.
His sentence was 5 to 10 years.
He is doing time in the county jail.
Synonyms : prison term, sentence
