time has definitions from the field of music
1
[ noun ] an instance or single occasion for some event

Synonyms

clip

Examples

"This time he succeeded" "He called four times" "he could do ten at a clip"

Used in print

(The Atlanta Constitution...)

The department apparently intends to make the Rural_Roads_Authority a revolving_fund under which new bonds would be issued every time a portion of the old ones are paid_off by tax authorities .

(The Sun, [Baltimore],...)

Just before game time , Robinson 's pretty wife , Connie informed him that an addition to the family can be expected late next summer .

(The Dallas Morning News,...)

Time stands_still every time Moritz , a 26 - year old Army_Signal_Corps veteran , goes_into the field .

`` I kicked about 110 extra_points in 135 tries during three years in high_school '' , he said , `` and made 26 in_a_row at one time .

His statistical record that year , when Texas won only one game and lost nine , was far from impressive : he carried the ball three times for a net gain of 10 yards , punted once for 39 yards and caught one pass for 13 yards .

Related terms

case

2
[ noun ] an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities)

Examples

"he waited a long time" "the time of year for planting" "he was a great actor is his time"

Used in print

(The Atlanta Constitution...)

Caldwell 's resignation had been expected for some time .

(St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...)

The two top talents of the time , Mickey_Mantle and Willie_Mays , have hit the ball harder and more successfully so_far this early season than at any period in careers which , to be frank about it , never have quite reached expectations .

(William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)

Instead , the audience can sit_back at_ease and , from the perspective of an enlightened time which no_longer believes_in such things , enjoy the dead seriousness with which the characters in the play take the witches and devils which are under discussion .

(Mr. America, 4:6...)

Too often a beginning bodybuilder has to do his training secretly either because his parents do n't want sonny-boy to `` lift all those old barbell things '' because `` you 'll stunt your growth '' or because childish taunts from his schoolmates , like `` Hey , lookit Mr._America , whaddya gonna do with all those muscles ( of which he has none at the time ) '' ?

(High Fidelity, 11:10...)

But having lived with the disc for some time now , I find the performance less exciting than either Schnabel 's or Fleisher 's ( whose superb performance with the Budapest_Quartet has still to be recorded ) and a good_deal less filled with humor than Curzon 's .

3
[ noun ] a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something

Examples

"take time to smell the roses" "I didn't have time to finish" "it took more than half my time"

Used in print

(The Dallas Morning News,...)

A Houston teacher , now serving in the Legislature , proposed Thursday a law reducing the time spent learning `` educational methods '' .

(The Dallas Morning News,...)

`` He timed it just_right and broke_through there before the boy ( halfback Terry_Isaacson ) had time to turn_around .

("Editorials"...)

Some time ago , however , Mr._Khrushchev decided that when bigger bombs were made , the Soviet_Union would make them .

(The Christian Science Monitor,...)

Similarly , in presenting still photographs of early jazz_groups , the program allowed no time for a close perusal .

(Edward E. Kelly, S.J., "Christian Unity in England"...)

An amazing article in the Manchester_Guardian of last November , entitled `` Fate of Redundant Churches '' , states than an Archbishops ' Commission `` reported last month that in the Church_of_England alone there are 790 churches which are redundant now , or will be in 20 years ' time .

Related terms

time_period clock

4
[ noun ] a suitable moment

Examples

"it is time to go"

Used in print

(The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)

Every man who dabbles_in the market to make a_little easy_money on_the_side and suffers losses could at the time hardly face his wife who was wondering how her husband could be so dumb .

(Organic Gardening and Farming,...)

When they have 4 to 6 leaves and are thrifty little plants , it 's time to set them out where they are to remain .

(J. W. C. Hagstrom et al., "Debilitating muscular...)

Splenomegaly was first noted in 1956 , and a sternal marrow biopsy at that time showed `` scattered foci of fibrosis '' suggestive_of myelofibrosis .

(Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)

By 800 social and cultural security had been achieved , at_least on a simple plane ; it was time to take bigger steps , to venture on experiments .

(Edwin L. Bigelow and Nancy H. Otis,...)

Another veteran telephone_operator was Edith_Fleming_Blackmer , who had been in the office forty years at the time of her death in 1960 .

Related terms

moment high_time occasion

5
[ noun ] the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past

Used in print

(The Dallas Morning News,...)

Time stands_still every time Moritz , a 26 - year old Army_Signal_Corps veteran , goes_into the field .

(William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)

It is not material and is not a `` thing '' occupying space and time .

(Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)

They speak of the work of Christ as the bestowal of incorruptibility , which can mean ( though it does not have to mean ) deliverance from time and history .

It represents a punishment that he knows he deserves , but it also symbolizes most dramatically that he lives his life within the process of time .

Such efforts almost always find themselves compelled to ask whether Adam was created capable of growing old and_then older and_then still older , in_short , whether Adam 's life was intended to be part of the process of time .

6
[ noun ] the time as given by a clock

Synonyms

clock_time

Examples

"do you know what time it is?" "the time is 10 o'clock"

Used in print

(Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land....)

Jubal would have bet his life that if Anne were to witness the Second_Coming , she would memorize date , time , personae , events , and barometric_pressure without batting her calm blue eyes .

7
[ noun ] the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event

Synonyms

fourth_dimension

Used in print

(William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)

Science is fully competent to deal with any element of experience which arises from an object in space and time .

(Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)

It is not through space nor time that the time_machine most approved by science_fiction must travel for a visit to the permanent prehistoric past , or the ever existent past fantasy future .

(Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)

There were times now , like this , when she lost_control of the time count and moved freely back_and_forth into three generations .

A man could be tossed outside the dimension of time by a stray bullet these days .

Related terms

dimension

8
[ noun ] a person's experience on a particular occasion

Examples

"he had a time holding back the tears" or "they had a good time together"

Used in print

(Mr. America, 4:6...)

But as you can also see , it 's not a painful exercise at_all , because Henri_de_Courcy - the `` happy '' bodybuilder - looks as though he were having the time of his life !

(Jane Gilmore Rushing, "Against the Moon,"...)

They all sat around and drank ice_water , and the men smoked , and everybody had a good time .

(John Hazard Wildman, "Take It Off," The Arizona...)

And when they had got to their little lawn , they had had a most twirlingly magnificent time .

`` We have good times '' .

Related terms

experience

9
[ noun ] (music) rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time

Synonyms

metre meter

Used in print

(Ralph B. Long. The Sentence and Its Parts: A...)

There is a parallel to this tendency in the assignment of time in long known hymn tunes .

Related terms

rhythmicity

10
[ verb ] measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time

Synonyms

clock

Examples

"he clocked the runners"

Used in print

(The Sun, [Baltimore],...)

Mills was timed in 1.10.4 .

(The Dallas Morning News,...)

`` He timed it just_right and broke_through there before the boy ( halfback Terry_Isaacson ) had time to turn_around .

11
[ verb ] assign a time for an activity or event

Examples

"The candidate carefully timed his appearance at the disaster scene"

Used in print

(Joseph Chadwick, No Land Is Free....)

Brannon timed it so that they rode in an hour after nightfall .

Related terms

schedule

12
[ noun ] the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned

Examples

"he served a prison term of 15 months" "his sentence was 5 to 10 years" "he is doing time in the county jail"

Related terms

term hard_time life sentence

13
[ verb ] set the speed, duration, or execution of

Examples

"we time the process to manufacture our cars very precisely"

Used in print

(David Alexander, Bloodstain....)

They had timed it better this time .

Related terms

determine

14
[ verb ] adjust so that a force is applied an action occurs at the desired time

Examples

"The good player times his swing so as to hit the ball squarely"

Related terms

adjust

15
[ verb ] regulate or set the time of, as of a clock or watch

Related terms

adjust clock_time

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