Word: time Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tyme, time, from Old English tīma (“time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favorable time, opportunity”), from Proto-West Germanic *tīmō, from Proto-Germanic *tīmô (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂imō, from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (“to divide”). Related to tide. Not related to Latin tempus. Cognates * Scots tym, tyme (“time”) * Alemannic German Zimen, Zīmmän (“time, time of the year, opportune time, opportunity”) * Danish time (“hour, lesson”) * Elfdalian taime (“hour”) * Faroese tími (“hour, lesson, time”) * Icelandic tími (“time, season”) * Norwegian time (“lesson, hour”) * Swedish timma, timme (“hour”). Pronunciation: /taɪm/, [tʰaɪ̯m], /tɑɪm/, [tʰɑe̯m], /təɪm/ 1. The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events. Labels: uncountable Example: Time stops for nobody. the ebb and flow of time Example: Time is the fire in which we burn. 2. The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events. Labels: uncountable Example: Time flies when you're having fun. 3. The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Both science-fiction writers and physicists have written about travel through time. Example: 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! 4. The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events. Labels: uncountable Example: Time slows down when you approach the speed of light. Example: 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? 5. The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events. Labels: uncountable Example: An essential definition of time should entail neither speed nor direction, just change. 6. A duration of time. Labels: uncountable Example: More time is needed to complete the project. Example: You had plenty of time, but you waited until the last minute. 7. A duration of time. Labels: countable Example: a long time Example: Record the individual times for the processes in each batch. 8. A duration of time. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: The judge leniently granted a sentence with no hard time. Example: He is not living at home because he is doing time. 9. A duration of time. Labels: countable Example: We had a wonderful time at the party. 10. A duration of time. Labels: countable Example: Roman times Example: the time of the dinosaurs 11. A duration of time. Labels: uncountable Example: In my time, we respected our elders. 12. A duration of time. Labels: countable, figuratively, singular, uncountable 13. An instant of time. Labels: uncountable Example: Excuse me, have you got the time? Example: What time is it, do you guess? Ten o’clock? 14. An instant of time. Labels: countable Example: 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 Example: 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. 15. An instant of time. Labels: countable Example: At what times do the trains arrive? Example: These times were erroneously converted between zones 16. An instant of time. Labels: countable Example: one more time Example: When was the last time we went out? I don’t remember. 17. An instant of time. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable Example: Last call: it's almost time. 18. An instant of time. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […]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;[…] 19. An instant of time. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It was his time. 20. The measurement under some system of region of day or moment. Labels: countable Example: Let's synchronize our watches so we're not on different time. 21. A ratio of comparison (see also usage notes and prepositional sense at 'times'). Labels: countable Example: Your car runs three times faster than mine. Example: That is four times as heavy as this. 22. The measured duration of sounds. Labels: uncountable Example: dance time; march time 23. The measured duration of sounds. Labels: uncountable Example: The musician keeps good time. Example: some few lines set unto a solemn time 24. The measured duration of sounds. Labels: uncountable Example: common or triple time; time signature 25. The measured duration of sounds. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: After the introduction, the drummer is to play time. 26. Synonym of tense Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: the time of a verb Example: 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;[…] 27. Clipping of a long time. Labels: Multicultural-London-English, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, slang, uncountable Example: I used to pay for things but that was time ago. Example: Ats' mum is looking for him, says he ain't been back in time