English - Alternative Forms

• tyme (obsolete)

English - Etymology

From Middle English time, tyme, from Old English tīma (“time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favorable time, opportunity”), from Proto-Germanic *tīmô (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *dī- (“time”). Cognate with Scots tym, tyme (“time”), Alemannic German Zimen, Zīmmän (“time, time of the year, opportune time, opportunity”), Danish time (“stound, hour, lesson”), Swedish timme (“stound, hour”), Norwegian time (“time, stound, hour”), Faroese tími (“hour, lesson, time”), Icelandic tími (“time, season”). See also tide.

English - Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, Canada, US) enPR: tīm, IPA^(key): /taɪm/
• (Australia) IPA^(key): /tɑem/
• (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?) (Tasmanian) IPA^(key): /tɜːm/
• Rhymes: -aɪm
• Homophone: thyme

English - Interjection

time

1. (tennis) Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause.

English - Noun

time (countable and uncountable, plural times)

1. (uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past.

   Time stops for nobody.   the ebb and flow of time

   • 1937, Delmore Schwartz, Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day

     Time is the fire in which we burn.

2. A duration of time.
   1. (uncountable) A quantity of availability of duration.

      More time is needed to complete the project.   You had plenty of time, but you waited until the last minute.   Are you finished yet? Time’s up!

      • 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond

        During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]

   2. (countable) A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.

      a long time;  Record the individual times for the processes in each batch.   Only your best time is compared with the other competitors.   The algorithm runs in O(n²) time.

      • 1938, Richard Hughes, In Hazard

        The shock of the water, of course, woke him, and he swam for quite a time.

   3. (uncountable, slang) The serving of a prison sentence.

      The judge leniently granted a sentence with no hard time.   He is not living at home because he is doing time.

   4. (countable) An experience.

      We had a wonderful time at the party.

   5. (countable) An era; (with the, sometimes in plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.

      Roman times;  the time of the dinosaurs

      • (Can we date this quote?) Cicero, First Oration against Catiline (translation)

        O the times, O the customs!

      • 1601, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

        The time is out of joint

   6. (uncountable, with possessive) A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.

      In my time, we respected our elders.

   7. (only in singular, sports and figuratively) Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.
3. An instant of time.
   1. (uncountable) How much of a day has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.

      Excuse me, have you got the time?   What time is it, do you guess? Ten o’clock?   A computer keeps time using a clock battery.

   2. (countable) A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).

      it’s time for bed;  it’s time to sleep;  we must wait for the right time;  it's time we were going

   3. (countable) A numerical indication of a particular moment.

      at what times do the trains arrive?;  these times were erroneously converted between zones

   4. (countable) An instance or occurrence.

      When was the last time we went out? I don’t remember.

      see you another time;  that’s three times he’s made the same mistake

      Okay, but this is the last time. No more after that!

   5. (UK, of pubs) Closing time.

      Last call: it's almost time.

   6. The hour of childbirth.
      • Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674)

        She was within one month of her time.

4. (countable) The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.

   Let's synchronize our watches so we're not on different time.

5. (countable) Ratio of comparison.

   your car runs three times faster than mine;  that is four times as heavy as this

6. (grammar, dated)

English - Verb

time (third-person singular simple present times, present participle timing, simple past and past participle timed)

1. To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of.

   I used a stopwatch to time myself running around the block.

2. To choose when something begins or how long it lasts.

   The President timed his speech badly, coinciding with the Super Bowl.

   The bomb was timed to explode at 9:20 p.m.

   • Francis Bacon

     There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

3. (obsolete) To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
   • Whittier

     With oar strokes timing to their song.

4. (obsolete) To pass time; to delay.
5. To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
   • Addison

     Who overlooked the oars, and timed the stroke.

   • Shakespeare

     He was a thing of blood, whose every motion / Was timed with dying cries.

6. To measure, as in music or harmony.

Synonyms

• (to measure time): clock
• (to choose the time for): set

Derived terms

• mistime
• overtime
• over-time
• retime
• timeable
• timed
• time it out
• time out
• timer
• timing

Translations

English - Anagrams

• emit
• item
• mite

English - See Also

• temporal
• Time-ese
• Timese

English - External Links

• Time in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
• Time (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Time (disambiguation)

Danish - Etymology

From Old Norse tími, from Proto-Germanic *tīmô (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *tī-, from *dī- (“time”).

Danish - Noun

time c (singular definite timen, plural indefinite timer)

1. hour
2. lesson, class

Inflection

Danish - Verb

time (imperative time, infinitive at time, present tense timer, past tense timede, past participle har timet)

1. time

Esperanto - Etymology

tim- + -e

Esperanto - Adverb

time

1. fearfully

Latin - Verb

timē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of timeō

Norwegian Bokmål - Etymology

From Old Norse tími, from Proto-Germanic *tīmô (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *tī-, from *dī- (“time”).

Norwegian Bokmål - Noun

time m (definite singular timen, indefinite plural timer, definite plural timene)

1. an hour
2. a lesson, class

Derived terms

• halvtime
• timeglass

Norwegian Bokmål - References

• “time” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk - Etymology

From Old Norse tími, from Proto-Germanic *tīmô (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *tī-, from *dī- (“time”).

Norwegian Nynorsk - Noun

time m (definite singular timen, indefinite plural timar, definite plural timane)

1. an hour
2. a lesson, class

Derived terms

• halvtime

Norwegian Nynorsk - References

• “time” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese - Noun

time m (plural times)

1. (Brazil) a team

Synonyms

• equipa (Portugal)

Spanish - Verb

time

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of timar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of timar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of timar.

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