time

Meanings

Noun

• The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
• A duration of time.
• An instant of time.
• The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
• Ratio of comparison.
• Tense.
• The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division.

Verb

• To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of.
• To choose when something begins or how long it lasts.
• To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
• To pass time; to delay.
• To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
• To measure, as in music or harmony.

Interjection

• The umpire's call in prizefights, etc.
• A call by a bartender to warn patrons that the establishment is closing and no more drinks will be served.

Related

Similar words

• clock
• set

Narrower meaning words

• African time
• Alaska Standard Time
• Alaska time
• Alaska-Hawaii Time
• Amsterdam Time
• ASEAN Common Time
• Atlantic Daylight Time
• Atlantic Standard Time
• Atlantic Time
• Australian Central Daylight Time
• Australian Eastern Daylight Time
• Australian Eastern Standard Time
• Barycentric Coordinate Time
• Bering Time
• Berlin Time
• Bhutan Time
• Bombay time
• Borneo Time
• Buck Rodgers time
• Calcutta time
• Cape Verde Time
• Caribbean time
• Central Africa Time
• Central Daylight Time
• Central Europe Time
• Central European Midsummer Time
• Central European Time
• Central Standard Time
• Central Time
• Chatham Daylight Time
• Christmas time
• Christmas-time
• Colored People's Time
• Coordinated Universal Time
• CP Time
• Dutch Time
• East Africa Time
• Eastern Daylight Time
• Eastern European Time
• Eastern Standard Time
• Eastern Time
• Father Time
• free time
• French Revolutionary Time
• Geocentric Coordinate Time
• Greenwich Mean Time
• Greenwich time
• Hadean time
• Hawaii time
• Hawaii-Aleutian time
• Hong Kong Time
• Hubble time
• International Atomic Time
• International Time Bureau
• Israel Daylight Time
• Japan Standard Time
• Joda-Time
• Krasnoyarsk Time
• Madras time
• Mauritius Time
• Maxwell time
• Maytime
• Middle Eastern Time
• Middle European Time
• Moscow Time
• Mountain Daylight Time
• Mountain Standard Time
• Mountain Time
• Nepal Time
• New Zealand Daylight Time
• Newtonian time
• Novosibirsk Time
• Old Father Time
• Omsk Time
• Operation Market Time
• Ordinary Time
• Pacific Daylight Time
• Pacific Standard Time
• Pacific Time
• Patients Out of Time
• Philippine Time
• POSIX time
• Samoa Time
• Seychelles Time
• Spacecraft Event Time
• Sri Lanka Time
• Standard Zone Time
• Starving Time
• Swatch Internet Time
• Terrestrial Time
• Tipper and See-Saw Time
• Unix time
• Uzbekistan Time
• Washington meridian time
• West Africa Time
• Western European Time
• Yukon Time
• Zulu time
• en
• A-H conduction time
• absolute time
• access time
• Achilles tendon reflex time
• acquisition feeding time
• acquisition time
• activated clotting time
• activated partial thromboplastin time
• active braking time
• actual flying time
• adjusted flow time
• administrative lead time
• advanced time
• amortized constant time
• apex time
• apostolic times
• apparent time
• APTIME
• arrival time
• assembly time
• association time
• astronomical time
• attack time
• average access time
• average handle time
• average seek time
• back time
• background radiation equivalent time
• bathtime
• bedtime
• binding time
• biologic time
• biological time
• birth-time
• bit time
• black people's time
• bleeding time
• block time
• blood circulation time
• borrowed time
• bottom time
• bowel transit time
• braking time
• break-even time
• breakfast time
• breaktime
• breathing time
• call time
• centrelink time
• chair time
• characteristic time
• check-in time
• check-out time
• chow time
• chowtime
• chromoscopy time
• chucking-out time
• circulation time
• civil time
• civilian time
• clearance time
• clock time
• close time
• closed assembly time
• closing time
• clot retraction time
• clotting time
• coagulation time
• cock-shut-time
• coding time
• coherence time
• collision time
• colonic transit time
• command processing overhead time
• common time
• comp time
• company time
• compensatory time
• compile time
• compile-time
• compound common time
• compound time
• computation time
• concentration time
• conditioning time
• conduction time
• confinement time
• conformal time
• connect time
• constant time
• contact time
• continental time
• contract time
• controlled variable time
• convective mixing time
• cooking time
• cooling time
• coordinate time
• core time
• corner time
• corrected time
• cosmic time
• CPU time
• crossing time
• crunch time
• cubic time
• cucumber time
• cure time
• curing time
• curtain time
• cut time
• cut-off time
• cycle time
• damage over time
• dance-time
• daylight-saving time
• daylight-savings time
• daytime
• dead time
• decay time
• decimal reduction time
• decimal time
• decoherence time
• decorrelation time
• decree time
• deep time
• deferred time
• delay time
• departure time
• detention time
• dextrinizing time
• dial-in time
• dilute Russell's viper venom time
• dining-time
• dinner time
• dinnertime
• discrete-time signal
• disinfectant time
• disk access time
• do time
• docky time
• down time
• downtime
• dream time
• dreamtime
• drinking-up time
• drive time
• driving time
• drying time
• DTIME
• duple time
• dwell time
• dynamical time
• earliest anticipated launch time
• early time
• ecarin clotting time
• elapsed flying time
• elapsed time
• energy confinement time
• energy payback time
• energy replacement time
• engaged time
• ephemeris time
• equal time
• equilibrium time
• equinoctial time
• estimated time of arrival
• euglobulin clot lysis time
• euglobulin lysis time
• event time
• execution time
• exit time
• expiration time
• exponential time
• exposure time
• EXPTIME
• extended playing time
• extra time
• face time
• fade time
• fading time
• fall time
• fence time
• final setting time
• find time
• first exit time
• first hit time
• first passage time
• first return time
• flash-to-bang time
• flat time
• flexible time
• flexitime
• floodtime
• floortime
• forced expiratory time
• forecast lead time
• foretime
• formation exposure time
• four-four time
• frame time
• frame-alignment recovery time
• free-fall time
• fringe time
• fruit-time
• full time
• fully automatic time
• functioning time
• gain time
• game time
• garbage time
• gate time
• gelation time
• generation time
• geologic time
• geological time
• glide time
• golden time
• good time
• grass time
• gust decay time
• gust formation time
• handling time
• hang time
• happy time
• hard time
• harvest time
• haying time
• heaking-time
• heat time
• hexadecimal time
• high time
• hitting time
• hold time
• holding time
• holiday-time
• H-V conduction time
• hydraulic retention time
• hypertime
• ice time
• idle time
• imaginary time
• imperfect time
• improper time
• incubation time
• inertia time
• initial setting time
• injury time
• instruction time
• integration time
• intermediate time
• interval time
• interval transit time
• intra-atrial conduction time
• intravaginal ejaculation latency time
• isovolumic relaxation time
• junk time
• killing time
• kipper time
• lag time
• lake retention time
• land before time
• lap time
• last time
• latency time
• latent time
• launch-time
• laytime
• lead time
• least time
• left ventricular ejection time
• leisure time
• lethal time
• lifetime
• light time
• lighting-up time
• linear time
• link time
• live time
• lived time
• load time
• local mean sideral time
• local sideral time
• local solar time
• local time
• lock time
• longitudinal relaxation time
• lookahead time
• look-back time
• lunchtime
• lunch-time
• magnetic local time
• main standard time
• march-time
• mark time
• maximum holding time
• maximum seek time
• mealtime
• mean free time
• mean hitting time
• mean solar time
• mean survival time
• median effective time
• median lethal time
• median survival time
• metric time
• midtime
• military time
• minimum connecting time
• minimum seek time
• missing time
• mixing time
• modern times
• morning time
• musical time
• naptime
• near real time
• needle time
• network option time
• Network Time Protocol
• network time
• NEXPTIME
• next time
• nick-time
• night time
• nighttime
• non-Archimedean time
• non-deterministic polynomial time
• non-uniform polynomial-time
• noontime
• normal time
• NP time
• NTIME
• occurrence time
• off time
• offset time
• ofttimes
• old time
• old tyme
• olde tyme
• olden time
• olden times
• one-stage prothrombin time
• onetime
• one-way light time
• one-way time
• open assembly time
• open time
• opening time
• operating time
• P-A conduction time
• partial thromboplastin time
• past time
• pastime
• peacetime
• peace-time
• pea-time
• perfect time
• pessimistic time
• P-H conduction time
• physiological time
• place manner time
• playing time
• playtime
• please-time
• Poincaré recurrence time
• polarisation time
• polarization time
• polynomial time
• preparation time
• press time
• pressed for time
• primary time
• prime time
• pro time
• process time
• processing time
• processor time
• procurement lead time
• propagation time
• proper time
• prothrombin time
• pseudo-polynomial time
• pseudotime
• psychophysical time
• pudding time
• pulse decay time
• pulse repetition time
• pumping time
• push time
• quadratic time
• quadruple time
• quality time
• question time
• quick time
• Quick's thrombin time
• quiesce time
• quintuple time
• quitting-time
• ragtime
• railway time
• randomised polynomial time
• randomized polynomial time
• reaction time
• real time
• realtime
• real-world time
• reap-time
• reasonable time
• receiving time
• reclacification time
• recoat time
• recognition time
• recovery time
• recurrence time
• recycling time
• redeem the time
• reduced time
• reference time
• reframing time
• regulation time
• relative time
• relaxation time
• release time
• released time
• repetition time
• reptilase time
• residence time
• response time
• retarded time
• retention time
• return time
• reverberation time
• revisit time
• riding time
• ring-time
• rise time
• round-trip delay time
• round-trip light time
• round-trip time
• running time
• runtime
• Russell's viper venom clotting time
• Russell's viper venom time
• rustle time
• rutey-time
• sack time
• Sandringham time
• sandwich time
• schooltime
• screen time
• seating time
• second happy time
• sedimentation time
• seedtime
• seek time
• sensation time
• serve the time
• serve time
• setting time
• settling time
• setup time
• shepster time
• shop time
• short time
• shortening time
• shortest remaining time
• show time
• shriving-time
• sideral time
• simple time
• single time
• sinoatrial conduction time
• sinoatrial recovery time
• slot time
• slow time
• slowing-down time
• socially necessary labour time
• sojourn time
• solar time
• some time
• spacecraft clock time
• spare time
• speech time
• spindown time
• spin-lattice relaxation time
• spin-spin relaxation time
• spinup time
• split-time
• springtime
• spring-time
• squeaky bum time
• standard time
• standby time
• start time
• starting time
• startup time
• stay time
• step time
• stimulus-response time
• stoppage time
• stopping time
• stop-time
• storage time
• story time
• straight time
• Stypven time
• subjective time
• subquadratic time
• sugartime
• summer time
• summertime
• suppertime
• survival time
• synodic time
• system real-time
• system time
• T1 relaxation time
• T2 relaxation time
• tact time
• talk time
• teatime
• tee time
• tell time
• terrestrial dynamical time
• terrestrial time
• thermal death time
• thermal relaxation time
• thickening time
• think time
• three-four time
• three-quarter time
• thrombin clotting time
• thrombin time
• till time
• tissue thromboplastin inhibition time
• total running time
• total story time
• track-to-track seek time
• train time
• transaction time
• transition time
• transmission time
• transtime
• transverse relaxation time
• travel time
• traveltime
• triple time
• true time
• tunneling time
• tunnelling time
• turnaround time
• turn-off time
• turn-on time
• two-four time
• two-part time
• two-time
• two-way traveltime
• undern-time
• undertime
• under-time
• universal time
• unproductive time
• uptime
• user time
• utilisation time
• utilization time
• valid time
• vampire time
• vintage time
• voice onset time
• wait time
• waiting time
• waketime
• wall time
• wall-clock time
• wartime
• waste time
• wet edge time
• whole blood coagulation time
• wholetime
• wikitime
• windshield time
• wintertime
• winter-time
• word time
• work time
• working time
• worst-case execution time
• Z time
• zone time
• zonetime

Origin

• From Middle English tyme, time, from Old English tīma ("time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favourable time, opportunity"), from Proto-Germanic *tīmô ("time"), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂imō, from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- ("to divide"). Cognate with Scots tym, tyme, Alemannic German Zimen, Zimmän, Danish time ("hour, lesson"), Swedish timme ("hour"), Norwegian time ("time, hour"), Faroese tími ("hour, lesson, time"), Icelandic tími ("time, season"). Related to tide. Not related to Latin tempus.