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- Dictionarytime/tʌɪm/
noun
- 1. the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole: "travel through space and time"
- 2. a point of time as measured in hours and minutes past midnight or noon: "the time is 9.30" Similar
verb
- 1. plan, schedule, or arrange when (something) should happen or be done: "the first track race is timed for 11.15" Similar
- 2. measure the time taken by (a process or activity, or a person doing it): "we were timed and given certificates according to our speed" Similar
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: the measured or measurable period during which an action, process, or condition exists or continues : duration. b. : a nonspatial continuum that is measured in terms of events which succeed one another from past through present to future. c. : leisure. time for reading. 2. : the point or period when something occurs : occasion. 3. a.
time noun (MINUTES/DAYS/YEARS) Add to word list. A2 [ U ] the part of existence that is measured in minutes, days, years, etc., or this process considered as a whole: spend time He wants to spend more time with his family. time passes Time passes so quickly when you're having fun.
Standard time or civil time in a time zone deviates a fixed, round amount, usually a whole number of hours, from some form of Universal Time, usually UTC. Most time zones are exactly one hour apart, and by convention compute their local time as an offset from UTC.
You use time to refer to a period of time or a point in time, when you are describing what is happening then. For example, if something happened at a particular time , that is when it happened. If it happens at all times , it always happens.
4 days ago · Time is the movement from past to present to future. You can tell time with a clock, and it takes time to do anything. You can have a great time at a party, serve time in jail, or keep time while making music. You can time the runners in a race by keeping track of how long it takes them to finish.
7. [noncount] : the number of minutes, days, years, etc., before something happens : the amount of time it takes for something to happen — usually used after in. The movie is coming out in two months' time. [=it is coming out two months from now] They expect the system to be completely replaced in a few years' time.
noun. the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another. duration regarded as belonging to the present life as distinct from the life to come or from eternity; finite duration.