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| Sounds | tay'm |
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| Rhymes | Anaheim, bedtime, Blenheim, and 48 more rhymes in aym at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | An instance or single occasion for some event. |
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| Examples | "this time he succeeded"; "he called four times" |
| Synonyms | clip |
| Broader | case, instance, example |
| Meaning | An indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities). |
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| Examples | "he waited a long time"; "the time of year for planting"; "he was a great actor is his time" |
| Narrower | day; dead; hard times; incarnation; wee; while, piece, spell, patch; moment, minute, second, bit; ephemera; space age |
| Broader | time period, period of time, period |
| Verbs | time; time |
| Meaning | A period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something. |
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| Examples | "take time to smell the roses"; "I didn't have time to finish"; "it took more than half my time" |
| Broader | time period, period of time, period |
| Verbs | time |
| Meaning | A suitable moment. |
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| Examples | "it is time to go" |
| Narrower | high time; occasion |
| Broader | moment, minute, second, instant |
| Verbs | time; time; time |
| Meaning | The continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past. |
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| Narrower | geological time, geologic time; biological time; cosmic time; civil time, standard time, local time; daylight-saving time, daylight-savings time, daylight saving, daylight savings; present, nowadays; past, past times, yesteryear, yore; future, hereafter, futurity, time to come; musical time; continuum; Greenwich Mean Time, Greenwich Time, GMT, universal time, UT, UT1; duration, continuance; eternity, infinity |
| Broader | abstraction |
| Adjectives | temporal |
| Meaning | The time as given by a clock. |
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| Examples | "do you know what time it is?"; "the time is 10 o'clock" |
| Synonyms | clock time |
| Attributes | antemeridian; postmeridian |
| Narrower | spacecraft clock time, SCLK; prime time; hour, time of day |
| Broader | reading, meter reading, indication |
| Verbs | time |
| Meaning | The fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event. |
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| Synonyms | fourth dimension |
| Broader | dimension |
| Meaning | A person's experience on a particular occasion. |
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| Examples | "he had a time holding back the tears"; "they had a good time together" |
| Broader | experience |
| Meaning | Rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time. |
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| Synonyms | meter, metre |
| Broader | rhythmicity |
| Meaning | The period of time a prisoner is imprisoned. |
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| Examples | "he is doing time in the county jail" |
| Synonyms | prison term, sentence |
| Narrower | hard time; life sentence, life |
| Broader | term |
| Meaning | Measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
| Synonyms | clock |
| Narrower | mistime |
| Broader | quantify, measure |
| Nouns | timer; time; timer; time |
| Meaning | Assign a time for an activity or event. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody PP; Somebody ----s something PP |
| Examples | "The candidate carefully timed his appearance at the disaster scene" |
| Broader | schedule |
| Nouns | timing; time |
| Meaning | Set the speed, duration, or execution of. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Examples | "we time the process to manufacture our cars very precisely" |
| Broader | determine, shape, mold, influence, regulate |
| Nouns | timer; time |
| Meaning | Regulate or set the time of. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "time the clock" |
| Broader | adjust, set, correct |
| Nouns | time; time; timer |
| Meaning | Adjust so that a force is applied an an action occurs at the desired time. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "The good player times his swing so as to hit the ball squarely" |
| Broader | adjust, set, correct |
| Nouns | time |