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time🔊

The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.

📑 Synonyms: Thesaurus:time

The feeling of the passage of events and their relative duration, as experienced by an individual.

A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.

Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.

(reductionist definition) The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.

A duration of time.

A quantity of availability of duration.

A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.

(slang) The serving of a prison sentence.

An experience.

(era) An (era#Noun); (with ''the'', sometimes in the plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.

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

(figuratively) Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.

An instant of time.

The duration of time of a given day that has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.

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

A numerical indication of a particular moment.

(occurrence)An instance or occurrence.

(in public houses) Closing time.

The hour of childbirth.

''(as someone's time)'' The end of someone's life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined.

The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.

A ratio of comparison (''see also usage notes and prepositional sense at 'times).

The measured duration of sounds.

(tempo) Tempo; a measured rate of movement.

(meter) Rhythmical division, meter.

(jazz) A straight rhythmic pattern, free from fills, breaks and other embellishments.

(obsolete) A tense.

(MLE) (a long time)

📑 Synonyms: ages long

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

To choose when something commences or its duration.

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

(obsolete) 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.

(tennis) {{non-gloss|Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause.}}

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.