time
Pronunciation: /taɪm/
The English word “time” has 20 meanings listed here.
noun
- The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
- 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.
- The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.
- A quantity of availability of duration.
- A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
- The serving of a prison sentence.
- An experience.
- An era; (articulated, sometimes in the plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.
- A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
- Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.
- 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.
- An instance or occurrence.
- Closing time.
- The hour of childbirth.
- 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.
Etymology
From Middle English tyme, time, from Old English tīma (“time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favorable time, opportunity”), from Proto-West Germanic *tīmō, from Proto-Germanic *tīmô (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂imō, from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (“to divide”). Related to tide. Not related to Latin tempus. Cognates * Scots tym, tyme (“time”) * Alemannic German…
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