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say it: tahym
time is a noun and verb meaning "an instance or single occasion for some event". It is pronounced /ˈtaɪm/ — tahym. It carries 15 recorded senses.
a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something
“take time to smell the roses”
“I didn't have time to finish”
“it took more than half my time”
“he waited for a long time”
an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities)
“the time of year for planting”
“he was a great actor in his time”
the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
“he waited for along time”
“it took some time before he got an answer”
“time flies like an arrow”
a person's experience on a particular occasion
“he had a time holding back the tears”
“they had a good time together”
a reading of a point in time as given by a clock
“do you know what time it is?”
“the time is 10 o'clock”
the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned
“he served a prison term of 15 months”
“his sentence was 5 to 10 years”
“he is doing time in the county jail”
assign a time for an activity or event
“The candidate carefully timed his appearance at the disaster scene”
set the speed, duration, or execution of
“we time the process to manufacture our cars very precisely”
adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time
“The good player times his swing so as to hit the ball squarely”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for time come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.