'Time' definitions:
Definition of 'time'
From: WordNet
noun
An instance or single occasion for some event; "this time he succeeded"; "he called four times"; "he could do ten at a clip" [syn: time, clip]
noun
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"
noun
An indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities); "he waited a long time"; "the time of year for planting"; "he was a great actor in his time"
noun
A suitable moment; "it is time to go"
noun
The continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
noun
A person's experience on a particular occasion; "he had a time holding back the tears"; "they had a good time together"
noun
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" [syn: clock time, time]
noun
The fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event [syn: fourth dimension, time]
noun
noun
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" [syn: prison term, sentence, time]
verb
Measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time; "he clocked the runners" [syn: clock, time]
verb
Assign a time for an activity or event; "The candidate carefully timed his appearance at the disaster scene"
verb
Set the speed, duration, or execution of; "we time the process to manufacture our cars very precisely"
verb
Regulate or set the time of; "time the clock"
verb
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"
Definition of 'Time'
From: GCIDE
- Time \Time\, n.; pl. Times. [OE. time, AS. t[imac]ma, akin to t[imac]d time, and to Icel. t[imac]mi, Dan. time an hour, Sw. timme. [root]58. See Tide, n.]
- 1. Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof. [1913 Webster]
- The time wasteth [i. e. passes away] night and day. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- I know of no ideas . . . that have a better claim to be accounted simple and original than those of space and time. --Reid. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A particular period or part of duration, whether past, present, or future; a point or portion of duration; as, the time was, or has been; the time is, or will be. [1913 Webster]
- God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets. --Heb. i. 1. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The period at which any definite event occurred, or person lived; age; period; era; as, the Spanish Armada was destroyed in the time of Queen Elizabeth; -- often in the plural; as, ancient times; modern times. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The duration of one's life; the hours and days which a person has at his disposal. [1913 Webster]
- Believe me, your time is not your own; it belongs to God, to religion, to mankind. --Buckminster. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A proper time; a season; an opportunity. [1913 Webster]
- There is . . . a time to every purpose. --Eccl. iii. 1. [1913 Webster]
- The time of figs was not yet. --Mark xi. 13. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition. [1913 Webster]
- She was within one month of her time. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
- 7. Performance or occurrence of an action or event, considered with reference to repetition; addition of a number to itself; repetition; as, to double cloth four times; four times four, or sixteen. [1913 Webster]
- Summers three times eight save one. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 8. The present life; existence in this world as contrasted with immortal life; definite, as contrasted with infinite, duration. [1913 Webster]
- Till time and sin together cease. --Keble. [1913 Webster]
- 9. (Gram.) Tense. [1913 Webster]
- 10. (Mus.) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division; as, common or triple time; the musician keeps good time. [1913 Webster]
- Some few lines set unto a solemn time. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Time is often used in the formation of compounds, mostly self-explaining; as, time-battered, time-beguiling, time-consecrated, time-consuming, time-enduring, time-killing, time-sanctioned, time-scorner, time-wasting, time-worn, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Absolute time, time irrespective of local standards or epochs; as, all spectators see a lunar eclipse at the same instant of absolute time.
- Apparent time, the time of day reckoned by the sun, or so that 12 o'clock at the place is the instant of the transit of the sun's center over the meridian.
- Astronomical time, mean solar time reckoned by counting the hours continuously up to twenty-four from one noon to the next.
- At times, at distinct intervals of duration; now and then; as, at times he reads, at other times he rides.
- Civil time, time as reckoned for the purposes of common life in distinct periods, as years, months, days, hours, etc., the latter, among most modern nations, being divided into two series of twelve each, and reckoned, the first series from midnight to noon, the second, from noon to midnight.
- Common time (Mil.), the ordinary time of marching, in which ninety steps, each twenty-eight inches in length, are taken in one minute.
- Equation of time. See under Equation, n.
- In time. (a) In good season; sufficiently early; as, he arrived in time to see the exhibition. (b) After a considerable space of duration; eventually; finally; as, you will in time recover your health and strength.
- Mean time. See under 4th Mean.
- Quick time (Mil.), time of marching, in which one hundred and twenty steps, each thirty inches in length, are taken in one minute.
- Sidereal time. See under Sidereal.
- Standard time, the civil time that has been established by law or by general usage over a region or country. In England the standard time is Greenwich mean solar time. In the United States and Canada four kinds of standard time have been adopted by the railroads and accepted by the people, viz., Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific time, corresponding severally to the mean local times of the 75th, 90th, 105th, and 120th meridians west from Greenwich, and being therefore five, six, seven, and eight hours slower than Greenwich time.
- Time ball, a ball arranged to drop from the summit of a pole, to indicate true midday time, as at Greenwich Observatory, England. --Nichol.
- Time bargain (Com.), a contract made for the sale or purchase of merchandise, or of stock in the public funds, at a certain time in the future.
- Time bill. Same as Time-table. [Eng.]
- Time book, a book in which is kept a record of the time persons have worked.
- Time detector, a timepiece provided with a device for registering and indicating the exact time when a watchman visits certain stations in his beat.
- Time enough, in season; early enough. "Stanly at Bosworth field, . . . came time enough to save his life." --Bacon.
- Time fuse, a fuse, as for an explosive projectile, which can be so arranged as to ignite the charge at a certain definite interval after being itself ignited.
- Time immemorial, or Time out of mind. (Eng. Law) See under Immemorial.
- Time lock, a lock having clockwork attached, which, when wound up, prevents the bolt from being withdrawn when locked, until a certain interval of time has elapsed.
- Time of day, salutation appropriate to the times of the day, as "good morning," "good evening," and the like; greeting.
- To kill time. See under Kill, v. t.
- To make time. (a) To gain time. (b) To occupy or use (a certain) time in doing something; as, the trotting horse made fast time.
- To move against time, To run against time, or {To go against time}, to move, run, or go a given distance without a competitor, in the quickest possible time; or, to accomplish the greatest distance which can be passed over in a given time; as, the horse is to run against time.
- True time. (a) Mean time as kept by a clock going uniformly. (b) (Astron.) Apparent time as reckoned from the transit of the sun's center over the meridian. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Time'
From: GCIDE
- Time \Time\ (t[imac]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Timed (t[imac]md); p. pr. & vb. n. Timing.]
- 1. To appoint the time for; to bring, begin, or perform at the proper season or time; as, he timed his appearance rightly. [1913 Webster]
- There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement. [1913 Webster]
- Who overlooked the oars, and timed the stroke. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- He was a thing of blood, whose every motion Was timed with dying cries. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To ascertain or record the time, duration, or rate of; as, to time the speed of horses, or hours for workmen. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To measure, as in music or harmony. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Time'
From: GCIDE
- Time \Time\, v. i.
- 1. To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time. [1913 Webster]
- With oar strokes timing to their song. --Whittier. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To pass time; to delay. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'time'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a leg up,
- accompany,
- adjust,
- aeon,
- again and again,
- age,
- agree,
- ahead of time,
- all at once,
- all the same,
- all the time,
- all together,
- always,
- anchor watch,
- andante tempo,
- annus magnus,
- anon,
- antedate,
- antiquated,
- Archean,
- Archeozoic,
- at all times,
- at intervals,
- at once,
- at one time,
- at times,
- be in phase,
- be in time,
- beat,
- beat time,
- beforehand,
- behind the times,
- bell,
- bender,
- bit,
- book,
- bout,
- brannigan,
- break,
- bright and early,
- bust,
- but,
- Cambrian,
- Carboniferous,
- carousal,
- carouse,
- Cenozoic,
- chance,
- circumstance,
- clear stage,
- clock,
- coexist,
- coextend,
- coincide,
- Comanchean,
- compotation,
- compound time,
- concur,
- conditions,
- constantly,
- contemporize,
- continually,
- continuous tenure,
- continuously,
- control,
- convenience,
- Cretaceous,
- culture,
- cycle,
- cycle of indiction,
- date,
- date line,
- dated,
- datemark,
- dawdle,
- day,
- day shift,
- days,
- dead,
- delay,
- Devonian,
- dogwatch,
- duple time,
- duration,
- early,
- ease,
- enlistment,
- Eocene,
- epoch,
- era,
- even so,
- eventually,
- ever,
- every so often,
- everything,
- experience,
- fair field,
- fair game,
- fateful moment,
- fix,
- fix the time,
- for the moment,
- for the nonce,
- formerly,
- forthwith,
- free time,
- freedom,
- frequently,
- full time,
- generation,
- Glacial,
- go,
- goof-off time,
- graveyard shift,
- great year,
- habits,
- half time,
- heretofore,
- heyday,
- hitch,
- Holocene,
- hour,
- however,
- idle hours,
- immediately,
- in good time,
- in no time,
- in time,
- in unison,
- indiction,
- inning,
- innings,
- instant,
- International Date Line,
- interval,
- isochronize,
- jag,
- juncture,
- just the same,
- kairos,
- keep in step,
- keep pace with,
- keep time,
- largo,
- leisure,
- liberty,
- life,
- lifetime,
- linger,
- lobster trick,
- loiter,
- look-in,
- Lower Cretaceous,
- Lower Tertiary,
- many times,
- march tempo,
- mark time,
- match,
- meanwhile,
- measure,
- measure time,
- Mesozoic,
- minute,
- Miocene,
- Mississippian,
- mixed times,
- moment,
- moment of truth,
- mores,
- nevertheless,
- night shift,
- nonetheless,
- notwithstanding,
- obsolescent,
- obsolete,
- occasion,
- occasionally,
- odd moments,
- often,
- old hat,
- old-fashioned,
- Oligocene,
- on account,
- on credit,
- on occasion,
- on one occasion,
- on terms,
- on the dot,
- on time,
- once,
- one day,
- opening,
- opportunism,
- opportunity,
- organize,
- outdated,
- outmoded,
- overtime,
- pace,
- Paleocene,
- Paleozoic,
- part time,
- passe,
- patch,
- Pennsylvanian,
- period,
- Permian,
- perpetually,
- place,
- plan,
- Platonic year,
- Pleistocene,
- Pliocene,
- point,
- point of time,
- postdate,
- Precambrian,
- pregnant moment,
- prematurely,
- presto,
- previously,
- prison term,
- pro tem,
- pro tempore,
- program,
- Proterozoic,
- psychological moment,
- punctually,
- Quaternary,
- quickly,
- rag,
- ragtime,
- Recent,
- regulate,
- relay,
- relief,
- repeatedly,
- repose,
- rest,
- retirement,
- rhythm,
- room,
- round,
- rubato,
- say,
- schedule,
- scope,
- season,
- semiretirement,
- set,
- set the time,
- set up,
- sextuple time,
- shift,
- shilly-shally,
- shot,
- show,
- Silurian,
- simple time,
- simultaneously,
- someday,
- sometime,
- sometimes,
- soon,
- sooner or later,
- space,
- span,
- spare time,
- speedily,
- spell,
- split schedule,
- split shift,
- spree,
- squeak,
- stage,
- stepping-stone,
- stint,
- straightaway,
- stretch,
- sunrise watch,
- swiftly,
- swing shift,
- synchronize,
- syncopation,
- syncope,
- tempo,
- tempo rubato,
- temporarily,
- tenure,
- term,
- Tertiary,
- the time,
- things,
- three-quarter time,
- time after time,
- time and again,
- time at bat,
- time lag,
- time of day,
- time pattern,
- time signal,
- time to kill,
- time to spare,
- times,
- timing,
- together,
- tour,
- tour of duty,
- Triassic,
- trick,
- triple time,
- triplet,
- turn,
- turn of work,
- two-four time,
- unceasingly,
- Upper Cretaceous,
- Upper Tertiary,
- values,
- waltz time,
- watch,
- whack,
- whet,
- while,
- without delay,
- work shift,
- yet
Time, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Time, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000) :
29
Housing Units (2000) :
14
Land area (2000) :
0.436141 sq. miles (1.129599 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
0.436141 sq. miles (1.129599 sq. km)
FIPS code :
75419
Located within :
Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location :
39.561160 N, 90.722947 W
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Words containing 'Time'
- At times,
- In time,
- The time is up,
- Timed,
- Timeful,
- Timely,
- Times,
- Timing,
- What time,
- What time as,
- against time,
- all the time,
- at a time,
- at the same time,
- do time,
- for the time being,
- from time to time,
- in no time,
- just in time,
- of all time,
- on time,
- time and again,
- time and time again,
- time being,
- time off,
- time out,
- Absolute time,
- Apparent time,
- Astronomical time,
- Benting time,
- Breathing time,
- Civil time,
- Close time,
- Cockshut time,
- Common time,
- Compound time,
- Cooling time,
- Double time,
- Equation of time,
- Equinoctial time,
- Father Time,
- Fence time,
- Half time,
- High time,
- In good time,
- Kipper time,
- Mean time,
- Pairing time,
- Psychophysical time,
- Pudding time,
- Quadruple time,
- Quick time,
- Quintuple time,
- Reaction time,
- Sideral time,
- Sidereal time,
- Solar time,
- Standard time,
- Time ball,
- Time bargain,
- Time bill,
- Time book,
- Time detector,
- Time enough,
- Time fuse,
- Time fuze,
- Time immemorial,
- Time lock,
- Time of day,
- Time out of mind,
- Time policy,
- Time signature,
- Time, IL,
- To beat time,
- To come to time,
- To give time,
- To go against time,
- To kill time,
- To make time,
- To mark time,
- To move against time,
- To redeem the time,
- To run against time,
- To serve the time,
- Tracts for the Times,
- Triple time,
- True time,
- Vintage time,
- a hundred times,
- a million times,
- access time,
- ahead of its time,
- ahead of time,
- all-time,
- arrival time,
- at one time,
- atlantic time,
- behind time,
- bering time,
- big time,
- biological time,
- breakfast time,
- buy time,
- central time,
- checkout time,
- clock time,
- closing time,
- clotting time,
- compensatory time,
- cosmic time,
- departure time,
- duple time,
- eastern time,
- elapsed time,
- ephemeris time,
- extra time,
- face time,
- flex time,
- for the first time,
- four times,
- free time,
- full time,
- geologic time,
- geological time,
- good time,
- good times,
- greenwich time,
- hadean time,
- hard time,
- hard times,
- harvest time,
- have a good time,
- hawaii time,
- haying time,
- in due time,
- in the nick of time,
- kill time,
- lead time,
- leisure time,
- light time,
- local time,
- long time,
- mark time,
- modern times,
- morning time,
- mountain time,
- musical time,
- nine times,
- old times,
- one at a time,
- one time,
- pacific time,
- part time,
- past times,
- period of time,
- physiological time,
- point in time,
- present times,
- prime time,
- processing time,
- question time,
- ravages of time,
- real time,
- regulation time,
- relaxation time,
- residence time,
- response time,
- roman times,
- running time,
- seek time,
- serve time,
- show time,
- six times,
- slow time,
- small time,
- space time,
- spare time,
- starting time,
- take time,
- take time off,
- terrestrial time,
- thousand times,
- three times,
- time and a half,
- time bomb,
- time capsule,
- time clock,
- time constant,
- time deposit,
- time draft,
- time exposure,
- time frame,
- time interval,
- time lag,
- time limit,
- time loan,
- time machine,
- time note,
- time of arrival,
- time of departure,
- time of life,
- time of origin,
- time of year,
- time period,
- time plan,
- time saving,
- time scale,
- time series,
- time sharing,
- time sheet,
- time signal,
- time slot,
- time study,
- time to come,
- time unit,
- time value,
- time zone,
- time-out,
- times square,
- times table,
- transmission time,
- travel time,
- turnaround time,
- two time,
- two times,
- unit of time,
- universal time,
- waste of time,
- waste time,
- well timed,
- when the time comes,
- while away the time,
- work time,
- yukon time,
- Ill-timed,
- Time-honored,
- Time-table,
- To give the time of day,
- To take time by the forelock,
- Watchman's time detector,
- Wrong-timed,
- alaska standard time,
- atlantic standard time,
- bering standard time,
- big time operator,
- central standard time,
- coordinated universal time,
- eastern standard time,
- extended time scale,
- fast time scale,
- full-time,
- good-time,
- greenwich mean time,
- half-time,
- hawaii standard time,
- life-time,
- lunar time period,
- mean solar time,
- mountain standard time,
- musical time signature,
- old-time,
- one-time,
- pacific standard time,
- part-time,
- pulse timing circuit,
- real-time,
- run-time,
- slow time scale,
- small-time,
- space-time,
- spacecraft clock time,
- spacecraft event time,
- take time by the forelock,
- terrestrial dynamical time,
- time and motion study,
- time deposit account,
- time-ball,
- time-consuming,
- time-fuse,
- time-honoured,
- time-release,
- time-switch,
- time-tested,
- time-worn,
- two-time,
- two-timing,
- waste one's time,
- well-timed,
- Periodic time of a heavenly body,
- character-at-a-time printer,
- command processing overhead time,
- daylight-saving time,
- daylight-savings time,
- earth-received time,
- four-four time,
- line-at-a-time printer,
- old-time quaint,
- page-at-a-time printer,
- pulse-time modulation,
- real-time operation,
- real-time processing,
- run-time error,
- since a long time ago,
- space-time continuum,
- spare-time activity,
- time-and-motion study,
- time-motion study,
- time-scale factor,
- one-way light time,
- round-trip light time,
- time-delay measuring instrument,
- time-delay measuring system,
- track-to-track seek time