Results for time

Definitions of time:

part of speech: verb intransitive

To keep or beat time.

part of speech: noun

Measure of duration, whether past, present, or future; a certain period of duration; as, a long time; length of a person's life; a flxed hour for some event: period in which anything occurred or a person lived; present life or existence; season; age; date; era; proper date; system of measurement by hours, days, weeks, etc.; system by which music is divided into measures; repetition.

part of speech: noun

A particular portion of duration, past, present, or future; any space or measure of duration, as an hour, a day, a month; period; interval; life or duration; repeated performance; season; completion of the time, as of pregnancy; state of things at a particular period, as good times; in gram., tense; in music, measure of duration of sounds indicated by certain marks; the number of notes, & c., in a bar, indicated by certain figures at the beginning of a piece; the absolute velocity with which music is palyed, as quaick time, slow time- the rate or quality of the time being always indicated by Italian words; the present state of things; repectition or addition of one more.

part of speech: verb

To adapt to the occasion; to do at the proper time or season; to regulate as to time.

part of speech: noun

A point at which or period during which things happen: a season or proper time: an opportunity: absolute duration: an interval: past time: the duration of one's life: allotted period: repetition of anything or mention with reference to repetition: musical measure: hour of travail: the state of things at any period, usually in pl.: the history of the world, as opposed to eternity: addition of a thing to itself.

Usage examples for time:

• And well for him was it that he did so in time "The Allen House or Twenty Years Ago and Now", T. S. Arthur

• Not this time I think. "Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker", Marguerite Bryant