Definition of Time

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Definition of Time

Time

Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof.

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.

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.

The duration of one's life; the hours and days which a person has at his disposal.

A proper time; a season; an opportunity.

Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition.

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.

The present life; existence in this world as contrasted with immortal life; definite, as contrasted with infinite, duration.

Tense.

The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division; as, common or triple time; the musician keeps good time.

To appoint the time for; to bring, begin, or perform at the proper season or time; as, he timed his appearance rightly.

To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.

To ascertain or record the time, duration, or rate of; as, to time the speed of horses, or hours for workmen.

To measure, as in music or harmony.

To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.

To pass time; to delay.

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Time Quotations

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
Albert Einstein

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert Einstein

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein

I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
Marilyn Monroe

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
Thomas Jefferson

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
Thomas Jefferson

Time Translations

time in Afrikaans is maal, keer, tyd, uur
time in Danish is tid, time, gang
time in Dutch is keer, maal
time in Finnish is aika, kerta, tunti
time in German is zeitlich, Zeit, Zeit
time in Italian is tempo, epoca, cronologico, marchio, lezione, tatto
time in Latin is aetas, tempus temporis, hora, tractus
time in Norwegian is tid, time
time in Portuguese is tempo

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