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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. Related Definitions: Accompany, Action, Addition, Age, Agree, An, Ancient, And, Any, Appearance, Appoint, Armada, As, Ascertain, At, Be, Beat, Been, Begin, Bring, Cloth, Common, Considered, Contrasted, Definite, Delay, Delivery, Designate, Destroyed, Disposal, Division, Double, Duration, Employment, Era, Event, Existence, For, Four, Future, Good, Harmony, He, His, Hour, Hours, Has, Immortal, In, Independently, Infinite, Is, Itself, Keep, Life, Limited, Lived, Measure, Measured, Measurement, Modern, Move, Movement, Music, Musician, Number, Occurred, Occurrence, Of, Often, One, Opportunity, Or, Part, Particular, Parturition, Pass, Past, Perform, Performance, Period, Person, Plural, Point, Portion, Present, Proceed, Proper, Queen, Rate, Record, Reference, Regulate, Repetition, Rhythmical, Rightly, Season, Sixteen, Spanish, Speed, System, Tempo, Tense, The, Thereof, This, Time, Timed, Times, To, Travail, Triple, Was, Whether, Which, Will, With, Workmen, World

Time Quotations At this time, it's all still proposed. Howard Scott So little time and so little to do. Oscar Levant The time is always right to do what is right. Martin Luther King, Jr. This is the right time, and this is the right thing. Thomas Moore No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time. Robert Half

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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