Life vs. Time

Lifenoun

(uncountable) The state of organisms preceding their death, characterized by biological processes such as metabolism and reproduction and distinguishing them from inanimate objects; the state of being alive and living.

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(biology) The status possessed by any of a number of entities, including animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and sometimes viruses, which have the properties of replication and metabolism.

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The animating principle or force that keeps an inorganic thing or concept metaphorically alive (dynamic, relevant, etc) and makes it a "living document", "living constitution", etc.

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Lifeforms, generally or collectively.

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(countable) A living individual; the fact of a particular individual being alive. Chiefly when indicating individuals were lost (died) or saved.

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Existence.

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A worthwhile existence.

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A particular aspect of existence.

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(informal) Social life.

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Something which is inherently part of a person's existence, such as job, family, a loved one, etc.

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A period of time during which something has existence.

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The period during which one (a person, an animal, a plant; a civilization, species; a star; etc) is alive.

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The span of time during which an object operates.

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The period of time during which an object is recognizable.

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A particular phase or period of existence.

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A period extending from a when a (positive or negative) office, punishment, etc is conferred on someone until that person dies (or, sometimes, reaches retirement age).

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Animation; spirit; vivacity.

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The most lively component or participant.

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A biography.

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Nature, reality, and the forms that exist it.

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An opportunity for existence.

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(video games) One of the player's chances to play, lost when the player's character dies or when certain mistakes are made.

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A chance for the batter (or batting team) to bat again, given as a result of an misplay by a member of the fielding team.

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The life insurance industry.

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(countable) A life assured under a life assurance policy (equivalent to the policy itself for a single life contract).

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The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or germination, and ends with death; also, the time during which this state continues; that state of an animal or plant in which all or any of its organs are capable of performing all or any of their functions; - used of all animal and vegetable organisms.

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Of human beings: The union of the soul and body; also, the duration of their union; sometimes, the deathless quality or existence of the soul; as, man is a creature having an immortal life.

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The potential principle, or force, by which the organs of animals and plants are started and continued in the performance of their several and coöperative functions; the vital force, whether regarded as physical or spiritual.

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Figuratively: The potential or animating principle, also, the period of duration, of anything that is conceived of as resembling a natural organism in structure or functions; as, the life of a state, a machine, or a book; authority is the life of government.

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A certain way or manner of living with respect to conditions, circumstances, character, conduct, occupation, etc.; hence, human affairs; also, lives, considered collectively, as a distinct class or type; as, low life; a good or evil life; the life of Indians, or of miners.

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Animation; spirit; vivacity; vigor; energy.

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That which imparts or excites spirit or vigor; that upon which enjoyment or success depends; as, he was the life of the company, or of the enterprise.

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The living or actual form, person, thing, or state; as, a picture or a description from, the life.

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A person; a living being, usually a human being; as, many lives were sacrificed.

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The system of animal nature; animals in general, or considered collectively.

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An essential constituent of life, esp: the blood.

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A history of the acts and events of a life; a biography; as, Johnson wrote the life of Milton.

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Enjoyment in the right use of the powers; especially, a spiritual existence; happiness in the favor of God; heavenly felicity.

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Something dear to one as one's existence; a darling; - used as a term of endearment.

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a characteristic state or mode of living;

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the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living;

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the experience of living; the course of human events and activities;

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the condition of living or the state of being alive;

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the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death);

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the period between birth and the present time;

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animation and energy in action or expression;

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an account of the series of events making up a person's life

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the period from the present until death;

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a living person;

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living things collectively;

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a motive for living;

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the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones;

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a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives;

Life

Life is a characteristic that distinguishes physical entities that have biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from those that do not, either because such functions have ceased (they have died), or because they never had such functions and are classified as inanimate. Various forms of life exist, such as plants, animals, fungi, protists, archaea, and bacteria.

Timenoun

(uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past.

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A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.

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Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.

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The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.

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A duration of time.

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(uncountable) A quantity of availability of duration.

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(countable) A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.

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The serving of a prison sentence.

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(countable) An experience.

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(countable) An era; (with the, sometimes in plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.

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A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.

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Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.

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An instant of time.

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(uncountable) How much of a day has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.

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(countable) A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).

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(countable) A numerical indication of a particular moment.

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(countable) An instance or occurrence.

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Closing time.

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The hour of childbirth.

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(as someone's time) The end of someone's life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined.

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(countable) The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.

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(countable) Ratio of comparison.

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Tense.

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(music) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division.

Timeverb

To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of.

Timeverb

To choose when something begins or how long it lasts.

Timeverb

(obsolete) To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.

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(obsolete) To pass time; to delay.

Timeverb

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

Timeverb

To measure, as in music or harmony.

Timeinterjection

(tennis) Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause.

Timenoun

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

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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.

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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.

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

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A proper time; a season; an opportunity.

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Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition.

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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.

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

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Tense.

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

Timeverb

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

Timeverb

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

Timeverb

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

Timeverb

To measure, as in music or harmony.

Timeverb

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

Timeverb

To pass time; to delay.

Timenoun

an instance or single occasion for some event;

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an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities);

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a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something;

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a suitable moment;

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the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past

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the time as given by a clock;

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the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event

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a person's experience on a particular occasion;

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rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time

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the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned;

Timeverb

measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time;

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assign a time for an activity or event;

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set the speed, duration, or execution of;

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regulate or set the time of;

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adjust so that a force is applied an an action occurs at the desired time;

Timenoun

the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole

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the continued progress of existence as affecting people and things

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time or an amount of time as reckoned by a conventional standard

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the personification of time, typically as an old man with a scythe and hourglass.

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a point of time as measured in hours and minutes past midnight or noon

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a moment or definite portion of time allotted, used, or suitable for a purpose

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the favourable or appropriate time to do something

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an indefinite period

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a portion of time in history or characterized by particular events or circumstances

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the conditions of life during a particular period

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used in names of newspapers

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one's lifetime

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the successful, fortunate, or influential part of a person's life or career

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the appropriate or expected time for something, in particular childbirth or death

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an apprenticeship

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a period of menstruation or pregnancy.

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the normal rate of pay for time spent working

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the length of time taken to run a race or complete an event or journey

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the moment at which the opening hours of a pub end

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short for "full time"

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a moment at which play stops temporarily within a game

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time as allotted, available, or used

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a prison sentence

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an instance of something happening or being done; an occasion

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an event, occasion, or period experienced in a particular way

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(following a number) expressing multiplication

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the rhythmic pattern of a piece of music, as expressed by a time signature

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the tempo at which a piece of music is played or marked to be played.

Timeverb

plan, schedule, or arrange when (something) should happen or be done

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perform (an action) at a particular moment

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measure the time taken by (a process or activity, or a person doing it)

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(of a computer or a program) cancel an operation automatically because a predefined interval of time has passed without a certain event happening

Timeverb

(of an operation) be cancelled automatically because a predefined interval of time has passed without a certain event happening.

Time

Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events or the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or in the conscious experience.