Space vs. Time

(heading) Of time.

Free time; leisure, opportunity.

A specific (specified) period of time.

An undefined period of time (without qualifier, especially a short period); a while.

(heading) Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.

Distance between things.

Physical extent across two or three dimensions; area, volume (sometimes for or to do something).

Physical extent in all directions, seen as an attribute of the universe (now usually considered as a part of space-time), or a mathematical model of this.

The near-vacuum in which planets, stars and other celestial objects are situated; the universe beyond the earth's atmosphere.

The physical and psychological area one needs within which to live or operate; personal freedom.

(heading) A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.

A (chiefly empty) area or volume with set limits or boundaries.

(music) A position on the staff or stave bounded by lines.

A gap in text between words, lines etc., or a digital character used to create such a gap.

(metal type) A piece of metal type used to separate words, cast lower than other type so as not to take ink, especially one that is narrower than one en (compare quad).

A gap; an empty place.

(geometry) A set of points, each of which is uniquely specified by a number (the dimensionality) of coordinates.

A generalized construct or set whose members have some property in common; typically there will be a geometric metaphor allowing these members to be viewed as "points". Often used with a restricting modifier describing the members (e.g. vector space), or indicating the inventor of the construct (e.g. Hilbert space).

Example: ‘Functional analysis is best approached through a sound knowledge of Hilbert space theory.’;

A marketplace for goods or services.

Example: ‘innovation in the browser space’;

To roam, walk, wander.

(transitive) To set some distance apart.

To insert or utilise spaces in a written text.

To eject into outer space, usually without a space suit.

To travel into and through outer space.

Extension, considered independently of anything which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible.

Example: ‘Pure space is capable neither of resistance nor motion.’;

Place, having more or less extension; room.

Example: ‘They gave him chase, and hunted him as hare;Long had he no space to dwell [in].’; ‘While I have time and space.’;

A quantity or portion of extension; distance from one thing to another; an interval between any two or more objects; as, the space between two stars or two hills; the sound was heard for the space of a mile.

Example: ‘Put a space betwixt drove and drove.’;

Quantity of time; an interval between two points of time; duration; time.

Example: ‘Nine times the space that measures day and night.’; ‘God may defer his judgments for a time, and give a people a longer space of repentance.’;

A short time; a while.

Walk; track; path; course.

Example: ‘This ilke [same] monk let old things pace,And held after the new world the space.’;

A small piece of metal cast lower than a face type, so as not to receive the ink in printing, - used to separate words or letters.

One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff.

that portion of the universe outside the earth or its atmosphere; - called also outer space.

To walk; to rove; to roam.

Example: ‘And loved in forests wild to space.’;

To arrange or adjust the spaces in or between; as, to space words, lines, or letters.

the unlimited expanse in which everything is located;

Example: ‘they tested his ability to locate objects in space’;

an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things);

Example: ‘the architect left space in front of the building’; ‘they stopped at an open space in the jungle’; ‘the space between his teeth’;

an area reserved for some particular purpose;

Example: ‘the laboratory's floor space’;

a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing;

Example: ‘he said the space is the most important character in the alphabet’;

the interval between two times;

Example: ‘the distance from birth to death’; ‘it all happened in the space of 10 minutes’;

a blank area;

Example: ‘write your name in the space provided’;

one of the areas between or below or above the lines of a musical staff;

Example: ‘the spaces are the notes F-A-C-E’;

(printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words

place at intervals;

Example: ‘Space the interviews so that you have some time between the different candidates’;

Space is the boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects and events have relative position and direction. In classical physics, physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although modern physicists usually consider it, with time, to be part of a boundless four-dimensional continuum known as spacetime.

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

Example: ‘Time stops for nobody.’; ‘the ebb and flow of time’;

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

Example: ‘Both science-fiction writers and physicists have written about travel through time.’;

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

Example: ‘Time slows down when you approach the speed of light.’;

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

Example: ‘An essential definition of time should entail neither speed nor direction, just change.’;

A duration of time.

(uncountable) A quantity of availability of duration.

Example: ‘More time is needed to complete the project.’; ‘You had plenty of time, but you waited until the last minute.’; ‘Are you finished yet? Time’s up!’;

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

Example: ‘a long time;’; ‘Record the individual times for the processes in each batch.’; ‘Only your best time is compared with the other competitors.’; ‘The algorithm runs in O(n2) time.’;

The serving of a prison sentence.

Example: ‘The judge leniently granted a sentence with no hard time.’; ‘He is not living at home because he is doing time.’;

(countable) An experience.

Example: ‘We had a wonderful time at the party.’;

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

Example: ‘Roman times;’; ‘the time of the dinosaurs’;

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

Example: ‘In my time, we respected our elders.’;

Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.

An instant of time.

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

Example: ‘Excuse me, have you got the time?’; ‘What time is it, do you guess? Ten o’clock?’; ‘A computer keeps time using a clock battery.’;

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

Example: ‘it’s time for bed;’; ‘it’s time to sleep;’; ‘we must wait for the right time;’; ‘it's time we were going’;

(countable) A numerical indication of a particular moment.

Example: ‘at what times do the trains arrive?;’; ‘these times were erroneously converted between zones’;

(countable) An instance or occurrence.

Example: ‘When was the last time we went out? I don’t remember.’; ‘see you another time;’; ‘that’s three times he’s made the same mistake’; ‘Okay, but this is the last time. No more after that!’;

Closing time.

Example: ‘Last call: it's almost time.’;

The hour of childbirth.

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

Example: ‘It was his time.’;

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

Example: ‘Let's synchronize our watches so we're not on different time.’;

(countable) Ratio of comparison.

Example: ‘your car runs three times faster than mine;’; ‘that is four times as heavy as this’;

Tense.

Example: ‘the time of a verb’;

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

Example: ‘common or triple time;’; ‘the musician keeps good time.’;

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

Example: ‘I used a stopwatch to time myself running around the block.’;

To choose when something begins or how long it lasts.

Example: ‘The President timed his speech badly, coinciding with the Super Bowl.’; ‘The bomb was timed to explode at 9:20 p.m.’;

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

(obsolete) To pass time; to delay.

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

To measure, as in music or harmony.

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

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

Example: ‘The time wasteth [i. e. passes away] night and day.’; ‘I know of no ideas . . . that have a better claim to be accounted simple and original than those of space and time.’;

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.

Example: ‘God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets.’;

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.

Example: ‘Believe me, your time is not your own; it belongs to God, to religion, to mankind.’;

A proper time; a season; an opportunity.

Example: ‘There is . . . a time to every purpose.’; ‘The time of figs was not yet.’;

Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition.

Example: ‘She was within one month of her time.’;

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.

Example: ‘Summers three times eight save one.’;

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

Example: ‘Till time and sin together cease.’;

Tense.

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

Example: ‘Some few lines set unto a solemn time.’;

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

Example: ‘There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.’;

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

Example: ‘Who overlooked the oars, and timed the stroke.’; ‘He was a thing of blood, whose every motionWas timed with dying cries.’;

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.

Example: ‘With oar strokes timing to their song.’;

To pass time; to delay.

an instance or single occasion for some event;

Example: ‘this time he succeeded’; ‘he called four times’; ‘he could do ten at a clip’;

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

Example: ‘he waited a long time’; ‘the time of year for planting’; ‘he was a great actor is his time’;

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

Example: ‘take time to smell the roses’; ‘I didn't have time to finish’; ‘it took more than half my time’;

a suitable moment;

Example: ‘it is time to go’;

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

the time as given by a clock;

Example: ‘do you know what time it is?’; ‘the time is 10 o'clock’;

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

a person's experience on a particular occasion;

Example: ‘he had a time holding back the tears’; ‘they had a good time together’;

rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time

the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned;

Example: ‘he served a prison term of 15 months’; ‘his sentence was 5 to 10 years’; ‘he is doing time in the county jail’;

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

Example: ‘he clocked the runners’;

assign a time for an activity or event;

Example: ‘The candidate carefully timed his appearance at the disaster scene’;

set the speed, duration, or execution of;

Example: ‘we time the process to manufacture our cars very precisely’;

regulate or set the time of;

Example: ‘time the clock’;

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

Example: ‘The good player times his swing so as to hit the ball squarely’;

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

Example: ‘travel through space and time’; ‘one of the greatest wits of all time’;

the continued progress of existence as affecting people and things

Example: ‘things were getting better as time passed’;

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

Example: ‘it's eight o'clock New York Time’;

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

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

Example: ‘the time is 9.30’;

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

Example: ‘shall we fix a time for the meeting?’; ‘the scheduled departure time’;

the favourable or appropriate time to do something

Example: ‘it's time for bed’; ‘it was time to go’;

an indefinite period

Example: ‘travelling always distorts one's feelings for a time’;

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

Example: ‘at the time of Galileo’; ‘Victorian times’; ‘the park is beautiful at this time of year’;

the conditions of life during a particular period

Example: ‘times have changed’;

used in names of newspapers

Example: ‘the Oxford Times’;

one's lifetime

Example: ‘I've known a lot of women in my time’;

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

Example: ‘in my time that was unheard of’;

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

Example: ‘he seemed old before his time’;

an apprenticeship

Example: ‘engineering officers traditionally served their time as fitters in the yards’;

a period of menstruation or pregnancy.

the normal rate of pay for time spent working

Example: ‘if called out at the weekend they are paid time and a half’;

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

Example: ‘his time for the mile was 3:49.31’;

the moment at which the opening hours of a pub end

Example: ‘the landlord called time’;

short for "full time"

Example: ‘he scored the third five minutes from time’;

a moment at which play stops temporarily within a game

Example: ‘the umpire called time’;

time as allotted, available, or used

Example: ‘it would be a waste of time’; ‘we need more time’;

a prison sentence

Example: ‘he was doing time for fraud’;

an instance of something happening or being done; an occasion

Example: ‘this is the first time I have got into debt’; ‘the nurse came in four times a day’;

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

Example: ‘she was having a rough time of it’;

(following a number) expressing multiplication

Example: ‘eleven times four is forty-four’;

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

Example: ‘tunes in waltz time’;

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

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

Example: ‘the bomb had been timed to go off an hour later’; ‘the first track race is timed for 11.15’;

perform (an action) at a particular moment

Example: ‘Williams timed his pass perfectly from about thirty yards’;

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

Example: ‘I timed how long it took to empty that tanker’; ‘we were timed and given certificates according to our speed’;

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

Example: ‘some networks will time out if they don't see activity going to the printer’; ‘connections are timed out when they're not in use’;

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

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.