Time vs. Tense

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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.

Timenoun

Tense.

Timenoun

(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.

Timeverb

(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.

Timenoun

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;

Timeverb

assign a time for an activity or event;

Timeverb

set the speed, duration, or execution of;

Timeverb

regulate or set the time of;

Timeverb

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

Timeverb

perform (an action) at a particular moment

Timeverb

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

Timeverb

(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.

Tensenoun

Any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs or exists.

Tensenoun

An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.

Tensenoun

The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.

Tenseverb

To apply a tense to.

Tenseverb

To make or become tense.

Tenseadjective

Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.

Tenseadjective

Pulled taut, without any slack.

Tensenoun

One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modification which verbs undergo for the indication of time.

Tenseadjective

Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber.

Tensenoun

a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time

Tenseverb

stretch or force to the limit;

Tenseverb

increase the tension on;

Tenseverb

become tense or tenser;

Tenseverb

make tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious;