time

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person's experience on a particular occasion

   I had a hard time holding back tears.

2. 2
   noun

   an instance or single occasion for some event

   This time they succeeded.

3. 3
   noun

   an indefinite period, usually marked by specific attributes or activities

   I waited a long time in the doctor's office.

4. 4
   noun

   a reading of a point in time as given by a clock

   do you know what time it is?

5. 5
   noun

   a suitable moment

   it is time to go

6. 6
   noun

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

   take time to smell the roses

7. 7
   verb

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

   The good player times their swing so as to hit the ball squarely.

8. 8
   verb

   regulate or set the time of

   time the clock

Etymology

From Middle English tyme, time, from Old English tīma (“time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favorable time, opportunity”), from Proto-West Germanic *tīmō, from Proto-Germanic *tīmô (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂imō, from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (“to divide”). Related to tide. Not related to Latin tempus. Cognates * Scots tym, tyme (“time”) * Alemannic German Zimen, Zīmmän (“time, time of the year, opportune time, opportunity”) * Danish time (“hour, lesson”) * Elfdalian taime (“hour”) * Faroese tími (“hour, lesson, time”) * Icelandic tími (“time, season”) *…