<b><font size="4">"time"</font></b><br/><b>noun</b> <ol> <li>an instance or single occasion for some event; "this time he succeeded"; "he called four times"; "he could do ten at a clip" [syn: <a href="../clip.html">clip</a>] </li> <li>an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities); "he waited a long time"; "the time of year for planting"; "he was a great actor is his time" </li> <li>a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something; "take time to smell the roses"; "I didn't have time to finish"; "it took more than half my time" </li> <li>a suitable moment; "it is time to go" </li> <li>the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past </li> <li>the time as given by a clock; "do you know what time it is?"; "the time is 10 o'clock" [syn: <a href="/">clock time</a>] </li> <li>the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event [syn: <a href="/">fourth dimension</a>] </li> <li>a person's experience on a particular occasion; "he had a time holding back the tears"; "they had a good time together" </li> <li>rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time [syn: <a href="../meter.html">meter</a>, <a href="../metre.html">metre</a>] </li> <li>the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned; "he served a prison term of 15 months"; "his sentence was 5 to 10 years"; "he is doing time in the county jail" [syn: <a href="/">prison term</a>, <a href="../sentence.html">sentence</a>]</li> </ol> <b>verb</b> <ol> <li>measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time; "he clocked the runners" [syn: <a href="../clock.html">clock</a>] </li> <li>assign a time for an activity or event; "The candidate carefully timed his appearance at the disaster scene" </li> <li>set the speed, duration, or execution of; "we time the process to manufacture our cars very precisely" </li> <li>regulate or set the time of; "time the clock" </li> <li>adjust so that a force is applied an an action occurs at the desired time; "The good player times his swing so as to hit the ball squarely"</li> </ol> Source: <a href="../time.html">http://www.word.sc/time</a>

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