[QUOTE] [B][SIZE="4"]"time"[/SIZE][/B] [B]noun[/B] [LIST=1] [*]an instance or single occasion for some event; "this time he succeeded"; "he called four times"; "he could do ten at a clip" [syn: [URL="http://www.word.sc/clip"]clip[/URL]] [*]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" [*]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" [*]a suitable moment; "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; "do you know what time it is?"; "the time is 10 o'clock" [syn: [URL="http://www.word.sc/clock time"]clock time[/URL]] [*]the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event [syn: [URL="http://www.word.sc/fourth dimension"]fourth dimension[/URL]] [*]a person's experience on a particular occasion; "he had a time holding back the tears"; "they had a good time together" [*]rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time [syn: [URL="http://www.word.sc/meter"]meter[/URL], [URL="http://www.word.sc/metre"]metre[/URL]] [*]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: [URL="http://www.word.sc/prison term"]prison term[/URL], [URL="http://www.word.sc/sentence"]sentence[/URL]] [/LIST] [B]verb[/B] [LIST=1] [*]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: [URL="http://www.word.sc/clock"]clock[/URL]] [*]assign a time for an activity or event; "The candidate carefully timed his appearance at the disaster scene" [*]set the speed, duration, or execution of; "we time the process to manufacture our cars very precisely" [*]regulate or set the time of; "time the clock" [*]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" [/LIST] Source: [URL="http://www.word.sc/time"]http://www.word.sc/time[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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