time
/taɪm/ noun A1- The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events. · Time stops for nobody. the ebb and flow of time
- The feeling of the passage of events and their relative duration, as experienced by an individual. · Time flies when you're having fun.
- A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension. · 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. · 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. · An essential definition of time should entail neither speed nor direction, just change.
- A quantity of availability of duration. · More time is needed to complete the project.· You had plenty of time, but you waited until the last minute.
- A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression. · a long time· Record the individual times for the processes in each batch.
- The serving of a prison sentence. · The judge leniently granted a sentence with no hard time.· He is not living at home because he is doing time.
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“It’s time you were dressed,” she said curtly.
And although the entertainment was fixed for twelve o’clock, an hour previous to that time the balcony was filled with impatient and expectant guests, consisting of the favored part of the crew of the Pharaon, and other personal friends of the bridegroom, the whole of whom had arrayed themselves in their choicest costumes, in order to do greater honor to the occasion.
“Well, every time I have seen Mercédès come into the city she has been accompanied by a tall, strapping, black-eyed Catalan, with a red complexion, brown skin, and fierce air, whom she calls cousin.”
“Not so much as I could wish, sir: but I dare say he may spend half his time here; and Miss Darcy is always down for the summer months.”
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