time
/taɪm/ verb B2- To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of something. · I used a stopwatch to time myself running around the block.
- To choose when something commences or its duration. · The President timed his speech badly, coinciding with the Super Bowl.· The bomb was timed to explode at 9:20 p.m.
- To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
- To measure, as in music or harmony.
He/she/it times · Past timed · Past participle timed · -ing form timing
Verb forms
- Base form
- time
- He/she/it
- times
- Past
- timed
- Past participle
- timed
- -ing form
- timing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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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.
I’ll set your tea out for you and I’ll be home in time to milk the cows.”
Matthew hitched the sorrel into the buggy in due time and Marilla and Anne set off.
“It’s time you were dressed,” she said curtly.
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