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time

/tahym/US // taɪm //UK // (taɪm) //

时间,时代,时期,时

Related Words

point点,地点,指点,观点generation代,代人,代的,代代相传past过去,过去的,过去的事情,过去的事second第二,其次,第二个,第二位turn变成,转弯,变成了,转变space空间,空间的,太空,场地life生活,生命,寿命,人生season季,季候,季候性moment瞬间,时候,瞬时,矩date日期day天,日,一天,白天present目前,现在,当前stage阶段,舞台,阶段性,阶段性的term术语,任期,条款,期age年龄,年龄段,年龄大小,年龄大小的问题pace步伐,步调,步速,步伐一致while而,虽然,同时future未来,未来的,今后,今后的era时代,时期,时代的发展,时代的到来occasion机会,场合,时机,偶尔

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
    • : duration regarded as belonging to the present life as distinct from the life to come or from eternity; finite duration.
    • : a system or method of measuring or reckoning the passage of time: mean time; apparent time; Greenwich Time.
    • : a limited period or interval, as between two successive events: a long time.
    • : a particular period considered as distinct from other periods: Youth is the best time of life.
    • : Often times . a period in the history of the world, or contemporary with the life or activities of a notable person: prehistoric times; in Lincoln's time.the period or era now or previously present: a sign of the times; How times have changed!a period considered with reference to its events or prevailing conditions, tendencies, ideas, etc.: hard times; a time of war.
    • : a prescribed or allotted period, as of one's life, for payment of a debt, etc.
    • : the end of a prescribed or allotted period, as of one's life or a pregnancy: His time had come, but there was no one left to mourn over him. When her time came, her husband accompanied her to the delivery room.
    • : a period with reference to personal experience of a specified kind: to have a good time; a hot time in the old town tonight.
    • : a period of work of an employee, or the pay for it; working hours or days or an hourly or daily pay rate.
    • : Informal. a term of enforced duty or imprisonment: to serve time in the army; do time in prison.
    • : the period necessary for or occupied by something: The time of the baseball game was two hours and two minutes. The bus takes too much time, so I'll take a plane.
    • : leisure time; sufficient or spare time: to have time for a vacation; I have no time to stop now.
    • : a particular or definite point in time, as indicated by a clock: What time is it?
    • : a particular part of a year, day, etc.; season or period: It's time for lunch.
    • : an appointed, fit, due, or proper instant or period: a time for sowing; the time when the sun crosses the meridian; There is a time for everything.
    • : the particular point in time when an event is scheduled to take place: train time; curtain time.
    • : an indefinite, frequently prolonged period or duration in the future: Time will tell if what we have done here today was right.
    • : the right occasion or opportunity: to watch one's time.
    • : each occasion of a recurring action or event: to do a thing five times; It's the pitcher's time at bat.
    • : times, used as a multiplicative word in phrasal combinations expressing how many instances of a quantity or factor are taken together: Two goes into six three times; five times faster.
    • : Drama. one of the three unities.Compare unity.
    • : Prosody. a unit or a group of units in the measurement of meter.
    • : Music. tempo; relative rapidity of movement.the metrical duration of a note or rest.proper or characteristic tempo.the general movement of a particular kind of musical composition with reference to its rhythm, metrical structure, and tempo.the movement of a dance or the like to music so arranged: waltz time.
    • : Military. rate of marching, calculated on the number of paces taken per minute: double time; quick time.
    • : Manège. each completed action or movement of the horse.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or showing the passage of time.
    • : containing a clock so that it will detonate at the desired moment: a time bomb.
    • : Commerce. payable at a stated period of time after presentment: time drafts or notes.
    • : of or relating to purchases on the installment plan, or with payment postponed.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    timed, tim·ing.

    • : to measure or record the speed, duration, or rate of: to time a race.
    • : to fix the duration of: The proctor timed the test at 15 minutes.
    • : to fix the interval between: They timed their strokes at six per minute.
    • : to regulate as to time.
    • : to appoint or choose the moment or occasion for; schedule: He timed the attack perfectly.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    timed, tim·ing.

    • : to keep time; sound or move in unison.

Phrases

  • time after time
  • time and a half
  • time and tide wait for no man
  • time bomb
  • time flies
  • time hangs heavy
  • time immemorial
  • time is money
  • time is ripe
  • time is up
  • time of day
  • time off
  • time of one's life
  • time on one's hands
  • time out
  • time out of mind
  • time warp
  • time was
  • time will tell
  • about time
  • against the clock (time)
  • ahead of one's time
  • ahead of time
  • all the time
  • at all times
  • at one time
  • at one time or another
  • at the same time
  • at this point (in time)
  • at times
  • beat time
  • behind in (time)
  • behind the times
  • bide one's time
  • big time
  • buy time
  • call one's (time one's) own
  • chow down (time)
  • crunch time
  • do time
  • every time one turns around
  • for the moment (time being)
  • from time to time
  • good-time Charlie
  • hard time
  • have a good time
  • high time
  • in between times
  • in due course (of time)
  • in good time
  • in no time
  • in the fullness of time
  • in the nick of time
  • in time
  • keep time
  • keep up (with the times)
  • kill time
  • less than (no time)
  • long time no see
  • lose time
  • make good time
  • make time
  • make up for lost time
  • many is the (time)
  • mark time
  • not give someone the time of day
  • no time for
  • no time like the present
  • of one's life, time
  • on borrowed time
  • once upon a time
  • one by one (at a time)
  • on one's own time
  • on time
  • pass the time
  • play for time
  • point in time
  • pressed for time
  • serve time
  • show someone a good time
  • small time
  • stitch in time
  • take one's time
  • take up space (time)
  • tell time
  • whale of a time

Synonyms & Antonyms

nountemporal length of event or entity's existence, period
Forms: times
Synonyms
age年龄,年龄段,年龄大小,年龄大小的问题date日期day天,日,一天,白天era时代,时期,时代的发展,时代的到来future未来,未来的,今后,今后的generation代,代人,代的,代代相传hour小时,小时的,小时的时间life生活,生命,寿命,人生moment瞬间,时候,瞬时,矩month月,月份,月日,个月occasion机会,场合,时机,偶尔pace步伐,步调,步速,步伐一致past过去,过去的,过去的事情,过去的事point点,地点,指点,观点present目前,现在,当前season季,季候,季候性second第二,其次,第二个,第二位space空间,空间的,太空,场地stage阶段,舞台,阶段性,阶段性的term术语,任期,条款,期turn变成,转弯,变成了,转变week周,一周,周数,周次while而,虽然,同时year年,年份,年度,一年allotment拨款,配给,拨款额度,拨款额bit位,位数,比特,位元bout回合,回头看,回头见,回头看看chronology年表,时序表,时序,时序图clock钟表,计时器,钟表业,钟表业的发展continuance延续性,延续,继续,继续执行duration持续时间,时间长度,时间长短,时间epoch纪元,纪年,世代,世紀eternity永恒,永生,永恒的,长生不老extent程度,范围,规模,幅度go去,走,前往,走吧infinity宇宙空间,宇宙空间无限大,宇宙空间无限,宇宙的无限instance实例,实证,实体,实践证明instant即时,瞬间,即时的,瞬间的interval间隔,间隙,间歇期,间隔时间juncture关口,交接点,关头,接缝处lastingness持久性,持久度,持久lifetime终生,终身,寿命,一生shift移位,转移,移,轮班span跨度,跨越,跨越式,跨度大spell咒语,拼写,咒骂,拼字stint吝啬鬼,吝惜,吝啬的,吝啬的人stretch伸展,延伸,绵延,伸长tempo速度tide潮汐,潮流,潮水,潮流趋势tour巡演,巡回演出,旅游,旅行life span寿命,寿命长短,寿限,寿命长many a moon众多的月亮,众多月亮,众多明月,众多的月光
nounopportunity
Forms: times
Synonyms
break突破,休息,断裂,断chance机会,机遇,机缘,的机会occasion机会,场合,时机,偶尔show显示,展示,显示出,表明heyday繁荣,全盛时期,鼎盛时期,繁盛时期opening开场,开幕,开放,开幕式peak峰值,高峰期,峰顶,巅峰时期shot镜头,摄,炮击,镜头下的squeak吱吱声,吱吱叫,尖叫声,吱吱look-in观察,寻访,寻觅,观察者网

Examples

  • I can’t remember the first time I held one, but I also can’t remember a time before I did.

  • Every time he goes anywhere where he might encounter other people, they’re tested, just as he’s tested for the virus regularly.

  • The Greens dawdled in filing their challenge, during which time county clerks began putting the ballots together.

  • In September of 2018, the NLRB majority moved for a third time to curtail the Obama-era joint-employer rule, this time through a rulemaking process.

  • I suggested iMessage, since that’s how we communicate about 90 percent of the time anyway.

  • Since the 1950s, fluoride has adapted itself to the prevailing concerns of the time.

  • But give the Kingdom credit for its sense of mercy: The lashes will be administered only 50 at a time.

  • “I think for trans men who are dating every time they hook up they have another coming out,” Sandler said.

  • As far as I can tell, this magazine spent as much time making fun of French politicians as it did of Muslims or Islam.

  • Thus, more time is spent organization and obtaining ones free of failings.

  • It ended on a complaint that she was 'tired rather and spending my time at full length on a deck-chair in the garden.'

  • The vision—it had been an instantaneous flash after all and nothing more—had left his mind completely for the time.

  • About this time the famous Philippine painter, Juan Luna (vide p. 195), was released after six monthsʼ imprisonment as a suspect.

  • I hate to be long at my toilette at any time; but to delay much in such a matter while travelling is folly.

  • Now, it immediately occurred to Davy that he had never in his whole life had all the plums he wanted at any one time.

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