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Pronunciation

• AHD : tīm
• IPA : /taɪm/
• SAMPA : /taIm/

Homophones

• thyme

Noun

time (plural: times)

1. Distance between the past and the present or between the present and future.

   Some physicists consider time the fourth physical dimension (three spatial, one temporal).

2. The moment indicated by a clock or other time-measuring device (What time is it?, The time is ten o'clock).
3. A particular occasion: See you another time, Last time I was here.

Translations

• Arabic: عهد , عصر
• Bitruscan: timun
• Breton: amzer f (1), eur f (2), gwech f (3)
• Bulgarian: време , час
• Catalan: temps m
• Chinese: 时间 /時間
• Czech: čas m
• Dutch: tijd m
• Ekspreso: tempo
• Esperanto: tempo (1), horo (2), fojo (3)

  aika (1,2), kerta (3)

  temps m (1), heure f (2), fois f (3)

• Frisian: tiid

  Zeit f (1), Uhrzeit f (2), Mal n (3)

• Greek: (Chronos)
• Guaraní: ára
• Hebrew: זמן f
• Ido: tempo
• Indonesian: waktu
• Interlingua: tempore
• Italian: tempo m
• Japanese: 時間 (じかん, jikan) (amount), 時 (とき , toki) (at)
• Korean: 시간 [時間] (sigan) (amount), 때 (ddae) (at)
• Latin: tempus n (1)
• Norwegian: tid
• Polish: czas m
• Portuguese: tempo m (1), hora f (2), vez f (3)
• Romanian: timp n, vreme f
• Russian: время , час
• Spanish: tiempo m (1), hora (2), vez f (3)

  tid c (1, 2, 3), gång c (3)

• Tupinambá: 'ara
• Volapük: tim, tüp

Verb

to time (timed , timed)

1. to measure time, especially using a clock of some kind.
2. to choose the time for

   The bomb was timed to explode at 9:20 p.m.

   The president's speech was timed badly: It coincided with the superbowl.

Translations

• kronometri , registri la daŭron de

• Finnish: ottaa aika , kellottaa
• German: die Zeit nehmen (1),die Zeit stoppen (1), die Zeit messen (1), den Zeitpunkt wählen (2), timen (2)
• Interlingua: chronometrar
• Portuguese: cronometrar
• Vietnamese: thoi gian

Derived Terms

• be lost in the mists of time
• behind the times
• in the nick of time
• the mists of time
• time-and-motion
• time-keeper
• time slot
• time travel
• timed
• timer
• timing

See Also

• century
• day
• decade
• hour
• minute
• month
• second
• week
• year