time

time is a 4-letter English word with 31 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 31 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof.
2. noun. A particular period or part of duration, whether past, present, or future; a point or portion of duration; as, the time was, or has been; the time is, or will be.
3. noun. The period at which any definite event occurred, or person lived; age; period; era; as, the Spanish Armada was destroyed in the time of Queen Elizabeth; -- often in the plural; as, ancient times; modern times.
4. noun. The duration of one's life; the hours and days which a person has at his disposal.
5. noun. A proper time; a season; an opportunity.
6. noun. Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition.
7. noun. Performance or occurrence of an action or event, considered with reference to repetition; addition of a number to itself; repetition; as, to double cloth four times; four times four, or sixteen.
8. noun. The present life; existence in this world as contrasted with immortal life; definite, as contrasted with infinite, duration.
9. noun. Tense.
10. noun. The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division; as, common or triple time; the musician keeps good time.
11. transitive verb. To appoint the time for; to bring, begin, or perform at the proper season or time; as, he timed his appearance rightly.
12. transitive verb. To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
13. transitive verb. To ascertain or record the time, duration, or rate of; as, to time the speed of horses, or hours for workmen.
14. transitive verb. To measure, as in music or harmony.
15. intransitive verb. To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
16. intransitive verb. To pass time; to delay.
17. noun. the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
18. noun. rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration

    Synonyms: meter, metre

19. noun. a person's experience on a particular occasion

    "he had a time holding back the tears"

    "they had a good time together"

20. noun. an instance or single occasion for some event

    "this time he succeeded"

    "he called four times"

    Synonyms: clip

21. noun. an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities)

    "he waited a long time"

    "the time of year for planting"

22. noun. a reading of a point in time as given by a clock

    "do you know what time it is?"

    "the time is 10 o'clock"

23. noun. the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
24. noun. the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned

    "he served a prison term of 15 months"

    "his sentence was 5 to 10 years"

    Synonyms: sentence

25. noun. a suitable moment

    "it is time to go"

26. noun. 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"

27. verb. adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time

    "The good player times his swing so as to hit the ball squarely"

28. verb. regulate or set the time of

    "time the clock"

29. verb. 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"

    Synonyms: clock

30. verb. assign a time for an activity or event

    "The candidate carefully timed his appearance at the disaster scene"

31. verb. set the speed, duration, or execution of

    "we time the process to manufacture our cars very precisely"

Synonyms

meter, metre, clip, sentence, clock

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in time:

emit, item, mite

Common word forms

timed, timer, times, timely, timing, timeful, timeous, timeable, timeless

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