time

v. set a time, determine a time

adj. of time

n. system used to place one event in relation to another (such as past vs. present, yesterday vs. today); period, era; hour; rate

n. weekly American magazine that covers topics of general interest (world news, politics, current events, etc.)

There are two distinct views on the meaning of the word time.One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a dimension in which events occur in sequence, and time itself is something that can be measured. This is the realist's view, to which Sir Isaac Newton subscribed, and hence is sometimes referred to as Newtonian time.A contrasting view is that time is part of the fundamental human intellectual structure (together with space and number) within which we sequence events, quantify the duration of events and the intervals between them, and compare the motions of objects. In this second view, time does not refer to any kind of entity that "flows", that objects "move through", or that is a "container" for events. This view is in the tradition of Gottfried Leibniz and Immanuel Kant, in which time, rather than being an objective thing to be measured, is part of the measuring system used by humans.
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In computer science and computer programming, system time represents a computer system's notion of the passing of time. In this sense, time also includes the passing of days on the calendar.System time is measured by a system clock, which is typically implemented as a simple count of the number of ticks that have transpired since some arbitrary starting date, called the epoch. For example, Unix and POSIX-compliant systems encode system time as the number of seconds elapsed since the start of the epoch at 1970-01-01 00:00:00 Z. Microsoft Windows counts the number of 100-nanosecond ticks since 1601-01-01 00:00:00 Z as reckoned in the proleptic Gregorian calendar, but returns the current time to the nearest millisecond.
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Time (whose trademark is capitalized TIME) is a weekly American newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report. A European edition (Time Europe, formerly known as Time Atlantic) is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition (Time Asia) is based in Hong Kong. Time publishes simultaneously in Canada, with separate advertising. The South Pacific edition, covering Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, is based in Sydney. In some advertising campaigns, the magazine has suggested that through a backronym the letters TIME stand for "The International Magazine of Events."
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Noun
1. an instance or single occasion for some event; "this time he succeeded"; "he called four times"; "he could do ten at a clip"
(synonym) clip
(hypernym) case, instance, example
2. an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities); "he waited a long time"; "the time of year for planting"; "he was a great actor is his time"
(hypernym) time period, period of time, period
(hyponym) day
3. 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"; "it took more than half my time"
(hypernym) time period, period of time, period
(derivation) clock
4. a suitable moment; "it is time to go"
(hypernym) moment, minute, second, instant
(hyponym) high time
5. the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
(hypernym) abstraction
(hyponym) geological time, geologic time
6. the time as given by a clock; "do you know what time it is?"; "the time is 10 o'clock"
(synonym) clock time
(hypernym) reading, meter reading, indication
(hyponym) spacecraft clock time, SCLK
(attribute) antemeridian
7. the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
(synonym) fourth dimension
(hypernym) dimension
8. a person's experience on a particular occasion; "he had a time holding back the tears"; "they had a good time together"
(hypernym) experience
9. rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time
(synonym) meter, metre
(hypernym) rhythmicity
10. the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned; "he served a prison term of 15 months"; "his sentence was 5 to 10 years"; "he is doing time in the county jail"
(synonym) prison term, sentence
(hypernym) term
(hyponym) hard time
Verb
1. 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"
(synonym) clock
(hypernym) quantify, measure
(hyponym) mistime
2. assign a time for an activity or event; "The candidate carefully timed his appearance at the disaster scene"
(hypernym) schedule
3. set the speed, duration, or execution of; "we time the process to manufacture our cars very precisely"
(hypernym) determine, shape, mold, influence, regulate
4. regulate or set the time of; "time the clock"
(hypernym) adjust, set, correct
(derivation) clock time
5. adjust so that a force is applied an an action occurs at the desired time; "The good player times his swing so as to hit the ball squarely"
(hypernym) adjust, set, correct

v. cheat, swindle; gull; chisel

n. team, crew