time
Because it is a word with a single syllable, time is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions oftime
- The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
Example: "Time stops for nobody. the ebb and flow of time"
- A duration of time.
- An instant of time.
- The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
Example: "Let's synchronize our watches so we're not on different time."
- Ratio of comparison.
Example: "your car runs three times faster than mine; that is four times as heavy as this"
- (grammar) Tense.
Example: "the time of a verb"
- The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division.
Example: "common or triple time; the musician keeps good time."
- To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of.
Example: "I used a stopwatch to time myself running around the block."
- To choose when something begins or how long it lasts.
Example: "The President timed his speech badly, coinciding with the Super Bowl."
- To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
- To pass time; to delay.
- To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
- To measure, as in music or harmony.
- Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause.
- The umpire's call in prizefights, etc.
- A call by a bartender to warn patrons that the establishment is closing and no more drinks will be served.
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