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Noun time has 10 senses
- time, clip - an instance or single occasion for some event; "this time he succeeded"; "he called four times"; "he could do ten at a clip"
--1 is a kind of present, nowadays; case, instance, example; present, nowadays; case, instance, example
- time - 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"
--2 is a kind of arithmetic operation; time period, period of time, period; arithmetic operation; time period, period of time, period
--2 has particulars:
- time - 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"
--3 is a kind of time period, period of time, period; time period, period of time, period
- time - a suitable moment; "it is time to go"
--4 is a kind of moment, minute, second, instant; moment, minute, second, instant
--4 has particulars: high time; occasion
- time - the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
--5 is a kind of abstraction; abstraction
--5 has particulars: | | geological time, geologic time; biological time; cosmic time; civil time, standard time, local time; daylight-saving time, daylight-savings time, daylight saving, daylight savings; present, nowadays; past, past times, yesteryear, yore; future, hereafter, futurity, time to come; musical time; continuum; Greenwich Mean Time, Greenwich Time, GMT, universal time, UT, UT1; duration, continuance; eternity, infinity |
- clock time, time - the time as given by a clock; "do you know what time it is?"; "the time is 10 o'clock"
--6 is a kind of reading, meter reading, indication; reading, meter reading, indication
--6 has particulars:
- fourth dimension, time - the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
--7 is a kind of dimension; dimension
- time - a person's experience on a particular occasion; "he had a time holding back the tears"; "they had a good time together"
--8 is a kind of experience; experience
- meter, metre, time - rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time
--9 is a kind of rhythmicity; rhythmicity
- prison term, sentence, time - 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"
--10 is a kind of term; term
--10 has particulars: hard time; life sentence, life
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