Word Meanings - TIME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Tense. (more info) 1. Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof. The time wasteth night and day. Chaucer. I know of no ideas . . . that have a better claim

Additional info about word: TIME

Tense. (more info) 1. Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof. The time wasteth night and day. Chaucer. I know of no ideas . . . that have a better claim to be accounted simple and original than those of space and time. Reid. 2. 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. God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets. Heb. i. 1. 3. 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. The duration of one's life; the hours and days which a person has at his disposal. Believe me, your time is not your own; it belongs to God, to religion, to mankind. Buckminster. 5. A proper time; a season; an opportunity. There is . . . a time to every purpose. Eccl. iii. 1. The time of figs was not yet. Mark xi. 13. 6. Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition. She was within one month of her time. Clarendon. 7. 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. Summers three times eight save one. Milton. 8. The present life; existence in this world as contrasted with immortal life; definite, as contrasted with infinite, duration. Till time and sin together cease. Keble.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TIME)

• Leisure
• Freedom
• vacation
• opportunity
• convenience
• ease
• quiet
• retirement
• spare time
• unoccupied time
• Period
• Time
• date
• epoch
• era
• age
• duration
• continuance
• limit
• bound
• end
• conclusion
• determination
• Season
• time
• conjuncture
• while
• occasion
• suitableness
• timeliness
• Turn
• Revolution
• rotation
• recurrence
• change
• alteration
• vicissitude
• winding
• bend
• deflection
• curve
• alternation
• deed
• office
• act
• treatment
• purpose
• requirement
• talent
• gift
• tendency
• character
• exigence
• crisis
• form
• cast
• shape
• manner
• mold
• fashion
• cut

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of TIME)

• Hobble
• limp
• crawl
• creep
• shamble
• Conserve
• retain
• stabilitate
• fix
• clinch
• stand
• endure
• last
• hold
• Straighten
• unbend
• rectilineate
• Chance
• risk
• hazard
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake
• Rouse
• excite
• disturb
• agitate
• stir
• urge
• goad
• Pervert
• distort
• misadapt
• misdelineate
• derange
• discompose
• misconstrue
• misproduce
• caricature

Related words: (words related to TIME)

• PERIODIC; PERIODICAL
  Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence. Periodic comet , a comet that moves about the sun in an elliptic orbit; a comet that has been seen at two of its approaches to the sun. -- Periodic function , a function whose values
• SHAMBLE
  One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level. 2. pl. (more info) a bench, form, stool, fr. L. scamellum, dim. of scamnum
• TREATMENT
  1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• WIND-RODE
  Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide; -- said of a vessel lying at anchor, with wind and tide opposed to each other. Totten.
• HOBBLER
  One who by his tenure was to maintain a horse for military service; a kind of light horseman in the Middle Ages who was mounted on a hobby. Hallam. Sir J. Davies.
• WINDINGLY
  In a winding manner.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• CONVENIENCE; CONVENIENCY
  1. The state or quality of being convenient; fitness or suitableness, as of place, time, etc.; propriety. Let's futher think of this; Weigh what convenience both of time and means May fit us to our shape. Shak. With all brief and plain conveniency,
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• WINDTIGHT
  So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind. Bp. Hall.
• BOUNDLESS
  Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite.
• LEISURED
  Having leisure. "The leisured classes." Gladstone.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• WHILES
  1. Meanwhile; meantime. The good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour. Sir. W. Scott. 2. sometimes; at times. Sir W. Scott. The whiles. See under While, n.
• WINDLACE
  See SCOTT
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• HOME-BOUND
  Kept at home.
• OUTBOUND
  Outward bound. Dryden.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• WHILE
  wigl, G. weile, OHG. wila, hwila, hwil, Icel. hvila a bed, hvild rest, Sw. hvila, Dan. hvile, Goth. hweila a time, and probably to L. 1. Space of time, or continued duration, esp. when short; a time; as, one while we thought him innocent. "All
• RECONTINUANCE
  The act or state of recontinuing.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST