noun
Meaning 1
An occurrence or event.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete
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noun
An occurrence or event.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete
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noun
The regulation of the pace of e.g. an athletic race, the speed of an engine, the delivery of a joke, or the occurrence of a series of events.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The time when something happens.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The synchronization of the firing of the spark plugs in an internal combustion engine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
An instance of recording the time of something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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verb
present participle and gerund of time
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Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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noun
the regulation of occurrence, pace, or coordination to achieve a desired effect (as in music, theater, athletics, mechanics)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: regulation, regulating
Narrower terms: coordination
noun
the time when something happens
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: temporal arrangement, temporal order
Narrower terms: approach, approaching, coming, earliness, lateness, punctuality, promptness, tardiness, simultaneity, simultaneousness, seasonableness, timeliness, unseasonableness, untimeliness, pastness, futurity, presentness, nowness, spark advance, lead
History
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Across languages
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