Definition of time:

• 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.
• To adapt to the time or occasion.
• To regulate as to time; keep time.
• To record the time or rate of.
• To appoint the time for; to bring, begin, or perform at the proper season or time; as, he timed his appearance rightly.
• To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
• To ascertain or record the time, duration, or rate of; as, to time the speed of horses, or hours for workmen.
• To measure, as in music or harmony.
• To do at the proper season; regulate as to time; measure the time of.
• To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
• To pass time; to delay.
• To keep or beat time.
• set the speed, duration, or execution of; " we time the process to manufacture our cars very precisely"
• 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"
• To adapt to the time or occasion; to do at the proper season; to regulate as to time; to measure, as regards the time. In time, in good season; sufficiently early. At times, at distinct intervals. Time enough, early enough. To lose time, to delay. Apparent time, true solar time. Mean time, an average of apparent time. Sidereal time, that which is shown by the apparent diurnal revolutions of the stars.
• To adapt to the occasion; to do at the proper time or season; to regulate as to time.
• rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time
• the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
• a person's experience on a particular occasion; " he had a time holding back the tears" or" they had a good time together"
• 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"
• a suitable moment; " it is time to go"
• a person's experience on a particular occasion; " he had a time holding back the tears"; " they had a good time together"
• 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"
• regulate or set the time of; " time the clock"
• assign a time for an activity or event; " The candidate carefully timed his appearance at the disaster scene"
• Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof.
• 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.
• The duration of one's life; the hours and days which a person has at his disposal.
• A proper time; a season; an opportunity.
• Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition.
• 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.
• The present life; existence in this world as contrasted with immortal life; definite, as contrasted with infinite, duration.
• Tense.
• The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division; as, common or triple time; the musician keeps good time.
• 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.
• Measure of duration, whether past, present, or future; a certain period of duration; as, a long time; length of a person's life; a flxed hour for some event: period in which anything occurred or a person lived; present life or existence; season; age; date; era; proper date; system of measurement by hours, days, weeks, etc.; system by which music is divided into measures; repetition.
• A point at which or period during which things happen: a season or proper time: an opportunity: absolute duration: an interval: past time: the duration of one's life: allotted period: repetition of anything or mention with reference to repetition: musical measure: hour of travail: the state of things at any period, usually in pl.: the history of the world, as opposed to eternity: addition of a thing to itself.
• Point or period of any occurrence; duration; season; allotted period; the present life; repetition.
• Infinite duration or its measure.
• A point in duration; date; occasion.
• ( 1) Rate of movement. ( 2) The duration or comparative value of a tone.
• The measure of duration; a part of duration, whether past, present, or future; moment; period; a proper time; a season; duration; measured portion of duration; life; age; distinct part of duration; repetition; the measure of sounds in regard to their continuance or duration; the state of things at a particular period; the present life; a tense.
• A particular portion of duration, past, present, or future; any space or measure of duration, as an hour, a day, a month; period; interval; life or duration; repeated performance; season; completion of the time, as of pregnancy; state of things at a particular period, as good times; in gram., tense; in music, measure of duration of sounds indicated by certain marks; the number of notes, & c., in a bar, indicated by certain figures at the beginning of a piece; the absolute velocity with which music is palyed, as quaick time, slow time- the rate or quality of the time being always indicated by Italian words; the present state of things; repectition or addition of one more.

Usage examples for time

1. Are we on time, Dad?  Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout or, The Speediest Car on the Road by Victor Appleton

2. We sat till dinner time.  Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright by Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke

3. Who could it be this time?  Unwise Child by Gordon Randall Garrett

4. I wish you had come in time to see them.  Virginia by Ellen Glasgow