<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>The system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.</li><li>Duration regarded as belonging to the present life as distinct from the life to come or from eternity; finite duration.</li><li>Sometimes Time.</li><li>A system or method of measuring or reckoning the passage of time: mean time; apparent time; Greenwich Time.</li><li>A limited period or interval, as between two successive events: a long time.</li><li>A particular period considered as distinct from other periods: Youth is the best time of life.</li><li>Often times.</li><li>A period in the history of the world, or contemporary with the life or activities of a notable person: prehistoric times; in Lincoln's time.</li><li>The period or era now or previously present: How times have changed!</li><li>A period considered with reference to its events or prevailing conditions, tendencies, ideas, etc.: hard times; a time of war.</li><li>A prescribed or allotted period, such as the span of one's life, the term allowed for payment of a debt, etc.: Loans can be made for a maximum time of 10 years.</li><li>The end of a prescribed or allotted period, as of one's life or a pregnancy: His time had come, but there was no one left to mourn over him.</li><li>A period with reference to personal experience of a specified kind: to have a good time; a hot time in the old town tonight.</li><li>A period of work of an employee, or the pay for it; working hours or days or an hourly or daily pay rate.</li><li>Informal: a term of enforced duty or imprisonment: to serve time in the army; do time in prison.</li><li>The period necessary for or occupied by something: The time of the baseball game was three hours and two minutes.</li><li>Leisure time; sufficient or spare time: to have time for a vacation; I have no time to stop now.</li><li>A particular or definite point in time, as indicated by a clock: What time is it?</li><li>A particular part of a year, day, etc.; season or period: It's time for lunch.</li><li>An appointed, fit, due, or proper instant or period: a time for sowing; the time when the sun crosses the meridian; There is a time for everything.</li><li>The particular point in time when an event is scheduled to take place: train time; curtain time.</li><li>An indefinite, frequently prolonged period or duration in the future: Time will tell if what we have done here today was right.</li><li>The right occasion or opportunity: to watch one's time.</li><li>Each occasion of a recurring action or event: to do a thing five times; It's the pitcher's time at bat.</li><li>Times, used as a multiplicative word in phrasal combinations expressing how many instances of a quantity or factor are taken together: Two goes into six three times; five times faster.</li><li>Drama: one of the three unities.</li><li>Prosody: a unit or a group of units in the measurement of meter.</li><li>Music: tempo; relative rapidity of movement; the metrical duration of a note or rest; proper or characteristic tempo; the general movement of a particular kind of musical composition with reference to its rhythm, metrical structure, and tempo; the movement of a dance or the like to music so arranged: waltz time.</li><li>Military: rate of marching, calculated on the number of paces taken per minute: double time; quick time.</li><li>Manège: each completed action or movement of the horse.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Of, relating to, or showing the passage of time.</li><li>(Of an explosive device) containing a clock so that it will detonate at the desired moment: a time bomb.</li><li>Commerce: payable at a stated period of time after presentment: time drafts or notes.</li><li>Of or relating to purchases on the installment plan, or with payment postponed.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(Used with object) to measure or record the speed, duration, or rate of: to time a race.</li><li>To fix the duration of: The proctor timed the test at 15 minutes.</li><li>To fix the interval between (actions, events, etc.): They timed their strokes at six per minute.</li><li>To regulate (a train, clock, etc.) as to time.</li><li>To appoint or choose the moment or occasion for; schedule: He timed the attack perfectly.</li><li>(Used without object) to keep time; sound or move in unison.</li></ul>