Quotes about "time"

• Noun: an instance or single occasion for some event; examples: "this time he succeeded", "he called four times", "he could do ten at a clip"

• Noun: an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities); examples: "he waited a long time", "the time of year for planting", "he was a great actor is his time"

• Noun: a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something; examples: "take time to smell the roses", "I didn't have time to finish", "it took more than half my time"

• Noun: a suitable moment; example: "it is time to go"

• Noun: the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past

• Noun: the time as given by a clock; examples: "do you know what time it is?", "the time is 10 o'clock"

• Noun: the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event

• Noun: a person's experience on a particular occasion; examples: "he had a time holding back the tears", "they had a good time together"

• Noun: rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration

• Noun: the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned; examples: "he served a prison term of 15 months", "his sentence was 5 to 10 years", "he is doing time in the county jail"

• Verb: measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time; example: "he clocked the runners"

• Verb: assign a time for an activity or event; example: "The candidate carefully timed his appearance at the disaster scene"

• Verb: set the speed, duration, or execution of; example: "we time the process to manufacture our cars very precisely"

• Verb: regulate or set the time of; example: "time the clock"

• Verb: adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time; example: "The good player times his swing so as to hit the ball squarely"