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Bible Dictionaries
Time
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division; as, common or triple time; the musician keeps good time.
(2):
(n.) Tense.
(3):
(v. t.) To ascertain or record the time, duration, or rate of; as, to time the speed of horses, or hours for workmen.
(4):
(v. t.) To measure, as in music or harmony.
(5):
(v. t.) To appoint the time for; to bring, begin, or perform at the proper season or time; as, he timed his appearance rightly.
(6):
(v. t.) To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
(7):
(n.) A proper time; a season; an opportunity.
(8):
(n.) The duration of one's life; the hours and days which a person has at his disposal.
(9):
(n.) 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.
(10):
(n.) 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.
(11):
(n.) Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof.
(12):
(v. i.) To pass time; to delay.
(13):
(v. i.) To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
(14):
(n.) The present life; existence in this world as contrasted with immortal life; definite, as contrasted with infinite, duration.
(15):
(n.) 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.
(16):
(n.) Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Time'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/t/time.html. 1828.
