Time vs. Period
Timenoun
(uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past.
‘Time stops for nobody.’; ‘the ebb and flow of time’;
Periodnoun
A length of time.
‘There was a period of confusion following the announcement.’; ‘You'll be on probation for a six-month period.’;
Timenoun
A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
‘Both science-fiction writers and physicists have written about travel through time.’;
Periodnoun
A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
‘Food rationing continued in the post-war period.’;
Timenoun
Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.
‘Time slows down when you approach the speed of light.’;
Periodnoun
The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
Timenoun
The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.
‘An essential definition of time should entail neither speed nor direction, just change.’;
Periodnoun
The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition of a wave or the rotation of a planet.
Timenoun
A duration of time.
Periodnoun
Female menstruation.
‘When she is on her period, she prefers not to go swimming.’;
Timenoun
(uncountable) A quantity of availability of duration.
‘More time is needed to complete the project.’; ‘You had plenty of time, but you waited until the last minute.’; ‘Are you finished yet? Time’s up!’;
Periodnoun
A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
‘This is one of the last paintings Picasso created during his Blue Period.’;
Timenoun
(countable) A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
‘a long time;’; ‘Record the individual times for the processes in each batch.’; ‘Only your best time is compared with the other competitors.’; ‘The algorithm runs in O(n2) time.’;
Periodnoun
Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
‘I have math class in second period.’;
Timenoun
The serving of a prison sentence.
‘The judge leniently granted a sentence with no hard time.’; ‘He is not living at home because he is doing time.’;
Periodnoun
Each of the intervals into which various sporting events are divided.
‘Gretzky scored in the last minute of the second period.’;
Timenoun
(countable) An experience.
‘We had a wonderful time at the party.’;
Periodnoun
The length of time for a disease to run its course.
Timenoun
(countable) An era; (with the, sometimes in plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.
‘Roman times;’; ‘the time of the dinosaurs’;
Periodnoun
An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc.
Timenoun
A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
‘In my time, we respected our elders.’;
Periodnoun
(rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic whole.
Timenoun
Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.
Periodnoun
(obsolete) A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.
Timenoun
An instant of time.
Periodnoun
(chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.
Timenoun
(uncountable) How much of a day has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.
‘Excuse me, have you got the time?’; ‘What time is it, do you guess? Ten o’clock?’; ‘A computer keeps time using a clock battery.’;
Periodnoun
(geology) A subdivision of an era, typically lasting from tens to hundreds of millions of years, see Appendix: Geologic timescale.
Timenoun
(countable) A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).
‘it’s time for bed;’; ‘it’s time to sleep;’; ‘we must wait for the right time;’; ‘it's time we were going’;
Periodnoun
(genetics) A Drosophila gene, the gene product of which is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
Timenoun
(countable) A numerical indication of a particular moment.
‘at what times do the trains arrive?;’; ‘these times were erroneously converted between zones’;
Periodnoun
(music) Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
Timenoun
(countable) An instance or occurrence.
‘When was the last time we went out? I don’t remember.’; ‘see you another time;’; ‘that’s three times he’s made the same mistake’; ‘Okay, but this is the last time. No more after that!’;
Periodnoun
(math) The length of an interval over which a periodic function, periodic sequence or repeating decimal repeats; often the least such length.
Timenoun
Closing time.
‘Last call: it's almost time.’;
Periodnoun
(archaic) End point, conclusion.
Timenoun
The hour of childbirth.
Periodadjective
Designating anything from a given historical era.
‘a period car’; ‘a period TV commercial’;
Timenoun
(as someone's time) The end of someone's life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined.
‘It was his time.’;
Periodadjective
Evoking, or appropriate for, a particular historical period, especially through the use of elaborate costumes and scenery.
Timenoun
(countable) The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
‘Let's synchronize our watches so we're not on different time.’;
Periodinterjection
That's final; that's the end of the matter (analogous to a period ending a sentence).
‘I know you don't want to go to the dentist but your teeth need to be checked, period!’;
Timenoun
(countable) Ratio of comparison.
‘your car runs three times faster than mine;’; ‘that is four times as heavy as this’;
Periodverb
To come to a period; to conclude.
Timenoun
Tense.
‘the time of a verb’;
Periodverb
To put an end to.
Timenoun
(music) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division.
‘common or triple time;’; ‘the musician keeps good time.’;
Periodnoun
A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months, or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the earth, or a comet.
Timeverb
To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of.
‘I used a stopwatch to time myself running around the block.’;
Periodnoun
A stated and recurring interval of time; more generally, an interval of time specified or left indefinite; a certain series of years, months, days, or the like; a time; a cycle; an age; an epoch; as, the period of the Roman republic.
‘How by art to make plants more lasting than their ordinary period.’;
Timeverb
To choose when something begins or how long it lasts.
‘The President timed his speech badly, coinciding with the Super Bowl.’; ‘The bomb was timed to explode at 9:20 p.m.’;
Periodnoun
One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology.
Timeverb
(obsolete) To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
Periodnoun
The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end; a conclusion.
‘So spake the archangel Michael; then paused,As at the world's great period.’; ‘Evils which shall never end till eternity hath a period.’; ‘This is the period of my ambition.’;
Timeverb
(obsolete) To pass time; to delay.
Periodnoun
A complete sentence, from one full stop to another; esp., a well-proportioned, harmonious sentence.
‘Periods are beautiful when they are not too long.’;
Timeverb
To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
Periodnoun
The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word.
Timeverb
To measure, as in music or harmony.
Periodnoun
One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in circulating decimals.
Timeinterjection
(tennis) Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause.
Periodnoun
The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission.
Timenoun
Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof.
‘The time wasteth [i. e. passes away] night and day.’; ‘I know of no ideas . . . that have a better claim to be accounted simple and original than those of space and time.’;
Periodnoun
A complete musical sentence.
Timenoun
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.
‘God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets.’;
Periodverb
To put an end to.
Timenoun
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.
Periodverb
To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] "You may period upon this, that," etc.
Timenoun
The duration of one's life; the hours and days which a person has at his disposal.
‘Believe me, your time is not your own; it belongs to God, to religion, to mankind.’;
Periodnoun
an amount of time;
‘a time period of 30 years’; ‘hastened the period of time of his recovery’; ‘Picasso's blue period’;
Timenoun
A proper time; a season; an opportunity.
‘There is . . . a time to every purpose.’; ‘The time of figs was not yet.’;
Periodnoun
one of three periods of play in hockey games
Timenoun
Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition.
‘She was within one month of her time.’;
Periodnoun
a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time;
‘a novel from the Victorian period’;
Timenoun
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.
‘Summers three times eight save one.’;
Periodnoun
the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
Timenoun
The present life; existence in this world as contrasted with immortal life; definite, as contrasted with infinite, duration.
‘Till time and sin together cease.’;
Periodnoun
the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause;
‘the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation’; ‘a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped’; ‘the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females’;
Timenoun
Tense.
Periodnoun
a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations;
‘in England they call a period a stop’;
Timenoun
The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division; as, common or triple time; the musician keeps good time.
‘Some few lines set unto a solemn time.’;
Periodnoun
a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed;
‘ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods’;
Timeverb
To appoint the time for; to bring, begin, or perform at the proper season or time; as, he timed his appearance rightly.
‘There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.’;
Periodnoun
the end or completion of something;
‘death put a period to his endeavors’; ‘a change soon put a period to my tranquility’;
Timeverb
To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
‘Who overlooked the oars, and timed the stroke.’; ‘He was a thing of blood, whose every motionWas timed with dying cries.’;
Timeverb
To ascertain or record the time, duration, or rate of; as, to time the speed of horses, or hours for workmen.
Timeverb
To measure, as in music or harmony.
Timeverb
To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
‘With oar strokes timing to their song.’;
Timeverb
To pass time; to delay.
Timenoun
an instance or single occasion for some event;
‘this time he succeeded’; ‘he called four times’; ‘he could do ten at a clip’;
Timenoun
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’;
Timenoun
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’;
Timenoun
a suitable moment;
‘it is time to go’;
Timenoun
the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
Timenoun
the time as given by a clock;
‘do you know what time it is?’; ‘the time is 10 o'clock’;
Timenoun
the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
Timenoun
a person's experience on a particular occasion;
‘he had a time holding back the tears’; ‘they had a good time together’;
Timenoun
rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time
Timenoun
the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned;
‘he served a prison term of 15 months’; ‘his sentence was 5 to 10 years’; ‘he is doing time in the county jail’;
Timeverb
measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time;
‘he clocked the runners’;
Timeverb
assign a time for an activity or event;
‘The candidate carefully timed his appearance at the disaster scene’;
Timeverb
set the speed, duration, or execution of;
‘we time the process to manufacture our cars very precisely’;
Timeverb
regulate or set the time of;
‘time the clock’;
Timeverb
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’;
Timenoun
the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole
‘travel through space and time’; ‘one of the greatest wits of all time’;
Timenoun
the continued progress of existence as affecting people and things
‘things were getting better as time passed’;
Timenoun
time or an amount of time as reckoned by a conventional standard
‘it's eight o'clock New York Time’;
Timenoun
the personification of time, typically as an old man with a scythe and hourglass.
Timenoun
a point of time as measured in hours and minutes past midnight or noon
‘the time is 9.30’;
Timenoun
a moment or definite portion of time allotted, used, or suitable for a purpose
‘shall we fix a time for the meeting?’; ‘the scheduled departure time’;
Timenoun
the favourable or appropriate time to do something
‘it's time for bed’; ‘it was time to go’;
Timenoun
an indefinite period
‘travelling always distorts one's feelings for a time’;
Timenoun
a portion of time in history or characterized by particular events or circumstances
‘at the time of Galileo’; ‘Victorian times’; ‘the park is beautiful at this time of year’;
Timenoun
the conditions of life during a particular period
‘times have changed’;
Timenoun
used in names of newspapers
‘the Oxford Times’;
Timenoun
one's lifetime
‘I've known a lot of women in my time’;
Timenoun
the successful, fortunate, or influential part of a person's life or career
‘in my time that was unheard of’;
Timenoun
the appropriate or expected time for something, in particular childbirth or death
‘he seemed old before his time’;
Timenoun
an apprenticeship
‘engineering officers traditionally served their time as fitters in the yards’;
Timenoun
a period of menstruation or pregnancy.
Timenoun
the normal rate of pay for time spent working
‘if called out at the weekend they are paid time and a half’;
Timenoun
the length of time taken to run a race or complete an event or journey
‘his time for the mile was 3:49.31’;
Timenoun
the moment at which the opening hours of a pub end
‘the landlord called time’;
Timenoun
short for "full time"
‘he scored the third five minutes from time’;
Timenoun
a moment at which play stops temporarily within a game
‘the umpire called time’;
Timenoun
time as allotted, available, or used
‘it would be a waste of time’; ‘we need more time’;
Timenoun
a prison sentence
‘he was doing time for fraud’;
Timenoun
an instance of something happening or being done; an occasion
‘this is the first time I have got into debt’; ‘the nurse came in four times a day’;
Timenoun
an event, occasion, or period experienced in a particular way
‘she was having a rough time of it’;
Timenoun
(following a number) expressing multiplication
‘eleven times four is forty-four’;
Timenoun
the rhythmic pattern of a piece of music, as expressed by a time signature
‘tunes in waltz time’;
Timenoun
the tempo at which a piece of music is played or marked to be played.
Timeverb
plan, schedule, or arrange when (something) should happen or be done
‘the bomb had been timed to go off an hour later’; ‘the first track race is timed for 11.15’;
Timeverb
perform (an action) at a particular moment
‘Williams timed his pass perfectly from about thirty yards’;
Timeverb
measure the time taken by (a process or activity, or a person doing it)
‘I timed how long it took to empty that tanker’; ‘we were timed and given certificates according to our speed’;
Timeverb
(of a computer or a program) cancel an operation automatically because a predefined interval of time has passed without a certain event happening
‘some networks will time out if they don't see activity going to the printer’; ‘connections are timed out when they're not in use’;
Timeverb
(of an operation) be cancelled automatically because a predefined interval of time has passed without a certain event happening.
Time
Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events or the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or in the conscious experience.
