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Time

Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof.

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Broader term 25

Adjust 76% connected

To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a stan…

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Attribute 76% connected

To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to…

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Case 76% connected

A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cove…

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Correct 76% connected

Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; a…

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Determine 76% connected

To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.

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Dimension 76% connected

Measure in a single line, as length, breadth, height, thickness, or circumference; extension; measurement; -- usually, in the plural, measure in leng…

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Example 76% connected

One or a portion taken to show the character or quality of the whole; a sample; a specimen.

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Experience 76% connected

Trial, as a test or experiment.

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Indication 76% connected

Act of pointing out or indicating.

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Influence 76% connected

A flowing in or upon; influx.

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Instance 76% connected

The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion.

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Instant 76% connected

Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest.

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Measure 76% connected

A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and s…

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Minute 76% connected

The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.)

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Mold 76% connected

A spot; a blemish; a mole.

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Moment 76% connected

A minute portion of time; a point of time; an instant; as, at thet very moment.

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Mould 76% connected

Crumbling, soft, friable earth; esp., earth containing the remains or constituents of organic matter, and suited to the growth of plants; soil.

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Period 76% connected

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 divis…

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Reading 76% connected

of Read

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Regulate 76% connected

To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.

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Schedule 76% connected

A written or printed scroll or sheet of paper; a document; especially, a formal list or inventory; a list or catalogue annexed to a larger document,…

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Second 76% connected

Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other.

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Set 76% connected

of Set

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Shape 76% connected

To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.

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Term 76% connected

That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.

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Narrower term 29

Bit 76% connected

The part of a bridle, usually of iron, which is inserted in the mouth of a horse, and having appendages to which the reins are fastened.

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Continuance 76% connected

A holding on, or remaining in a particular state; permanence, as of condition, habits, abode, etc.; perseverance; constancy; duration; stay.

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Day 76% connected

The time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunsh…

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Dead 76% connected

Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to…

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Duration 76% connected

The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists.

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Ephemera 76% connected

A fever of one day's continuance only.

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Eternity 76% connected

Infinite duration, without beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration without end in the future; endless time.

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Future 76% connected

That is to be or come hereafter; that will exist at any time after the present; as, the next moment is future, to the present.

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Futurity 76% connected

State of being that is yet to come; future state.

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Hereafter 76% connected

In time to come; in some future time or state.

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Hour 76% connected

The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes.

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Incarnation 76% connected

The act of clothing with flesh, or the state of being so clothed; the act of taking, or being manifested in, a human body and nature.

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Infinity 76% connected

Unlimited extent of time, space, or quantity; eternity; boundlessness; immensity.

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Life 76% connected

The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or germination, and ends with death; also, the time during which this state continues; that s…

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Minute 76% connected

The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.)

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Mo 76% connected

More; -- usually, more in number.

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Moment 76% connected

A minute portion of time; a point of time; an instant; as, at thet very moment.

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Nowadays 76% connected

In these days; at the present time.

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Occasion 76% connected

A falling out, happening, or coming to pass; hence, that which falls out or happens; occurrence; incident.

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Past 76% connected

Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences.

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Patch 76% connected

A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a…

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Piece 76% connected

A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piec…

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Present 76% connected

Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.

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Second 76% connected

Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other.

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Spell 76% connected

A spelk, or splinter.

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Ut 76% connected

The first note in Guido's musical scale, now usually superseded by do. See Solmization.

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Wee 76% connected

A little; a bit, as of space, time, or distance.

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While 76% connected

Space of time, or continued duration, esp. when short; a time; as, one while we thought him innocent.

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Yesteryear 76% connected

The year last past; last year.

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Manner of action 1

Mistime 76% connected

To time wrongly; not to adapt to the time.

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Derivationally related 6

Seasonable 74% connected

Occurring in good time, in due season, or in proper time for the purpose; suitable to the season; opportune; timely; as, a seasonable supply of rain.

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Seasonable 74% connected

Occurring in good time, in due season, or in proper time for the purpose; suitable to the season; opportune; timely; as, a seasonable supply of rain.

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Timer 74% connected

A timekeeper; especially, a watch by which small intervals of time can be measured; a kind of stop watch. It is used for timing the speed of horses,…

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Timer 74% connected

A timekeeper; especially, a watch by which small intervals of time can be measured; a kind of stop watch. It is used for timing the speed of horses,…

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Timing 74% connected

of Time

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Timing 74% connected

of Time

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Antemeridian 66% connected

Being before noon; in or pertaining to the forenoon. (Abbrev. a. m.)

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Antemeridian 66% connected

Being before noon; in or pertaining to the forenoon. (Abbrev. a. m.)

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Postmeridian 66% connected

Coming after the sun has passed the meridian; being in, or belonging to, the afternoon. (Abbrev. P. M.)

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Postmeridian 66% connected

Coming after the sun has passed the meridian; being in, or belonging to, the afternoon. (Abbrev. P. M.)

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Synonym 5

Clip 92% connected

To embrace, hence; to encompass.

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Clock 92% connected

A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a…

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Meter 92% connected

One who, or that which, metes or measures. See Coal-meter.

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Metre 92% connected

Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on number, quantity, and accent of syl…

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Sentence 92% connected

Sense; meaning; significance.

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