time

time [-s, -'s] n

OE tima.

1. The normal course of events; the passing of minutes and hours, days and years.
2. Occasion; moment.
3. Particular hour; specific duration; reading of the clock.
4. Mortality; life.
5. Reiteration; opportunity; repetition of a similar opportunity.
6. A long enough period; sufficient duration of minutes, hours, etc.
7. Period; duration.
8. The proper moment; an appropriate occasion; the correct moment; an acceptable occasion.
9. Season; month of the year.
10. The present; the current moment.
11. Instance; occurrence.
12. Opportunity.
13. Measure of linear temporality; measure of the passing of minutes and hours.
14. Phrase “in time”: Sufficiently early.
15. Phrase “at a time”: at once; together.
16. Phrase “all the time”: always; at every moment.