Time

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun One of the four or five grand divisions of geologic history, namely, Archæean, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic time: by some a fifth division, Psychozoic time, is added. In more recent usage ‘era’ has been substituted for ‘time.’
• noun Seemarch.
• noun To gain time by extra speed, as a train or boat
• noun With qualifiers, to maintain a certain speed: as, we made good time; the motor-car made poor time up the hill.
• To adjust the elements of (a motor or other machine) so that the succession of events in a cycle, or a revolution, or a process shall take place at the desired intervals, or in the desired sequence. It involves an adjustment of the mechanism so that the actuating cams or other elements shall have a necessary angular relation to each other in a revolution or in a series of revolutions.
• To adapt to the time or occasion; bring, begin, or perform at the proper season or time.
• To regulate as to time.
• To ascertain the time, duration, or rate of: as, to time the speed of a horse; to time a race.
• To measure, as in music or harmony.
• To waste time; defer; procrastinate.
• To keep time; harmonize.
• In fencing, to make a thrust upon an opening occurring by an inaccurate or wide motion of the opponent.
• noun An obsolete spelling of thyme.
• noun The system of those relations which any event has to any other as past, present, or future.
• noun A part of time considered as distinct from other parts; a period; a space of time: as a short time; a long time; too little time was allowed; hence, season; particular period: as, summer-time; springtime.
• noun A part of time considered as distinct from other parts, whether past, present, or future, and particularly as characterized by the occurrence of some event or series of events; especially, the period in which some notable person, or the person under consideration, lived or was active; age; epoch; as, the time of the flood, of Abraham, or of Moses: often in the plural; as, the times of the Pharaohs.
• noun Appointed, allotted, or customary period of years, months, days, hours, etc.
• noun The space of time needed or occupied in the completion of some course; the interval that elapses between the beginning and the end of something: as, the time between New York and Queenstown is now about six days; the race finished at noon: time, three hours and seven minutes.
• noun The period of gestation; also, the natural termination of that period.
• noun The period of an apprenticeship, or of some similarly definite engagement: as, the boy served his time with A. B.; to be out of one's time (that is, to cease being an apprentice, be a journeyman).
• noun A term of imprisonment: as to do time in the penitentiary.
• noun Available or disposable part or period of duration; leisure; sufficiency or convenience of time; hence, opportunity: as, to give one time to finish his remark; to have no time for such things; to ask for time.
• noun A suitable or appropriate point or part of time; fitting season: as, a time for everything; a time to weep and a time to laugh.
• noun Particular or definite point of time; precise hour or moment: as, the time of day; what is the time? choose your own time.
• noun An appointed, fixed, or inevitable point or moment of time; especially, the hour of one's departure or death.
• noun A mode of occupying time; also, what occurs in a particular time.
• noun The state of things at a particular point of time; prevailing state of circumstances: generally in the plural: as, hard times.
• noun All time to come; the future.
• noun Reckoning, or method of reckoning, the lapse or course of time: with a qualifying word: as, standard time; mean time; solar or sidereal time.
• noun Recurrent instance or occasion: as, many a time has he stood there; hence, a repeated item or sum; a single addition or involution in reckoning; repetition: as, four times four (four repetitions of four).
• noun Tune; measure.
• noun In music: Same as rhythm: as, duple time; triple time; common time.
• noun Same as duration, especially in metrical relations: as, to hold a tone its full time.
• noun Same as tempo: as, to sing a song in quick time.
• noun The general movement of a form of composition or of a particular piece, involving its rhythm, its general metrical structure, and its characteristic tempo.
• noun In prosody, relative duration of utterance as measuring metrical composition; a unit of rhythmic measurement, or a group or succession of such units, applicable to or expressed in language.
• noun In phrenology, one of the perceptive faculties.
• noun One of the three dramatic unities formerly considered essential in the classical drama.
• noun In fencing, a division of a movement. ; ;
• noun A pleasant or enjoyable period or experience: also a fine time: often used ironically.
• noun In music. See common.
• noun Well and good; just so; very well.
• noun In the course of things; by degrees; eventually.
• noun The latest aspect of affairs.
• noun For an indefinitely long period.
• noun In music, to beat, mark, or observe the rhythmic accents.
• noun To move in unison, as persons walking.
• noun To go too slow: as, a watch or clock loses time.
• noun Synonyms Term, while, interval.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To appoint the time for; to bring, begin, or perform at the proper season or time.