(n.) Infinite duration, without beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration without end in the future; endless time.
(n.) Condition which begins at death; immortality.
Example Sentences:
(1) Will the United fans' eternal favourite soon add his voice to that of 140,000 fans?
(2) The lucky thing is, says Susan Calman , that although she is "an eternal worrier, occasionally I do something stupid."
(3) In legend, Gilgamesh fell asleep on the water side and let slip from his fingers the plant of eternal youth.
(4) To butcher TS Eliot: I have seen the mercury of my thermometer flicker, And I have seen the eternal footman hold my sheets drenched in sweat at 3am, and snicker, And in short, I was too hot.
(5) Dayton Flyers once again pull off the round's first upset The final minute of game time seemed to take a small eternity in real time, with the in-game action interrupted by four team timeouts and eight free throw attempts.
(6) Greed is not only good, it is a fundamental prop to the fantasy of eternal growth.
(7) In each of his creative capacities, he was the eternal quiet man.
(8) Even Alec – eternally hard to please where his own work was concerned – loved it.
(9) 9.06am BST There are some eternal verities in politics and one of them is that British governments (especially Conservative-led ones) are always fighting a war on red tape.
(10) Boris Johnson accused of 'dishonest gymnastics' over TTIP U-turn Read more “But fundamentally, what is lacking is the eternal problem, which is that there is no underlying loyalty to the idea of Europe .
(11) They call it, rather unsurprisingly, the eternal flame.
(12) They were created on the basis that, whatever the cost, there are some eternal values that are worth upholding in a civilised society.
(13) He has taken the legacy of postwar abstract expressionism, and allied to that a deep love of the great eternal themes of the classical world.
(14) Murray said: "I'm eternally grateful to Ivan for all his hard work over the past two years, the most successful of my career so far.
(15) I am not sure that a lucrative career in rape gags is more helpful than a failed one, but the rape hum seems eternal.
(16) Ras proteins are membrane-associated transducers of eternal stimuli to unknown intracellular targets.
(17) One, Baroness O'Cathain, has said, in relation to politics and her evangelism: "For me it is a guarantee of eternal peace."
(18) Committed to eliminating the budget deficit by the end of next year, it just does not have the cash to fund, for example, big new infrastructure projects like an eternally proposed (and eternally postponed) bridge over the Straits of Messina.
(19) François Bayrou must have resigned himself to being the eternal also-ran of French presidential elections, by now.
(20) To all those who offered me their friendship, support and prayers, I will be eternally grateful.
Time
Definition:
(n.) Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof.
(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.
(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.
(n.) The duration of one's life; the hours and days which a person has at his disposal.
(n.) A proper time; a season; an opportunity.
(n.) Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition.
(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.
(n.) The present life; existence in this world as contrasted with immortal life; definite, as contrasted with infinite, duration.
(n.) Tense.
(n.) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division; as, common or triple time; the musician keeps good time.
(v. t.) To appoint the time for; to bring, begin, or perform at the proper season or time; as, he timed his appearance rightly.
(v. t.) To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
(v. t.) To ascertain or record the time, duration, or rate of; as, to time the speed of horses, or hours for workmen.
(v. t.) To measure, as in music or harmony.
(v. i.) To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
(v. i.) To pass time; to delay.
Example Sentences:
(1) In April, they said the teenager boarded a flight to Turkey with his friend Hassan Munshi, also 17 at the time.
(2) Neuromedin B (C50 6 x 10(-12) M) was 3 times less potent than bombesin-14.
(3) Since fingernail creatinine (Ncr) reflects serum creatinine (Scr) at the time of nail formation, it has been suggested that Ncr level might represent that of Scr around 4 months previously.
(4) Herpesviruses such as EBV, HSV, and human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) have a marked tropism for cells of the immune system and therefore infection by these viruses may result in alterations of immune functions, leading at times to a state of immunosuppression.
(5) In contrast, resting cells of strain CHA750 produced five times less IAA in a buffer (pH 6.0) containing 1 mM-L-tryptophan than did resting cells of the wild-type, illustrating the major contribution of TSO to IAA synthesis under these conditions.
(6) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
(7) The proportion of motile spermatozoa decreased with time at the same rate when samples were prepared in either HEPES or phosphate buffers.
(8) Arachidic acid was without effect, while linoleic acid and linolenic acid were (on a concentration basis) at least 5-times less active than arachidonic acid.
(9) Van Persie's knee injury meant that Mata could work in tandem with the delightfully nimble Kagawa, starting for the first time since 22 January.
(10) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
(11) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
(12) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
(13) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
(14) At the early phase of the sensitization a T-cell response was seen in vitro, characterized by an increased spleen but no peripheral blood lymphocyte reactivity to T-cell mitogens at the same time as increased reactivity to the sensitizing antigen was detected.
(15) The HBV infection was tested by the reversed passive hemagglutination method for the HBsAg and by the passive hemagglutination method for the anti-HBs at the time of recruitment in 1984.
(16) ), the concentration of AMPO in the hypothalamus was 5.4 times the concentration at 20 h after one injection.
(17) Trifluoroacetylated rabbit serum albumin was 5 times more reactive with these antibodies and thus more antigenic than the homologous acetylated moiety confirming the importance of the trifluoromethyl moiety as an epitope in the immunogen in vivo.
(18) The time of observation varied between 2 and 17 years.
(19) Lp(a) also complexes to plasmin-fibrinogen digests, and binding increases in proportion to the time of plasmin-induced fibrinogen degradation.
(20) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.