What's the difference between forever and time?

Forever


Definition:

  • (adv.) Through eternity; through endless ages, eternally.
  • (adv.) At all times; always.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
  • (2) I could just banish the app from my phone forever, but deleting a piece of smart tech that makes my life easier doesn’t feel very satisfying.
  • (3) When you score a hat trick in the first 16 minutes of a World Cup Final with tens of millions of people watching across the world, essentially ending the match and clinching the tournament before most players worked up a sweat or Japan had a chance to throw in the towel, your status as a sports legend is forever secure – and any favorable comparisons thrown your way are deserved.
  • (4) Waco, Texas, will forever be known for the siege that began in February 1993 when agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided a compound owned by the Branch Davidian religious sect to investigate allegations of weapons hoarding.
  • (5) Somehow, despite all this, the Obama administration thinks it can “destroy” Isis, though, as the Post noted , the US government has not been able to destroy al-Qaida or any terrorist group in the last decade “through two wars, thousands of drone strikes and hundreds of covert operations around the world.” The only question now is how far this Forever War against Isis goes.
  • (6) That would be the biggest mistake in education policy - probably forever.
  • (7) He has a lot of love for United because his heart was there for six years, but now he’s only thinking about Real Madrid and he’s going to stay here forever.
  • (8) Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever?” It is there to remind him that the dots are worth fighting for.
  • (9) For a time it did indeed appear as though Manning was destined to follow the same path as Marino – his great idol – remembered as one of the all-time greats but forever haunted over his failure to win a Super Bowl.
  • (10) Family First senator Bob Day said: “This week will probably change politics forever, because it’ll be a time unprecedented when the Coalition gets into bed with the Greens to wipe out the crossbench, the minor parties and the independents.
  • (11) Speaking on the red carpet before the performance, Gaga said she was proud to be singing songs from a film that “changed music forever and changed the film industry”.
  • (12) "We could be forever caught up in NHS politics, get bogged down and be left with an uncertain future," said Bridge.
  • (13) Jim Carrey, his Batman Forever co-star, said he “scared the hell out of me”.
  • (14) Thomas brings Khalil and his forever-changed friend Starr back to life in resplendent color.
  • (15) "You cannot have a situation where exam passes continue rising forever and ever without there being in some subjects at some points grades either falling or steadying or changing – it's just in the nature of things that inevitably there will be alterations," Gove said.
  • (16) Former president Joyce Banda published a blistering press release in 2013 saying the singer “wants Malawi to be forever chained to the obligation of gratitude” for adopting children from the country, and excoriating her for expecting the government to roll out “a red carpet and blast the 21-gun salute” in honour of her visits.
  • (17) Although we will all miss her beyond belief, we absolutely know she will live in our hearts forever.” Courtney Boyle, 19 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Courtney Boyle Boyle’s family confirmed she had been killed with her stepfather, Philip Tron, in Monday’s terrorist attack.
  • (18) Adele will be following in the shoes of Shirley Bassey (who sang the themes to Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever and Moonraker), Tina Turner ( GoldenEye ) and Madonna (Die Another Day).
  • (19) But as Kathimerini.com reports, the plan is to definitely to lease the islands, not sell them forever: The fund reviewed 562 of the estimated 6,000 islands and islets under Greek sovereignty.
  • (20) Perhaps another is pop's forever-long obsession with watching women, as if they're ants on a hot patio and you're the boy with the magnifying glass.

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.