What's the difference between onetime and time?

Onetime


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During a discussion about refugees and potential, he recalled how Mo Farah – a black, Muslim onetime asylum seeker – went on to become one of the UK’s greatest ever sports stars.
  • (2) The news that the state prosecutor wanted Sarkozy to stand trial came on the same day as a major fraud trial opened against Hollande’s onetime senior lieutenant and budget minister Jérôme Cahuzac , who is accused of tax evasion and money-laundering – raising eyebrows on the right about the timing of the announcement.
  • (3) I also spent time with their onetime drummer John Coghlan, who these days puts in occasional appearances with a tribute band called "State of Quo", and had a long conversation with their ex-bassist Alan Lancaster, who was forced out of the group in the wake of their show-opening appearance at Live Aid.
  • (4) Last week my friend and onetime colleague, the UK government's former climate adviser John Ashton, berated the BBC for giving Australian climate sceptic Bob Carter undue airtime in its reporting of the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
  • (5) Its former voters in the west of Scotland and other onetime heartlands believe that Labour has abandoned them and their interests, while believing the SNP’s converse claim to have embraced them.
  • (6) Onetime Kerry ally McCain, at a subsequent and brutal Senate hearing, turned to Kerry’s wife and stated: “ Teresa, I apologize for what I’m about to do to John .” “I don’t think he cares about the critics at this point in his career.
  • (7) Mike Duggan, a onetime hospital executive, led by a comfortable margin going into the polls over his African American rival, Wayne County sheriff Benny Napoleon.
  • (8) Preliminary runoff results, released earlier this week against US wishes, suggested a massive turnaround in favour of the onetime World Bank economist Ghani, who lagged significantly behind Abdullah in first-round voting.
  • (9) "Fuck me," said Mr Graham to his onetime Kent teammate Brian Luckhurst, "they've booked that Elton John again."
  • (10) US authorities have not given any information about where the books were found in the Abbottabad residence – so quite what lay on Bin Laden’s bedside table, in the room in which he was shot and killed, remains unknown – nor have they divulged any details of any marginal notes the onetime civil engineering student might have made.
  • (11) Indeed, the White House referred to the Republican senator for Utah, Orrin Hatch’s, onetime statement: “In all honesty, I would like to see one person come to this floor and say one reason why Merrick Garland does not deserve this position.” To observers, Garland’s meticulous work, as well as his personality, fostered compromise.
  • (12) Their onetime ally-turned-rival, Mara 18, traces back to the 1940s but shared with the newer gang an open-door membership for Central Americans that put them both at odds with the area's more established, exclusively Mexican gangs.
  • (13) Results suggest that patients with unclear original indications, a onetime indication, or without clinical evidence of CHF or SVT can be successfully withdrawn.
  • (14) A onetime investment banker and veteran of two other successful web startups, he is already comfortably off.
  • (15) ), onetime national heritage minister (remember that?)
  • (16) Against the backdrop of his new slogan, “Jeb Can Fix It”, Bush took veiled jabs at his onetime Florida ally Marco Rubio, the young senator who bested him in a memorable confrontation during last week’s Republican presidential debate.
  • (17) It is led by Reclaim’s onetime chief social media promoter, the Canberra truck driver, neo-Nazi metal band member and self-proclaimed “Great Aussie Patriot”, Sherman Burgess.
  • (18) A former Goldman Sachs banker and onetime Conservative donor, Richard Sharp, who sits on the Bank of England’s independent finance policy committee, was also present.
  • (19) One of the Duggars’ most ardent public defenders has been Republican presidential candidate and onetime Fox News host Mike Huckabee .
  • (20) A gunman opened fire at a Florida concert venue as singer Christina Grimmie signed autographs for fans after a show, killing the onetime star of The Voice before shooting and killing himself, officials have said.

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.

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