(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.
Timekeeper
Definition:
(n.) A clock, watch, or other chronometer; a timepiece.
(n.) A person who keeps, marks, regulates, or determines the time.
(n.) A person who keeps a record of the time spent by workmen at their work.
(n.) One who gives the time for the departure of conveyances.
(n.) One who marks the time in musical performances.
(n.) One appointed to mark and declare the time of participants in races or other contests.
Example Sentences:
(1) This report has focused on the actions of melatonin and how it serves as a timekeeping hormone in the seasonal reproductive process of the ewe.
(2) The period variances of the right and left systems in the 162 instances of absolute coordination were analysed according to a method that assumes that a timekeeper function and a motor implementation function contribute independently to the variance in the periodic timing of a rhythmic movement.
(3) The jobcentre supervisor told the man that his poor timekeeping had become an issue and put him at risk of being "sanctioned".
(4) These results indicate that separate mechanisms are involved in transducing temporal cues from LD and EF cycles in the circadian timekeeping system of these nonhuman primates.
(5) In addition, these rhythms are either interdependent or subject to the same maternal timekeeping mechanism, supporting the hypothesis that the exact time of the day at which birth occurs in the rhesus monkey depends on the maternal circadian system.
(6) These age-related changes are similar to those that characterize photically entrained circadian rhythms and suggest that both components of the rat's multioscillatory circadian timekeeping system deteriorate in parallel over the life span.
(7) Pharmacological manipulations with or without the addition of lighting strategies have been used to analyze the neurochemistry of circadian timekeeping.
(8) Since Fos expression within the SCN oscillates in the absence of photoperiodic time cues and since the peak of this oscillation coincides with the circadian times when light modulates the periodicity of the SCN pacemaker, these data provide further evidence that expression of the c-fos gene may be a molecular signal in the circadian timekeeping mechanism in the SCN and its regulation by photic stimuli.
(9) Musical compositions too apparently evolved originally as a timekeeping device.
(10) It is suggested that cell-cycle timing, by counting subcycles in growing cells, may become dominated by circadian control in slowly growing natural populations and that the same subcycles may be used for circadian timekeeping.
(11) We haven’t got an outstanding candidate for captain and that is a worrying sign.” Asked about Wayne Rooney , who is vying with Robin van Persie to be named United captain by the new manager Louis van Gaal, Robson, speaking at an event in Los Angeles hosted by Bulova (Manchester United’s official timekeeper), said: “You look at it and it is a difficult one.
(12) These results suggest a timekeeping role for social cues for timing onset of the breeding season in an animal that normally relies on photoperiodic signals for temporal regulation of the seasonal reproductive cycle.
(13) This striking uniformity indicates good timekeeping.
(14) The experimental approach presented in this paper is useful because it allows systematic assessment and distinction of the input, pacemaker, and output components of a mammalian circadian timekeeping system in vivo.
(15) The precision of timekeeping is measured by the extent to which embryos, within an initially synchronous population, come to diverge in the course of their development.
(16) The lower the variation the better the timekeeping.
(17) Separable estimates of a central timekeeper component and an implementation component were derived from the total variability scores following a model developed by Wing and Kristofferson (1973).
(18) This has enabled the formulation of strategies for treatment of patients with manic depressive illness and certain sleep disorders in which disorders of circadian timekeeping may be fundamental.
(19) Eventually, Charles Moore, then the paper's editor, lost patience with Johnson's timekeeping and didn't print his column.
(20) The second type of timekeeping involves time-to-flowering.