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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.

Tom


Definition:

  • (n.) The knave of trumps at gleek.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Asked if Watson should seek to refresh his mandate after Corbyn’s overwhelming victory among members, McCluskey added: “Well, if Tom wants to try to refresh his mandate it would be interesting to see what happens.” Watson said it was time “to be proud of our party”, because the Conservatives were beatable and the prime minister, Theresa May, could call an election any time.
  • (2) But, in a sign of tension within the coalition government, the Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesman, Tom Brake, told BBC2's Newsnight that "if [the offenders in question] had committed the same offence the day before the riots, they would not have received a sentence of that nature".
  • (3) Keepy-uppys should be a simple skill for a professional footballer, so when Tom Ince clocked himself in the face with the ball while preparing to take a corner early in the second half, even he couldn't help but laugh.
  • (4) I was inspired by and, in this article, refer to videotapes of consultations and therapy sessions shown at an international conference on constructivism and family therapy in Sulitjelma, Norway, June 1988, and to written material from the Tromsø group (Tom Andersen and Anna M. Flåm), the Milan team (Luigi Boscolo and Gianfranco Cecchin), and the Galveston team (Harlene Anderson and Harold Goolishian).
  • (5) Roll-up man 3.50pm GMT Thank you to Tom Skinner for this educational and informative video .
  • (6) Tim Potter, managing director of support charity the Fragile X Society , adds that the challenges Tom faces in the film will give "hope and encouragement to many other families".
  • (7) What did surprise pundits was Hollywood's recognition of this unflinching Austrian film about ageing as a candidate for best picture, among such expected contenders as Steven Spielberg's Lincoln , Ben Affleck's Argo and Tom Hooper's Les Misérables .
  • (8) Fields said: "The assertions that Tom Cruise likened making a movie to being at war in Afghanistan is a gross distortion of the record... What Tom said, laughingly, was that sometimes, 'That's what it feels like.'"
  • (9) Two of Miliband’s inner circle – his director of strategy Tom Baldwin, and speechwriter Marc Stears – had suggested that the party seek out £3 supporters before 7 May in an attempt to engage people with the Labour party.
  • (10) Clinton met with Jane Dougherty, sister of Mary Sherlach, who was slain at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012; Tom Sullivan and Matthew Jenks, the father and brother-in-law, respectively, of Alex Sullivan, who was killed in the 2012 movie theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado; and Coni Sanders, daughter of Dave Sanders, killed in the 1999 Columbine High School shootings in Colorado.
  • (11) The mean body temperature of restrained toms declined during the first 150 min of RE and then stabilized.
  • (12) The first controversy came in the 19th minute, when Bale tore into the penalty area on to Tom Huddlestone's through ball and felt Sebastian Larsson's arm in his back.
  • (13) I’ve never seen her draw herself as a boy, ever.” Unlike Tom, there was no single turning point when Callum became Julia.
  • (14) Britain is still sending regular reinforcements across the Atlantic, from the new Spider-Man signing ( Tom Holland from Surrey ), to the actors who have recently snatched real-life national archetypes like Abraham Lincoln ( Daniel Day-Lewis ), Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) and Martin Luther King (David Oyelowo ) from the grasp of American stars.
  • (15) At the tom insertion site of the sn9g locus, a host DNA sequence (T)ATAT was found to be duplicated on each side of the tom insertion and all other tom elements examined were also flanked by (T)ATAT.
  • (16) Ex-players fawning over Tom Brady and Peyton Manning.
  • (17) Chairman Tom Wheeler used to be president of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA), Big Cable’s lobbying group.
  • (18) "Both the US and the EU have tried to shift the burden on to developing countries, arguing that they should even pay towards the costs of adapting to climate change despite their minimal contribution to the problem," said Tom Sharman, ActionAid's head of climate change.
  • (19) As committee member Tom Watson observed once the protester was arrested and normal service was resumed: "Mr Murdoch, your wife has a very good left hook."
  • (20) The drug pipeline is going to be slow, I’m afraid,” the CDC director, Tom Frieden, told NBC’s Meet the Press.

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