time

Roget-categorie 106

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.6. Time
›› 1.6.1. Absolute time

#106. Time

zelfstandig naamwoord

time, duration — period, term, stage, space, span, spell, season — the whole time, the whole period — space-time — course etc. 109 — snap.
intermediate time, while, interim, interval, pendency^† — intervention, intermission, intermittence, interregnum, interlude — respite.
era, epoch — time of life, age, year, date — decade etc. (period) 108 — moment, etc. (instant) 113.
glass of time, sands of time, march of time, Father Time, ravages of time — arrow of time — river of time, whirligig of time, noiseless foot of time — scythe.

werkwoord

continue last endure, go on, remain, persist — intervene — elapse etc. 109 — hold out.
take time, take up time, fill time, occupy time.
pass time, pass away time, spend time, while away time, consume time, talk against time — tide over — use time, employ time — seize an opportunity etc. 134 — waste time etc. (be inactive) 683.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

continuing etc. v. — on foot — permanent etc. (durable) 110.

bijwoord

while, whilst, during, pending — during the time, during the interval — in the course of, at that point, at that point in time — for the time being, day by day — in the time of, when — meantime, meanwhile — in the meantime, in the interim — ad interim, pendente lite [Lat.] — de die in diem [Lat.] — from day to day, from hour to hour &c. — hourly, always — for a time, for a season — till, until, up to, yet, as far as, by that time, so far, hereunto, heretofore, prior to this, up to this point.
the whole time, all the time — all along — throughout etc. (completely) 52 — for good etc. (diuturnity) 110.
hereupon, thereupon, whereupon — then — anno Domini, A.
D. — ante Christum, A.
C. — before Christ, B.
C. — anno urbis conditae [Lat.], A.
U.C. — anno regni [Lat.], A.
R. — once upon a time, one fine morning, one fine day, one day, once.

uitdrukking

time flies, tempus fugit [Lat.] — time runs out, time runs against, race against time, racing the clock, time marches on, time is of the essence, time and tide wait for no man.
" ad calendas Groecas [Lat.] — panting Time toileth after him in vain" [Johnson]; 'gainst the tooth of time and razure of 'gainst the tooth of time and razure of oblivion [Contr.]" [Measure for Measure]; rich with the spoils of time" [Gray]; tempus edax rerum [Lat.] [Horace]; the long hours come and go" [C.G. Rossetti]; the time is out of joint" [Hamlet]; Time rolls his ceaseless course" [Scott]; Time the foe of man's dominion" [Peacock]; time wasted is existence, used is life" [Young]; truditur dies die [Lat.] [Horace]; volat hora per orbem [Lat.] [Lucretius]; carpe diem [Lat.].

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