patch
while
piece
spell
some time
time
life
superorbital
two weeks
hourlong
space
fortnight
time scale
hot minute
helek
month
unit of time
time unit
short-term
hot
duration
jiffy
hebdomad
livelong
era
little
week
comma
postconvalescence
second
brief
small
minute
anomalistic month
oftenness
frequence
epoch
frequency
distance
prime
subperiod
time frame
standing
phase
stage
period of time
circahoralian
eigenperiod
all
slot
term
clock
subsecond
moment
ahemeral
at a stretch
unit interval
chronosemic
at a time
tract
monther
of
interpleniglacial
tide
temporary
day
just a second
ghurree
subphase
timespan
day in day out
day after day
time period
durationally
long measure
short-run
uncertain period
output
eyeblink
short
overnight
latency
augmented sixth
subfemtosecond
phaseal
outturn
achronological
blink of an eye
prolepsis
stanza
superorbital
hourlong
short-term
hot
livelong
brief
little
small
circahoralian
subsecond
ahemeral
chronosemic
interpleniglacial
temporary
short-run
short
subfemtosecond
phaseal
achronological
at a stretch
day in day out
day after day
durationally
overnight
patch
while
piece
spell
some time
time
life
two weeks
space
fortnight
time scale
hot minute
helek
month
unit of time
time unit
duration
jiffy
hebdomad
era
little
week
comma
postconvalescence
second
minute
anomalistic month
oftenness
frequence
epoch
frequency
distance
prime
subperiod
time frame
standing
phase
stage
period of time
eigenperiod
slot
term
moment
unit interval
tract
monther
tide
day
just a second
ghurree
subphase
timespan
time period
long measure
uncertain period
output
eyeblink
latency
augmented sixth
outturn
blink of an eye
prolepsis
stanza
clock
noun
- a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition
- a small contrasting part of something
- a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
- a piece of cloth used as decoration or to mend or cover a hole
- a short set of commands to correct a bug in a computer program
- a connection intended to be used for a limited time
- sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment)
- a protective cloth covering for an injured eye
- a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body
verb
noun
- a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition
- a separate part of a whole
- an item that is an instance of some type
- a portion of a natural object
- a musical work that has been created
- an instance of some kind
- an artistic or literary composition
- a portable gun
- a serving that has been cut from a larger portion
- a distance
- a work of art of some artistic value
- a share of something
- game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games
verb
noun
- an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities)
- an instance or single occasion for some event
- a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something
- a suitable moment
- the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
- a person's experience on a particular occasion
- a reading of a point in time as given by a clock
- the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
- rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
- the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned
verb
noun
- A particular phase or period of existence.
- A life sentence; a period of imprisonment that lasts until the convict's death (or, sometimes, parole).
- An opportunity for existence.
- A worthwhile existence.
- The state of organisms preceding their death, characterized by biological processes such as metabolism and reproduction and distinguishing them from inanimate objects; the state of being alive and living.
- The span of time during which an object operates.
- The most lively component or participant.
- Nature, reality, and the forms that exist in it.
- The period of time during which an object is recognizable.
- Animation; spirit; vivacity.
- A biography.
- One of the player's chances to play, lost when the player's character dies or when certain mistakes are made.
- A chance for the batter (or batting team) to bat again, given as a result of an misplay by a member of the fielding team.
- Social life.
- Something which is inherently part of a person's existence, such as job, family, a loved one, etc.
- A particular aspect of existence.
- The status possessed by any of a number of entities, including animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and sometimes viruses, which have the properties of replication and metabolism.
- The animating principle or force that keeps an inorganic thing or concept metaphorically alive (dynamic, relevant, etc) and makes it a "living document", "living constitution", etc.
- The period during which one (a person, an animal, a plant; a civilization, species; a star; etc) is alive.
- Lifeforms, generally or collectively.
- A period extending from a when a (positive or negative) office, punishment, etc is conferred on someone until that person dies (or, sometimes, reaches retirement age).
- One of a player's chances to play in various children's playground games, lost when a mistake is made, for example being struck by the ball in dodgeball.
- The life insurance industry.
- A life assured under a life assurance policy (equivalent to the policy itself for a single life contract).
- Existence.
- A living individual; the fact of a particular individual being alive. (Chiefly when indicating individuals were lost (died) or saved.)
verb
noun
- An undefined period of time (without qualifier, especially a short period); a while.
- A specific (specified) period of time.
- A (chiefly empty) area or volume with set limits or boundaries.
- Physical extent across two or three dimensions (sometimes for or to do something).
- A set of points, each of which is uniquely specified by a number (the dimensionality) of coordinates.
- A field, area, or sphere of activity or endeavour.
- A gap; an empty place.
- A piece of metal type used to separate words, cast lower than other type so as not to take ink, especially one that is narrower than one en (compare quad).
- The physical and psychological area one needs within which to live or operate; personal freedom.
- Distance between things.
- A generalized construct or set whose members have some property in common; typically there will be a geometric metaphor allowing these members to be viewed as "points". Often used with a restricting modifier describing the members (e.g. vector space), or indicating the inventor of the construct (e.g. Hilbert space).
- The near-vacuum in which planets, stars and other celestial objects are situated; the universe beyond the earth's atmosphere.
- A position on the staff or stave bounded by lines.
- Physical extent in all directions, seen as an attribute of the universe (now usually considered as a part of space-time), or a mathematical model of this.
- A gap in text between words, lines etc., or a digital character used to create such a gap.
- Anything analogous to a physical space in which one can interact, such as an online chat room.
verb
adj
- Used to emphasize the short duration or small quantity of something
- Stolen.
- Not covered by funds on account.
- Extremely fast or with great speed.
- Sexually aroused; randy.
- Very good, remarkable, exciting.
- Feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort.
- Feverish.
- Of great current interest; provoking current debate or controversy.
- Very physically and/or sexually attractive.
- Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
- Sexual or sexy; involving sexual intercourse or sexual excitement.
- Popular; in demand.
- Easily provoked to anger.
- Uncomfortable, difficult to deal with; awkward, dangerous, unpleasant.
- Fresh; just released.
- Having or giving off a high temperature.
- Characterized by police presence or activity.
- Very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed.
- Spicy, pungent, piquant, as some chilis and other spices are.
- Loud, producing a strong electric signal for the amplifier.
- Extremely attracted to.
- Electrically charged.
- Radioactive.
- Performing strongly; having repeated successes.
adv
verb
noun
- An amount of time or a particular time interval.
- The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the current war
- A measure of the sensitivity of the price of a financial asset to changes in interest rates, computed for a simple bond as a weighted average of the maturities of the interest and principal payments associated with it.
noun
- A very short, unspecified length of time.
- The time taken for light to travel a specified distance in a vacuum, usually one centimetre, but sometimes one foot or the width of a nucleon.
- A unit of time defined by the frequency of its basic timer – historically, and by convention, 0.01 of a second, but some computer operating systems use other values.
- The length of an alternating current power cycle (1/60 or 1/50 of a second).
noun
- A brief interval.
- A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
- In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
- The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
- A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
- A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
verb
noun
- A short, indeterminate amount of time.
- The agent of a party to an honour dispute whose role was to try to resolve the dispute or to make the necessary arrangements for a duel.
- An additional helping of food.
- Something that is number two in a series.
- A second-class honours degree.
- One-sixtieth of a minute; the SI unit of time, defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest.
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
- The interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale (either or both of them may be raised or lowered from the basic scale via any type of accidental).
- A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.
- Second base.
- Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.
- One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc.
- A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.)
- The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.
- A Cub Scout appointed to assist the sixer.
- The second gear of an engine.
- One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.
adj
- Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.
- Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
- Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another.
verb
- To climb after a lead climber.
- To assist or support; to back.
- To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See under [[#Etymology 3]] for translations.)
- To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from the English adjective above.)
- To accompany by singing as the second performer.
- To follow in the next place; to succeed.
- To transfer temporarily to alternative employment.
adv
adj
- Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
- Young, as a child.
- Humiliated or insignificant.
- Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written or printed letters.
- Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.
- That is small (the manufactured size).
- Evincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
- Synonym of little (“of an industry or institution(s) therein: operating on a small scale, unlike larger counterparts”)
noun
- Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.
- One who fits an item of that size.
- One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured.
- An item labelled or denoted as being that size.
verb
adv
noun
- A short but unspecified time period.
- A while or a long unspecified period of time
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
- An old coin, a half farthing.
- A nautical or a geographic mile.
- A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
- A point in time; a moment.
- A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).
- A fixed part of a module.
- A unit of purchase on a telephone or other similar network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.
adj
verb
noun
- a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
- (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded
- a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages
noun
- Length or interval of time.
- Remoteness of place; a remote place.
- The space measured back from the winning-post which a racehorse running in a heat must reach when the winner has covered the whole course, in order to run in the final heat.
- A withholding of intimacy; alienation; variance.
- The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness.
- A space marked out in the last part of a racecourse.
- The amount of space between two points, usually geographical points, usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
- The entire amount of progress to an objective.
- Remoteness in succession or relation.
- The difference; the subjective measure between two quantities.
verb
noun
- An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.
- Six consecutive blocks, which prevent the opponent's pieces from passing.
- A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.
- The symbol ′ used to indicate feet, minutes, derivation and other measures and mathematical operations.
- The religious service appointed to this hour.
- The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
- A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.
- A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
- The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
- The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
- The chief or best individual or part.
- The first note or tone of a musical scale.
- An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points.
verb
- To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).
- To mark with a prime mark.
- To apply a coat of primer paint to.
- To prepare a mechanism for its main work.
- To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
- To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed.
- To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to coach.
adj
- First in time, order, or sequence.
- Having its complement closed under multiplication: said only of ideals.
- First in excellence, quality, or value.
- Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
- Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.
- Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
- First in importance, degree, or rank.
- Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.
noun
- Duration.
- The act of a person who stands, or a place where someone stands.
- Position or reputation in society or a profession.
- The position of a team in a league or of a player in a list.
- The right of a party to bring a legal action, based on the relationship between that party and the matter to which the action relates.
- Room in which to park a vehicle or vehicles
adj
noun
- any distinct time period in a sequence of events
- (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary
- a particular point in the time of a cycle; measured from some arbitrary zero and expressed as an angle
- (astronomy) the particular appearance of a body's state of illumination (especially one of the recurring shapes of the part of Earth's moon that is illuminated by the sun)
verb
noun
- any distinct time period in a sequence of events
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
- a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience
- the theater as a profession (usually `the stage')
- a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns
- a section or portion of a journey or course
- any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something
- a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination
verb
det
- Throughout the whole of (a stated period of time; generally used with units of a day or longer).
- Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or uncountable).
- Only; alone; nothing but.
adv
pron
- The only thing(s).
- Used after who, what, where, how and similar words, either without changing their meaning, or indicating that one expects that they cover more than one element, e.g. that "who all attended" is more than one person. (Some dialects only allow this to follow some words and not others.)
- Everything.
- Everyone.
adj
noun
noun
- A period of time within a schedule or sequence.
- The inside of the "rim" or semicircular copy desk, occupied by the supervisor of the copy editors.
- A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.
- The vagina.
- A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
- The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.
- A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.
- A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.
- A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line.
- A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.
- A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece.
- An implement for barring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.
- The barrel or tube of a wave.
- A slot machine designed for gambling.
- The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side.
- In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
- The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
verb
- To kick the ball between the posts for a goal; to score a goal by doing this.
- To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.
- To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence)
- To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture)
- To create a slot (narrow aperture or groove), as for example by cutting or machining.
- To put something where it belongs.
- To kill.
noun
- a limited period of time
- a word or expression used for some particular thing
- (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement
- any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial
- one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition
- the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent
- (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome
verb
verb
- To measure the duration of.
- To measure the speed of.
- To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
- To identify someone as being transgender.
- To take notice of; to realise; to recognize someone or something.
- To beat a video game.
- To hit (someone) heavily.
- To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
noun
- The odometer of a motor vehicle.
- A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
- An instrument that measures or keeps track of time; a non-wearable timepiece.
- A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.
- A time clock.
- The seed head of a dandelion.
- A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.
- An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
- A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
- A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).
noun
- A definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of a point, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth of an hour.
- Weight or importance.
- A fit; a brief tantrum.
- The smallest portion of time; an instant.
- A brief, unspecified amount of time.
- A quantitative measure of the shape of a set of points.
- A petit mal episode; such a spell.
- (As in "X moment") An embarrassing event, supposed to be characteristic of some person, group, or situation.
- An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement.
noun
- Continued or protracted duration, length, extent
- Part of the proper of the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations, used instead of the alleluia during Lenten or pre-Lenten seasons, in a Requiem Mass, and on a few other penitential occasions.
- A series of connected body organs, such as the digestive tract.
- A commentator's view or perspective on a subject.
- A brief treatise or discourse on a subject.
- An area or expanse.
- A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.
prep
- Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.
- Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.
- Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.
- Indicates a quality or characteristic; "characterized by".
- Often used without the hour
- Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).
- Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.
- Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.
- Introduces its subject matter; about, concerning.
- Indicates a given part.
- Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-matter; concerning, with regard to.
- Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
- Used to indicate the material or substance used.
- Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.}}
- Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.
- Denotes the number of minutes before the hour;Before (the hour); to.
- During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
- From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
- Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation; from, out of, as an expression of.
- Indicates the source or cause of the verb.
- Introducing an epithet that indicates a birthplace, residence, dominion, or other place associated with the individual.
- Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).
- Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.
- Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second; "which is also".
- Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment; "from among".
- Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
- Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this intersects with the subjective genitive, above under "agency" senses.)
- Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.
- Forming the "objective genitive".
- Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.
- Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.
- Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.
- Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives modified by certain common adverbs of degree.
- Introduces its subject matter.
- For (a given length of time).
- Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase (see also 'Possession' senses below).}}
noun
- The period of twelve hours.
- Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
- The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon.
- Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
- A stream, current or flood.
verb
noun
- a point or period in time
- time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
- a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance
- the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside
- the recurring hours when you are not sleeping (especially those when you are working)
- an era of existence or influence
- the period of time taken by a particular planet (e.g. Mars) to make a complete rotation on its axis
- the time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar day
- a period of opportunity
noun
noun
adj
- primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
- (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
- low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal
- (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
- not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices
- of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration
noun
- the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
- accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
adj
- of insufficient quantity to meet a need
- less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
- lacking foresight or scope
- tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening
- marked by rude or peremptory shortness
verb
adv
adv
- In a very short (but unspecified) amount of time.
- During or throughout the night, especially during the evening or night just past.
verb
noun
- An overnight stay, especially in a hotel or other lodging facility.
- Viewership ratings for a television show that are published the morning after it is broadcast, and may be revised later on.
- Items delivered or completed overnight.
adj
noun
- A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
- The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
- Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.
- A stage in Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory of the psychosexual development of children where children become asexual until their sexual desires come back at puberty.
- Dormancy; the state of being inactive.
noun
- The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it.
- Growth in which lateral branches develop from a lateral meristem, after the formation of a bud or following a period of dormancy, when the lateral meristem is split from a terminal meristem.
- A construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.
- The anticipation of an objection to an argument.
- A so-called "preconception", i.e. a pre-theoretical notion which can lead to true knowledge of the world.
- The practice of placing information about the ending of a story near the beginning, as a literary device.
noun
- A period; an interval into which a sporting event is divided.
- An XML element which acts as basic unit of meaning in XMPP.
- An apartment or division in a building.
- A segment; a portion of a broadcast devoted to a particular topic.
- A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.
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