English-Dutch translations for time

• tijd
  De Commissie zou van tijd tot tijd meer het voortouw kunnen nemen. From time to time it could be more pro-active.
  Onze tijd is een tijd van onderlinge afhankelijkheid.Ours is the time of interdependence.
  Doeltreffendheid betekent dat de hulp op tijd moet zijn. To be effective, aid must arrive at the right time.
• chronometreren
• keer
  De Europese Unie bepaalde keer op keer de agenda. The EU set the agenda time and again.
  Hij heeft dit niet één keer gezegd, maar wel vijf keer! He did not say it once, he said it five times!
  Hopelijk zal ik dit keer beter presteren dan de vorige keer. Hopefully, I will perform better this time than last time.
• klokken
• maal
  Een maal ging hij negen keer over. One of them even rang nine times.
  U hebt anderhalf maal uw spreektijd gebruikt. You exceeded your speaking time by 50%.
  EGNOS is tien maal nauwkeuriger dan GPS. EGNOS is 10 times more accurate than GPS.
• maat
  Het is tijd dat we zeggen: de maat is vol! It is time that we said: No more!
• timen
  Wij zijn ook bezig met een onderzoek naar de wijze waarop wij de GBVB-instrumenten, zoals de politieke dialoog, kunnen aanpassen om ze hechter en flexibeler te maken en beter te timen. We are also examining how CFSP instruments such as political dialogue can be adapted so that they are more robust, flexible and timely.

Definition of time

• The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past
• A duration of time
• An instant of time
• The measurement under some system of region of day or moment
• Ratio of comparison
• Tense
• The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division
• To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of
• To choose when something begins or how long it lasts
• To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time
• To pass time; to delay
• To measure, as in music or harmony
• A call by a bartender to warn patrons that the establishment is closing and no more drinks will be served

Examples

• Time stops for nobody.   the ebb and flow of time
• Both science-fiction writers and physicists have written about travel through time
• Time slows down when you approach the speed of light
• An essential definition of time should entail neither speed nor direction, just change
• More time is needed to complete the project.   You had plenty of time, but you waited until the last minute.   Are you finished yet? Time’s up!
• a long time;  Record the individual times for the processes in each batch.   Only your best time is compared with the other competitors.   The algorithm runs in O(n2) time
• The judge leniently granted a sentence with no hard time.   He is not living at home because he is doing time
• We had a wonderful time at the party
• Roman times;  the time of the dinosaurs
• In my time, we respected our elders
• Excuse me, have you got the time?   What time is it, do you guess? Ten o’clock?   A computer keeps time using a clock battery
• it’s time for bed;  it’s time to sleep;  we must wait for the right time;  its time we were going
• at what times do the trains arrive?;  these times were erroneously converted between zones
• When was the last time we went out? I don’t remember
• see you another time;  that’s three times he’s made the same mistake
• Okay, but this is the last time. No more after that!
• Last call: its almost time
• It was his time.
• Lets synchronize our watches so were not on different time
• your car runs three times faster than mine;  that is four times as heavy as this
• the time of a verb
• common or triple time;   the musician keeps good time
• I used a stopwatch to time myself running around the block.
• The President timed his speech badly, coinciding with the Super Bowl.
• The bomb was timed to explode at 9:20 p.m.

Related words

• on time
• on-time