dale tiempo al tiempo

Phonetic: "/tɑem/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.

Example: Time stops for nobody.   the ebb and flow of time

Definition: A duration of time.

Definition: An instant of time.

Definition: The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.

Example: Let's synchronize our watches so we're not on different time.

Definition: Ratio of comparison.

Example: your car runs three times faster than mine;  that is four times as heavy as this

Definition: (grammar) Tense.

Example: the time of a verb

Definition: The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division.

Example: common or triple time;   the musician keeps good time.

Phonetic: "/tɑem/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of.

Example: I used a stopwatch to time myself running around the block.

Definition: To choose when something begins or how long it lasts.

Example: The President timed his speech badly, coinciding with the Super Bowl.

Definition: To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.

Definition: To pass time; to delay.

Definition: To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.

Definition: To measure, as in music or harmony.

Phonetic: "/tɑem/"

Part Of Speech: interjection

Definition: Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause.

Definition: The umpire's call in prizefights, etc.

Definition: A call by a bartender to warn patrons that the establishment is closing and no more drinks will be served.

Phonetic: "/wɪl/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: (now uncommon or literary) To wish, desire (something).

Example: Do what you will.

Definition: (nowadays rare) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).

Definition: (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action).

Definition: (auxiliary) To choose to (do something); used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive), often in negation.

Example: I’ve told him three times, but he won’t take his medicine.

Definition: (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall.

Definition: (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to.

Example: Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand.

Definition: (auxiliary) Expressing a present tense with some conditional or subjective weakening: "will turn out to", "must by inference".

Phonetic: "/tɛl/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold.

Definition: That which is told; a tale or account.

Definition: A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.

Phonetic: "/tɛl/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: (archaic outside of idioms) To count, reckon, or enumerate.

Example: All told, there were over a dozen.  Can you tell time on a clock?  He had untold wealth.

Definition: To narrate.

Example: I want to tell a story;  I want to tell you a story.

Definition: To convey by speech; to say.

Example: Finally, someone told him the truth.  He seems to like to tell lies.

Definition: To instruct or inform.

Example: Please tell me how to do it.

Definition: To order; to direct, to say to someone.

Example: Tell him to go away.

Definition: To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.

Example: Can you tell whether those flowers are real or silk, from this distance?  No, there's no way to tell.

Definition: To reveal.

Example: Time will tell what became of him.

Definition: To be revealed.

Definition: To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.

Example: Sir Gerald was moving slower; his wounds were beginning to tell.

Definition: To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer.

Definition: To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.

Example: I saw you steal those sweets! I'm going to tell!

Definition: (authorship) To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement -- contrasted with show

Example: Maria rewrote the section of her novel that talked about Meg and Sage's friendship to have less telling and more showing.