TIME and Telling Time

1. Time

2. Time Periods or a period of designated for a given activity. Example: Time for bed Periods or period necessary for available for a given activity. Example: I have no time for golf

3. Time A period at one's disposal: Do you have time for a chat?

4. Time One of several instances: knocked three times; addressed Congress for the last time before retirement.

5. Time One's lifetime.

6. Time One's period of greatest activity or engagement.

7. Time A person's experience during a specific period or on a certain occasion: had a good time at the party.

8. TIME A period of military service.

9. TIME A period of apprenticeship.

10. TIME Informal. A prison sentence.

11. Time The customary period of work: hired for full time.

12. Time The period spent working.

13. TIME The hourly pay rate: earned double time on Sundays.

14. Time The period during which a radio or television program or commercial is broadcast: "There's television time to buy."

15. Time The rate of speed of a measured activity: marching in double time.

16. Time The meter of a musical pattern: three-quarter time.

17. Time The rate of speed at which a piece of music is played; the tempo.

18. Time Sports. A time-out.

19. Time Of, relating to, or measuring time.

20. TIME Constructed so as to operate at a particular moment: a time release.

21. TIME Payable on a future date or dates.

22. Time Of or relating to installment buying: time payment.

23. Time v., timed, tim·ing, times. To set the time for (an event or occasion).

24. Time To adjust to keep accurate time.

25. Time sired time: timed hiswTo adjust so that a force is applied or an action occurs at the desired time: timed his swing so as to hit the ball squarely.ing so as to hit the ball squarely.

26. Time To record the speed or duration of: time a runner.

27. Time To set or maintain the tempo, speed, or duration of: time a manufacturing process.

30. Telling Time A digital clock is a type of clock that displays the time digitally, i.e. in cyphers, as opposed to an analog clock, where the time is displayed by hands.

31. Telling time Most digital clocks display the hour of the day in 24 hour format; in the United States and a few other countries, a more commonly used hour sequence is 12 hour format (with some indication of AM or PM).

32. Telling Time Because digital clocks can be very small and inexpensive devices that enhance the popularity of product designs, they are often incorporated into all kinds of devices such as cars, radios, televisions, microwave ovens, standard ovens, computers and cell phones.

33. Telling Time A digital clock's display changing numbers. To represent the time, most digital clocks use a seven-segmentLED, VFD, or LCD display for each of four digits.

34. Telling Time A premium digital clock radio with digital tuning. A basic digital clock radio with analog tuning.

35. Telling Time In electronic devices where the clock is not a critical function, often they are not set at all, displaying the default after powered on, 00:00 or 12:00.

36. Telling Time Sometimes their usefulness is disputed: a common complaint is that when time has to be set to Daylight Saving Time, many household clocks have to be readjusted.

37. Telling Time Analog clock represents time by the position of hands on a dial.

38. Telling Time Analog clock is an instrument other than a watch for measuring or indicating time, especially a mechanical or electronic device having a numbered dial and moving hands or a digital display.

39. Telling Time Analog clock is a source of regularly occurring pulses used to measure the passage of time, as in a computer.

40. Telling Time v., clocked, clock·ing, clocks. v.tr. To time, as with a stopwatch: clock a runner. To register or record with a mechanical device: clocked the winds at 60 miles per hour.

41. Telling Time Second hand on a clock n.The hand on a clock or watch that marks the seconds.second hand2n.An intermediary person or source: heard the news at second hand.

42. Telling Time Hour Hand on a Clockn.The short hand on a clock or watch that indicates hours. -----------------------------

43. Telling Time Minute Hand on a Clock n.The long hand on a clock or watch that indicates minutes. -----------------------------------------

44. TELLING TIME Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words. The noun has one meaning: Meaning #1: points to the minutes Synonym: big hand

45. Telling Time For Fun Who came up with the clock? Before pendulum clocks were invented, Peter Henlein of Germany invented a spring-powered clock around 1510. It was not very precise. The first clock with a minute hand was invented by JostBurgi in 1577

46. Telling Time More Fun The History of Clocks The history of clocks is very long, and there have been many different types of clocks over the centuries. Not all historians agree on the history of the clock. The word clock was first used in the 14th century (about 700 years ago). It comes from the word for bell in Latin ("clocca").

47. Telling Time Using the Sun The first way that people could tell the time was by looking at the sun as it crossed the sky. When the sun was directly overhead in the sky, was the middle of the day, or noon.

48. Telling Time When the sun was close to the horizon, it was either early morning (sunrise) or early evening (sunset). Telling the time was not very accurate.

49. Telling Time Sundial Clocks The oldest type of clock is a sundial clock, also called a sun clock. They were first used around 3,500 B.C. (about 5,500 years ago). Sundials use the sun to tell the time.

50. Telling Time The shadow of the sun points to a number on a circular disk that shows you the time. In the big picture below on the right, the shadow created by the sun points to 9, so it is nine o'clock.

51. Telling Time Since sundials depend on the sun, they can only be used to tell the time during the day. To learn more about sundials, you can go here.