You can make 14 words from time according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
All 4 letters words made out of time
time itme tmie mtie imte mite tiem item teim etim ietm eitm tmei mtei temi etmi meti emti imet miet iemt eimt meit emit
Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word time. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in time.
Definitions and meaning of time
time
Alternative forms
tyme(obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle Englishtyme, time, from Old Englishtīma(“time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favourable time, opportunity”), from Proto-West Germanic*tīmō, from Proto-Germanic*tīmô(“time”), from Proto-Indo-European*deh₂imō, from Proto-Indo-European*deh₂y-(“to divide”). Cognate with Scotstym, tyme(“time”), Alemannic GermanZimen, Zīmmän(“time, time of the year, opportune time, opportunity”), Danishtime(“hour, lesson”), Swedishtimme(“hour”), Norwegiantime(“lesson, hour”), Faroesetími(“hour, lesson, time”), Icelandictími(“time, season”). Related to tide. Not related to Latintempus.
Pronunciation
(Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: tīm, IPA(key): /taɪm/, [tʰaɪ̯m]
(General Australian) IPA(key): /tɑɪm/, [tʰɑe̯m]
(Can we verify(+) this pronunciation?)(Tasmanian) IPA(key): /tɜːm/
Homophone: thyme
Rhymes: -aɪm
Noun
time (countable and uncountable, pluraltimes)
(uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
Synonyms:see Thesaurus:time
(physics, usually uncountable) A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
(physics, uncountable) Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.
2015, Highfield, Arrow Of Time, Random House →ISBN
Given the connection between increasing entropy and the arrow of time, does the Big Crunch mean that time would run backwards as soon as collapse began?
(physics, uncountable, reductionist definition) The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.
A duration of time.
(uncountable) A quantity of availability of duration.
(countable) A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
(uncountable, slang) The serving of a prison sentence.
(countable) An experience.
(countable) An era; (with the, sometimes in the plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.
(uncountable, with possessive) A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
(only in singular, sports and figuratively) Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.
An instant of time.
(uncountable) The duration of time of a given day that has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.
(countable) A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).
(countable) A numerical indication of a particular moment.
(countable) An instance or occurrence.
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
One more time.
(UK, in public houses) Closing time.
The hour of childbirth.
(as someone's time) The end of someone's life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined.
It was his time.
(countable) The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
(countable) A ratio of comparison.
(grammar, dated) A tense.
(music) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division.
(slang, MLE)Clipping of a long time.
Synonyms:ages, long
Usage notes
For the number of occurrences and the ratio of comparison, once and twice are typically used instead of one time and two times. Thrice is uncommon but not obsolescent, and is still common in Indian English.
Typical collocations with time or time expressions.
spend - To talk about the length of time of an activity.
- We spent a long time driving along the motorway.
- I've spent most of my life working here. (Time expression)
take - To talk about the length of time of an activity.
- It took a long time to get to the front of the queue. See also - take one's time
- It only takes five minutes to get to the shop from here. (Time expression)
- How long does it take to do that? (Time expression)
waste - see waste time
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Descendants
Sranan Tongo: ten
Translations
Verb
time (third-person singular simple presenttimes, present participletiming, simple past and past participletimed)
(transitive) To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of something.
I used a stopwatch to time myself running around the block.
(transitive) To choose when something commences or its duration.
The President timed his speech badly, coinciding with the Super Bowl.
The bomb was timed to explode at 9:20 p.m.
(obsolete) To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
(obsolete) To pass time; to delay.
To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
To measure, as in music or harmony.
Synonyms
(to measure time):clock
(to choose the time for):set
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
Interjection
time
(tennis)Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause.
The umpire's call in prizefights, etc.
A call by a bartender to warn patrons that the establishment is closing and no more drinks will be served.
See also
calendar
temporal
Timese
References
time on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading
Time in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Time (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
METI, emit, it me, item, mite
Danish
Etymology 1
From Old Norsetími, from Proto-Germanic*tīmô(“time”), cognate with Swedishtimme, Englishtime. From Proto-Indo-European*deh₂y-, specifically Proto-Indo-European*deh₂imō. The Germanic noun *tīdiz(“time”) is derived from the same root.