verb
- Measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time.
- usage: "he clocked the runners"
- Assign a time for an activity or event.
- usage: "The candidate carefully timed his appearance at the disaster scene"
- synonyms: time
- Set the speed, duration, or execution of.
- usage: "we time the process to manufacture our cars very precisely"
- synonyms: time
- Regulate or set the time of.
- usage: "time the clock"
- synonyms: time
- Adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time.
- usage: "The good player times his swing so as to hit the ball squarely"
- synonyms: time
adjective
- Regularly spaced in time.
- usage: "closely timed intervals"
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