times

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English

Pronunciation

Noun

times pl

  1. Plural form of time
  2. The circumstances of a certain time.
    Modern times are so very different from the past.
  3. A person's experiences or biography.
    The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter

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Preposition

times

  1. Product of the previous number and the following number.
    Four times five is twenty.
    One times one is one.

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Verb

times

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of time.

Verb

times (third-person singular simple present timeses, present participle timesing, simple past and past participle timesed)

  1. (informal, arithmetic) To multiply.
    • 1994, Harvey Mellar, Learning with artificial worlds: computer-based modelling in the curriculum
      I've taken the calories and the amount of food . . . and it's 410 calories per portion timesed by 6 portions which [sic] the answer was 2460 calories...
    • 1995, Mathematical Association, The Australian mathematics teacher, Volumes 51-53
      A student as junior as Year 4 informed me that he made a forward estimate of cheeses in 100 trials by 'timesing both numbers by 10'...
    • 1998, Psychology of mathematics education, Volume 2
      Alex: Yeah - if you're timesing that distance there by this height, it will disappear.

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Danish

Noun

times c

  1. genitive singular indefinite of time

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Latin

Verb

timēs

  1. second-person singular present active indicative of timeō
    1. "you fear"
    2. "you are afraid"

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Spanish

Verb

times (infinitive timar)

  1. Informal second-person singular () negative imperative form of timar.
  2. Informal second-person singular () present subjunctive form of timar.
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