timeline

See also: time-line and time line

English

Alternative forms

• time line, time-line

Etymology

From time +‎ line.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪmˌlaɪn/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

timeline (plural timelines)

1. A graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events (past or future).

   Synonym: chronology

   Antonym: timepoint

   Coordinate terms: timespan, time frame

   • 2015, “Energy”, in If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, performed by Drake:

     I got bitches askin' me about the code for the Wi-Fi / So they can talk about they timeline / And show me pictures of they friends

   • 2023 February 8, Andrew Mourant, “A serious shuttle service with options to Taunton and beyond”, in RAIL, number 976, page 31:

     But, as things stand, there's no timeline in place for reopening.

2. A schedule of activities; a timetable.

   Synonyms: schedule, timetable

3. (originally science fiction) An individual universe or reality, especially a parallel/alternate one in which events differ from actual history, or differ from the established canon of a fictional world.

   Synonyms: timestream, time track

   on an alternate timeline

   • 1997 May 5, Children of Time (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), season 5, number 22 (Science Fiction), Paramount Domestic Television, →OCLC:

     SISKO: I don't quite know how to say this... but now that we know about the accident that sent the ship back in time, we should be able to avoid it.
     WORF: Well if we do that, your timeline will collapse and everything here will cease to exist.

   • 2025 May 16, Ezra Klein, “Is Trump Losing? A Debate.”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     So in that sense, if we want to talk about the timeline of what it would mean for Trump to be winning and reshifting the Constitutional order, part of what I think about is: If the neoliberal order is cracked, as Gerstle says it is, then the question is: What will succeed it?

Derived terms

• alternate timeline
• alternative timeline
• darkest timeline
• timeline therapy
• worst timeline

Related terms

• timeliness

Translations

graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events

• Albanian: kalendari historik
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 年表 (zh) (niánbiǎo), 時間軸 / 时间轴 (zh) (shíjiānzhóu), (historical) 歷史年表 / 历史年表 (lìshǐ niánbiǎo)

• Czech: časová osa
• Dutch: tijdlijn (nl)
• Estonian: ajatelg
• Finnish: aikajana (fi)
• French: frise chronologique (fr) f, ligne du temps f
• Galician: cronoloxía f
• German: Zeittafel f, Zeitleiste f, zeitliche Abfolge f, Zeitstrahl m
• Greek: χρονολόγιο (el) n (chronológio), χρονοδιάγραμμα (el) n (chronodiágramma)
• Hungarian: idővonal
• Icelandic: tímaás m
• Indonesian: garis waktu (id), linimasa
• Italian: linea temporale f, linea del tempo f, cronologia (it) f
• Japanese: 年表 (ja) (ねんぴょう, nenpyō), 年譜 (ja) (ねんぷ, nenpu)
• Khmer: រេខាកាល (reikʰaa kaal)
• Maori: rārangi wā
• Polish: oś czasu f
• Portuguese: linha do tempo (pt) f, cronologia (pt) f
• Russian: временна́я шкала́ f (vremennája škalá), календа́рный гра́фик m (kalendárnyj gráfik), шкала́ вре́мени f (škalá vrémeni), хронологи́ческая диагра́мма f (xronologíčeskaja diagrámma)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: временска црта f

  Roman: vremenska crta f

• Spanish: cronología (es) f, línea de tiempo (es) f., línea temporal f

schedule of activities

• Czech: rozvrh (cs) m
• Finnish: aikataulu (fi), ohjelma (fi)
• French: horaire (fr) m, chronologie (fr), planning (fr) m
• Galician: calendario (gl) m
• German: Zeitschiene f
• Greek: χρονοδιάγραμμα (el) n (chronodiágramma), πρόγραμμα (el) n (prógramma)
• Khmer: បន្ទាត់ពេលវេលា (bɑntoat peel veelie)
• Maori: rārangi wā
• Portuguese: cronograma (pt) m
• Russian: расписание (ru) n (raspisanije), распорядок (ru) m (rasporjadok)
• Serbo-Croatian: vremenski raspored m
• Spanish: agenda (es) f, calendario (es) m, cronograma (es) m

Verb

timeline (third-person singular simple present timelines, present participle timelining, simple past and past participle timelined)

1. To analyse a sequence of events or activities.
2. To display such a sequence graphically.

Anagrams

• ilmenite, line item, melinite, menilite

Spanish

Noun

timeline f (plural timelines)

1. timeline