1. selection for maximum effect of a particular moment for doing something; scheduling; synchronization; observation and recording of time. timing the time when something happens.
2. the time when something happens.
3. Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof.
4. A particular period or part of duration, whether past, present, or future; a point or portion of duration; as, the time was, or has been; the time is, or will be.
5. The period at which any definite event occurred, or person lived; age; period; era; as, the Spanish Armada was destroyed in the time of Queen Elizabeth; often in the plural; as, ancient times; modern times.
6. The duration of one's life; the hours and days which a person has at his disposal.
7. A proper time; a season; an opportunity.
8. Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition.
9. Performance or occurrence of an action or event, considered with reference to repetition; addition of a number to itself; repetition; as, to double cloth four times; four times four, or sixteen.
10. The present life; existence in this world as contrasted with immortal life; definite, as contrasted with infinite, duration.
11. Tense.
12. The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division; as, common or triple time; the musician keeps good time.
13. To appoint the time for; to bring, begin, or perform at the proper season or time; as, he timed his appearance rightly.
14. To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
15. To ascertain or record the time, duration, or rate of; as, to time the speed of horses, or hours for workmen.
16. To measure, as in music or harmony.
17. To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
18. To pass time; to delay. the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past a person's experience on a particular occasion; "he had a time holding back the tears"; "they had a good time together" an instance or single occasion for some event; "this time he succeeded"; "he called four times"; "he could do ten at a clip" an indefinite period ; "he waited a long time"; "the time of year for planting"; "he was a great actor is his time" a suitable moment; "it is time to go" a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something; "take time to smell the roses"; "I didn't have time to finish"; "it took more than half my time" adjust so that a force is applied an an action occurs at the desired time; "The good player times his swing so as to hit the ball squarely" regulate or set the time of; "time the clock" assign a time for an activity or event; "The candidate carefully timed his appearance at the disaster scene" set the speed, duration, or execution of; "we time the process to manufacture our cars very precisely".
19. 1. Timing is the skill or action of judging the right moment in a situation or activity at which to do something. His photo is a wonderful happy moment caught with perfect timing.
20. Timing is used to refer to the time at which something happens or is planned to happen, or to the length of time that something takes. The timing of the minister's visit, however, could somewhat detract from the goodwill it's supposed to generate. see also:
time.