Timing
['taɪmɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the regulation of occurrence, pace, or coordination to achieve a desired effect (as in music, theater, athletics, mechanics).
(noun.) the time when something happens.
Typed by Erica--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Time
Typist: Shirley
Examples
- The woman was holding her wrist and timing the pains with a watch. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Have your fare ready, and the instant that your cab stops, dash through the Arcade, timing yourself to reach the other side at a quarter-past nine. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Together we raced across the scarlet sward, I timing my speed that I might not outdistance my slower companion. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Later he invent ed simple pendulum devices for timing the pulse of patients, and even made some advances in applying his discovery in the construction of pendulum clocks. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I appreciate the difficulty caused by the timing of the blowing of the bridge. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Editor: Vanessa