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TIMED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Regularly spaced in time
Example:
closely timed intervals
Classified under:
Similar:
regular (in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb time
Context examples:
“So much the worse!” thought Catherine; such ill-timed exercise was of a piece with the strange unseasonableness of his morning walks, and boded nothing good.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Lifting off at 7:05 p.m. from Space Launch Complex 41 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the rocket's launch was timed to put the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, short for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer, on an exact course to reach the asteroid Bennu in August 2018.
(Evening Launch Catapults OSIRIS-REx Toward Asteroid Encounter, NASA)
With such sensations, Mr. Elton's civilities were dreadfully ill-timed; but she had the comfort of appearing very polite, while feeling very cross—and of thinking that the rest of the visit could not possibly pass without bringing forward the same information again, or the substance of it, from the open-hearted Mr. Weston.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
In a new study, scientists from the National Institutes of Health watched in real-time as different immune cells took on carefully timed jobs to fix the damaged lining of the brain, also known as meninges, in mice.
(Scientists watch the brain’s lining heal after a head injury, National Institutes of Health)
We made a pause at the toy shop in Fleet Street, to see the giants of Saint Dunstan's strike upon the bells—we had timed our going, so as to catch them at it, at twelve o'clock—and then went on towards Ludgate Hill, and St. Paul's Churchyard.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Vodaphone Germany, Nokia, and Audi are working on a mobile network and robotic vehicles that are part of a private expedition to the moon, timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary year of the first manned lunar landing.
(Moon to Get Its Own Mobile Network, VOA)
I almost expected a rebuff for this hardly well-timed question, but, on the contrary, waking out of his scowling abstraction, he turned his eyes towards me, and the shade seemed to clear off his brow.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Fanny's spirit was as much refreshed as her body; her head and heart were soon the better for such well-timed kindness.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
He did not disturb the wretchedness of her mind by ill-timed conversation.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Holmes’s ideas of humour are strange and occasionally offensive, so I took no notice of his ill-timed jest—indeed, I had already reached Montpellier in my pursuit of the maid, Marie, before his message came.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
