times

noun

1. 1

   The circumstances of a certain time.

   Modern times are so very different from the past.

   The city called Fan-yang in Eastern Han times can be identified with the present village of Ch’u-wang (Nei-huang County, Honan Province).

   From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.

2. 2

   A person's experiences or biography.

   The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter.

3. 3

   Also a form of timeplural of time

   It's been ten times more difficult than expected.

preposition

1. 1

   Multiplied by (see also 'ratio of comparison' sense at 'time').

   Four times five is/are twenty

   One times one is one.

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of timethird-person singular simple present indicative of time

verb

1. 1

   informalTo multiply.

   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...

   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' […]

   Alex: Yeah - if you're timesing that distance there by this height, it will disappear.

   […] when the denominator was timesed by three, the same had to be done to the numerator; and so on.

Forms

past tense

timesed

past participle

timesed

present participle

timesing

third person singular

timeses