Meanings
- At the same instant.
They departed at the same time.
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Their departures were at the same time.
I bid him come towards me and give me his letter, at the same time throwing down, carelessly, a book I had in my hands.
Fanny Hill
1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC - Overlapping or coinciding in duration.
I'm working. But at the same time, I'm exercising too.
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His service as chairman was at the same time as his board membership
However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLCAt the same time, it is pouring money into cleaning up the country.
2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848Synonyms: simultaneously, therewhile, meanwhile
- sentence adverbOn the other hand (introducing an opposing viewpoint).
Synonyms: conversely, on the other hand, then again, meanwhile, nevertheless, yet · Antonyms: additionally, likewise, similarly, equally
Synonyms & antonyms
prepositional phraseOverlapping or coinciding in duration.
prepositional phraseOn the other hand (introducing an opposing viewpoint).
More synonyms by meaning
adverbat the same instant
adverboverlapping in duration
adverbdespite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Ancient Greek ἅμα
- ἅμα (háma)overlapping in duration
Arabic فِي نَفْس اَلْوَقْت
- فِي نَفْس اَلْوَقْت (fī nafs al-waqt)overlapping in duration
Catalan alhora
- alhoraoverlapping in duration
Chinese Mandarin 與此同時 /与此同时, 同時 /同时
- 與此同時 /与此同时 (yǔcǐtóngshí)overlapping in duration
- 同時 /同时 (tóngshí)overlapping in duration
- 另一方面 (lìngyīfāngmiàn)on the other hand
- 反過來 /反过来 (fǎnguòlái)on the other hand
Czech zároveň
- zároveňoverlapping in duration
Danish samtidigt
- samtidigtoverlapping in duration
Dutch tezelfdertijd, tegelijkertijd
- tezelfdertijdoverlapping in duration
- tegelijkertijdoverlapping in duration
- tegelijkoverlapping in duration
Esperanto samtempa, samtempe
- samtempaat the same instant
- samtempeoverlapping in duration
Finnish samanaikaisesti, samaan aikaan
- samanaikaisestioverlapping in duration
- samaan aikaanoverlapping in duration
- toisaaltaon the other hand
French dans le même temps, simultanément
- dans le même tempsoverlapping in duration
- simultanémentoverlapping in duration
- en même tempsoverlapping in duration
- d'un autre côtéon the other hand
German gleichzeitig, andererseits
- gleichzeitigoverlapping in duration
- andererseitson the other hand
Hindi एक बार में, उसी वक़्त
- एक बार में (ek bār mẽ)overlapping in duration
- उसी वक़्त (usī vaqt)overlapping in duration
Hungarian másrészt, másfelől
- másrészton the other hand
- másfelőlon the other hand
- ugyanakkoron the other hand
- viszonton the other hand
- azonbanon the other hand
- ennek ellenéreon the other hand
Irish ag an am céanna, san am céanna
- ag an am céannaoverlapping in duration
- san am céannaoverlapping in duration
- san am céannaon the other hand
Italian contemporaneamente, intanto
- contemporaneamenteoverlapping in duration
- intantooverlapping in duration
Japanese 同時に
- 同時に (tōji ni)overlapping in duration
Latin simītū, idem temporis
- simītūoverlapping in duration
- idem temporisoverlapping in duration
Lithuanian kita vertus
- kita vertuson the other hand
Polish jednocześnie, w tym samym czasie
- jednocześnieoverlapping in duration
- w tym samym czasieoverlapping in duration
- jednocześnieon the other hand
Portuguese ao mesmo tempo, por outro lado
- ao mesmo tempooverlapping in duration
- por outro ladoon the other hand
- ao contrárioon the other hand
Romanian simultan, în același moment
- simultanoverlapping in duration
- în același momentoverlapping in duration
- în același timpoverlapping in duration
- pe de altă parteon the other hand
- în același timpon the other hand
Russian одновреме́нно, в то́ же вре́мя
- одновреме́нно (odnovreménno)overlapping in duration
- в то́ же вре́мя (v tó že vrémja)overlapping in duration
- в то́ же са́мое вре́мя (v tó že sámoje vrémja)overlapping in duration
- в то́ же вре́мя (v tó že vrémja)on the other hand
Spanish a la vez, al mismo tiempo
- a la vezoverlapping in duration
- al mismo tiempooverlapping in duration
Swedish samtidigt, på samma gång
- samtidigtoverlapping in duration
- på samma gångoverlapping in duration
- på samma gångon the other hand
- å andra sidanon the other hand
- samtidigton the other hand
Turkish aynı anda
- aynı andaoverlapping in duration
Ukrainian одноча́сно
- одноча́сно (odnočásno)overlapping in duration
Urdu ایک بار میں
- ایک بار میں (ek bār mẽ)overlapping in duration
Yiddish אין דער זעלבער צײַט
- אין דער זעלבער צײַט (in der zelber tsayt)overlapping in duration
Cite this entry
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