times

1. pluralplural of time

   It's been ten times more difficult than expected.

2. pluralplural onlyThe circumstances of a certain time.

   The concept has existed since times unknown.

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   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).

   1976, Jan Fontein, Wu Tang, “Eastern Han Tomb near Holingol, Inner Mongolia”, in Han and T’ang Murals discovered in tombs in the People's Republic of China and copied by contemporary Chinese painters, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 38, column 2

   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.

   2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52

3. pluralplural onlyA person's experiences or biography.

   The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter.

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

   One times one is one.

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   Four times five is/are twenty

1. indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of time

present singular third person timeses · participle present timesing · participle past timesed · past timesed

1. informalarithmeticTo multiply.

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

   1998, Psychology of mathematics education, Volume 2

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   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...

   1994, Harvey Mellar, Learning with artificial worlds: computer-based modelling in the curriculum

   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' […]

   1995, Mathematical Association, The Australian mathematics teacher, Volumes 51-53

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

   1998, W. M. Roth, Designing Communities, Kluwer Academic Publishers, page 31

   Well, take that feeling, and times it by a thousand and you can probably understand the sheer disgust aimed at me by my fellow diners at Palm Vaults.

   2017 December 15, Ruby Lott-Lavigna, “I Spent a Day Eating at the Most Instagrammable Restaurants of 2017”, in VICE

1. journalismA common name (often in combination) for a newspaper or periodical, especially The Times (published in the United Kingdom), but also The New York Times, The Times of India, Radio Times, etc.

   Mr. Campion seated himself in the client’s chair and crossed his long legs. His hat, his gloves and his folded Times newspaper he held upon his knee.

   1963, Margery Allingham, “Off the Record”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 73

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   From there, the meme will slowly leak into more popular mainstream-right punditry, and then into the Republican Party, until Ted Cruz sweatily asks a judicial nominee if they “support the current thing” and the Times writes some stilted, breathless article about the meme as disinformation.

   2022 May 9, Max Read, “What Is “The Current Thing”?”, in Slate

2. A surname.