100-119

#100a. [Less than one.] Fraction -- N. fraction

• fractional part

• part

• Adj. fractional

• fragmentary

• inconsiderable

• negligible

• infinitesimal

#101. Zero. -- N. zero

• nothing

• null

• nul

• naught

• nought

• void;

• cipher

• goose egg

• none

• nobody

• no one

• nichts[Ger.]

• nixie*

• nix*

• zilch

• zip

• zippo [all slang]

• not a soul

• absence

• unsubstantiality

• Adj. not one

• not a one

• not any

• nary a one [dial.]

• not a

• never a;

• not a whit of

• not an iota of

• not a drop of

• not a speck of

• not a jot;

• not a trace of

• not a hint of

• not a smidgen of

• not a suspicion of

• not a

• shadow of

• neither hide nor hair of

#102. Multitude. -- N. multitude

• numerous

• numerosity

• numerality

• multiplicity

• profusion

• legion

• host

• great

• number

• large number

• round number

• enormous number

• a quantity

• numbers

• array

• sight

• army

• sea

• galaxy

• scores

• peck

• bushel

• shoal

• swarm

• draught

• bevy

• cloud

• flock

• herd

• drove

• flight

• covey

• hive

• brood

• litter

• farrow

• fry

• nest

• crowd

• lots

• all in the

• world and his wife

• [Increase of number] greater number

• majority

• multiplication

• multiple

• V. be numerous

• swarm with

• teem with

• creep with

• crowd

• swarm

• come thick upon

• outnumber

• multiply

• people

• swarm like locusts

• swarm like bees

• Adj. many

• several

• sundry

• divers

• various

• not a few

• Briarean

• a

• hundred

• a thousand

• a myriad

• a million

• a quadrillion

• a nonillion

• a

• thousand and one

• some ten or a dozen

• some forty or fifty

• half a

• dozen

• half a hundred

• very many

• full many

• ever so many

• numerous;

• profuse

• in profusion

• manifold

• multiplied

• multitudinous

• multiple

• multinominal

• teeming

• populous

• peopled

• crowded

• thick

• studded

• galore

• thick coming

• many more

• more than one can tell

• a world of

• no end

• of

• no end to

• cum multis aliis[Lat]

• thick as hops

• thick as hail

• plenty

• as blackberries

• numerous as the stars in the firmament

• numerous as the

• sands on the seashore

• numerous as the hairs on the head

• and what not

• and

• heaven knows what

• endless

• Phr. their name is "legion"

• acervatim[Lat]

• "many-

• headed multitude" [Sidney]

• "numerous as glittering gems of morning dew"

• [Young]

#103. Fewness. -- N. fewness

• paucity

• small number

• small

• quantity

• rarity

• infrequency

• handful

• maniple

• minority;

• exiguity

• [Diminution of number] reduction

• weeding

• elimination

• sarculation|

• decimation

• eradication

• V. be few

• render few

• reduce

• diminish the number

• weed

• eliminate

• cull

• thin

• decimate

• Adj. few

• scant

• scanty

• thin

• rare

• scattered

• thinly scattered

• spotty

• few and far between

• exiguous

• infrequent

• rari

• nantes[Latin]

• hardly any

• scarcely any

• to be counted on one's fingers;

• reduced

• Adv. rarely

• here and there

#104. Repetition. -- N. repetition

• iteration

• reiteration

• harping

• recurrence

• succession

• run

• battology

• tautology

• monotony

• tautophony;

• rhythm

• diffuseness

• pleonasm

• redundancy

• chimes

• repetend

• echo

• burden of a song

• refrain;

• rehearsal

• rifacimento[It]

• recapitulation

• cuckoo

• reverberation

• drumming

• 40

• renewal

• twice-told tale

• old story

• old song

• second edition

• new edition;

• reappearance

• reproduction

• recursion [Comp]

• periodicity

• V. repeat

• iterate

• reiterate

• reproduce

• echo

• reecho

• drum

• harp

• upon

• hammer

• redouble

• recur

• revert

• return

• reappear

• recurse [Comp]

• renew

• 660

• rehearse

• do over again

• say over again

• ring the changes on

• harp on

• the same string

• din in the ear

• drum in the ear

• conjugate in all its

• begin again

• go over the same ground

• go

• the same round

• never hear the last of

• resume

• return to

• recapitulate

• reword

• Adj. repeated

• recurrent

• recurring

• ever recurring

• thick coming

• frequent

• incessant;

• redundant

• pleonastic

• monotonous

• harping

• iterative

• recursive [Math

• Comp]

• unvaried;

• mocking

• chiming

• retold

• aforesaid

• above-mentioned

• above-said

• habitual

• another

• Adv. repeatedly

• often

• again

• anew

• over again

• afresh

• once more;

• ding-dong

• ditto

• encore

• de novo

• da capo[It]

• again and again

• over and over

• over and over again

• recursively

• [Comp]

• many times over

• time and again

• time after time

• year after year;

• day by day

• many times

• several times

• a number of times

• many a time

• full many a time

• frequently

• Phr. ecce iterum Crispinus[Lat]

• "cut and come

• again" [Crabbe]

• "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" [Macbeth]

• cantilenam

• eandem canis [Lat][Terence]

• nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum sit

• prius [Lat][Terence]

#105. Infinity. -- N. infinity

• infinitude

• infiniteness

• perpetuity

• boundlessness

• V. be infinite

• know no limits

• have no limits

• know no

• bounds

• have no bounds

• go on for ever

• Adj. infinite

• immense

• numberless

• countless

• measureless

• innumerable

• immeasurable

• incalculable

• illimitable

• inexhaustible

• interminable

• unfathomable

• unapproachable

• exhaustless

• indefinite

• without number

• without measure

• without limit

• without end;

• incomprehensible

• limitless

• endless

• boundless

• untold

• unnumbered

• unmeasured

• unbounded

• unlimited

• perpetual

• Adv. infinitely

• ad infinitum

• Phr. "as boundless as the sea" [Romeo and Juliet]

#106. Time. -- N. time

• duration

• period

• term

• stage

• space

• span

• spell

• season

• the whole time

• the whole period

• space-time

• course

• snap

• intermediate time

• while

• interim

• interval

• intervention

• intermission

• intermittence

• interregnum

• interlude

• respite

• era

• epoch

• time of life

• age

• year

• date

• decade

• moment

• glass of time

• sands of time

• march of time

• Father Time

• ravages of

• time

• arrow of time

• river of time

• whirligig of time

• noiseless foot of

• time

• scythe

• V. continue last endure

• go on

• remain

• persist

• intervene

• elapse

• hold out

• take time

• take up time

• fill time

• occupy time

• pass time

• pass away time

• spend time

• while away time

• consume time

• talk against time

• tide over

• use time

• employ time

• seize an opportunity

• waste time

• Adj. continuing

• on foot

• permanent

• Adv. while

• whilst

• during

• pending

• during the time

• during the

• interval

• in the course of

• at that point

• at that point in time

• for the

• time being

• day by day

• in the time of

• when

• meantime

• meanwhile

• in the

• meantime

• in the interim

• ad interim

• pendente lite[Lat]

• de die in

• diem[Lat]

• from day to day

• from hour to hour

• hourly

• always

• for a

• time

• for a season;

• till

• until

• up to

• yet

• as far as

• by that time

• so far

• hereunto

• heretofore

• prior to this

• up to this point

• the whole time

• all the time

• all along

• throughout

• for good

• hereupon

• thereupon

• whereupon

• then

• anno Domini

• A.D

• ante

• Christum

• A.C

• before Christ

• B.C

• anno urbis conditae[Lat]

• A.U.C

• anno

• regni[Lat]

• A.R

• once upon a time

• one fine morning

• one fine day

• one

• day

• once

• Phr. time flies

• tempus fugit [Lat.]

• time runs out

• time runs

• against

• race against time

• racing the clock

• time marches on

• time is of

• the essence

• "time and tide wait for no man"

• ad calendas Groecas[Lat]

• "panting Time toileth after him in vain"

• [Johnson]

• "'gainst the tooth of time and razure of oblivion" [Measure for

• Measure]

• "rich with the spoils of time" [Gray]

• tempus edax rerum

• [Lat][Horace]

• "the long hours come and go" [C.G. Rossetti]

• "the time is

• out of joint" [Hamlet]

• "Time rolls his ceaseless course" [Scott]

• "Time

• the foe of man's dominion" [Peacock]

• "time wasted is existence

• used is

• life" [Young]

• truditur dies die [Lat][Horace]

• volat hora per orbem

• [Lat][Lucretius]

• carpe diem[Lat]

#107. Neverness. -- N. "neverness"

• absence of time

• no time

• dies

• non

• Tib's eve

• Greek Kalends

• a blue moon

• Adv. never

• ne'er[contr]

• at no time

• at no period

• on the second

• Tuesday of the week

• when Hell freezes over

• on no occasion

• never in all

• one's born days

• nevermore

• sine die

• in no degree

#108. [Definite duration

• or portion of time.] Period. -- N. period

• age

• era

• second

• minute

• hour

• day

• week

• month

• quarter

• year

• decade

• quinquennium

• lifetime

• generation

• epoch

• moon

• century

• millennium

• annus magnus[Lat]

• hourly

• annual

#108a. Contingent Duration.-- Adv. during pleasure

• during good

• behavior

• quamdiu se bene gesserit[Latin]

#109. [Indefinite duration.] Course. -- N. corridors of time

• sweep of

• time

• course of time

• progress of time

• process of

• time

• succession of time

• lapse of time

• flow of time

• flux of time

• stream

• of time

• tract of time

• current of time

• tide of time

• march of time

• step

• of time

• flight of time

• duration

• V. elapse

• lapse

• flow

• run

• proceed

• advance

• pass

• roll on

• wear on

• press on

• flit

• fly

• slip

• slide

• glide

• run its course

• run out

• expire

• go by

• pass by

• be -past

• Adj. elapsing

• progressive

• Adv. in due time

• in due season

• in in due course

• in due process

• in

• the fullness of time

• in time

• Phr. labitur et labetur [Lat][Horace]

• truditur dies die

• [Lat][Horace]

• fugaces labuntur anni [Lat][Horace]

• "tomorrow and tomorrow

• and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day" [Macbeth]

• a long

• time

• a length of time

• an age

• a century

• an eternity

• slowness

• perpetuity

• blue moon

• coon's age [U.S.]

• dog's age

• durableness

• durability

• persistence

• endlessness

• lastingness

• continuance

• standing

• permanence

• longevity

• distance of time

• protraction of time

• prolongation of time

• extension of time

• delay

• V. last

• endure

• stand

• remain

• abide

• continue

• brave a thousand

• years

• tarry

• drag on

• drag its slow length along

• drag a

• lengthening chain

• protract

• prolong

• spin out

• eke out

• draw out

• lengthen

• out

• temporize

• gain time

• make time

• talk against time

• outlast

• outlive

• survive

• live to fight again

• Adj. durable

• lasting

• of long duration

• of long-standing;

• permanent

• endless

• chronic

• long-standing

• intransitive

• persistent

• lifelong

• livelong;

• long-lived

• macrobiotic

• evergreen

• perennial

• unrelenting

• unremitting

• perpetual

• lingering

• protracted

• prolonged

• spun out

• long-

• winded

• slow

• Adv. long

• for a long time

• for an age

• for ages

• for ever so long

• for many a long day

• long ago

• longo

• intervallo[It]

• all the day long

• all the year round

• the livelong day

• as the day is

• long

• morning noon and night

• hour after hour

• day after day

• for

• good

• permanently

#111. [Short duration.] Transientness. -- N. transience

• transientness

• evanescence

• impermanence

• fugacity[Chem]

• mortality

• span

• nine days' wonder

• bubble

• Mayfly

• spurt

• flash in the

• pan

• temporary arrangement

• interregnum

• velocity

• suddenness

• changeableness

• transient

• transient boarder

• transient guest [U.S.]

• V. be transient

• flit

• pass away

• fly

• gallop

• vanish

• fade

• evaporate

• pass away like a cloud

• pass away like a summer cloud

• pass away

• like a shadow

• pass away like a dream

• Adj. transient

• transitory

• transitive

• passing

• evanescent

• fleeting

• cursory

• short-lived

• ephemeral

• flying

• fugacious

• fugitive;

• shifting

• slippery

• spasmodic

• instantaneous

• temporal

• temporary

• provisional

• provisory

• deciduous

• perishable

• mortal

• precarious

• unstable

• insecure

• impermanent

• brief

• quick

• brisk

• extemporaneous

• summary

• pressed for time

• (haste) 6

• sudden

• momentary

• Adv. temporarily

• pro tempore[Lat]

• for the moment

• for a

• time

• awhile

• in transitu[Lat]

• in a short time

• soon

• (early)

• briefly

• at short notice

• on the point of

• on the eve

• of

• in articulo

• between cup and lip

• Phr. one's days are numbered

• the time is up

• here today and gone

• tomorrow

• eheu! fugaces labuntur

• anni[Lat]

• sic transit gloria mundi[Lat]

• a schoolboy's tale

• the wonder of

• the hour! [Byron]

• fugit

• hora[Lat]

• all that is transitory is but an illusion [Goethe]

#112. [Endless duration.] Perpetuity. -- N. perpetuity

• eternity

• aye

• immortality

• everlastingness

• perpetuation

• continued existence

• uninterrupted existence;

• permanence (durability) 110

• V. last forever

• endure forever

• go on forever

• have no end

• eternize

• perpetuate

• Adj. perpetual

• eternal

• everlasting

• ever-living

• ever-flowing

• continual

• coeternal

• endless

• unending;

• ceaseless

• incessant

• uninterrupted

• unceasing

• endless

• unending

• interminable

• having no end

• evergreen

• amaranthine

• never-dying

• never-fading

• deathless

• immortal

• undying

• imperishable

• Adv. perpetually

• always

• ever

• evermore

• aye

• for ever

• for

• aye

• till the end of the universe

• forevermore

• forever and a day

• for

• ever and ever

• in all ages

• from age to age

• without end

• world without

• end

• time without end

• in secula seculorum[Lat]

• to the end of time

• to the

• crack of doom

• to the "last syllable of recorded time" [Macbeth]

• till

• doomsday

• constantly

• Phr. esto perpetuum[Lat]

• labitur et labetur in omne volubilis oevum

• [Lat][Horace]

• "but thou shall flourish in immortal youth" [Addison];

• "Eternity! thou pleasing

• dreadful thought" [Addison]

• "her immortal part

• with angels lives" [Romeo & Juliet]

• ohne Rast [Ger][Goethe's motto]

• ora e

• sempre[It]

#113. [Point of time] Instantaneity. -- N. instantaneity

• instantaneousness

• immediacy

• suddenness

• abruptness

• moment

• instant

• second

• minute

• twinkling

• trice

• flash

• breath

• crack

• jiffy

• coup

• burst

• flash of lightning

• stroke of time

• epoch

• time

• time of day

• time of night

• hour

• minute

• very minute

• very time

• very hour

• present time

• right time

• true time

• exact

• correct time

• V. be instantaneous

• twinkle

• flash

• Adj. instantaneous

• momentary

• sudden

• immediate

• instant

• abrupt

• discontinuous

• precipitous

• precipitant

• precipitate

• hasty

• quick as thought

• quick as lightning

• quick as a flash

• rapid as

• electricity

• speedy

• quick

• fast

• fleet

• swift

• lively

• blitz

• rapid (velocity)

• 274

• Adv. instantaneously

• in no time

• in less than no time;

• presto

• instanter

• suddenly

• at a stroke

• like a shot

• in a

• moment

• in the twinkling of an eye

• in a

• trice

• in one's tracks

• right away

• at one jump

• in

• the same breath

• per saltum[Lat]

• uno saltu[Lat]

• at once

• all at once;

• plump

• slap

• "at one fell swoop"

• at the same instant

• immediately

• extempore

• on the moment

• on the spot

• on the spur of the

• moment

• no sooner said than done

• just then

• slap-dash

• Phr. touch and go

• no sooner said than done

#114. [Estimation

• measurement

• and record of time.] Chronometry. --

• N. chronometry

• horology

• date

• epoch

• style

• era

• almanac

• calendar

• ephemeris

• register

• registry

• chronicle

• annals

• journal

• diary

• chronogram

• [Instruments for the measurement of time]

• clock

• wall clock

• pendulum

• clock

• grandfather's clock

• cuckoo clock

• alarm clock

• clock radio

• watch

• wristwatch

• pocket watch

• stopwatch

• Swiss watch

• atomic clock

• digital

• clock

• analog clock

• quartz watch

• water clock

• chronometer

• chronograph

• repeater

• timekeeper

• timepiece

• dial

• sundial

• gnomon

• horologe

• pendulum

• hourglass

• chronologer

• chronologist

• timekeeper

• annalist

• calendar year

• leap year

• Julian calendar

• Gregorian calendar

• Chinese

• calendar

• Jewish calendar

• perpetual calendar

• Farmer's almanac

• fiscal

• year

• V. fix the time

• mark the time

• date

• register

• chronicle

• measure

• time

• beat time

• mark time

• bear date

• synchronize watches

• Adj. chronological

• Adv. o'clock

#115. [False estimate of time.] Anachronism. -- N. anachronism

• metachronism

• parachronism

• prochronism

• prolepsis

• misdate

• anticipation

• antichronism

• disregard of time

• neglect of time

• oblivion of time

• intempestivity

• V. misdate

• antedate

• postdate

• backdate

• anticipate;

• take no note of time

• lose track of time

• Adj. misdated

• undated

• overdue

• past due

• out of date

• 2. RELATIVE TIME

• Time with reference to Succession

#116. Priority. -- N. priority

• antecedence

• anteriority

• precedence

• pre-existence

• precession

• precursor

• the past

• premises

• V. precede

• come before

• forerun

• go before

• preexist;

• dawn

• presage

• herald

• usher in

• be beforehand

• steal a march upon

• anticipate

• forestall

• have the start

• gain the start

• Adj. prior

• previous

• preceding

• precedent

• anterior

• antecedent

• pre-

• existing

• pre-existent

• former

• foregoing

• aforementioned

• before-

• mentioned

• abovementioned

• aforesaid

• said

• introductory

• 64

• Adv. before

• prior to

• earlier

• previously

• beforehand

• ere

• theretofore

• ere then

• ere now

• before then

• before now

• already

• yet

• beforehand

• on the eve of

• Phr. prior tempore prior jure[Lat]

#117. Posteriority. -- N. posteriority

• succession

• sequence;

• following

• subsequence

• supervention

• futurity

• successor;

• sequel

• remainder

• reversion

• V. follow

• come after

• go after

• succeed

• supervene;

• ensue

• occur

• step into the shoes of

• Adj. subsequent

• posterior

• following

• after

• later

• succeeding

• puisne|!

• posthumous

• future

• afterdinner

• postprandial

• Adv. subsequently

• after

• afterwards

• since

• later

• at a subsequent

• at a later period

• at a later date

• next

• in the sequel

• close upon

• thereafter

• thereupon

• upon which

• eftsoons|

• from that time

• from that

• moment

• after a while

• after a time

• in process of time

#118. The Present Time. -- N. the present

• the present time

• the

• present day

• the present moment

• the present juncture

• the present

• occasion

• the times

• the existing time

• the time being

• today

• these

• days

• nowadays

• our times

• modern times

• the twentieth century

• nonce

• crisis

• epoch

• day

• hour

• age

• time of life

• Adj. present

• actual

• instant

• current

• existing

• extant

• that is;

• present-day

• up-to-date

• up-to-the-moment

• Adv. at this time

• at this moment

• at the present time

• now

• at present

• at hand

• at this time of day

• today

• nowadays

• already

• even now

• but now

• just now

• on the present occasion

• for the time being

• for the nonce

• pro

• hac vice[Lat]

• on the nail

• on the spot

• on the spur of the moment

• until

• now

• to this day

• to the present day

• Phr. "the present hour alone is man's" [Johnson]

#119. [Time different from the present.] Different time. -- N

• different time

• other time

• [Indefinite time] aorist

• Adj. aoristic

• indefinite

• Adv. at that time

• at which time

• at that moment

• at that instant;

• then

• on that occasion

• upon

• not now

• some other time

• when

• whenever

• whensoever

• upon which

• on which occasion

• at another

• at a different

• at some other

• at any- time

• at various times

• some one of

• these days

• one of these days

• one fine morning

• eventually

• some day

• by

• and by

• sooner or later

• some time or other

• once upon a time