in timeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

前置詞句

in time

1. At or before the time assigned.

   I would have died had I not been gottten to hospital in time.

2. (with for) Sufficiently early.

   You've got here in time for tea — I was just making some.

   • 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:

     But out of sight is out of mind. And that […] means that many old sewers have been neglected and are in dire need of repair. If that repair does not come in time, the result is noxious and potentially hazardous.

3. As time passes.

   In time, it got easier to deal with her death.

4. In rhythm.

   Am I in time (to/with the music)?

5. (in time with) At the same rhythm as.
   • 1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus:

     The door of the twins' room opposite was open; a twenty-watt night-light threw a weak yellow glow into the passageway. David could hear the twins breathing in time with each other.

6. (music) In the correct tempo.

同意語

• (at or before the time assigned): early, on time, promptly
• (sufficiently early (for)):
• (as time passes): as time goes by, over time, with the passage of time, with the passing of time, into time, unto time

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “at or before the time assigned”): behind time, late
• (antonym(s) of “sufficiently early (for)”): late, too late
• (antonym(s) of “as time passes”): all at once, never

派生語

• a stitch in time, a stitch in time saves nine
• just in time
• in time with

名詞

in time (countable and uncountable, plural in times)

1. (broadcasting) Synonym of inpoint.
2. (UK, childish) The time when pupils are expected to re-enter the school for lessons.

   Coordinate terms: breaktime, hometime, playtime

アナグラム

• nimite

発音

• IPA: /ˈɪntɪm/

形容詞

intime (comparative more intime, superlative most intime)

1. (obsolete) inward; internal; intimate
   • a. 1665, Sir Kenelm Digby, Of bodies and of mans soul to discover the immortality:

     As to the composition or dissolution of mixed bodies, which is the chief work of elements, and requires an intime application of the agents, water hath the principality and excess over earth.

   • 1988 April 9, Gordon Gottlieb, “The Urban Gay Camp and Croon”, in Gay Community News, page 11:

     What is it about gay men that they're so often linked with musical revue in a cabaret milieu? Is it the intimate ambience — more intime, more revealing — than larger stage productions? Is there more room for specialized acts that need not draw a larger (read straighter) crowd?

参照

“intime”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• nimite

形容詞

intime

1. vocative masculine singular of intimus

発音 2

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈɪn.tɪ.meː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈin̪.t̪i.me]

副詞

intimē (superlative, positive intrā, comparative interius, adjective intimus)

1. superlative degree of intrā: intimately; in the innermost part

   Alternative form: intumē

参照

• “intime”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “intime”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “intime”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.