times1 prepositiontimes2 verb
timestimes1 /taɪmz/ preposition 
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Five times six equals thirty.
- two times two equals four
- What is eight times twelve?
Longman Language Activatorto multiply one number by another
to add a number to itself a particular number of times: multiply something by something: · If you multiply ten by seven you get seventy.multiply by: · To find the price in yen, you multiply by 86.multiplied by: · 11 multiplied by 10 is 110.
spoken use times between numbers or amounts to show that you are multiplying one figure by another: · Five times six equals thirty.· What is eight times twelve?
when something happens many times · I often see her walking past with the children on the way to school.· Dad wasn't often angry so I knew something terrible must have happened.quite often · "Have you ever been to the China Moon Café?" "Yes -- we go there quite often."not very often · I have a cell phone, but I don't use it very often.it's not often (that) somebody does something · It's not often that you see a grass snake these days -- they've become quite rare.· It's not often I get the chance to go to the movies.
spoken if you do something a lot , you often do it: · It's nice to meet you. Wendy's talked about you a lot.· I used to walk a lot, but I've been very lazy recently.quite a lot British: · She goes abroad on business quite a lot.
often - used especially in writing or more formal speech: · Passengers complain that trains are frequently cancelled.· You have to be willing to change jobs frequently if you want to get to the top in business.· Frequently, she would find herself gazing out of the window lost in thought.
use this to emphasize that someone did something many times: · Graham's doctor had repeatedly warned him not to work so hard.· Max was punched and kicked repeatedly as he lay on the ground.· Al Gore has stated repeatedly, that the American economy is dependent upon a healthy environment.
use this to emphasize that the same thing has happened many times: · She kept asking the same question again and again.· Again and again I was thrown upwards from my bunk as the ship battled through the storm.
spoken say this when you are emphasizing that someone has done something many times in the past: · It was a sound he'd heard thousands of times before.· My grandmother must have spoken to him hundreds of times but, surprisingly, she didn't know his name.· I've been rejected hundreds of times, but if you don't try you never will get a job, will you?
if someone has done something many times , they have done it often: somebody has/had done something many times (before): · I had walked down this road many times before, but somehow today it seemed different.as somebody has/had done many times (before): · The woman upstairs shouted down at us and threatened to call the police, as she had done many times before.· I looked down at the town, as I had done so many times as a young man, and remembered the people I had known there.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
The disease dates back to biblical times. a famous film clip which has been shown countless times He had clearly fallen on hard times (=did not have much money). The company now employs four times as many women as men. Extra buses run at peak times. The situation has improved in recent years. I’ve beaten her three times in a row. These are troubled times for the coal industry. We must reduce costs and shorten turnaround times.
The disease dates back to biblical times.· the boom years of the late 1980s
(=a period of time when a lot is changing)· We live in changing times.
a famous film clip which has been shown countless times (=in the past) These herbs would have been grown for medicinal purposes in days gone by.
These herbs would have been grown for medicinal purposes in days gone by. He had clearly fallen on hard times (=did not have much money).· In times of hardship, your family may be the only people you can go to for help.
The company now employs four times as many women as men.· It was one of the greatest disasters of modern times.
Extra buses run at peak times. The situation has improved in recent years. I’ve beaten her three times in a row. These are troubled times for the coal industry. We must reduce costs and shorten turnaround times.PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► let the good times roll► twice over/three times over etc► three years/five times etc running
multiplied by: - Even at the best of times the roads are dangerous.
- A salmon is slippery enough to handle at the best of times, but one of this size ...
- But reason told her it was a precarious business at the best of times.
- In fact Polanski, unconventional at the best of times, takes us to the limit - and beyond.
- It was run on a shoestring at the best of times and Kelly was merely adding to his problems.
- Listening is a difficult and complex skill at the best of times.
- Memory was mischievously selective at the best of times Trivia stuck limpet-like and the useful filtered away.
- Rising living standards and well-being are ambiguously related at the best of times, and not simply for ecological reasons.
- The mind was a delicate mechanism that he disliked interfering with at the best of times.
- At 21 she is set for stardom, but she still finds time for people who have fallen on hard times.
- Even by political standards, Gingrich very quickly fell on hard times.
- I assumed that if a person fell on hard times some one else in the wider family would rescue them.
- Interestingly, though, the bottom 10 includes many household names fallen on hard times.
- The Cambridge University Automobile Club had clearly fallen on hard times, too.
- The model cities program fell on hard times soon after it began.
- With the outbreak of war, the shop fell on harder times.
- Worse, because of Jack the father has fallen on hard times and must meet all kinds of debts.
- No rocks, to our knowledge, are untouched by life in former times.
- You move with the times, or you fail, in this business.
- But even Rolls-Royce must be seen to be moving with the times.
- Hugh Puddephat, she discovered, had certainly moved with the times.
- Male speaker We've got to move with the times.
- Mrs Bottomley told them the health service had to move with the times and some closures were inevitable.
- Nowadays, he said, prisons had moved with the times like everything else.
- Still, I suppose we must move with the times.
- They haven't moved with the times, and nor, perhaps, could they.
- Nine times out of ten I just skip breakfast and have a coffee.
- Nine times out of ten we can beat them, but last night they creamed us.
- Nine times out of ten, jobs that become vacant are filled from inside the organization.
- A slight drizzle appeared, just for old times' sake.
- I just thought it might have been kinda fun, you know, for old times' sake.
- Or even, for old times' sake, one of the left splinter parties.
- Then one day, just for old times' sake, I paid a visit to Winston Street.
- This was really just for old times' sake, just for fun.
- At the time, I took this decay merely as a sign of the times.
- But in a sign of the times, Army Chief Gen.
- But Reagan read the signs of the times.
- Is this a sign of the times?
- It was a sign of the times. 1956.
- That we owe this to the vast reach of cyberspace is indeed a sign of the times.
- This is a real sign of the times and completely eclipses global fears about ecology or famine.
- And I don't really know my Two Times Table.
- For Peter, puzzles are great fun; he likes to learn such details as state capitals and the times tables.
- I expect to recycle our work on the times tables.
- She knew her times tables and her Catechism.
two times two equals four (2 x 2 = 4)times1 prepositiontimes2 verb
timestimes2 verb [transitive] spoken VERB TABLE
times
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | times |
| he, she, it | timeses | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | timesed |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have timesed |
| he, she, it | has timesed | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had timesed |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will times |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have timesed |
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The disease dates back to biblical times. a famous film clip which has been shown countless times He had clearly fallen on hard times (=did not have much money). The company now employs four times as many women as men. Extra buses run at peak times. The situation has improved in recent years. I’ve beaten her three times in a row. These are troubled times for the coal industry. We must reduce costs and shorten turnaround times.
The disease dates back to biblical times.· the boom years of the late 1980s
(=a period of time when a lot is changing)· We live in changing times.
a famous film clip which has been shown countless times (=in the past) These herbs would have been grown for medicinal purposes in days gone by.
These herbs would have been grown for medicinal purposes in days gone by. He had clearly fallen on hard times (=did not have much money).· In times of hardship, your family may be the only people you can go to for help.
The company now employs four times as many women as men.· It was one of the greatest disasters of modern times.
Extra buses run at peak times. The situation has improved in recent years. I’ve beaten her three times in a row. These are troubled times for the coal industry. We must reduce costs and shorten turnaround times.PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► let the good times roll► twice over/three times over etc► three years/five times etc running
to multiply a number: - Even at the best of times the roads are dangerous.
- A salmon is slippery enough to handle at the best of times, but one of this size ...
- But reason told her it was a precarious business at the best of times.
- In fact Polanski, unconventional at the best of times, takes us to the limit - and beyond.
- It was run on a shoestring at the best of times and Kelly was merely adding to his problems.
- Listening is a difficult and complex skill at the best of times.
- Memory was mischievously selective at the best of times Trivia stuck limpet-like and the useful filtered away.
- Rising living standards and well-being are ambiguously related at the best of times, and not simply for ecological reasons.
- The mind was a delicate mechanism that he disliked interfering with at the best of times.
- At 21 she is set for stardom, but she still finds time for people who have fallen on hard times.
- Even by political standards, Gingrich very quickly fell on hard times.
- I assumed that if a person fell on hard times some one else in the wider family would rescue them.
- Interestingly, though, the bottom 10 includes many household names fallen on hard times.
- The Cambridge University Automobile Club had clearly fallen on hard times, too.
- The model cities program fell on hard times soon after it began.
- With the outbreak of war, the shop fell on harder times.
- Worse, because of Jack the father has fallen on hard times and must meet all kinds of debts.
- No rocks, to our knowledge, are untouched by life in former times.
- You move with the times, or you fail, in this business.
- But even Rolls-Royce must be seen to be moving with the times.
- Hugh Puddephat, she discovered, had certainly moved with the times.
- Male speaker We've got to move with the times.
- Mrs Bottomley told them the health service had to move with the times and some closures were inevitable.
- Nowadays, he said, prisons had moved with the times like everything else.
- Still, I suppose we must move with the times.
- They haven't moved with the times, and nor, perhaps, could they.
- Nine times out of ten I just skip breakfast and have a coffee.
- Nine times out of ten we can beat them, but last night they creamed us.
- Nine times out of ten, jobs that become vacant are filled from inside the organization.
- A slight drizzle appeared, just for old times' sake.
- I just thought it might have been kinda fun, you know, for old times' sake.
- Or even, for old times' sake, one of the left splinter parties.
- Then one day, just for old times' sake, I paid a visit to Winston Street.
- This was really just for old times' sake, just for fun.
- At the time, I took this decay merely as a sign of the times.
- But in a sign of the times, Army Chief Gen.
- But Reagan read the signs of the times.
- Is this a sign of the times?
- It was a sign of the times. 1956.
- That we owe this to the vast reach of cyberspace is indeed a sign of the times.
- This is a real sign of the times and completely eclipses global fears about ecology or famine.
- And I don't really know my Two Times Table.
- For Peter, puzzles are great fun; he likes to learn such details as state capitals and the times tables.
- I expect to recycle our work on the times tables.
- She knew her times tables and her Catechism.
Then you times that by 1,000.