Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

timing

/ˈtaɪmɪŋ/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.29 in modern English

Syllables: tim-ing
IPA: /ˈtaɪmɪŋ/

9

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An occurrence or event.

Countable; Obsolete

noun

The regulation of the pace of e.g. an athletic race, the speed of an engine, the delivery of a joke, or the occurrence of a series of events.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

The time when something happens.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

The synchronization of the firing of the spark plugs in an internal combustion engine.

Uncountable

noun

An instance of recording the time of something.

Countable

verb

present participle and gerund of time

Example Sentences

"The key to telling a good joke is timing."
"The officials used the latest technology to ensure timing down to the nearest millisecond."
"The S.D.R. [Somerset & Dorset Railway] could not adhere to this schedule, and had to decelerate the service, but the original timings were restored when the M.R. and L.S.W.R. leased the S.D.R."
"Smoking was difficult, I had to have perfect timing, sticking my head as far out the tiny porthole as I could, and timing my puffs to the inhalings and exhalings of the ship."
"perfect timing"
"The timing of the announcement is related to this months's board meeting."

Usage

Inflected Forms

timings (plural)

Derived Forms

microtiming

Phrases

active timing attack timing back-timing basic ignition timing basic timing color timing comic timing computer-controlled timing

Rhymes With

climbing rhyming priming liming chiming miming sliming griming riming

Questions

How do you pronounce timing?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈtaɪmɪŋ/.
What does timing mean?: An occurrence or event.

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