All The Time

Definition: All The Time

All The Time

Adverb

1. Without respite; "he plays chess day in and day out".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: All The Time

Time

The whole time, all the time; all along; throughout; (completely); for good; (diuturnity).

Crosswords: All The Time

Why you gotta chase after girls all the time, Gabe? (On the Town; writing credit: Adolph Green and Betty Comden)

It can't rain all the time. (The Crow; writing credit: David J. Schow, John Shirley)

I see them in my Home Economics class all the time. (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth)

You sound like that all the time! (Rush Hour 2; writing credit: Jeff Nathanson)

Boy, do I hate being right all the time! (Jurassic Park; writing credit: Michael Crichton)

I don't know why you gotta be Angry All The Time (Angry All The Time; performing artist: Tim McGraw)

I try all the time (What's up; performing artist: 4 Non Blondes)

I see you all the time, baby (Invisible Man; performing artist: 98 Degrees; writing credit: Dane DeViller, Sean Hosein, and Steve Kipner)

I think about the girl all the time (No Diggity; performing artist: Blackstreet)

I'm alone all the time (Glycerine; performing artist: Bush)

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life, so get wasted all the time, and have the time of your life. (references; author: unknown)

Keeps Rainin' All the Time (1934)

His Little Son Was with Him All the Time (1910)

Jump 5: All the Time in the World (2002)

Angry All The Time (performing artist: Tim McGraw)

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Books

• Undefended Love: The way that you felt about yourself when you first fell in love is the way that you can feel all the time (reference)

• The Heaven on Seven Cookbook: Where It's Mardi Gras All the Time! (reference)

• Zero Time: Providing Instant Customer Value - Every Time, All the Time! (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Across the country, ARS scientists who work with wheat aim to make U.S.-grown grain better all the time. It's not an easy job. Techniques for successfully slipping new genes into crops like tomatoes or petunias typically don't work on wheat. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

You can't fool all of the people all the time unless they're Germans. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mrs. Wagtail was so happy that she sang all the time. Credit: Library of Congress.

This proves our position has been right all the time!. Credit: Library of Congress.

No sir! all the time I was abroad I didn't see a single drunken man ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Negro day laborer moving from one man's farm to another to get work. He wasn't needed any more by former "employer." The son of his new employer said his father used to have tenants but that they "skinned" him too often by moving out on him all the time. Credit: Library of Congress.

Two sisters and brother before their house. Great Western Sugar Company's beet sugar workers' colony at Hudson, Colorado. The father is dead, and the girls don't attend school because they're "too old," and the boy because he is "sick all the time". Credit: Library of Congress.

First Division First - last - and all the time. Credit: Library of Congress.

Have you ever wondered just where this country is going? : we worry about it all the time : NDP, the new party. Credit: Library of Congress.

You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time -- but you can't fool all of the people all the time ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But if, through defects that may happen out of the ordinary course of nature, any one comes not to such a degree of reason, wherein he might be supposed capable of knowing the law, and so living within the rules of it, he is never capable of being a free man, he is never let loose to the disposure of his own will (because he knows no bounds to it, has not understanding, its proper guide) but is continued under the tuition and government of others, all the time his own understanding is uncapable of that charge. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But you were preparing yourself to be an excellent wife all the time you were at Hartfield.

Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking.

I have been making lint all the time.

And all the time she was talking, Stevie, she had her eyes fixed on my face and she stood so close to me I could hear her breathing.

The manager, he talks about that all the time.

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Health

Asthma makes the sides of the airways in your lungs inflamed or swollen all the time. See the drawing below. (references)

And more and more is becoming available all the time. Many public and private groups are working to improve and expand health care quality measures. (references)

Radioactive substances emit gamma rays all the time. When not in use, the radioactive "source" is stored down in a pool of water which absorbs the radiation harmlessly and completely. (references)

Business

It is a cyclical market, with products becoming more or less popular all the time. Thus, there will always be a market for accessories but it will always change. (references)

Economic History

Bahrain

In addition, the retail business is flourishing with two new hypermarkets opening in the summer of 2001. U.S. restaurant franchises continue to be a big hit (now totaling 36) with more opening all the time. (references)

Human Rights

Cuba

Prisoners sometimes are held in "punishment cells," which usually are located in the basement of a prison, are semi-dark all the time, have no water available in the cell, and have a hole for a toilet. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "all the time": i was on pins all the time. Additional references.

Afrikaans

tegelyk (all, at, at the same time, in the meantime, meanwhile), solank (all, in the meantime, meanwhile), intusse (all, all the while, in the meantime, meanwhile). (various references)

Albanian

gjithë kohë. (various references)

Bulgarian 

винаги (always, aye, ever, invariably, uniformly), през всичкото време. (various references)

Chinese 

成天 (all day long). (various references)

Czech

vždy (always, when), stále (always, constantly, continuously, incessantly, invariably, nonstop, non-stop, persistently, steadily, still), po celou dobu (all along, throughout). (various references)

Danish

sandbank med lavvandet vedvarende daekke af havvand (sand bank which is slightly covered by seawater all the time). (various references)

Dutch

aldoor (ceaselessly, constantly, continually, continuously), achtereen (at a strech, ceaselessly, consecutively, for ... together, on end), zolang (as long, in the meantime, meanwhile), voorlopig (for the time being, in the meantime, meanwhile, provisional, temporarily, temporary), vast (abiding, certain, certainly, constant, continual, continuous, definite, definitive, fast, firm, firmly, fixed, in the meantime, lasting, meanwhile, permanent, probably, solid, stable, sure, sustained), onophoudelýk (at a strech, ceaselessly, constant, constantly, for ... together, lasting, on end, sustained, unceasing), intussen (all the while, in the meantime, meanwhile), inmiddels (all the while, in the meantime, meanwhile), daarentegen (in the meantime, meanwhile, on the contrary, otherwise). (various references)

Esperanto

senĉese (ceaselessly), dume (in the meantime, meanwhile). (various references)

Faeroese

áhaldandi (ceaselessly, constant, continual, eternal, everlasting, permanent, perpetual, sustained), í heilum (ceaselessly). (various references)

Finnish

kaiken aikaa (all along). (various references)

French

dans l'intervalle (all the while), continuellement. (various references)

Frisian

aloan (ceaselessly, constantly, continually, continuously), algeduerigen (ceaselessly, constantly, continually, continuously), alfêst (already, by now, in the meantime, meanwhile, yet), oanien (at a strech, ceaselessly, consecutively, for ... together, on end), efterinoar (at a strech, ceaselessly, consecutively, for ... together, on end). (various references)

German

die ganze zeit (all along, all the while). (various references)

Greek 

όλη την ώρα. (various references)

Hungarian

mindig (always, at all times, ever, evermore, invariably). (various references)

Italian

sempre (always, aye, ever, evermore, forever, still, throughout). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

二六時中 (night and day), 明け暮れ (morning and evening). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

にろくじちゅう (night and day), あけくれ (morning and evening). (various references)

Papiamen

mientrastantu (in the meantime, meanwhile), mientrastanto (in the meantime, meanwhile), den esei (all the while, in the meantime, meanwhile). (various references)

Pig Latin

allay ethay imetay

Polish

tymczasem (in the meantime, meanwhile). (various references)

Portuguese

banco de areia permanentemente coberto por uma pequena altura de águado mar (sand bank which is slightly covered by seawater all the time). (various references)

Romanian

tot timpul (all along, right along). (various references)

Russian 

неотлучно. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sve vreme (all the while, full time), povazdan. (various references)

Spanish

continuamente (ceaselessly, constantly, continually, continuously, incessantly, persistently). (various references)

Swedish

oavlåtlig (ceaselessly, unremitting), hela tiden (all along, on and on, throughout). (various references)

Turkish

her zaman (all along, always, any old time, any time, at all times, ever, evermore, every time, for ever, invariably, routinely), hep (all, always, ever, evermore, every time, omni-, routinely, wholly). (various references)

Turkmen 

zol (constantly). (various references)

usque. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: hematite.

-3 letters: athlete, tallith, teatime.

-4 letters: halite, hamlet, helmet, hiemal, lethal, little, mallee, mallei, mallet, mealie, metate, mettle, millet, taille, tallit, telial, thalli.

-5 letters: allee, almeh, atilt, elate, elemi, elite, email, hemal, ileal, laith, lathe, lathi, latte, lethe, lithe, maile, maill, matte, metal, mille, teeth, telae, telia, theme, theta, thill, tilth, tithe, title.

+4 letters: empathetically, heterothallism, metathetically.

+5 letters: heterothallisms, multiwavelength.