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Definition: TEMPS |
TEMPSNoun1. Time. |
Date "TEMPS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
Etymology: Temps \Temps\, noun. [Old French expression F., from the Latin expression tempus. See Temporal of time.]. (Websters 1913) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| TEVG | French | Temps d'éjection ventriculaire gauche | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Earliness | Phrase: no sooner said than done, immediately, if not sooner; tout vient a temps pour qui sait attendre. |
Fashion | Phrase: a la francaise, a la parisienne; a l' anglaise, a l' americaine; autre temps autre mauers; chaque pays a sa guise. |
Inaction | Adverb: re infecta, at a stand, les bras croisis, with folded arms; with the hands in the pockets, with the hands behind one's back; pour passer le temps. |
Perseverance | Phrase: never say die; give it the old college try; vestigia nulla retrorsum; aut vincer aut mori; la garde meurt et ne se rend pas; tout vient a temps pour qui sait attendre. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: TEMPS |
| Specialty definitions using "TEMPS": Little Red Ridinghood ♦ temps de débouclement, temps de touche, time engineered study. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "TEMPS": Contretemps. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "TEMPS" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Catalan (time, while), French (beat, Eon, era, season, tense, time, weather, while), French Canadian (time), Provencal (weather). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Si j'étais aveugle, je passerais mon temps à caresser ton visage. (Sirène du Mississippi, La; writing credit: François Truffaut) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Avec le temps (1974) C'est votre plus beau temps! (1974) Le Temps d'un portrait (1972) Un temps pour la mémoire (1970) Le Temps de mourir (1970) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Vue du Cours de Marseilles. : Dessiné du temps de la peste en 1720.Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Vue du Port de Marceille prise de l'Hotel de Ville : Dessine du temps de la peste en 1720.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Protégez votre enfant à temps : vaccination.Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Du Temps.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Le collier de fer, châtiment des fugitifs ; Nègres en commission, par un temps de pluie ; Transport de tuiles / J.B. Debret, delt. ; lith. de Thierry Frères, succ. de Engelmann & Cie.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | A temps nouveaux, Belgique nouvelle : pour reconnaitre et organiser les communautes unies dans une Belgique nouvelle, votez 4 socialiste!!!.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Centre national des independants et paysans continuateur d'Antoine Pinay pour un vrai liberalisme seule voie humaine de notre temps ... : votez pour le candidat soutenu par le C.N.I.P.-- [blank].Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Chad | Unlike in past years, in late 2000 and early in the year, the Government retaliated against two opposition newspapers, N'Djamena Bi-Hebdo and Le Temps. (references) |
Chad | At the same time, members of the Presidential Guard sued Didama for defamation after Le Temps printed a communique released by an armed rebel group, listing those killed in a December 2000 skirmish between rebels and loyalists in the Tibesti. (references) | |
Economic History | Chad | Other weekly newspapers include L'Observateur, Le Temps and Notre Temps. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "TEMPS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 55.07% of the time. "TEMPS" is used about 69 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 55.07% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Noun (proper) | 24.64% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 20.29% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Total | 100.00% | 69 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "TEMPS": autre temps autre mauers ♦ pour passer le temps ♦ temps de débouclement ♦ temps de touche ♦ tout vient a temps pour qui sait attendre. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
account temps | 362 |
net temps | 327 |
temps | 252 |
enterprise temps | 84 |
kelly temps | 28 |
le temps | 26 |
office temps | 25 |
aztec temps | 21 |
temps water | 21 |
du gestion temps | 18 |
ocean temps | 18 |
l air du temps | 17 |
inc sos temps | 17 |
area temps | 17 |
sos temps | 16 |
accounting temps | 15 |
partiel revenu temps | 14 |
attorney denver temps | 14 |
houston legal secretary temps | 14 |
houston lawyer temps | 14 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "TEMPS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | choc en deux temps (choc en deux temps). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | choc en deux temps (choc en deux temps). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | choc en deux temps (choc en deux temps). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | empstay choque em dois tempos (choc en deux temps). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "TEMPS": contretemps. (additional references) | |
Words containing "TEMPS": metempsychoses, metempsychosis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "TEMPS" (pronounced te"mps) |
| 3 | -m p s | Blimps, bumps, camps, Champs, chimps, clamps, clumps, contretemps, cramps, crimps, damps, dumps, glimpse, jumps, lamps, limps, lumps, mumps, pimps, pumps, ramps, revamps, slumps, stamps, stumps, swamps, tamps, thumps, trumps, unclamps, wimps. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-m-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: pest, pets, sept, stem, step, temp. | |
-2 letters: ems, met, pes, pet, set. | |
-3 letters: em, es, et, me, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-m-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: septum, tempos, tempts. | |
+2 letters: amplest, coempts, dampest, empties, emptins, exempts, impaste, impetus, imprest, imputes, jimpest, limpest, limpets, metepas, metopes, metumps, miskept, misstep, mistype, mopiest, moppets, optimes, pastime, pelmets, permits, pietism, postmen, restamp, septime, septums, stamped, stamper, stomped, stomper, stumped, stumper, sumpter, tampers, tempehs, tempers, tempest, temples, trompes, uptimes. | |
+3 letters: amputees, apothems, attempts, bethumps, bumpiest, campiest, campsite, competes, compotes, computes, crumpets, dempster, dumpiest, dumpster, emptiers, emptiest, emptings, epistome, epitomes, gimpiest, hempiest, humpiest, impasted, impastes, imposted, imposter, imprests, imputers, jumpiest, lumpiest, mateship, mephitis, metopons, milepost, misspelt, misspent, missteps, mistyped, mistypes, nepotism, nymphets, optimise, palmiest, pastimes, payments, permutes, pietisms, pigments, pimentos, pipestem, plumiest, plummets, plumpest, polemist, pomfrets, postgame, preempts, prestamp, pretrims, primates, primmest, promotes, psammite, restamps, septimes, shipmate, shipment, simplest, smokepot, spectrum, spumiest, stampede, stampers, stepdame, stompers, strumpet, stumpage, stumpers, stumpier, sumpters, temperas, tempests, templars, templets, tempters, tempuras, thumpers, trampers, tramples, trumpets, upstream, uptempos, wimpiest. | |
+4 letters: amputates, apothegms, aspartame, asymptote, attempers, campsites, clumpiest, complects, completes, composite, composted, computers, contempts, copemates, crimpiest, dempsters, despotism, dimpliest, distemper, dumpsters, ectoplasm, empathies, empathise, emptiness, epistemic, epistomes, epitomise, euphemist, expertism, frumpiest, glumpiest, grumpiest, helpmates, helpmeets, hemipters, hepatomas, homeports, hypostome, impacters, imparters, impastoed, impatiens, impetigos, impetuous, impetuses, impieties, importers, imposters, impostume, imposture, impotents, leptosome, limpsiest, malaperts, mateships, mesophyte, metaphase, metaphors, mileposts, misparted, misreport, monotypes, mousetrap, multipeds, multiples, multistep, nepotisms, optimised, optimises, optimizes, orpiments, palmettes, palmettos, pamphlets, pantheism, paraments, pavements, paymaster, pediments, penstemon, peristome, permeates, pessimist, piedmonts, pimientos, pimpliest, pipestems, plantsmen, playmates, playtimes, plectrums, plumelets, plummiest, poeticism, polemists, preadmits, prelimits, prestamps, presummit, promoters, prompters, promptest, psammites, ptomaines, pumicites, rebaptism, reimports, restamped, retempers, rumpliest, septarium, shipmates, shipments, simpleton, skimpiest, smokepots, spearmint, spectrums, spermatia, spermatic, spermatid, sportsmen, spymaster, stampeded, stampeder, stampedes, stampless, steamship, stepdames, strumpets, stumpages, stumpiest, supremest, swampiest, sympetaly, tamperers, tapeworms, temperers, tempested, templates, temporals, temporise, temptress, tramplers, tumplines, tympanies, uppermost. | |
+5 letters: ambrotypes, ametropias, amplitudes, apartments, aposematic, aspartames, assumptive, asymptotes, atmosphere, campestral, compacters, compactest, compensate, completest, completist, complexest, components, composited, composites, copayments, crumpliest, despotisms, deutoplasm, diplomates, distempers, ectomorphs, ectoplasms, elopements, empathised, empathises, empathizes, empiricist, epiphytism, episiotomy, epitomised, epitomises, epitomizes, equipments, escapement, escarpment, euphemists, exemptions, expertisms, geotropism, hemoptyses, hemoptysis, hipsterism, homeopaths, hypostomes, hypsometer, imparities, imperators, imperfects, impetrates, implanters, implements, implicates, importunes, imposthume, impostumes, impostures, impotences, imprecates, imprinters, impunities, impurities, leptosomes, mastership, mentorship, mephitises, mercaptans, mesophytes, mesophytic, metacarpus, metaphases, metaphrase, metaphysic, metaplasia, metropolis, misadapted, miscompute, mispainted, mispatched, mispatches, misplanted, mispointed, misprinted, misreports, misstopped, mousetraps, multiphase, multiplets, multiplies, multispeed, myopathies, nameplates, neptuniums, nymphettes, optimizers, outpromise, overtrumps, palimpsest, palmettoes, palmitates, pantheisms, pantomimes, parameters, parchments, paymasters, peacetimes, pedometers, pegmatites, penstemons, pentagrams, pentstemon, penultimas, perimeters, periosteum, peristomes, permafrost, permanents, permittees, permitters, pessimists, petroleums, phlegmiest, placements, poeticisms, polemicist, polytheism, postbellum, postformed, postmarked, postmaster, postmodern, postmortem, potometers, preemptors, preformats, prematures, premoisten, presentism, prestamped, pretermits, primitives, promptness, protamines, protoderms, protostome, psalterium, pterygiums, pulmonates, punishment, pyrethrums, pyrometers, reattempts, rebaptisms, recomputes, reimplants, repayments, restamping, resumption, scepticism, scrimpiest, semipostal, semitropic, sempstress, separatism, septicemia, septicemic, shipmaster, shrimpiest, simpletons, skepticism, slimpsiest, slipstream, somatotype, spearmints, spermaceti, spermatial, spermatids, spermatium, spirometer, spirometry, springtime, spymasters, stampeders, stampeding, steamships, stepfamily, stepmother, streetlamp, subprimate, supersmart, suppertime, supplement, sympathies, sympathise, sympathize, sympatries, tempesting, temporised, temporises, temporizes, timepieces, toponymies, trapeziums, treponemas, treponemes, trumperies, trumpeters, tympanites. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 45 4D 50 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- . -- .--. ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01000101 01001101 01010000 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T E M P S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0045 004D 0050 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5439475053 |
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