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TEMPS

Definition: TEMPS

TEMPS

Noun

1. Time.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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)

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: TEMPS

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.

EntrySourceExpressionField
TEVGFrenchTemps d'éjection ventriculaire gaucheMedicine

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms within Context: TEMPS

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: TEMPS

Specialty definitions using "TEMPS": Little Red Ridinghoodtemps 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).

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Modern Usage: TEMPS

DomainUsage

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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Commercial Usage: TEMPS

DomainTitle

Books

  • A L'Ombre Des Jeunes Filles En Fleurs, Book 2: A LA Recherche Du Temps Perdu (reference)

  • Au Temps Du Fleuve Amour (reference)

  • De Rome a LA Chine: Sur Les Routes De LA Soie Au Temps Des Cé (reference)

  • Le Temps Dapprendre a Vivre (reference)

  • Le Temps Des Plenitudes: Conquete de L'Harmonie Interieure (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

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

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Photo Album: TEMPS

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & 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.

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Non-Fiction Usage: TEMPS

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: TEMPS

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)55.07%3855,818
Noun (proper)24.64%1785,106
Lexical Verb (-s form)20.29%1493,893
                    Total100.00%69N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: TEMPS

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TEMPS

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translations: TEMPS

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

   

Portuguese

  

choque em dois tempos (choc en deux temps). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: TEMPS

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).

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Rhyming with "TEMPS"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "TEMPS" (pronounced te"mps)
3-m p sBlimps, 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.

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Anagrams: TEMPS

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TEMPS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 45 4D 50 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    .    --    .--.    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01000101 01001101 01010000 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#69 &#77 &#80 &#83

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5439475053

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Abbreviations
12. Acronyms
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Orthography
17. Bibliography


  

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