Definition of times in English:
times
verbtimesed, timesing, timeses tʌɪmz
[with object]informal Multiply (a number)
you times the six by four to get twenty-four
Example sentencesExamples
- They have now at this point five times more the number of seats in parliament than they had before.
- Now I knew how long Brenda would take to get an eighth of the way around, so I timesed 3 by 8.
- Something that looks cheap when buying one is still a huge amount timesed by 100!
- International travelers, who surveys indicate spend six times what domestic tourists do in New York, have largely disappeared.
- Perhaps those candidates who couldn't do timesing and taking away were part of the 1% who failed.
- Little wonder the city's homicide rate stands at 10 times the national average.
- Then I took the 36 grams of carbohydrates and timesed that by the number of carbohydrates and I got 144.
- In the process it has been thickened to nearly 2.5 times the worldwide average.
- If a times b is seven hundred and six and one fiftieth, and if c is thirty six and nine tenths more than a.
- The men's suicide rate is three and a half times higher.
- Sales top $1,000 per square foot, three times the industry average.
- That number was then timesed by 3 and the minus sign was added again.
- It was like the worst thunder storm in the world timesed by fifty!
- Pike said the airline spent four times more money running the service than it received in revenue.
- Individuals who report insomnia lasting for one year are forty times more likely than normal to develop clinical depression.
- Myocardial infarction is 4.2 times more likely to occur within an hour of smoking cannabis.
- I believe I can build a company ten times the size without a desk.
- I left the shop 30 minutes later, having spent four times what I had anticipated.
- But a ship five times their size would seem impossible… or is it?
- On average, the $5,500 is matched by seven times the grant amount.
- Four hours later, he was found one and a half times over the drink-drive limit.
- He sees his brothers with four times the amount of money in their pockets.
- And it will differ from developments in America in only one respect: it will happen many times faster.
- "We're ten times the size of anyone else, " Pierce bragged.
Origin
Late 19th century (in a sense relating to the number of times that a specific dimension is to be repeated in quantitive surveying): use as a verb of times expressing multiplication (dating from late Middle English): see time (sense 5 of the noun).