[
US
/ˈtaɪmɝ/
]
[ UK /tˈaɪmɐ/ ]
[ UK /tˈaɪmɐ/ ]
NOUN
- (sports) an official who keeps track of the time elapsed
- a timepiece that measures a time interval and signals its end
- a regulator that activates or deactivates a mechanism at set times
How To Use timer In A Sentence
- It will not matter, however, whether the part-timer or the full-timer are working on fixed-term or permanent contracts.
- The company employs six full-timers and one part-time worker.
- The wooden matches were glued to the dial of the manual kitchen timer.
- When the water begins to simmer, set the timer for 6 minutes for a "squidgy" centre and 7 minutes for a hard centre. Archive 2007-04-01
- For the floors above, we can use temporary airsealing floor by floor, and portable equipment; when we have things atmosphered and lighted and heated, you and Martha and Tony Lattimer can go to work systematically and in comfort, and I'll give you all the help I can spare from the other work. Omnilingual
- Some of these can be programmed with buttons on the timer; some must be connected to a computer to select the times.
- Each of the slave nodes has a timer programmed with a separate failure mode detection time period.
- They then entered Isabella's chamber, where they found her together with Mortimer and the Bishop of Lincoln.
- Wall Street's old-timers knew from hard experience that, despite the hype, the market could not escape the law of gravity.
- Put simply, National Geographic picked up on a story of a couple who, having set the autotimer on their camera to take a holiday snap of themselves, found their picture ruined by a curious squirrel 'portrait-crashing'. Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege