timer

Definition

  • noun: a special watch that is used to measure the amount of time that is taken to finish a race, a test, etc.
  • noun: one that 'times'
  • often used after 'on'
  • synonyms: big ben, annalist, automatic switch

Examples

  • Some of the employees are 'full-timers', but most of them are part-timers.

  • Some of the employees are full-timers, but most of them are 'part-timers'.

  • It's good for 'old-timers' like me to have young people around.

Movie quotes

  • (..) the warhead to the center of downtown. That puts a hundred thousand civilians in the blast radius. And we can't stop it remotely. An analog timer has been installed and the MUTOs are frying electronics within a five mile bubble. It means approaching from ground is not an option. That's why we'll be (..)
    2014 Godzilla
  • (..) To reproduce. Current tracking models indicate that all three targets are converging here, San Francisco Bay. But if we rig a nuclear warhead with a shielded timer, put it on a boat and send it twenty miles out, the radiation lures the MUTOs, and the MUTOs lure Godzilla. (..)
    2014 Godzilla