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  • 61time — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Measurement of duration Nouns 1. time, duration; period, term, stage, space, span, spell, season; fourth dimension; the whole time; era, epoch, age, aeon; time of life; moment, instant, instantaneity,… …

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  • 62take the plunge — COMMIT ONESELF, go for it, throw caution to the wind(s), risk it; informal jump in at the deep end, go for broke. → plunge * * * take the plunge To commit oneself definitely after hesitation • • • Main Entry: ↑plunge * * * take the plunge phrase… …

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  • 63long — 1. adjective /lɒŋ,lɔŋ,lɑŋ/ a) Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point . Its a long way from the Earth to the Moon. b) Having great duration. The pyramids of Egypt have been around for a …

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  • 64take off — verb 1. leave (Freq. 15) The family took off for Florida • Syn: ↑depart, ↑part, ↑start, ↑start out, ↑set forth, ↑set off, ↑set out …

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  • 65time — /taɪm / (say tuym) noun 1. the system of those relations which any event has to any other as past, present, or future; indefinite continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another. 2. duration regarded as belonging to the… …

  • 66long — /lɒŋ/ adjective for a large period of time ♦ in the long term over a long period of time ♦ to take the long view to plan for a long period before current investment becomes profitable ♦ to be long of a stock or to go long to buy a share as a long …

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  • 67Time of Your Life (chanson) — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Time of Your Life. Time of Your Life est une courte chanson utilisée par la célèbre marque de boissons Pepsi pour promouvoir son cola en 2006. Mariah Carey a accepté, parmi d autres (entre autres Britney Spears,… …

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  • 68take — {{11}}take (n.) 1650s, that which is taken in payment, from TAKE (Cf. take) (v.). Sense of money taken in by a single performance, etc., is from 1931. Movie making sense is recorded from 1927. Criminal sense of money acquired by theft is from… …

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  • 69Take It Easy — Infobox Single Name = Take It Easy Artist = Eagles from Album = Eagles B side = Get You in the Mood Released = May 1, 1972 Format = 7 Recorded = Genre = Rock, Country rock Length = 3:30 Label = Asylum Writer = Jackson Browne, Glenn Frey Producer …

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  • 70Time constant — In physics and engineering, the time constant usually denoted by the Greek letter au , (tau), characterizes the frequency response of a first order, linear time invariant (LTI) system. Examples include electrical RC circuits and RL circuits. It… …

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