timer

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪmɚ/

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• Rhymes: -aɪmə(ɹ)

time (verb) +‎ -er

timer (plural timers)

1. Agent noun of time: someone or something that times.
   1. A device used to measure amounts of time.

      Synonym: timepiece

      start the timer when you hear the gunshot

   2. Any electronic function that causes a device to be able to do something automatically after a preset amount of time.
   3. A person who records the time elapsed in a sporting event.

      Synonym: timekeeper

• two-timer

• → Japanese: タイマー (taimā)\
• → Korean: 타이머 (taimeo)
• → Russian: та́ймер (tájmer)
  • → Kazakh: таймер (taimer)
• → Ukrainian: та́ймер (tájmer)

time (noun) +‎ -er (measurement suffix) or +‎ -er (occupational suffix)

timer (plural timers) (in combination)

1. One who has done something a certain number of times.

   third-timer

2. One characterized by a certain time or time frame, such as their work hours.

• one-timer

• “timer”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “timer”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “timer”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “timer” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Terim, ermit, merit, miter, mitre, remit

Borrowed from English timer.

• IPA^(key): /tajmər/, [ˈtˢɑjmɐ]

timer c (singular definite timeren, plural indefinite timere)

1. timer

See time (“hour”).

• IPA^(key): /tiːmər/, [ˈtˢiːmɐ]

timer c pl

1. plural indefinite of time

See time (“to time”).

• IPA^(key): /tajmər/, [ˈtˢɑjmɐ]

timer

1. present tense of time

timer

1. to dread, fear

Borrowed from English timer.

timer m (invariable)

1. timer (device)

   Synonym: temporizzatore

• merti, metri, mitre, termi, tremi

timer m pl

1. indefinite plural of time

Unadapted borrowing from English timer.

timer m (plural timers)

1. timer (device used to measure time)

   Synonym: temporizador