0 past simple and past participle of time
1 to decide that something will happen at a particular time:
[ + to infinitive ] We timed our trip to coincide with my cousin's wedding.
If you time your departure carefully, you should be able to miss the worst of the traffic.
The girls' basketball team won the game with a perfectly timed shot (= one played at exactly the right moment), just before the buzzer.
2 to measure how long it takes for something to happen or for someone to do something:
Due to the fact that multiple environmental signals regulate dormancy, seedling emergence in these species is timed very accurately in spring.
Lighting was used with precision to create carefully timed dramatic moments in particular songs.
Their arrival in the colony could not have been more badly timed, coinciding with the 1918 influenza pandemic.
Entrances and exits are timed with exquisite precision.
A property corresponding to (4) does not hold for output delayed functions (and therefore neither for general timed functions).
Activity was assessed by monitoring six different independent categories of murine behaviour, which were independently timed and categorized.
