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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
timing
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sense of timing (=the ability to choose the right moment to do or say something)
▪ He told the story with an exquisite sense of timing.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
▪ I think the main ingredient for success is that you have to have a good sense of timing.
▪ Timing Everything happens so much quicker in stronger winds, so a good sense of timing is needed.
▪ It can be a matter of good timing - and timing as well as luck plays a part in working with nationals.
▪ The second requirement is that of good timing.
▪ That is good timing, n'est-ce pas?
perfect
▪ Chapman, with perfect timing, anticipated events by arranging to meet Stephenson at Leeds, on his way home from Birmingham.
▪ Though not the most powerful punch ever thrown, Stretch's right hook was delivered with perfect timing.
▪ The ability of a salesperson to turn the objection into a trial close is dependent upon perfect timing and considerable judgment.
▪ The club was set up late last year, with perfect timing.
▪ Then, with perfect timing, another element entered my life that was soon to prove so important.
▪ For Franco, this was perfect timing for his end-of-year speech.
▪ The Beckwith brothers and Tony Clegg exited from property shares with perfect timing just before the current disastrous recession.
precise
▪ But that does not explain the precise timing.
▪ The problem of historians is to analyse the reasons and the precise timing of the changes.
▪ This kind of action needs precise timing and director Mike Alfreds and his 14 strong cast provide the elegantly energetic execution required.
▪ The precise timing will depend on the convenience of one's clients and the need to obtain a mortgage advance cheque.
▪ If they are rational, firms will realize that such disturbances can occur, even though they can not forecast their precise timing.
▪ The precise timing of this process is largely irrelevant.
▪ The precise timing of this decision remains a mystery.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Well, life's just full of surprises," she retorted, with a comic's perfect timing.
▪ Even at the end, George Burns never lost his impeccable sense of timing.
▪ He eventually played in another 28 games, but his timing and rhythm never returned.
▪ The voter survey is crucial to the timing of the election.
▪ When you're a comedian, timing is very important.
▪ You guys have good timing, we just started to eat.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A form is a predetermined pattern of techniques that ties together proper posture, balance, coordination and timing.
▪ If guides are to be distributed to students, the timing of this should be planned.
▪ It was not the medium itself, but the poor timing and targeting, that rendered mail junk.
▪ Only recently has the importance of the timing of insulin injections in relation to meals become fully realised.
▪ The first consideration is the timing of the campaign during the year.
▪ This is a major undertaking and constitutes a special project in terms of budgeting, staffing and timing.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Timing

Time \Time\ (t[imac]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Timed (t[imac]md); p. pr. & vb. n. Timing.]

  1. To appoint the time for; to bring, begin, or perform at the proper season or time; as, he timed his appearance rightly.

    There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
    --Bacon.

  2. To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.

    Who overlooked the oars, and timed the stroke.
    --Addison.

    He was a thing of blood, whose every motion Was timed with dying cries.
    --Shak.

  3. To ascertain or record the time, duration, or rate of; as, to time the speed of horses, or hours for workmen.

  4. To measure, as in music or harmony.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
timing

mid-13c., "a happening," verbal noun from time (v.). From 1590s as "the noting or recording of time;" 1915 as "coordination of moving parts in a machinery."

Wiktionary
timing

n. 1 (context obsolete English) An occurrence or event. 2 (context uncountable English) The regulation of the pace of e.g. an athletic race, the speed of an engine, the delivery of a joke, or the occurrence of a series of events. 3 (context uncountable English) The time when something happens. 4 (context uncountable English) The synchronization of the firing of the spark plugs in an internal combustion engine. 5 (context countable English) An instance of recording the time of something. vb. (present participle of time English)

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WordNet
timing

n. the time when something happens

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Wikipedia
Timing (Kim Hyun-joong album)

Timing is Kim Hyun-joong's fourth Korean mini-album, which was released on July 11, 2014 under KeyEast.

The album was preceded by the pre-release single, "His Habit", released on July 4, 2014. The track "Beauty Beauty" was released one week after, together with the album on July 11.

Timing (film)

Timing is a 2014 South Korean animated film based on the webtoon of the same name by cartoonist Kang Full. The film was directed by Min Kyung-jo, and features the voices of Park Ji-yoon, Um Sang-hyun, Ryu Seung-gon, Yeo Min-jeong, Sim Gyu-hyuk and Sung Wan-kyung.

Timing (manhwa)

Timing is a South Korean manhwa series written and illustrated by Kang Full. Started on June, 2005, this webtoon manhwa was released on Daum. The print release of the first volume of Timing was released in August 5, 2006. The comics have been adapted into a film of the same name.

Timing

Timing is the time when something happens or the spacing of events in time. "Timing" also means the tracking of time when an event is happening in time. Good timing is having waited for the right moment to match parts that belong together.

Timing may also refer to:

  • Timing (comedy), use of rhythm, tempo and pausing to enhance comedy and humour
  • Timing (linguistics), rhythmic division of time into equal portions by a language
  • Timing (music), ability to "keep time" accurately and to synchronise to an ensemble
  • Color timing, photochemical process of altering and enhancing the color of an image
  • Ignition timing, timing of piston and crankshaft so that a spark will occur near the end of the compression stroke
  • Market timing, by attempting to predict future market price movements
  • Memory timings (or RAM timings), measure the performance of DRAM memory
  • Timekeeping, the process of measuring the passage of time
  • Synchronization, timing a process relative to another process
  • Swing timing, timing contact with a ball in various sports such as baseball, cricket, tennis or golf
  • Timing (manhwa), a South Korean manhwa
  • "Timing" (song), Black Biscuits's second single
  • Timing (Kim Hyun-joong album), 2014
  • Timing (film), a 2014 Korean film
Timing (music)

Timing in music refers to the ability to "keep time" accurately and to synchronise to an ensemble, as well as to expressive timing—subtle adjustment of note or beat duration, or of tempo, for aesthetic effect.

Research in music cognition has shown that time as a subjective structuring of events in music differs from the concept of time in physics. Listeners to music do not perceive rhythm on a continuous scale, but recognise rhythmic categories that function as a reference relative to which the deviations in timing can be appreciated. In fact temporal patterns in music combine two different time scales—rhythmic durations such as half and quarter notes on the one hand, and on the other, the continuous timing variations that characterize an expressive musical performance.

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Usage examples of "timing".

Old World, then, the location and timing of agriculture is understood, as are the plants and animals on which it was based.

Behind these small ships, the overlapped shields of the foremost ballistas flickered imperceptibly in precise timing as they launched a volley of defensive projectile fire, driving back the first robot assault, annihilating many of the machine suicide ships before they could get through.

Several of them, including Senator Lott and Representative Dick Armey, criticized the timing of the attacks, saying I had ordered them in order to delay the House vote on impeachment.

Through a freak of timing, it missed Bink and clubbed into the trunk of the needle cactus.

Eventually about six of us all bumped into one another, flapping about our timings.

I was particularly anxious that there should be no misunderstanding in our timing and signals, and I made Chubby repeat them twice.

Basically, Enron would make a massive bet on the timing of deregulation, with losses piling up until new rules came about.

Local dispatch got about ten calls in the last few minutes, all witnesses timing the explosion at roughly the same moment the Ugly Duckling went up.

The second involved a slew of matters relevant to the Orion investigation, which Gordian was continuing to view as a separate affair for the present, although the close timing of the episodes in Florida and Brazil, and the fact that both would have damaging repercussions for the ISS program, made it impossible to avoid the possibility of some connection between them.

The almost continuous exchange of encrypted human information--bearings, timing, logistic concerns, and good-natured jibes--passing between the divers, the Hawkbill, and the Rush-more now gave way to the sound of automated machines.

Bob Renwick ii thinking of an indirect way to reach Basset, make hirn listen, but only when the timing is right.

In fact, its timing seemed downright providential when, less than a year later, Walton learned that he had contracted a disease far more lethal than leukemia: multiple myeloma, or malignant cancer of the bone marrow.

This was the first time he was aware of Mysterioso watching his act, but the timing of his appearances in the wings suggested he knew exactly when Carter would be facing stage left or stage right.

There have also been some indications of extrasolar planets from observations of the occultation of starlight when the planet passes in front of the star along our line of sight, from gravitational microlensing that changes the intensity of a background star, and from timing of the pulses from neutron stars with planets in orbit.

I had the timing wrong, but I do not like paupiettes enough to give it a second try.