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times | session |

As a proper noun times

is (newspapers) a common name (often in combination) for a newspaper or periodical, especially , etc.

As a noun session is

a period devoted to a particular activity.

times

English

Noun

  • English plurals
  • The circumstances of a certain time.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}
  • A person's experiences or biography.

    • Derived terms

    * good times * keep up with the times * sign of the times * straitened times * times fixed charges * times-interest-earned ratio * Times

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Product of the previous number and the following number.
    • Four times five is twenty.
    One times one is one.

    Derived terms

    * times-or-divided-by * times sign * times table

    Related terms

    * (the multiplication sign)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (time)

    • Verb

  • (informal, arithmetic) To multiply.
  • * 1994 , Harvey Mellar, Learning with artificial worlds: computer-based modelling in the curriculum
    • I've taken the calories and the amount of food . . . and it's 410 calories per portion timesed by 6 portions which (SIC) the answer was 2460 calories...
  • * 1995 , Mathematical Association, The Australian mathematics teacher, Volumes 51-53
    • A student as junior as Year 4 informed me that he made a forward estimate of cheeses in 100 trials by 'timesing both numbers by 10'...
  • * 1998 , Psychology of mathematics education, Volume 2
    • Alex: Yeah - if you're timesing that distance there by this height, it will disappear.

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    session

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A period devoted to a particular activity.
    • a training session
    "Are we having a recording session'''?" / "Yes. We've even got some '''session musicians to provide some brass."
  • *
  • A meeting of a council, court, or legislative body to conduct its business.
    • This court is now in session .
  • (computing) The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.
    • Logging out or shutting down the computer will end your session .
  • (cricket) Any of the three scheduled two hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play.
  • (obsolete) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
  • * Hooker
    • So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import.
  • * Tennyson
    • But Vivien, gathering somewhat of his mood, / Leaped from her session on his lap, and stood.

    Derived terms

    * bull session * session ale, session beer, session bitter * sessionless

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