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Timing vs Punctually - What's the difference?

timing | punctually |

As a noun timing

is (obsolete) an occurrence or event.

As a verb timing

is .

As an adverb punctually is

in a punctual manner; on time.

timing

English

Noun

  • (obsolete) An occurrence or event.
  • (uncountable) 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.
  • (uncountable) The time when something happens.
  • (uncountable) The synchronization of the firing of the spark plugs in an internal combustion engine.
  • (countable) An instance of recording the time of something.

    • Derived terms

    * active timing * attack timing * back-timing * basic ignition timing * basic timing * color timing * comic timing * computer-controlled timing * continuous variable valve timing * dynamic ignition timing * ignition timing * market timing * sequential valve timing * signal timing * stress timing * syllable timing * targa timing * target timing * valve timing * variable cam timing * variable valve timing

    Verb

    (head)
    • ----

    punctually

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a punctual manner; on time.
  • (archaic) precisely; exactly; minutely.
  • * 1887 Robert Louis Stevenson, Books which Influenced Me :
    • To understand that he is not punctually right, nor those from whom he differs absolutely wrong.