timer

English

Etymology

time +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪmɚ/

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• Rhymes: -aɪmə(ɹ)

Noun

timer (plural timers)

1. Someone or something which times.
2. A device used to measure amounts of time.

   Synonym: timepiece

   start the timer when you hear the gunshot

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

   Synonym: timekeeper

Derived terms

• big-timer
• chess timer
• egg timer, egg-timer
• first-timer
• full-timer
• good-timer
• half-timer
• kitchen timer
• old timer
• one-timer
• part-timer
• sand timer
• short-timer
• small-timer
• two-timer
• watchdog timer

Descendants

• → Japanese: タイマー (taimā)
• → Korean: 타이머 (taimeo)

Translations

person

• Bulgarian: хронометрист m (hronometrist)
• Finnish: ajanottaja (fi)
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device

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: temporitzador m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 定時器／定时器 (zh) (dìngshíqì), 定时器 (zh) (dìngshíqì), 計時器／计时器 (zh) (jìshíqì), 计时器 (zh) (jìshíqì)

• Czech: minutka (cs) f, časovač m
• Danish: nedtællingsur n, timer c
• Dutch: timer (nl) m, eierwekker m
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: taimer
• Finnish: kello (fi), ajastin (fi)
• French: minuteur (fr) m, commutateur (d'allumage, de temporisation) m, minuterie (fr) f (du four, micro-ondes, bombe) compte-minutes (fr) m
• German: Schaltuhr f, Zeitschaltuhr (de) f
• Hebrew: טיימר m (táymer)
• Hungarian: időzítő
• Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: temporizzatore (it) m
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• Japanese: タイマー (ja) (taimā)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 타이머 (taimeo)
• Maori: inewā
• Persian: زمان‌سنج (zamân-sanj), تایمر (fa) (tâymer)
• Polish: minutnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: temporizador m, timer (pt) m
• Romanian: releu de timp n, cronometru (ro) n, cronograf (ro) n, regulator de timp, timpizor n
• Russian: та́ймер (ru) m (tájmer), реле́ вре́мени n (rɛlé vrémeni)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: odbrojavač vremena m

• Spanish: temporizador (es) m
• Tagalog: pang-oras
• Thai: เครื่องจับเวลา
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Volapük: timimafian

electronic function

• Bulgarian: таймер m (tajmer)
• Finnish: ajastin (fi)
• French: minuterie (fr) f
• German: Timer m
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• Italian: timer (it) m, contaminuti m
• Portuguese: temporizador m
• Spanish: temporizador (es) m

timekeeper — see timekeeper

See also

• programmable
• time switch

Anagrams

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

Further reading

• “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 Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.

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Danish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English timer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tajmər/, [ˈtˢɑjmɐ]

Noun

timer c (singular definite timeren, plural indefinite timere)

1. timer

Inflection

Declension of timer

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	timer	timeren	timere	timerne
genitive	timers	timerens	timeres	timernes

Etymology 2

See time (“hour”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiːmər/, [ˈtˢiːmɐ]

Noun

timer c pl

1. plural indefinite of time

Etymology 3

See time (“to time”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tajmər/, [ˈtˢɑjmɐ]

Verb

timer

1. present tense of time

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Interlingua

Verb

timer

1. to dread, fear

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English timer.

Noun

timer m (invariable)

1. timer (device)

   Synonym: temporizzatore

Anagrams

• merti, metri, mitre, termi, tremi

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

timer m pl

1. indefinite plural of time

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English timer.

Noun

timer m (plural timers)

1. timer (device used to measure time)

   Synonym: temporizador