timer

time +‎ -er

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪmɚ/

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• Rhymes: -aɪmə(ɹ)

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

• 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

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

• programmable
• time switch

• “timer”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “timer”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “timer”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• “timer” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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

Borrowed from English timer.

• IPA^(key): /tajmər/, [ˈtˢɑjmɐ]

timer c (singular definite timeren, plural indefinite timere)

1. timer

See time (“hour”).

• IPA^(key): /tiːmər/, [ˈtˢiːmɐ]

timer c pl

1. plural indefinite of time

See time (“to time”).

• IPA^(key): /tajmər/, [ˈtˢɑjmɐ]

timer

1. present tense of time

timer

1. to dread, fear

Borrowed from English timer.

timer m (invariable)

1. timer (device)

   Synonym: temporizzatore

• merti, metri, mitre, termi, tremi

timer m pl

1. indefinite plural of time

Unadapted borrowing from English timer.

timer m (plural timers)

1. timer (device used to measure time)

   Synonym: temporizador