English Phrase of the Day

on time

Definitions

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on time
1. adj. Punctual or according to schedule.
2. adv. Punctually or according to the schedule.
The train arrived on time for the first time this week.
3. adv. By installments, payments over a period of time.
They bought their dining-room furniture on time.
4. adv. (chess) By a player's running out of time.
Smith beat Jones on time.
Analysis
on
1. adj. In the state of being active, functioning or operating.
2. adj. Performing according to schedule.
Are we still on for tonight?
Is the show still on?
3. adj. (chiefly UK, informal, usually negative) Acceptable, appropriate.
time
1. n. The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past.
Time stops for nobody. the ebb and flow of time
2. n. (physics, usually) A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
Both science-fiction writers and physicists have written about travel through time.
3. n. (physics) Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.

Example Sentences

You're not always on time, you know.

Rob was dubious, but I got him there on time.

The point is, I have said I will be there at exactly five thirty and due to a range of completely unforeseen delays and obstacles I cannot be on time.

I heard that you're even getting the invoices processed on time.

I imagine the play must have stunned Sydney's vestal theater goers, with it's haphazard mixing on time periods bringing out the irony of the two cultures.

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