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spare time |
1. n. Free time. |
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spare |
1. adj. Scanty; not abundant or plentiful. |
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a spare diet |
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2. adj. Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; chary. |
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3. adj. Being over and above what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous. |
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I have no spare time. |
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time |
1. n. The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past. |
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Time stops for nobody. the ebb and flow of time |
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2. n. (physics, usually) A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension. |
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Both science-fiction writers and physicists have written about travel through time. |
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3. n. (physics) Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy. |
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