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Dictionary quizzes to help you remember the meaning

Dictionary quizzes to help you remember the meaning

keep time

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Source Word

keep time

Verb

Japanese Meaning

時間を計測する / 時刻を正しく表示する / 他の人と同調して規則正しい動きをする

What is this buttons?

I use a metronome to keep time during practice.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

練習中、メトロノームで時間を測ります。

Sense（1）

To measure time.

Sense（2）

To indicate the time correctly (of a timepiece).

How well does this old watch keep time?

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Sense（3）

To make any regular rhythmical movements at the same time with others.

He couldn't carry a tune in a wheelbarrow, but he keeps time like a damn machine.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（4）

To control the beat or rhythm of a song played by a music group.

Isn't one of the conductor's main jobs to keep time?

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Sense（5）

(e.g. of a train) To maintain a schedule set out in a timetable.

We never had a chance even to attempt to keep time. An empty stock train from Stewarts Lane was given the road just ahead of us, and from Grosvenor Bridge to Herne Hill we had the signals against us all the way.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

keeps time

（ present singular third-person ）

keeping time

（ participle present ）

kept time

（ participle past ）

kept time

（ past ）

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