English Dictionary

keep time

動詞

To measure time. / To indicate the time correctly (of a timepiece). / To make any regular rhythmical movements at the same time with others.

日本語の意味

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

I use a metronome to keep time during practice.

練習中、メトロノームで時間を測ります。

意味（1）

To measure time.

意味（2）

To indicate the time correctly (of a timepiece).

How well does this old watch keep time?

意味（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.

意味（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?

意味（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.

keeps time （ present singular third-person ）

keeping time （ participle present ）

kept time （ participle past ）

kept time （ past ）