timed

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of time.

   He timed his arrival to match the train's departure.

   The runners were timed individually at the finish line.

   Note

   One spelling does both jobs because the verb is regular: she timed it as finite past, it was timed as participle. Two meanings of the verb carry most uses. One is measuring a duration, as with runners at a finish line. The other is choosing the moment, as with an arrival timed to a train. Its older meanings of keeping time or delaying are obsolete, so the form rarely carries them now.

2. 2
   adjective

   Arranged or set to occur at a specific, predetermined moment.

   Like a train scheduled to depart precisely on the hour.

   The gallery uses timed tickets to control how many visitors enter each hour.

   A timed release of the album at noon created a surge of online orders.

   Similarscheduled

3. 3
   adjective

   Controlled or measured by a fixed period of time.

   Like a chess clock that limits how long each player can think.

   Athletes completed a timed sprint to qualify for the finals.

   The factory runs timed cycles to keep each step on schedule.

   Oppositeuntimed

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