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At One Time

Definition: At One Time

At One Time

Adverb

1. Simultaneously; "he took three cookies at a time".

2. At a previous time; "once he loved her"; "her erstwhile writing".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: At One Time

Synonyms: at a time (adv), at once (adv), erst (adv), erstwhile (adv), formerly (adv), once (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: At One Time

English words defined with "at one time": alar, Animal spiritsbrood, burster, bursting chargecharge, clear-cut, coursedaminozideexplosive chargeFirst or lastHanse townsimpressionload, loadingmailing, meal, Music penneedleful, Now and thenpipeful, prerecorded, printingrepastSaloop, StockdoveTo blow hot and coldUredo. (references)
Etymologies containing "at one time": Zinkenite. (references)

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Modern Usage: At One Time

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I've killed everything that walks or crawls at one time or another. (Unforgiven; writing credit: Walon Green; Roy N. Sickner)

Yes, it's about all they can handle at one time. (Hips, Hips, Hooray!; writing credit: Bert Kalmar; Edward Kaufman)

They took me off into a separate room; I seen 'em takin' different people off; different ones of us off in separate rooms and put me on a big white table and uh the guy that took me in there - to examine me I guess -- he probed me and then I was in there I bet more than three or four hours, in that room, being probed and at one time or another these different ones of 'em came in, four or five or six of 'em at different times, and all of 'em probed me, uh, not all at once, you know, individually. (Waiting for Guffman; writing credit: Christopher Guest; Eugene Levy)

You know, at one time, I used to break into pet shops to liberate the canaries. (Harold and Maude; writing credit: Colin Higgins)

Most women at one time or another have faked it. (When Harry Met Sally...; writing credit: Nora Ephron)

Lyrics

ALL AT ONE TIME (Come Back In One Piece; performing artist: Aaliyah)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: At One Time

DomainTitle

Books

  • Unpathed Waters: Account of the Life and Times of Joseph Huddart, Frs, at One Time a Captain in the Service of the Honorable East India (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: At One Time

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The HHV-6, or the human herpes virus-6, was thought to infect b-cells and was at one time called HBLV, human b-lymphotropic virus. It is now known to infect t-cells as well. The HHV-6 is a double stranded DNA virus of the herpes family. The virus particles shown here have matured and are then released from the lymphocyte which has been infected. The "owl's eye" appearance of the virus particles is characteristic of the herpes family. Credit: Bernard Kramarsky (photographer).

The photo of an electron micrograph of HHV-6 also includes a labeled insert of the mature virus particle. The HHV-6 is a double stranded DNA virus of the herpes family. The virus particles shown here have matured and are then released from the lymphocyte which has been infected. The "owl's eye" appearance of the virus particles is characteristic of the herpes family. The HHV-6, or the human herpes virus-6, was thought to infect b-cells and was at one time called HBLV, human b-lymphotropic virus. It is now known to infect t-cells and is the cause of the childhood rash "roseola" and some cases of mononucleosis. Credit: Bernard Kramarsky (photographer).

CDC clinic located at one time on the second floor of the Rialto Theater Building. Credit: CDC.

Aquanauts relax inside HYDROLAB; held 4 but only 3 could sleep at one time. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Are towed from the Nation's largest drydock, at San Francisco Naval Shipyard, while being prepared for inactivation and addition to the Pacific Reserve Fleet. "Constructed during the war, the 1100-foot drydock is capable of handling the largest ships afloat. Besides handling these two cruisers at one time, the huge dock has accomodated four attack transports in one operation. World's largest crane at right." Quoted passage is from the original caption, released with this photograph under date of 13 February 1948. Note many other laid-up ships in the area. Among them, at right, are USS Rockwall (APA-230) and USS Bottineau (APA-235). Credit: NAVY.

Six destroyers docked at one time in the Yard's concrete Dry Dock # 2, during the 1920s. These ships are all members of Destroyer Division 36. The three in front are (from left to right): USS Farenholt (DD-332), USS Sumner (DD-333) and USS Hull (DD-330). The drydock's dimensions, as given on the photograph, are 740 feet in length and 120 feet in width, with 30 feet of water over the sill. Credit: NAVY.

Grain elevator made from abandoned waste and sawdust burner at abandoned sawmill. Bonners Ferry, Idaho. At one time lumbering was first industry of this section, now cut-over farming ranks high. Credit: Library of Congress.

Houses that were moved to town from the country by General Jackson, former farmer now living in Plentywood, Montana. At one time he had 125 cattle; the other day he sold last cow. Buildings left in the country were usually wrecked or the lumber stolen for. Credit: Library of Congress.

Boston and Maine railroad shops at Billerica, Massachusetts. Stripping wire clean of its rubber is a law now. Even these small lengths of wire which at one time were thrown out will be stripped of all its rubber insulation which will then be reclaimes. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Use in Literature: At One Time

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

At one time Patty came to say she thought the kitchen chimney wanted sweeping.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

He only who denounces the success at one time has a right to proclaim the justice of the downfall.

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

At one time, owing to the emptiness of my purse, I saw none of it for more than a month.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: At One Time

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

At one time or another almost everyone gets constipated. (references)

Constipation affects almost everyone at one time or another. (references)

A large number of larvae invading the lungs at one time may cause pneumonia. (references)

Business

There are over 500 hours of programs to choose from at one time and the programs change every week. The viewers also have the ability to simultaneously access the Internet for more information on the programs that they are viewing. (references)

Economic History

Somalia

Petroleum exploration efforts, at one time under way, have ceased due to insecurity and instability. (references)

Eritrea

Although some EPLF cadres at one time espoused a Marxist ideology, Soviet support for Mengistu had cooled their ardor. (references)

Brunei Darussalam

The government uses its earnings in part to build up its foreign reserves, which at one time reportedly reached more than $30 billion. (references)

Human Rights

Egypt

At other prisons, restrictions have been placed on visits to prisoners who are incarcerated for political or terrorist crimes, limiting the number of visits allowed for each prisoner and the total number of visitors allowed in the prison at one time. (references)

Political Economy

Poland

Although all of Poland's major political parties at one time or another have exhibited some reservations about allowing foreigners to acquire dominant positions in strategic firms, the current government allows foreign investors to compete for controlling interests in all or most of those strategic firms undergoing privatization. (references)

Trade

Costa Rica

Banco Anglo Costarricense, at one time the third largest and oldest state commercial bank, was closed by the Central Bank's examiners office in 1995 after incurring US$ 200 million in losses due to bad loans and dubious investments in Venezuelan bonds that subsequently disappeared. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only. This important distinction between ubiquity and omnipresence was not clear to the mediaeval Church and there was much bloodshed about it. Certain Lutherans, who affirmed the presence everywhere of Christ's body were known as Ubiquitarians. For this error they were doubtless damned, for Christ's body is present only in the eucharist, though that sacrament may be performed in more than one place simultaneously. In recent times ubiquity has not always been understood -- not even by Sir Boyle Roche, for example, who held that a man cannot be in two places at once unless he is a bird.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: At One Time

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Bob Jones

Well, at one time the entire South was segregated. If you're going to say I'm a segregationist that because I grew up in a segregationist society, you're going to have to say that about everybody in the South.

Dennis Miller

Everyone in here has, at one time or another, been eating french fries in their car, dropped some, and actually dug into their crotch to find them and eat them.

Gennifer Flowers

My husband is an Arkansas insider, so to speak, in that he actually was Webb Hubbell's brother-in-law at one time.

Robert Wagner

I do. I got away from them at one time, and then I got back into it because of my daughter Natasha and now my wife Jill. She rides all the time. She really rides a lot now.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: At One Time

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837Happily for the interests of humanity, the hostilities with the Creeks were brought to a close soon after your adjournment, without that effusion of blood which at one time was apprehended as inevitable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translation: At One Time

Language Translations for "at one time"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

njëkohësisht (at once, at the same time, together), njëherë (at once, immediately, once, outright). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مرة واحدة (at one go, at one's disposal). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

в миналото (formerly). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

曾" (once), 一度 (for a time, once, one time). (various references)

   

Czech

  

najednou (all at once, all of a sudden, at once, on the instant, suddenly). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

aikoinaan (once, there is a time for everything), aikanaan (in due time, in time). (various references)

   

French

  

dans un coup (at one go). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

בעבר (ago). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

egyszer (on one occasion, once), egy alkalommal (on one occasion). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

一遍に , 一時に (at a time), 一時 (a time, moment, once, one hour, short time, temporarily, time, twelfth part of a day). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

いっぺ"に, いっとき (a time, once, one hour, short time, temporarily, twelfth part of a day), いちどきに (at a time), いちじ (a character, a letter, a time, first, first-order, linear, once, one hour, one thing, primary, short time, temporarily, twelfth part of a day). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atay oneay imetay

   

Russian 

  

в прошлом. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nekada (erstwhile, old: of old, sometimes, then, time: at one time, yore: of yore), jednom prilikom (time: at one time). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

en el pasado. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

på en gång (all at once, at once, at one go, outright). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

колись (afore, aforetime, before, before now, erst, ever, formerly, once, one day, sometime, sometimes), одночасно (simultaneously). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: At One Time

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

quondam. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: At One Time

LanguageDateSourceRomans Chapter 2, Verse 15
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintOitineV endeiknuntai to ergon tou nomou grapton en taiV kardiaiV autwn summarturoushV autwn thV suneidhsewV kai metaxu allhlwn twn logismwn kathgorountwn h kai apologoumenwn
Latin405VulgateQui ostendunt opus legis scriptum in cordibus suis testimonium reddente illis conscientia ipsorum et inter se invicem cogitationum accusantium aut etiam defendentium
Old English990West SaxonForðy hi gecyðað þæt þære æ dihtas sind gewriten on hiera heortum, and þæt hiera ingeðoncas sind eacswa gewitan and hwilum oncunnað hiera geðohtas hie, hwilum weriað þas hie.)
Middle English1395WyclifThat schewen the werk of the lawe writun in her hertis. For the conscience of hem yeldith to hem a witnessyng bytwixe hem silf of thouytis that ben accusynge or defendynge,
Renaissance English1526TyndaleWhich shewe the dede of the lawe wrytten in their hertes: whyll their conscience beareth witnes vnto them and also their thoughtes accusynge one another or excusynge
Jacobean English1611King JamesWhich shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
Victorian English1833WebsterWho show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing testimony, and their thoughts the mean while accusing, or else excusing one another)
Basic English1964OgdenBecause the work of the law is seen in their hearts, their sense of right and wrong giving witness to it, while their minds are at one time judging them and at another giving them approval;

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: At One Time

LanguageRomans Chapter 2, Verse 15
CebuanoSila nagapakita nga ang gimbut-an sa kasugoan nahisulat diha sa ilang mga kasingkasing, ug ang ilang tanlag usab magapamatuod niini ug ang ilang nagakasumpaki nga mga hunahuna magasumbong o tingali magapangulipas ba kanila
Croatianpokazuju da je ono što Zakon nalaže upisano u srcima njihovim. O tom svjedoèi i njihova savjest, a i prosuðivanja kojima se meðu sobom optužuju ili brane.
Danishde vise jo Lovens Gerning skreven i deres Hjerter, idet deres Samvittighed vidner med, og Tankerne indbyrdes anklage eller også forsvare hverandre
Finnishja osoittavat, että lain teot ovat kirjoitetut heidän sydämiinsä, kun heidän omatuntonsa myötä-todistaa ja heidän ajatuksensa keskenään syyttävät tai myös puolustavat heitä -
Frenchils montrent que l`oeuvre de la loi est écrite dans leurs coeurs, leur conscience en rendant témoignage, et leurs pensées s`accusant ou se défendant tour tour.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariKelakuan mereka menunjukkan bahwa apa yang diperintahkan oleh hukum itu tertulis di hati mereka. Hati nurani mereka pun membuktikan hal itu, sebab mereka sendiri ada kalanya disalahkan dan ada kalanya dibenarkan oleh pikiran mereka.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lamamelakukan diri seperti orang yang menunjukkan bahwa isi Taurat itu tertulis di dalam hatinya, dan perasaan hatinya menyaksikan demikian itu, dan pikiran mereka itu di antara sama sendirinya itu berbalah-balah atau pun membenarkan dia
Italianessi dimostrano che quanto la legge esige è scritto nei loro cuori come risulta dalla testimonianza della loro coscienza e dai loro stessi ragionamenti, che ora li accusano ora li difendono.
MaoriI te mea ka whakakite ratou i te mahi a te ture, he mea tuhituhi ki o ratou ngakau, me te whakaae tahi ano o ratou hinengaro, ko o ratou whakaaro kei te whakahehe, kei te whakatikatika ranei i a ratou;
Norwegiande viser at lovens gjerning er skrevet i deres hjerter, idet også deres samvittighet gir sitt vidnesbyrd, og deres tanker innbyrdes anklager eller også forsvarer dem -
Rumanianwi ei dovedesc cq lucrarea Legii este scrisq kn inimile lor; fiindcq despre lucrarea aceasta mqrturisewte cugetul lor wi gkndurile lor, cari sau se knvinovqyesc sau se desvinovqyesc kntre ele.
Shuarnu umireamujai Yus nu akupkamun ni Enentáin ikiursarua nuka paant nekaamniaiti. Nujai métek Túruiniak shiir Enentáimiainiawai. Tura métek Túruiniachkunka pénkercha Enentáimiainiawai.
SpanishEllos muestran la obra de la ley escrita en sus corazones, mientras que su conciencia concuerda en su testimonio; y sus razonamientos se acusan o se excusan unos a otros,
SwahiliMwenendo wao unaonyesha kwamba matakwa ya Sheria yameandikwa mioyoni mwao. Dhamiri zao zinashuhudia pia jambo hilo, maana fikira zao mara nyingine huwashtaki, na mara nyingine huwatetea.
Swedishdå de ju sålunda visa att lagens verk äro skrivna i deras hjärtan. Därom utgöra också deras egna samveten ett vittnesbörd, så ock, i den inbördes umgängelsen, deras tankar, när dessa anklaga eller ock försvara dem.
UmaNgkai po'ingku-ra toe, monoto-mi ta'inca karia-na parenta ngkai Atura Pue' te'uki' hi rala nono-ra. Ngkai pekiri-ra wo'o ta'inca karia-na atura hi rala nono-ra, apa' ra'uli' hi rala nono-ra: "Sala' kehi toe," ba ra'uli' "Lompe' kehi toe."

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: At One Time

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-m-n-o-t-t"

-2 letters: amniote, etamine, matinee, onetime, teatime, tomenta.

-3 letters: anomie, emetin, etamin, inmate, manito, mattin, meanie, metate, mitten, notate, omenta, tamein, teniae, tentie, titman, titmen, toneme.

-4 letters: ament, amine, amino, amnio, anime, atone, eaten, emote, enate, enema, entia, matin, matte, meant, menta, minae, monie, monte, motet, motte, oaten, taint, tanto, tenet, tenia, tinea, titan, toman.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-m-n-o-t-t"
 

+1 letter: maisonette, marionette.

 

+2 letters: actinometer, cementation, maisonettes, marionettes, witenagemot.

 

+3 letters: actinometers, actinomycete, cementations, committeeman, determinator, exterminator, fermentation, intermontane, nitromethane, segmentation, witenagemote, witenagemots.

 

+4 letters: actinometries, actinomycetes, contemplative, decontaminate, demonstrative, determination, determinators, extermination, exterminators, exterminatory, fermentations, magnetometric, nitromethanes, premeditation, reappointment, recontaminate, regimentation, remonstrative, sedimentation, segmentations, witenagemotes.

 

+5 letters: antigovernment, antimetabolite, committeewoman, contemplatives, decontaminated, decontaminates, delegitimation, demonetization, demonstratives, depigmentation, determinations, emotionalities, endotheliomata, extemporaneity, exterminations, geometrization, implementation, intermediation, intervalometer, magnetometries, overestimating, overestimation, paleomagnetist, premeditations, pretermination, reappointments, recontaminated, recontaminates, regimentations, remonetization, sedimentations, tatterdemalion, thermomagnetic, treponematosis, trihalomethane, undomesticated.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Fiction
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Quotations: Spoken
10. Quotations: Speeches
11. Translations: Modern
12. Translations: Ancient
13. Bible Trace
14. Anagrams
15. Bibliography


  

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