Elapse
verb
To pass or go by, especially of time.
Two hours elapsed before we could start the meeting.
Often appears as...
- time elapsed
- years elapsed
verb
To pass or go by, especially of time.
Two hours elapsed before we could start the meeting.
Often appears as...
- time elapsed
- years elapsed
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Time Transition
Indicates a passage of time in narratives or explanations.
Several years elapsed before the sequel to the book was released.
Pro Tip 2/3Past Events
Used in past tense to describe time that has already passed.
Five minutes had elapsed when the alarm finally went off.
Pro Tip 3/3Impersonal Concept
Focuses on time itself, not personal experiences or emotions.
Time elapsed between the meetings was spent preparing the presentation.
Pro Tip 1/3Time Transition
Indicates a passage of time in narratives or explanations.
Several years elapsed before the sequel to the book was released.
Pro Tip 2/3Past Events
Used in past tense to describe time that has already passed.
Five minutes had elapsed when the alarm finally went off.
Pro Tip 3/3Impersonal Concept
Focuses on time itself, not personal experiences or emotions.
Time elapsed between the meetings was spent preparing the presentation.
Pro Tip 1/3Time Transition
Indicates a passage of time in narratives or explanations.
Several years elapsed before the sequel to the book was released.
Pro Tip 2/3Past Events
Used in past tense to describe time that has already passed.
Five minutes had elapsed when the alarm finally went off.
Pro Tip 3/3Impersonal Concept
Focuses on time itself, not personal experiences or emotions.
Time elapsed between the meetings was spent preparing the presentation.
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Distant time and the...
the universe is going to do in the future for one thing the universe will expand forever back when I was your age we didn't know what the universe was going to do we thought some people thought that the universe would wreak elapsed in the future Einstein was fond of this idea but if there's dark energy
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Sir Martin Rees: Earth...
could confidently predict Earth's final doom in another six billion years. But could they have predicted this unprecedented spike less than halfway through the Earth's life? These human-induced alterations occupying overall less than a millionth of the elapsed lifetime
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Experiments with Speed PIPE...
seconds has elapsed have elapsed for us by slowing down the rate of time scientists enable muons to time travel into the future the main problem with using speed to
Video examples
Distant time and the...
the universe is going to do in the future for one thing the universe will expand forever back when I was your age we didn't know what the universe was going to do we thought some people thought that the universe would wreak elapsed in the future Einstein was fond of this idea but if there's dark energy
Video examples
Sir Martin Rees: Earth...
could confidently predict Earth's final doom in another six billion years. But could they have predicted this unprecedented spike less than halfway through the Earth's life? These human-induced alterations occupying overall less than a millionth of the elapsed lifetime
Video examples
Experiments with Speed PIPE...
seconds has elapsed have elapsed for us by slowing down the rate of time scientists enable muons to time travel into the future the main problem with using speed to
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Neel Mukherjee
Indian Writer
The freedom fighters in India's long struggle for independence from British rule, or members of the African National Congress, were once classed as terrorists. History, as they say, is written by victors, but history also has many cunning corridors - how much time must elapse before all those tricky side-passages are revealed?
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David Rakoff
Canadian Writer
I have let half-decades elapse between books because books have to be writte and writing is awful, but if you are the type of person who makes things, there is no profit in worrying about how or why or when the next project will come into being beyond simply acknowledging that it is inevitable that it will be very soon.
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James Stephens
Irish Poet
A man and a woman may become quite intimate in a quarter of an hour. Almost certainly will they endeavour to explain themselves to each other before many minutes have elapsed; but a man and a man will not do this, and even less so will a woman and a woman, for these are parallel lines which will never meet.
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Sooraj Pancholi
Indian Actor
I only want the truth to come out and the media cannot give me that. Media can't get me justice, only the court can give me that. So, I have been waiting for the court to take the decision and a lot of time has elapsed.
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Jeremy Northam
English Actor
I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.
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Louis Leakey
British Scientist
Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America.
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Anthony Trollope
English Author
This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.
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Lindsey Buckingham
American Musician
Sometimes you can do the work in the moment, and you don't know whether it's going to really have meaning once time has elapsed.
Quote examples
Neel Mukherjee
Indian Writer
The freedom fighters in India's long struggle for independence from British rule, or members of the African National Congress, were once classed as terrorists. History, as they say, is written by victors, but history also has many cunning corridors - how much time must elapse before all those tricky side-passages are revealed?
Quote examples
David Rakoff
Canadian Writer
I have let half-decades elapse between books because books have to be writte and writing is awful, but if you are the type of person who makes things, there is no profit in worrying about how or why or when the next project will come into being beyond simply acknowledging that it is inevitable that it will be very soon.
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James Stephens
Irish Poet
A man and a woman may become quite intimate in a quarter of an hour. Almost certainly will they endeavour to explain themselves to each other before many minutes have elapsed; but a man and a man will not do this, and even less so will a woman and a woman, for these are parallel lines which will never meet.
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Sooraj Pancholi
Indian Actor
I only want the truth to come out and the media cannot give me that. Media can't get me justice, only the court can give me that. So, I have been waiting for the court to take the decision and a lot of time has elapsed.
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Jeremy Northam
English Actor
I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.
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Louis Leakey
British Scientist
Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America.
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Anthony Trollope
English Author
This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.
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Lindsey Buckingham
American Musician
Sometimes you can do the work in the moment, and you don't know whether it's going to really have meaning once time has elapsed.
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