timeline

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See also: time-line and time line

English

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Etymology

From time +‎ line.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtaɪmˌlaɪn/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

timeline (plural timelines)

  1. A graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events (past or future).
    Synonym: chronology
    Antonym: timepoint
    Coordinate terms: timespan, time frame
    • 2015, “Energy”, in If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, performed by Drake:
      I got bitches askin' me about the code for the Wi-Fi / So they can talk about they timeline / And show me pictures of they friends
    • 2023 February 8, Andrew Mourant, “A serious shuttle service with options to Taunton and beyond”, in RAIL, number 976, page 31:
      But, as things stand, there's no timeline in place for reopening.
  2. A schedule of activities; a timetable.
    Synonyms: schedule, timetable
  3. (originally science fiction) An individual universe or reality, especially a parallel/alternate one in which events differ from actual history, or differ from the established canon of a fictional world.
    Synonyms: timestream, time track
    on an alternate timeline
    • 1997 May 5, Children of Time (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), season 5, number 22 (Science Fiction), Paramount Domestic Television, →OCLC:
      SISKO: I don't quite know how to say this... but now that we know about the accident that sent the ship back in time, we should be able to avoid it.
      WORF: Well if we do that, your timeline will collapse and everything here will cease to exist.
    • 2025 May 16, Ezra Klein, “Is Trump Losing? A Debate.”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:
      So in that sense, if we want to talk about the timeline of what it would mean for Trump to be winning and reshifting the Constitutional order, part of what I think about is: If the neoliberal order is cracked, as Gerstle says it is, then the question is: What will succeed it?

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Verb

timeline (third-person singular simple present timelines, present participle timelining, simple past and past participle timelined)

  1. To analyse a sequence of events or activities.
  2. To display such a sequence graphically.

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Spanish

Noun

timeline f (plural timelines)

  1. timeline
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