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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From time + line.
Pronunciation
Noun
timeline (plural timelines)
- A graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events (past or future); a chronology.
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.
- A schedule of activities; a timetable.
- (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
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Translations
graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events
- Albanian: kalendari historik
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 年表 (zh) (niánbiǎo), 時間軸/时间轴 (zh) (shíjiānzhóu), (historical) 歷史年表/历史年表 (lìshǐ niánbiǎo)
- Czech: časová osa
- Dutch: tijdlijn (nl)
- Estonian: ajatelg
- Finnish: aikajana (fi)
- French: frise chronologique f, ligne du temps f
- Galician: cronoloxía f
- German: Zeittafel f, Zeitleiste f, zeitliche Abfolge f, Zeitstrahl m
- Greek: χρονολόγιο (el) n (chronológio), χρονοδιάγραμμα (el) n (chronodiágramma)
- Hungarian: idővonal
- Icelandic: tímaás m
- Indonesian: garis waktu (id), linimasa
- Italian: linea temporale f, linea del tempo f, cronologia (it) f
- Japanese: 年表 (ねんぴょう, nenpyō), 年譜 (ja) (ねんぷ, nenpu)
- Khmer: រេខាកាល (reikʰaa kaal)
- Maori: rārangi wā
- Polish: oś czasu f
- Portuguese: linha do tempo (pt) f, cronologia (pt) f
- Russian: временна́я шкала́ f (vremennája škalá), календа́рный гра́фик m (kalendárnyj gráfik), шкала́ вре́мени f (škalá vrémeni), хронологи́ческая диагра́мма f (xronologíčeskaja diagrámma)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: временска црта f
- Roman: vremenska crta f
- Spanish: cronología (es) f, línea de tiempo (es) f.
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Verb
timeline (third-person singular simple present timelines, present participle timelining, simple past and past participle timelined)
- To analyse a sequence of events or activities.
- To display such a sequence graphically.
Anagrams
Spanish
Noun
timeline f (plural timelines)
- timeline