Subject: Time Travel
Terms relating to time travel.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| time warp v. (1969) | transitive to transport (something) from one time to another by a time warp; also intransitive with reflexive or passive meaning |
| time-warped adj. (1938) | transported from the past or future by a time warp n. |
| time-warping adj. (1940) | that creates a time warp; that moves (something) through time; (also) of or relating to a time warp |
| timey-wimey adj. (2007) | denoting a (complex) time-travel situation or story, esp. one characterised by time paradoxes |
| uptime adj. (1972) | esp. in time-travel contexts: in or from the future; cf. downtime adj. |
| uptime adv. (1972) | esp. in time-travel contexts: in, into, or toward the future; cf. downtime adv. |