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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

lose no time en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To act quickly; do something as soon as possible.
    • London Transport lost no time in beginning work on the new Victoria tube line following the Minister of Transport's approval of the project, announced on August 20. 1962 October, “London gets its Victoria tube”, in Modern Railways, page 256:
    • Queen Mary of the Iron Road. By Fred C. Bishop. […] This is the life-story of a boy who was determined to become an engine driver, and who lost no time in realising his ambition. A bold plunge from a clerkship in a coal merchant's office carried Fred Bishop, at the age of 14, into the locomotive department of the London & North Western Railway. 1947 January and February, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 62:

Forms

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losing no time Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
lost no time Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
lost no time Tense=Past lexicographic
loses no time Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic