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timeline en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈtaɪmˌlaɪn/
• (US) audio

Etymology

From time + line.

Meanings

1. A graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events (past or future).
   • Just look at my timeline: Tom Jones, Tiny Tim, KISS, Tenacious D, John Wick (Jack Flick), Caesar of Planet of the Apes fame, Sebastian Maniscalco, "Elegant" Elliot Offen (see Howard Stern) ... the list is endless. 2026, Vince Russo, TOTAL NONSTOP AGONY, The Rise and Fall of TNA:
   • But, as things stand, there's no timeline in place for reopening. 2023 February 8, Andrew Mourant, “A serious shuttle service with options to Taunton and beyond”, in RAIL, number 976, page 31:
2. (qualifier:social media) The feed of a social media service, especially when ordered chronologically.
   • Your Timeline is essentially your home base on Facebook, the place where all your Facebook friends can view your information and activity. 2013, Michael Miller, My Facebook for Seniors, Que Publishing, →ISBN, page 95:
   • But the move was calculated to allow Twitter more control over the apps and media appearing in users' timelines 2024, Jacob Silverman, Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection, Harper Collins, →ISBN:
   • 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 2015, “Energy”, in If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, performed by Drake:
3. A schedule of activities; a timetable.
   • “Once you’ve seen how these systems are cobbled together – the biases, the rushed timelines, the constant compromises – you stop seeing AI as futuristic and start seeing it as fragile,” said Adio Dinika, who studies the labor behind AI at the Distributed AI Research Institute, about people who work behind the scenes. 2025 November 22, Varsha Bansal, “Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
4. 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.
   • on an alternate timeline
   • worst timeline
   • 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. 1997 May 5, Children of Time (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), season 5, number 22 (Science Fiction), Paramount Domestic Television, →OCLC:
   • In one timeline, she [Marjorie Taylor Greene] could have used the Epstein win as the foundation of an anti-Trump resistance in the Republican ranks. 2025 November 23, “Trump news at a glance: Marjorie Taylor Greene is gone, but Trump wonders for how long”, in The Guardian, →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? 2025 May 16, Ezra Klein, “Is Trump Losing? A Debate.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Forms

Antonyms

timepoint

Coordinates

timespan · time frame

Deriveds

worst timeline · timeline therapy · alternative timeline · darkest timeline · alternate timeline

Relateds

timeliness

Synonyms

hypothetical · schedule · chronology · time track · timestream · timetable

Translations (60)

id garis waktu (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · sh vremenska crta (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · de Zeittafel (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · fr chronologie (schedule of activities) · it linea del tempo (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · es cronología (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · fr ligne du temps (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · km រេខាកាល (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · es agenda (schedule of activities) · ru календа́рный гра́фик (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · ja 年譜 (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · ru хронологи́ческая диагра́мма (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · ru шкала́ вре́мени (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · de zeitliche Abfolge (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · sq kalendari historik (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · ru расписание (schedule of activities) · sh временска црта (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · mi rārangi wā (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · ru временна́я шкала́ (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · it linea temporale (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · ja 年表 (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · cs rozvrh (schedule of activities) · es línea de tiempo (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · nl tijdlijn (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · es cronograma (schedule of activities) · el πρόγραμμα (schedule of activities) · ca línia de temps (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · fi aikajana (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · de Zeitschiene (schedule of activities) · fr frise chronologique (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · it cronologia (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · de Zeitstrahl (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · eo templinio (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · km បន្ទាត់ពេលវេលា (schedule of activities) · is tímaás (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · pl oś czasu (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · pt cronologia (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · gl cronoloxía (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · mi rārangi wā (schedule of activities) · es línea temporal (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · fi aikataulu (schedule of activities) · cmn 歷史年表 /历史年表 (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · el χρονοδιάγραμμα (schedule of activities) · hu idővonal (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · pt cronograma (schedule of activities) · fr horaire (schedule of activities) · fi ohjelma (schedule of activities) · sh vremenski raspored (schedule of activities) · ru распорядок (schedule of activities) · cmn 年表 (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · cs časová osa (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · et ajatelg (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · gl calendario (schedule of activities) · de Zeitleiste (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · id linimasa (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · cmn 時間軸 /时间轴 (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · el χρονογραμμή (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) · es calendario (schedule of activities) · fr planning (schedule of activities) · pt linha do tempo (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events)

timeline en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈtaɪmˌlaɪn/
• (US) audio

Etymology

From time + line.

Meanings

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

Forms