AT ONE TIME

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

At a previous time

Example:

she was a dancer once

Synonyms:

at one time; erst; erstwhile; formerly; once

Classified under:

Adverbs

Sense 2

Meaning:

Simultaneously

Example:

he took three cookies at a time

Synonyms:

at a time; at once; at one time

Classified under:

Adverbs

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Context examples:

A quantity of an agent (such as substance or energy) administered, taken, or absorbed at one time.

(Dose, NCI Thesaurus)

Density is the main factor that is usually linked to bone strength and, in assessing that strength, most researchers look at how much load a bone can handle at one time.

(Discovery may lead to osteoporosis treatment, National Science Foundation)

The amount of medicine taken, or radiation given, at one time.

(Dose, NCI Dictionary)

The regular strength or dosage quantity of a therapeutic agent prescribed to be taken at one time or at stated intervals.

(Moderate-Dose Treatment, NCI Thesaurus)

But all is now well over, quoth Harcomb, and no scath come of it, which is more than I had at one time hoped for.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Semi-starvation and neglected colds had predisposed most of the pupils to receive infection: forty-five out of the eighty girls lay ill at one time.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

At one time Patty came to say she thought the kitchen chimney wanted sweeping.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

"You did then," said Elinor, a little softened, "believe yourself at one time attached to her?"

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I believe that there is a fighting-man named Harrison here, who at one time might have held the championship.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But afterwards she seemed to improve on you, and I believe you thought her rather pretty at one time.