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# timeline

«timeline» in Mova's school dictionary: **a line or chart showing events in the order they…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a timeline, timelines)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A timeline is a line or chart showing events in the order they happened, with times marked along it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timeline/#m1)

2) A timeline is also a plan of when things need to be done. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timeline/#m2)

3) On social media, a timeline is the list of posts you see, newest first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timeline/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons, pupils make timelines of the Romans, Vikings or their own lives, putting events in order from earliest to latest. In maths, a timeline works like a number line, so you can count the years between two events by subtracting. In project work, a timeline shows deadlines. Phrases: «on a timeline», «make a timeline», «put in order».

### examples

- We made a timeline of the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timeline/#x1)
- Put these events in order on the timeline. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timeline/#x2)
- My timeline shows when I learned to walk and talk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timeline/#x3)
- The timeline goes from left to right. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timeline/#x4)
- Our project timeline says we finish next week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timeline/#x5)
- Use the timeline to count how many years apart the events were. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timeline/#x6)
- The scientist drew a timeline of the dinosaurs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timeline/#x7)
- New posts appear at the top of your timeline. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timeline/#x8)

### note

Countable; one word. In maths, a timeline is like a number line: the gap between two points is found by subtracting the earlier from the later. Be careful with BC: on a timeline BC numbers get bigger the further back you go.

### In the corpora

- [A timeline shows events in the order they happened, with equal steps for equal numbers of years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/5/)
- [A timeline puts events in order on a line with a scale.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines/9/)
- [On a timeline of Earth's 4.5 billion years squashed into 24 hours, humans appear only about 6 seconds before midnight.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines/22/)
- [On a 1-metre timeline of the last 2,000 years, each centimetre stands for 20 years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines/24/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «timeline» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timeline/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.