ten seconds
Quick mental count
Ten seconds is a very brief duration—the time it takes to count slowly to ten.
The phrase often emphasizes speed or brevity: I'll be ready in ten seconds, Give me ten seconds to think.
In ten seconds flat, the flat stresses that something happened within exactly that time, not a moment longer.
- countdownBackward enumeration to zero
- momentBrief period of time
- briefShort in duration
- fleetingPassing very quickly
- timerDuration-tracking mechanism
clock · instant · pause · heartbeat · breath · hold your breath · quick · quick glance · flash · tick · stopwatch · beat the clock · race against time · time limit · deadline · waiting · suspense · buzzer
- basketball rulespersonal foul, technical foul, traveling, double dribble, carrying
- game callsfoul, offsides, offside, traveling, travel
temporal immediacy
ten secondsnever
At no point
indefinitely · forever · when hell freezes over · endlessly · interminably
ten, tens, tenth, tenths, second, seconds, secondly, secondary, secondarily