Collocations for "timer"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "timer" in context.
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timer
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- set a timer for the [cookies, brownies, lasagna]
- [an oven, a kitchen, an egg] timer
- set a timer for [twenty minutes]
- the timer is set for [twenty minutes]
- the timer is [going off, beeping, ringing]
- did the timer [go off] yet?
- still waiting for the timer to [go off]
- the timer is (already) [going, running]
'timer' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):