tl
tl is the abbreviation of timeline.
Meaning of timeline
Noun
timeline (plural timelines)
- A graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events (past or future).
- 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
- Synonyms:
- chronology
- Antonyms:
- timepoint
- 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
- 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...2025 November 22, Varsha Bansal, “Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
- 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
- Synonyms:
- timestream, time track, hypothetical
Noun capitalized: TL
TL (plural TLs)
- Initialism of target language.
- Antonyms:
- SL
- Initialism of target language.
- Antonyms:
- NL
- Abbreviation of team leader.
- Abbreviation of timeline.
- TL Lost All Composure After That Clip […] And of course, there are plenty who said she just pisses them off so bad, but hey, you can’t deny she keeps the timeline entertained.2025 September 18, Desjah, “Wait, WHAT?! Chrisean Rock’s Foot Antics With HoodTrophy Bino Got The TL Stressed (VIDEO)”, in The Shade Room, Los Angeles, Calif., archived from the original on 18 Sep...
- Although cortisol videos still crop up on my TL every so often, I’ve seen enough marked as ‘paid partnership’ to know that I shouldn’t be taking them seriously.2026 March 20, Brit Dawson, “‘I went on a cortisol ‘detox’ to tackle my spiralling anxiety — here’s what happened’”, in Cosmopolitan
- Initialism of trade-last.
- Nothing about my natural charms no more, an egg's age since anybody had called me to 1 side and whispered "I got a T. L. for you. Gertie thinks your ears is immense."1922, Thomas Lansing Masson, Our American Humorists, page 201
- So autobiographical was The Children's Hour that there are even “TL's” between the children, those “trade lasts” in which people must come up with compliments they have heard about each other, a game which amused Lily […]1997, Joan Mellen, Hellman and Hammett, page 71
- Abbreviation of translation.
- Abbreviation of translator.
- Abbreviation of translator's note /translation note.
- Initialism of trophic level.
- Abbreviation of Turkish lira.
- Synonyms:
- ₺
- Abbreviation of turntable ladder.
Synonyms of tl
- ₺
Antonyms
Forms of tl
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tl (page history and authors); TL (page history and authors); timeline (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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