Ordered by when things happened. The one ordering that cannot be argued with, since time made it.

That which brings a thing into place ready for use. It carries in and does not act.

To fetch a thing before it is asked for. Preloading spends effort on a guess about what will be wanted.

A turning mark shown while something is underway. It reports that time is passing, not that progress is being made.

A word's hold on time — when its meaning happens. In grammar, the marker of past, present, or coming.