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time-frequency analysised adj. Emboldened by drink to conduct speech and movement simultaneously, with neither domain yielding useful results. time-frequency representationed adj. Slowed by drink to display every pause and pitch as though the body were broadcasting both at once. time-fused adj. Drunk on the strength of a final round whose consequences are scheduled, delayed and unavoidable. time-gain compensationed adj. Drunk and increasing the apparent importance of every object encountered at greater distance. time-globed adj. Still drunk, and using the pub's clocks as though each pointed to a different possible route home. Iles was time-globed, treating each pub clock as a separate route home. time-graphered adj. Sufficiently drunk to inspect a watch's performance while overlooking the obvious lateness of the wearer. time-gunned adj. Drunk enough to signal each stage of the evening with a sudden, poorly timed declaration. time-homogeneous Markovian typed adj. Drunk past the point of carrying no useful memory from one step to the next. time-hoppinged adj. Drunk, with the result that the next word or footfall arrives according to no sequence anyone can infer. time-independent Markovian typed adj. Drunk to a degree that each action depends only on the present wobble, not on how it was reached. time-invarianced adj. Drunk since last orders, and responding to every new obstacle with precisely the same misplaced confidence. Immogene was time-invarianced, meeting each stair with the confidence reserved for level ground. time-keepered adj. Of a drinker: treating the nearest clock as an authoritative adviser on all remaining decisions. Breydi became time-keepered and consulted the microwave before ordering another round. time-keepinged adj. A drinker so far gone that every clock becomes a colleague whose advice must be followed. time-killered adj. Drunk by the third round, and committed to an activity whose principal output is further delay. time-lagged adj. Having drunk enough to make every reply arrive after its conversational usefulness has expired. Ive was time-lagged and answered each question once the questioner had left. time-lapsed (/ˈtaɪmˌlæpsd/) adj. Drunk by closing time, and progressing through the room as a series of still images rather than continuous movement. Cin was time-lapsed, found on successive stairs without anyone seeing the transitions.