单词 | dateline |
释义 | datelinen. 1. A line of text specifying a date; spec. a line at the head of a dispatch, letter, newspaper article, etc., showing the date and place of writing. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun] > appending a date to > date affixed datec1384 dateline1810 1810 Aberdeen Jrnl. 14 Feb. An apparatus, for printing the number and date lines on the bank notes, has been invented by Mr. Braham. 1867 Hours at Home Aug. 307/2 On one of them [sc. coverings to tombs], with the date line effaced, may still be read, [etc.]. 1888 Missouri Republican 24 Mar. in J. S. Farmer Americanisms at Fake The telegraph man, who has edited Mulhatton's yarns before, and knows a fake from a barn-door, by the date line alone. 1892 N.Y. Nation 21 Apr. 304/1 He has provided an index, but..so simple a device as the running date-line should not have been neglected. 1922 C. Sandburg Slabs of Sunburnt West 35 Turning among headlines, date lines, funnies, ads. 1959 Elizabethan June 28/1 The date line says Jenin, Thursday. 2006 Herald Independent (Winnsboro, S. Carolina) 11 July 3/5 The dateline says the paper was published in France. 2. Usually in form Date Line. With the. An imaginary line running through the Pacific Ocean from the North to the South Pole at which the calendar day is reckoned to begin and end, so that to the east of the line the date is a day earlier than it is to the west; = International Date Line n. at international adj. and n. Compounds.The Date Line was formally adopted by the international community in 1884, and runs chiefly along the meridian 180 degrees from Greenwich, with diversions to avoid the Russian Far East and various island groups. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > region of the earth > zone or belt > [noun] > time zone > boundary of International Date Line1875 dateline1876 1876 Pennsylvania School Jrnl. Jan. 239/2 It is necessary..to count a day twice over. This should of right be done on passing the Date-Line. 1887 Indiana School Jrnl. Nov. 645 If the place of which the time is required is east of the point of comparison and over the Date Line, its day is one day earlier in the week. 1936 Indiana (Pa.) Evening Gaz. 22 Oct. 2/7 If you cross the dateline going westward on Tuesday, it becomes Wednesday. 1951 Rotarian Jan. 32/1 His westbound ship, crossing the Date Line at midnight on the day before his birthday, dropped that important date completely from its log. 2000 Independent (Nexis) 2 Jan. 14 A flying team hopped across the Date Line twice during the day to experience the effect of time travel between two millenniums. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). datelinev. transitive. Chiefly in passive. To provide (a dispatch, letter, newspaper article, etc.) with a dateline (dateline n. 1). Frequently with date and place as complement. ΚΠ 1942 W. Faulkner Go down, Moses & Other Stories 262 It [sc. a press report] was datelined from Joliet, Illinois, this morning. 1970 New Yorker 3 Oct. 29/2 A recent article in the Times, datelined New Providence, commented that a ‘developing crisis..has cast a pall over tourism here’. 1993 T. Hoving Making Mummies Dance (1994) viii. 120 I datelined the five letters ‘August 13th, Between Warsaw and Krakow’. 2008 Times (Nexis) 27 Feb. 66 One of her first stories was datelined, ‘On board HMS Renown, Faslane, June 27.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1810v.1942 |
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