单词 | midtime |
释义 | midtimen. A time in the middle (of the day, etc.). Also in extended use. †in the midtime (Scottish): in the meantime (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > [noun] > middle of a period midtime1418 heart1523 holla1525 deep1530 waist1604 depth1605 full1658 howe1818 hollow1864 inside1890 1418 in C. Innes Liber Sancte Marie de Melros (1837) 503 Qwhat sa euer thai hafe recaywed..in the myd tyme. 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (lv. 17) The midtyme was appoynted for theire Sacrifices. 1619 M. Drayton Barons Warres vi. lxxiii, in Poems (rev. ed.) 93 It being then the mid time of the Night. 1650 Sc. Metrical Psalms cii. 24 O take me not away In mid-time of my dayes. 1827 E. A. Poe Tamerlane 28 Twas noontide of summer, And mid-time of night. 1877 G. Stewart Shetland Fireside Tales (1892) 247 Auld an' young maun noo hae it [sc. tea], laek shute watter, mornin', e'enin', an' midtime-a-day. 1920 C. M. Doughty Mansoul v. 156 New Moons night, míd-time of the háythorn bloom. 1981 Amer. Math. Monthly 88 708 Show that its velocity at mid-time (t = T/2) cannot exceed its average velocity. 1996 Afr. Amer. Rev. 30 631 So long as Rutherford tries to fill his shoes, he will keep falling short—remaining in the mid-time of partially fulfilled potential. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1418 |
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