| 单词 | time change |
| 释义 | > as lemmastime change time change n. [in sense (a) originally an echo of Shakespeare's use of sea-change ; compare quot. a1616 for sea-change n. at sea n. Compounds 6a at that entry] (a) a change that takes place over time, or is caused by the passage of time; (b) = time difference n. (b); (also) the change occurring when standard time is altered (to or from summer time, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > [noun] > that occurs with the passage of time time change1838 the world > time > reckoning of time > [noun] > systems of reckoning time of day > time-difference time difference1860 time change1928 1838 Knickerbocker Aug. 142 His [sc. Shakespeare's] works are made even more beautiful by their antiquity: ‘Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a time-change Into something rich and strange.’ 1877 A. Steinmetz in A. Wynter Subtle Brains (new ed.) Pref. Those topics which have necessarily suffered a time-change and received immense development during the last twelve years. 1885 Electrician 14 Mar. 377/1 In 1881 he observed a time-change (decrease) of the Volta effect at a copper-zinc junction. 1928 Pittsburgh Press 28 Apr. 1/5 Train schedules on local trains will be adjusted to meet the time change. 1969 N. Denny tr. G. Veraldi Spies of Good Intent xi. 177 I'm suffering from the time-change. With me it's three in the morning. 2008 M. H. García Sedimentation Engin. 184/2 Eq. [= equation] (3-25) can be used to compute the time change in bed elevation due to net deposition or erosion. < as lemmas |
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