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单词 call time
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call timen.

Brit. /ˈkɔːl tʌɪm/, U.S. /ˈkɔl ˌtaɪm/, /ˈkɑl ˌtaɪm/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: call n., time n.
Etymology: < call n. + time n.
1.
a. The time a call is made (in various senses of the noun).
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the world > time > particular time > [noun] > of something spec.
whilea1400
whilec1400
call time1859
timing1889
1859 J. Kemp Shooting & Fishing in Lower Brittany viii. 70 He had nineteen fish in his basket at call time.
1897 Liverpool Mercury 1 Nov. 4/4 Markets displayed a firm tone at the opening, but immediately after call time a general reaction set in.
1901 E. E. Kellett Musa Leysiana 37 At call-time your condition gains you much commiseration.
1915 Chicago Daily News Almanac 1916 642/1 Waiting time shall include..the time during which the taxicab is not in motion, beginning ten minutes after call time at the place to which it has been called.
1977 Business Week (Nexis) 10 Jan. 75 If the bond is selling at a premium over the call price, you lose by getting caught with it at call time.
2012 J. Sanchez & M. P. Canton Embedded Syst. Circuits & Programming xi. 194 A time-lapse routine can be designed so it can be modified (or reconfigured at call time) to produce a specific delay.
b. A daily time appointed for the hiring of dockyard labourers. Cf. call-on n. at call n. Compounds 1. Now rare.
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1898 Polit. Sci. Q. 13 417 The dock directors..refused the demands for regular call times (intended to enable the men to seek other work instead of hanging about all day).
1932 Economica No. 37. 360 This is to enable all registered workers who fail to obtain employment to congregate at the surplus stand within thirty minutes of call time.
1949 Times 24 June 4/6 At morning call-time at the Royal Victoria Dock yesterday, after nearly 100 men had been called and had refused to work the Beaverbrae, some of them alleged that they were being refused alternative work.
c. Theatre and Film. The time at which cast and crew are required to be at the theatre or on set.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > [noun] > call to attend rehearsal or performance > time of
call time1959
1959 Billboard 21 Sept. 70/1 To cope with the high temperature, Golden Gate Shows..set its call time at 4 p.m. rather than 1 p.m.
1995 C. Carter Truth is out There 49 The guest actors and extras, faced with some time to kill because their call time has been delayed two hours.
2010 J. Holloway Illustr. Theatre Production Guide (ed. 2) xiii. 191/1 At the end of every rehearsal, you should remind the crew of their next call time. It is common for call times to change during this period.
2.
a. The duration of a visit or call. rare.
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the world > time > duration > [noun] > time taken to complete a process
time1562
turn-round1913
call time1956
1956 Operations Res. 4 644 Differences in salesmen..or in other characteristics tested did not seem to affect the average call time.
b. Time spent on, or available for, making telephone calls; (in later use) spec. (a) time available for making prepaid or free calls, esp. on a mobile phone; (b) the total amount of time available for calls when a mobile phone battery is fully charged. Cf. talk time n. at talk n. Additions.
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1979 M. Roman Telephone Marketing Techniques ii. 28 The relative degree of complexity or simplicity of your offer..affects the amount of call time that might prove to be necessary to convince the prospect in each case.
1985 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 12 Aug. (Business section) 1/1 About $35 for access, $5 for extra calling features, and $150 for call time... At those rates, cellular phones are almost always business-charged and tax-deducted.
1991 Moneywise Sept. 25/3 Then there is the question of when a call is deemed to start. Some ATPs charge for all call time four seconds after the ‘send’ key is pressed.
1999 Daily Tel. (Electronic ed.) 13 Nov. There is no minimum requirement to purchase a given amount of call time every year, which has made some prepay packages inflexible.
2001 Re: Is a Spare Battery needed for the T68? in alt.cellular.ericsson (Usenet newsgroup) 30 Dec. I get at least 2 hours call time (and including 2x50mins continuous chatting), over a period of 3 days. That includes playing games, loads of texts and wap.
2004 Daily Herald (Chicago) 17 Nov. v. 2/2 Each card costs $39 and provides more than two hours of call time.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

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to call time
b. to call time. (Cf. sense B.)
(a) Sport. To give a signal marking a particular moment in time, esp. the end of a period of rest or informal play, or of a prescribed portion of play. Cf. senses A. 21a, A. 21b.
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1811 Sporting Mag. July 185/2 The Patriot called time, and walked up to the man of Kent with his arms folded.
1885 Carthusian Mar. 47/2 The visitors claimed a goal on the ground that the umpire had called time too soon, not allowing for a three minutes' delay at half-time.
1919 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) 1 Nov. 9/7 Petone..managed to hold it by half an inch when the referee called time.
2001 D. W. Zang SportsWars ii. 43 As blood spurted from a gash above the American's eye, the German referee called time.
(b) Originally U.S. To declare that something (in early use esp. a speech or debate) has finished or should be brought to an end; to curtail an activity, process, etc. Frequently with on.
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1858 Knickerbocker Dec. 659 He ‘shall be heard’, however, even if we are obliged, as the stump-speakers say at the South, to ‘call Time on him.
1891 Amer. Practitioner & News 28 Feb. 153/1 We shall call time on subsequent issues.
1899 Amer. Monthly Mag. Apr. 652 It is the duty of the Chair to call time when three minutes have elapsed.
1928 F. C. Happold Approach to Hist. 72 If the lecture is not finished when the twelve minutes are up the time-keeper will call time.
1970 Guardian 11 Dec. 1/5 (heading) PIB calls time on overtime.
2004 Hotdog Apr. 127/1 Frustrated fanboys cursing Warner Bros for calling time on Angel [sc. a television series].
(c) To announce or signal (the approach of) the end of opening hours in a public house or other licensed establishment. Cf. sense A. 21c.
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1898 Cornish Mag. 1 336 Landlord Penhale called time, and began to put the lights out as a hint that they must go.
1969 D. Davin in Landfall Mar. 19 The barman was calling time. Men were buying their last-minute bottles to take away.
1989 A. Aird 1990 Good Pub Guide 105 An enormous bronze bell for calling time.
2005 C. Cleave Incendiary 139 We drank our drinks and I went up to the bar with Terence to get 2 more in but just then the landlord called time.
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