单词 | datebook |
释义 | datebookn. 1. With hyphen or as two words. Any of various types of book in which information about dates or daily events is recorded; (in later use esp.) a book containing a chronological list of significant historical dates. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun] > chronological list or arrangement chronography1548 chronology1604 record1611 chronology1614 datebook1647 timescale1828 timeline1907 1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. A date booke. 1701 A. J. Compl. Acct. Portugueze Lang. A date-book wherein things done every day are written. 1760 G. Baretti Dict. Eng. & Ital. Lang. II. A date book, un giornale. 1819 Atheneum: Spirit of Eng. Mags. 1 Jan. 278/1 Almanack—Calendar—Ephemeris. All these words describe date-books for the current year. 1876 Galaxy June 845/2 Nowadays there are multitudes of date books, books of mensurations, handy volumes of digested facts and statistics. 1893 Brit. Architect 22 Dec. 471/2 This work..is simply what it professes to be, an architectural date book, embracing the period from the building of the ancient basilica of S. Peter's, Rome, to the consecration of the present church. 1922 Eng. Hist. Rev. July 477 The paper should be carefully compared with the current date-books and the inconsistencies noted and examined. 1990 M. T. Taylor & R. R. Powell Basic Ref. Sources (ed. 4) xvii. 242 The last of the date books is Everyman's Dictionary of Dates. 2. Chiefly North American. spec. An appointment or engagement diary. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > daily record or journal > [noun] > for keeping daily memoranda diary1607 journal1610 agenda1751 datebook1888 1888 World (N.Y.) 25 Mar. 15/3 Bandmann kept his word and his date book is filling up. 1900 G. Ade Fables in Slang 138 Her Date Book had to be kept on the Double Entry System. 1977 A. Tyler Earthly Possessions x. 112 Saul only nodded, thumbing through his datebook, no doubt hunting another funeral or Youth Group meeting. 2010 USA Today (Nexis) 16 June 3 d She's still frantically working, still terrified of the blank datebook. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1647 |
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