| 单词 | hour of zero |
| 释义 | > as lemmashour of zero e. The initial point of a process or sequence of events; the starting point, the absolute beginning; (Military) the time or day when an attack or operation is due to begin. Formerly also in †hour of zero. Cf. zero hour n. 1, ground zero n. at ground n. Compounds 2a. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > [noun] > time of attack zero1849 zero day1917 Z-day1925 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] > starting-point terminus a quo1549 starting place1570 terma1628 salient motion1664 salient pointa1682 punctum saliens1695 starting point1782 Adam and Eve1793 starting ground1802 point of departure1804 baseline1836 point de départ1848 zero1849 start point1860 jumping-board1878 jumping-off board1914 jumping-off point1927 starting block1932 square one1952 society > armed hostility > military operations > [noun] > start of hour of zero1915 zero hour1915 jump-off1918 1849 H. Miller Foot-prints of Creator 193 The vegetation of the Silurian system, from its upper beds down till where we reach the zero of life. 1866 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 1st Ser. 7 He..makes 1788 his zero of human history. 1915 G. J. Matkin Diary 24 Sept. in M. Brown Imperial War Mus. Bk. of Western Front (1993) ii. vi. 78 Message says: ‘Operation order 110 holds good. The hour of zero for tomorrow will be communicated later.’ 1916 King's Royal Rifle Corps Chron. 1915 104 Zero, the time the gas and smoke was to start, was 5.50 a.m. 1920 Jrnl. Royal United Service Inst. Feb. 432 The day and hour of zero: 20th August, 4.40 o'clock. 1942 W. S. Churchill in Second World War (1950) IV. i. xiii. 225 It should be assumed..that zero [for an attack on Madagascar] should be about April 30. 1983 L. MacDonald Somme v. 41 The main body was ordered to Thiepval..timing their arrival for Zero plus two hours..to stride on to consolidate the third objective. 2005 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 7 Aug. 46 At zero minus five minutes a siren wailed across the desert and a green rocket flared up into the sky. < as lemmas |
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