单词 | noontime |
释义 | noontimen. 1. = noontide n. 1. Also: (U.S.) an interval in the middle of the day; = nooning n. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > noon or midday > [noun] noontideeOE middayOE overnoonOE noontimeOE noona1225 undern13.. high noon1370 undern-tide1387 meridianc1390 merionc1390 meridiec1392 midoverunderna1400 high dayc1425 noon season1461 nooninga1500 noonday1535 midnoon1580 mid-seasona1616 M1741 noon-mark1842 noon1852 sun-hot1894 OE Benedictine Office (Junius) (1957) 97 On nontiman we sculon God herian forðam on þonne timan Crist..his gast asende. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xv. 278 Antony, a dayes, aboute none tyme, Had a bridde that brouȝte hym bred. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 563 Fra þe none tyme Till it to mydday was meten on þe morne efter. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 140v In the noone time..you must driue them to the vallyes, and shades. a1622 E. Jocelin Mothers Legacie (1624) 52 The noone time is most used for discourse, it being all a man can doe while he eats. 1728 Philos. Trans. 1727–8 (Royal Soc.) 35 426 The Instrument..shews the Noon-time to one or two seconds. 1780 J. Woodforde Diary 5 June (1924) I. 283 Mr. Mann's Boy..was drowned and found about Noon Time quite dead. 1834 Knickerbocker Mag. 3 283 They would sit and read for hours together from the same story book, during ‘noon time’ and ‘play time’. 1883 Harper's Mag. Aug. 371/2 At noontime all Germans had assembled. 1940 Sci. Monthly 51 435/2 It is a village work-party, with a measure of last season's rice as pay and, of course, a noontime dinner in the fields. 1991 Verbatim 18 10/2 One noontime Mr. Kaplan and my father went out to lunch from my father's office on Devonshire Street. 2002 Ledger (Lakeland, Florida) (Nexis) 8 Jan. (Metro section) b1 (heading) A rain shower..brought colder temperatures with it about noontime. 2. figurative. The culminating or highest point of something (cf. noontide n. 3). Also: a decline from the highest point (cf. afternoon n. 2). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] > state of or advanced condition > highest point prickOE heighta1050 full1340 higha1398 pointc1400 roofa1500 top-castle1548 ruff1549 acmea1568 tip1567 noontide1578 high tide1579 superlative1583 summity1588 spring tide1593 meridian1594 period1595 apogee1600 punctilio1601 high-water mark1602 noon1609 zenith1610 auge1611 apex1624 culmination1633 cumble1640 culmen1646 climax1647 topc1650 cumulus1659 summit1661 perigeum1670 highest1688 consummation1698 stretch1741 high point1787 perihelion1804 summary1831 comble1832 heading up1857 climacteric1870 flashpoint1878 tip-end1885 peak1902 noontime1903 Omega point1981 1903 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 13 476 It has been well said that every determinate age has its prophet, its poet and its philosopher:..its poet..comes in the noon-time of a period and voices its greatness. 1965 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Nov. 1036/3 The noon-time of the genre [sc. the musical] was over. 1986 C. Kizer Nearness of You 42 Numbly we move to the noontime of our love. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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