单词 | timed |
释义 | timedadj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > [adjective] timelyOE tidefula1300 tidya1375 duea1387 timefula1400 seasonablec1412 convenient1415 opportunec1425 seasonedc1440 tempestivous1574 timed1592 ripe1595 well-timed1604 opportuneful1605 mature1608 advantageous1609 opportunous1609 punctual1611 tempestive1611 timeousa1626 time-serving1627 timed1656 tidive?17.. 1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 13v A diuine inuention did cause this moderated noise and timed groanes. ?1614 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses xii. 180 She and I, (Led by her faire hand, to a place apart, By her well sorted) did to sleepe conuert Our timed powres. a1760 W. Hogarth in A. Cunningham Lives Brit. Painters (1829) I. 167 The stagnation rendered it necessary that I should do some timed thing to recover my lost time and stop a gap in my income. b. With modifying adverb: done, made, or occurring at an opportune (or inopportune) time.Recorded earliest in well-timed adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > [adjective] timelyOE tidefula1300 tidya1375 duea1387 timefula1400 seasonablec1412 convenient1415 opportunec1425 seasonedc1440 tempestivous1574 timed1592 ripe1595 well-timed1604 opportuneful1605 mature1608 advantageous1609 opportunous1609 punctual1611 tempestive1611 timeousa1626 time-serving1627 timed1656 tidive?17.. 1656 A. Cowley Davideis iii. 102 in Poems But Jonathan..With well-tim'ed zeal, and with an artful care, Restor'ed, and better'd soon the nice affaire. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela II. 111 Now, Pamela, said my Master, taking my Hand, don't let a little wrong-timed Bashfulness take place. 1777 E. Burke Corr. (1844) II. 172 So strangely-timed a piece of adulation. 1836 Farmer's Mag. July 20/2 How often have I seen two horses, running neck and neck,..when one single nicely timed stroke of the whip, has caused one of them to extend himself! 1884 H. Chadwick Sports & Pastimes Amer. Boys 43 It must be a poorly timed strike that could not send a knee-high ball skimming along the ground. 1954 G. I. M. Swyer Reprod. & Sex xi. 127 A properly timed and executed episiotomy will nearly always prevent a third degree tear. 1965 Autocar 5 Nov. 990/1 To excite the vehicle into a vertical oscillatory motion by a series of suitably timed bursts of braking. 2004 U.S. News & World Rep. 5 Apr. 20/1 The man who sparked a frenzy with his shrewdly timed new book. 2. With modifying word, esp. an adverb. Of an action or process: carried out or performed with good timing. Also (less commonly): done with poor timing.Recorded earliest in well-timed adj. 2. ΚΠ 1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 78 It is no flaming lustre, made of light, No sweet concent, or well-tim'd harmonie, Ambrosia, for to feast the Appetite, Or flowrie odour, mixt with spicerie. 1659 T. Burton Diary (BL Add. MS 15863) His was a finely tim'd speech. 1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 15/1 The lazy-lagging regular-timed motions of a guardo. 1920 W. Camp Football without Coach 59 To amount to anything at all interference must be perfectly timed. 1955 Times 11 July 4/2 Occasionally he produced an exquisitely timed force off his legs or cover drive. 1986 Financial Times 28 Feb. 19/1 Everything from classically timed slapstick scenes to Pythonesque non sequiturs. 2010 Leigh Jrnl. (Nexis) 28 May A sweetly timed cover drive from Bower confirmed the first defeat of the season for Leigh. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > adult > [adjective] mucha1154 of (formerly also at, to) agec1300 perfect agec1384 full-growna1393 ripea1393 greatc1515 adult1531 maturate1556 mellowed1575 mellow1592 full-aged1596 mature1609 timed1611 grown-upa1640 adulted1645 grown1645 upgrown1667 matured1805 coming of age1858 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Attempáto, in yeares, aged, olde, timed. 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xliv. sig. Qv There is a flowing noblenesse, that some men be graced with, which farre out-shines the notions of a timed Student. 4. Designating an activity for which the time taken is measured or recorded; esp. designating a race or other sporting event in which participants are timed. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [adjective] > types of race well-run1601 unpaced1636 all-age1806 close-run1813 level1826 long distance1826 handicapped1828 neck and neck1828 timed1839 point-to-point1875 side by side1881 middle distance1886 paced1899 two-horse1976 1839 ‘Craven’ Walker's Manly Exercises (ed. 6) 230 The only criterion by which we can estimate them [sc. the records of equestrian historians] is, when we can refer to a timed race... Even in our day..we rarely hear of the time of a race being kept at all. 1872 College Courant 13 Apr. 171/1 A timed trial proved that she was ten seconds slower from the Bridge to the Point. 1938 C. C. Crawford How to Teach ix. 144 Conduct a timed experiment, in which the teacher dictates a list of questions or topics for the students to copy. Record the time required. 1963 P. Drackett Motor Rallying i. 10 The Thousand Miles Trial of 1903 went several steps nearer to the rally as we know it to-day, with road sections and timed hill-climbs. 2021 Post-Bulletin (Rochester, Minnesota) (Nexis) 18 Mar. Each swimmer gets one timed event and those times will be compared against everyone else in the event to determine the order of finish. 5. Of music: written in measure, e.g. with a time signature; (with modifying word) having a measure of a specified kind. Also occasionally of verse: written in regular metre.In quot. 1888 with reference to specific forms of metre within the metrical theory of Moritz Hauptmann (1792–1868). ΚΠ 1856 Musical Times June 246/2 In general, even for timed music, the conductor should require the players he directs, to look towards him as often as possible. 1888 Bookseller 5 Sept. 920 Two-timed metre is identified with the octave or root, three-timed metre with the fifth, and four~timed metre—the last of the uncompounded metres, and including the other two—is identified with the third. 1896 R. G. Moulton Lit. Study Bible iv. 117 The oratorio combines recitative with timed music. 1954 Musical Times Feb. 91/1 Were the Psalms ever intended to sung to timed melody? 1962 PMLA 77 670/2 When this meter goes along with a pulse, that is, when it recurs in some temporally regular way, it may be called ‘timed meter’. 1997 Act Musicologica 69 6 It was shown that a hesitation in strictly timed music is difficult to detect when it occurs at a point where musicians typically linger. 6. Done or occurring at a predetermined time or for a predetermined amount of time; scheduled; regulated with regard to time. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > planning > [adjective] > arranged > scheduled scheduled1881 timed1888 1888 Railroad Gaz. 10 Aug. 528/1 The American reach[ed] the landing stage at Liverpool 10 minutes before the timed departure of his steamer. 1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 83 A timed artillery speaks full-mouthed. 1925 Bankers Monthly Feb. 13/2 The greatest help to a day of accomplishment is a program and a schedule of definite, timed appointments. 1976 B. Gaddis How to repair Home Laundry Appliances viii. 195 A timed cycle is one that runs for a selected time and stops. 1982 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 10 July It instituted a new timed delivery system, charging more for packages that senders want delivered by the next morning. 2015 A. Silvera More Happy than Not 15 One of those fountains where water sprays up from the ground in timed bursts. 7. Marked or printed with a specific time; spec. (of a ticket) valid only at a stated time. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [adjective] > marked with a date or time time-stamped1893 timed1895 society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [adjective] > type of ticket pass-out1894 timed1895 abonnement1897 saver1977 1895 Street Railway Jrnl. Apr. 222/1 The system of dated and timed transfer tickets employed is that in which the date and time limit are printed upon the tickets. 1938 H. Redwood in Hear my Prayer i. iii. 118 My letter was there in the morning, with the timed postmark to remind her of it. 1979 Sunday Tel. 18 Nov. 3/1 We may have to use timed tickets and other measures in order to stop overcrowding [at National Trust properties]. 1995 J. McGown Shred of Evid. vi. 107 He was in a Happy Eater between ten and eleven last night... He has..a timed and dated receipt to prove it. 2019 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 21 Nov. b4 Timed tickets (on the halfhour from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m.) are on sale at PhillyZooLumiNature.com. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1592 |
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