单词 | time book |
释义 | time bookn. 1. A book in which a record is kept of the times or durations of particular events; esp. a book recording the time worked by employees at a particular workplace. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > [noun] > other types of registers Domesday Book1178 register1426 white bookc1432 town booka1547 christening book1558 muster1565 minute-book1566 Domes-booke1610 Newgate Calendar1686 time book1786 press book1808 provision book1840 visitors' book1846 guestbook1849 poison book1870 poison register1894 war diary1917 sign-in1966 1786 Proc. Old Bailey 31 May 801/2 I am foreman to Mr. Fell..I am come with the time-book. 1828 Amer. Farmer 379/1 I call this book the roster... If you dislike the word you may call it roll, day, or time-book; choose one name and stick to that. 1837 R. H. Greg Factory Question 136 The Act provides that the interior of a mill is to be white-washed once a year.—An entry of it is to be made in the Time-book. 1922 W. R. Sanders Ice Delivery 36 Each foreman should keep the time of all men under his supervision. The ordinary weekly time book can be used for this purpose. 1969 Boys' Life Nov. 70/3 He lifted the time book... ‘You know, I can look at a name and remember a man, how he handled horses and the hay.’ 2004 Australian (Nexis) 20 Apr. c3 Damstra tracked time management data with methods ranging from manual signing of time books to electronic punchclocks. 2. A book containing a timetable or timetables. Now rare. ΚΠ 1844 Times 28 Nov. 3/6 I did not know the exact time at which I was due at Beeston until last Friday, when I..got a time-book. There were no rules or regulations with this time-table. 1892 Hampshire Tel. & Sussex Chron. 8 Oct. 5/2 If well supported, the train will be permanently placed in the public time-book. 1923 Times 23 Sept. 9/6 (advt.) Full particulars in the Company's Official Time Books, on sale at the Stations and Town Offices. 1971 Transport Hist. 4 310 Some of the glamour..still sticks, and the name ‘Golden Arrow—Flèche d'Or’ is still found in the railway time-books. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > historical record or chronicle > [noun] historyeOE chronicle1303 storya1382 chroniquec1386 memoryc1425 historialc1487 annals1569 res gestae1587 fasts1606 fasti1617 archive1638 time book1865 1865 J. Earle Two Saxon Chron. Introd. p. vi This [sc. the Latin word Chronographia] is but an amplification of the more general term Chronicon, a Chronicle, a Time-book, a book of years. 1867 R. Martineau tr. H. Ewald Hist. Israel I. 92 Like a true time-book (or chronicle) terminated with the description of the most recent great deeds. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1786 |
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