time machinen.

Brit.

/ˈtʌɪm məˌʃiːn/, U.S.

/ˈtaɪm məˌʃin/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: time n., machine n.

Etymology: < time n. + machine n.

1. A device for telling the time; a timepiece, a clock or watch.Now usually with punning allusion to sense 2.

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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > [noun] > instrument or timepiece

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1870 Mothers' Jrnl. 35 236/1 Aunt Mary, you say that clocks and watches are time machines.

1893 Sunday Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) 22 Oct. 7/2 Yankee ingenuity has not added materially to our means of counting time... Whether or not the Egyptians had invented a time machine has not been decided by the direct evidence of the records.

1957 G. P. Elliott in Hudson Rev. 9 507 Click of clocks, those time machines, Will beat my heart until I die.

2011 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) (Nexis) 21 Aug. f6 A kinetic motion clock with rolling steel balls—a real ‘time machine’.

2. An imagined or hypothetical machine capable of transporting a person backwards or forwards in time.

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the world > time > [noun] > time travel > time machine

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1894 H. G. Wells in National Observer 17 Mar. 472/2 (title) The time machine.

1906 Punch 17 Jan. 42/1 He has managed to construct a Time Machine. He claims to have made a successful trip last Monday into the year 1914.

1944 C. Day Lewis Poetry for You ii. 12 How Poetry Began. To find this out, we'll have to jump into a Time Machine, put its gear-lever into reverse, and race backwards through many thousands of years into prehistoric time.

1978 I. Watson in C. Priest Anticipations 22 The assumption that a time machine should proceed to its destination instanter instead of at a snail's pace.

1994 Sci. Amer. Feb. 16/1 In principle, the Gott time machine is quite straightforward. The traveler need only induce two infinitely long, parallel cosmic strings, presumed threadlike relics of the big bang, to sweep by each other at speeds near that of light.

2002 Times 25 July (T2 section) 13/6 This time around, Austin has to travel back in a time machine to 1975 to rescue his father, the super-spy Nigel Powers.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	time machine
释义	time machinen. Brit. /ˈtʌɪm məˌʃiːn/, U.S. /ˈtaɪm məˌʃin/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: time n., machine n. Etymology: < time n. + machine n. 1. A device for telling the time; a timepiece, a clock or watch.Now usually with punning allusion to sense 2. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > [noun] > instrument or timepiece horologea1382 dial1410 horology1509 horologiuma1661 timekeeper1674 timepiece1708 time machine1870 digital1975 1870 Mothers' Jrnl. 35 236/1 Aunt Mary, you say that clocks and watches are time machines. 1893 Sunday Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) 22 Oct. 7/2 Yankee ingenuity has not added materially to our means of counting time... Whether or not the Egyptians had invented a time machine has not been decided by the direct evidence of the records. 1957 G. P. Elliott in Hudson Rev. 9 507 Click of clocks, those time machines, Will beat my heart until I die. 2011 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) (Nexis) 21 Aug. f6 A kinetic motion clock with rolling steel balls—a real ‘time machine’. 2. An imagined or hypothetical machine capable of transporting a person backwards or forwards in time. ΘΚΠ the world > time > [noun] > time travel > time machine time machine1894 1894 H. G. Wells in National Observer 17 Mar. 472/2 (title) The time machine. 1906 Punch 17 Jan. 42/1 He has managed to construct a Time Machine. He claims to have made a successful trip last Monday into the year 1914. 1944 C. Day Lewis Poetry for You ii. 12 How Poetry Began. To find this out, we'll have to jump into a Time Machine, put its gear-lever into reverse, and race backwards through many thousands of years into prehistoric time. 1978 I. Watson in C. Priest Anticipations 22 The assumption that a time machine should proceed to its destination instanter instead of at a snail's pace. 1994 Sci. Amer. Feb. 16/1 In principle, the Gott time machine is quite straightforward. The traveler need only induce two infinitely long, parallel cosmic strings, presumed threadlike relics of the big bang, to sweep by each other at speeds near that of light. 2002 Times 25 July (T2 section) 13/6 This time around, Austin has to travel back in a time machine to 1975 to rescue his father, the super-spy Nigel Powers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1870
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