单词 | time mark |
释义 | > as lemmastime mark time mark n. (a) a mark used to indicate or measure time; (b) (frequently in form time-mark) something which marks a significant point in time; a landmark in time. ΚΠ 1828 Gentleman's Mag. May 445/2 The time marks hitherto used in musical notation. 1836 T. Allsop Lett. S. T. Coleridge I. 122 It is the duty of all men,..to put their testimony on record; which, though it may not avail in the present times, will yet serve as a time-mark for the future. 1876 S. Neil in W. Shakespeare As you like It 145 Perhaps this simile ought to be taken as a time-mark of the production of the play. 1903 Windsor Mag. Feb. 434/2 Here..there took place, at some unknown date in the year 1446 or early in 1447, the event which was to prove a time-mark in the world's history. 1922 F. H. Lahey & S. M. Jordan in F. G. Sanborn Basal Metabolism xxvi. 236 A continuous record of a patient's respiration may thus be obtained..on a strip of paper 10 to 20 feet long. The time mark is made every minute, or every fifth of a second. 1993 R. Castleden Making of Stonehenge ii. 7 Stonehenge has become..a kind of time-mark for the dim, incoherent and baffling beginning of a long struggle towards national identity. 2004 M. E. Valentinuzzi Understanding Human Machine iii. 246 (caption) The lower horizontal bar shows time marks 1s apart. < as lemmas |
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