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单词 timetable
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timetablen.

Brit. /ˈtʌɪmˌteɪbl/, U.S. /ˈtaɪmˌteɪb(ə)l/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: time n., table n.
Etymology: < time n. + table n.
1. With hyphen or as two words. Any of various types of printed table giving information about dates, esp. (more fully perpetual time-table) one used for calculating the day of the week, date of a particular event, etc., in any given year (cf. perpetual calendar n. 1). Obsolete.
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the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [noun] > specific calendars
Gregorian Calendarc1275
Julian Calendarc1275
fastia1387
almanacc1392
prognostication1486
shepherd's calendar1506
ephemeris1559
perpetual almanac?1566
perpetual calendar1577
ephemeris1647
primstaff1662
rim-stock1662
parapegma1671
Poor Robin1708
menologium1709
menologion1727
rune-staff1753
Liberian Calendar1754
parapegm1755
timetable1758
prognosticator1779
Hindu calendar1795
Moore's Almanac1806
Moorea1821
numeral1853
Advent calendar1867
paddywhack almanac1875
paddy1876
Islamic calendar1912
1758 Gentleman & Lady's Palladium 10 65 (heading) Perpetual time-tables: or general rules for chronologists, historians, memorandum book-makers, travellers, and navigators.
1781 J. Trusler Family Tables 28* Look in the Time Table No XVI. and you will find that from May 20 to December 29 are 223 days.
1827 R. Hay (title) Perpetual time table. Old and New Style. Commencing with the Christian era.
1889 Homiletic Rev. July 221/1 (advt.) Time-table of the heavens... Perpetual time-table whereby all may identify the stars, etc., at any time.
2. Music. With hyphen or as two words. A table showing the relative time value of different notes. Now rare.
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1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. vi. 85 Our time-table furnishes six different degrees of long and short notes, without points.
1820 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 15 One of the most striking epochs in music, as we conceive, was that of the invention of the time-table.
1889 W. S. Rockstro in G. Grove Dict. Music (at cited word) The earliest known indication of a Time Table is to be found in the well-known work on Cantus mensurabilis, written by Franco of Cologne about the middle of the 11th century... The modern Time Table, denoting the proportionate value of all these notes, is too well known in our schoolrooms to need a word of description here.
1903 C. F. A. Williams Story of Notation vii. 121 It contains 3 double longs, 9 longs, 27 breves, 81 semibreves, 243 minor semibreves, 729 semiminors, 2,187 minimas. What a complicated time-table for choir-boys to learn!
1928 E. W. Naylor Poets & Music vi. 158 I have already mentioned that our modern ‘Time Table’ can be used as a reminder in this matter. A Breve = 2 Semibreves, a Semibreve = 2 Minims.
3.
a. A chart detailing the times of departure and arrival of trains or, later, buses, trams, etc., at successive stations or stops; a similar chart showing the times of departure and arrival of passenger boats, aircraft, etc.
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society > travel > rail travel > [noun] > railway guide or timetable
timetable1838
railway guidea1852
1838 Osborne's Guide Grand Junction Railway 67 (heading) Time table shewing the hours at which the trains leave, and the times of their arrival at the various stations.
1839 (title) Bradshaw's railway time tables..10th Mo. 19th.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 380/2 Time-table, a register of the time of high-water, and of the departure of steam boats, railway trains, etc.
1862 M. E. Braddon Lady Audley's Secret II. ix. 197 He walked straight back to the hotel, where he called for a time-table. An express for London left Wildernsea at a quarter-past one.
1889 G. Findlay Working & Managem. Eng. Railway 8 It was not until after some time..that the time-table became a recognised institution.
1920 C. Carswell Open Door! i. i. 6 ‘Oh! But I feel sure there must be a train before then,’ she urged, as if by sheer hopefulness she could belie the timetables.
1944 J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. ix. 106 We found that a bus recorded on the time-table was in reality non-existent.
1992 Holiday Which? Jan. 46/2 The meltemi wind..can cause havoc with ferry timetables (and beach parasols).
1999 Financial Times 9 Oct. 2/1 The factors the HSE is likely to take into account include signalling, training and the pressures that drivers keep to timetables.
2000 Independent 6 Mar. i. 10/8 The community noticeboard is bare but for two offers of child-minding and a bus timetable.
b. A chart used in railway offices showing the speed and expected positions of trains (see quot.). Obsolete.
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1888 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. VII. Time-table, a board divided by vertical and horizontal lines representing time and distance respectively, and used to denote speed of trains.
4. A chart showing how the time of a school or college is allotted to the various classes and subjects, typically on a weekly basis; the allocation of classes relating to a particular pupil, teacher, class, etc.In the United States called a schedule.
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1845 J. Allen Rep. Schools Southern District in Minutes Comm. Council Educ. II. 91 For the morning's work, I have sometimes suggested the following time-table.
1861 M. Arnold Pop. Educ. France 98 The present time-table..of the lay public schools of Paris.
1913 A. Lunn Harrovians ii. 307 The whole time-table's altered.
1946 S. Dewdney Wind without Rain 399 Audubon complained that his timetable had been ruined, pointing out to John that although he was head of the department he had no Upper School Latin.
1998 J. Conyngham Lostness of Alice xviii. 93 As a part-time French teacher, her timetable was light, and she spent her mornings moving between home and the classrooms.
2007 Evening Standard (Nexis) 5 Feb. 7 The traditional school timetable is to disappear as part of a radical shake-up of the first three years of secondary education.
5. A plan of times at which events are scheduled to take place, either on a day-to-day basis or as part of a process leading towards a particular end; a schedule.
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the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [noun] > timetable or schedule
timesc1410
time bill1810
train indicator1849
time sheet1850
horary1851
timetable1856
schedule1863
horarium1921
sked1929
time frame1946
timeline1948
1856 F. E. Paget Owlet of Owlstone Edge 194 The time-table of that man's life was a curiosity in its way.
1877 Spirit of Times 24 Nov. 451/2 Prof. Going, who has now reached Chicago on his Western trip..has changed his time table, and we publish the new one with the changed dates he finds it necessary to make.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 7 May 2/2 This is the first time that a time-table has been arranged in advance for a whole [parliamentary] Bill, but it seems to us that the procedure was justified.
1965 Kokomo (Indiana) Morning Times 5 May 2/7 The offensive taken by the U.S. Marines upset the Communist timetable for a military offensive.
1986 M. Egremont Dear Shadows ix. 90 He told us all about his timetable—how he regulates his day and so forth.
2006 New Yorker 11 Dec. 38/1 The agency issued a timetable for phasing out chlorofluorocarbons.
6. A table recording the number of hours worked by employees. Cf. time sheet n. 1. Obsolete.
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1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 380/2 Time-table,..a check upon the period of labour of workmen.

Compounds

timetable motion n. British Politics a parliamentary motion to determine the schedule for a bill's passage through the House; spec. one designed to restrict or curtail the time allocated to debating the bill; = guillotine motion n. at guillotine n. Compounds 1b.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > procedure of parliament or national assembly > [noun] > forms of closure > guillotine motion
timetable motion1920
guillotine motion1946
1920 Times 26 Apr. 14/1 A beginning will be made with the Committee stage of the Home Rule Bill..and the first step will be the passing of a time-table motion.
1976 S. Lloyd Mr Speaker, Sir iii. 76 Peyton protested about the timetable motion, and asked why aid to Norton-Villiers had suddenly become so urgent.
1977 Whitaker's Almanack 349/2 A third timetable motion to limit debate on Lords' amendments to the Bills..was carried by 312–296.
2008 Guardian (Nexis) 29 Jan. 14 Finally they started the Europe debate with a timetable motion, designed to decide how long they should spend on debating another timetable motion.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

timetablev.

Brit. /ˈtʌɪmˌteɪbl/, U.S. /ˈtaɪmˌteɪb(ə)l/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: timetable n.
Etymology: < timetable n. Compare earlier timetabled adj.
transitive. To include in a timetable or schedule; to schedule to take place at a particular time; to plan or arrange according to a timetable.
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the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [verb (transitive)] > timetable
timetable1883
1883 Glasgow Herald 18 Jan. 5/7 Several out trains, time tabled at these hours, were likewise detained.
1887 Cornhill Mag. Aug. 175 To assert that every spot in Europe has not been prospected, time-tabled, and described in the crimson-covered guide-book..would be rash.
1917 ‘Contact’ Airman's Outings v. 111 The leave train at Arrière was time-tabled for midnight.
1939 G. Greene Confidential Agent i. i. 29 ‘My employers..wouldn't understand the delay.’ They would have time-tabled his movements.
1970 Times 20 Oct. 4 Next year the school will admit 15 musically talented children who will be separately timetabled to give full scope for their abilities.
1992 Times Educ. Suppl. 31 Jan. 24/3 There were three week-long camps in 1990 and 16 timetabled for 1991–92.
2001 J. I. Moore Writers on Strategy & Strategic Managem. (ed. 2) 96 The strategic framework is timetabled using such criteria as product development lead times.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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