| 单词 | twenty-four-hour |
| 释义 | > as lemmastwenty-four-hour twenty-four-hour n. attributive (a) lasting twenty-four hours; (b) of or pertaining to a system of reckoning the time whereby the hours of the day are numbered from one to twenty-four; (c) operating all day and all night, round-the-clock. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > [adjective] > twenty-four hour (of system) twenty-four-hour1908 the world > time > period > hour > [adjective] > lasting specific number of hours sesquihoral1652 houred1665 hour-long1803 twenty-four-hour1908 the world > action or operation > continuing > [adjective] > continually in action or operation > operating all day and night round the clock1891 twenty-four-hour1908 around the clock1918 1908 Westm. Gaz. 25 May 5/2 The twenty-four-hour trip across the country. 1919 in Cook's Continental Time-Table (1973) Mar. p. vi/2 Cook's Continental Time-Table...Based on the 24-Hour System. 1947 J. G. Crowther & R. Whiddington Sci. at War 7 A continuous twenty-four-hour watch for strange aircraft started. 1975 C. Egleton Skirmish xvii. 169 He had located a twenty-four hour service station and had had the tyre repaired. 1978 H. Kemelman Thursday Rabbi walked Out (1979) xxix. 141 I got sick. It was this twenty-four-hour bug. 1978 ‘G. Vaughan’ Belgrade Drop i. 11 A clipboard..contained dates, 24-hour clock times, and a short, neatly typed entry against each. < as lemmas |
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