| 单词 | time warp |
| 释义 | time warpSEE SYNONYMS FOR time warp ON THESAURUS.COM nouna hypothetical eccentricity in the progress of time that would allow movement back and forth between eras or that would permit the passage of time to be suspended. Origin of time warpFirst recorded in 1950–55 Words nearby time warptimetable, time-tested, time travel, time trial, time value, time warp, time was, time will tell, timework, timeworn, time zone Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for time warptime warp nounany distortion of space-time a hypothetical distortion of time in which people and events from one age can be imagined to exist in another age informal an illusion in which time appears to stand stillhe is living in a time warp Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with time warptime warp A stoppage in the passage of time; also, a distortion of time whereby an event or person could hypothetically move from one era to another. For example, Nothing in their lives has changed since the sixties; they're in a time warp, or Having a seventy-year-old actress portray a teenager—that was some time warp! This term originated in science fiction, where it signifies “a supernatural movement from one era to another,” and came to be used more loosely. [c. 1950] The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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