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     Time bill. Same as Time-table. [Eng.]
  
     Time book, a book in which is kept a record of the time
        persons have worked.
  
     Time detector, a timepiece provided with a device for
        registering and indicating the exact time when a watchman
        visits certain stations in his beat.
  
     Time enough, in season; early enough. ``Stanly at Bosworth
        field, . . . came time enough to save his life.'' --Bacon.
  
     Time fuse, a fuse, as for an explosive projectile, which
        can be so arranged as to ignite the charge at a certain
        definite interval after being itself ignited.
  
     Time immemorial, or Time out of mind. (Eng. Law) See
        under Immemorial.
  
     Time lock, a lock having clockwork attached, which, when
        wound up, prevents the bolt from being withdrawn when
        locked, until a certain interval of time has elapsed.
  
     Time of day, salutation appropriate to the times of the
        day, as ``good morning,'' ``good evening,'' and the like;
        greeting.
  
     To kill time. See under Kill, v. t.
  
     To make time.
         (a) To gain time.
         (b) To occupy or use (a certain) time in doing something;
             as, the trotting horse made fast time.
  
     To move, run, or go, against time, to move, run, or
        go a given distance without a competitor, in the quickest
        possible time; or, to accomplish the greatest distance
        which can be passed over in a given time; as, the horse is
        to run against time.
  
     True time.
         (a) Mean time as kept by a clock going uniformly.
         (b) (Astron.) Apparent time as reckoned from the transit
             of the sun's center over the meridian.

  against time
       adv : as fast as possible; before a deadline; "it was a race
             against the clock" [syn: against the clock]

  against time
     prep.phr.
     1 Relative to a deadline rather than a competitor.
     2 With urgency.

  against time
     prep.phr.
     1 Relative to a deadline rather than a competitor.
     2 With urgency.

  against time
     prep.phr.
     1 Relative to a deadline rather than a competitor.
     2 With urgency.

  against time
     prep.phr.
     1 Relative to a deadline rather than a competitor.
     2 With urgency.

     与时间赛跑,分秒必争;拖延时间