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定期汇票

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

   {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      wound up, prevents the bolt from being withdrawn when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.

资料来源 : WordNet®

time bill
     n : a draft payable at a specified future date [syn: {time draft}]