To do time "serve a prison sentence" is from 1865. Wells' "The Time Machine." Time capsule is attested from 1938, in reference to the one "deemed capable of resisting the effects of time for five thousand years preserving an account of universal achievements embedded in the grounds of the New York World's fair." Jones potters about for a while in the region which we have come to regard as New York, finds countless ruins, but little of interest to the historian except a calcified direction sheet to something called a "Time Capsule." Jones finds the capsule but cannot open it, and decides, after considerable prying at the lid, that it is merely evidence of an archaic tribal ceremony called a "publicity gag" of which he has already found many examples. Time warp is attested by 1954 time-traveling in the science fiction sense is by 1895 in H.G. Times as the name of a newspaper dates from 1788. Behind the times "old-fashioned" is recorded from 1831. The times "the current age" is from 1590s. salutation (as in "Good time of day vnto your Royall Grace," "Richard III," I.iii.18), hence to give (one) the time of day "greet socially" (1590s) earlier was give good day (mid-14c.). what someone won't give you if he doesn't like you) was a popular 17c. Time of day (now mainly preserved in negation, i.e. retained in America, whence readopted in Britain in 19th c. to have a good time ( = a time of enjoyment) was common in Eng. Extended senses such as "occasion," "the right time," "leisure," or times (v.) "multiplied by" developed in Old and Middle English, probably as a natural outgrowth of such phrases as "He commends her a hundred times to God" (Old French La comande a Deu cent foiz). In English, a single word encompasses time as "extent" and "point" (French temps/ fois, German zeit/ mal) as well as "hour" (as in "what time is it?" compare French heure, German Uhr). Personified at least since 1509 as an aged bald man (but with a forelock) carrying a scythe and an hour-glass. Old English tima "limited space of time," from Proto-Germanic *timon- "time" (source also of Old Norse timi "time, proper time," Swedish timme "an hour"), from PIE *di-mon-, suffixed form of root *da- "to divide."Ībstract sense of "time as an indefinite continuous duration" is recorded from late 14c. It is common in questions, conditional clauses, and negative statements, but not in affirmative statements (where som is used instead). It is frequently emphatic and generalizing, having the force of 'any whatever, any at all' and 'any and every'. 1300) did not survive, and Anywhen (1831) is rarely used, but OED calls it "common in Southern dialects." ani refers to single entities, amounts, etc., occurring at random or chosen at random, as being convenient, suitable, to one's liking, etc. Among the large family of compounds beginning with any-, anykyn "any kind" (c. Emphatic form any old _ (British variant: any bloody _) is recorded from 1896. "one, a or an, some," Old English ænig (adjective, pronoun) "any, anyone," literally "one-y," from Proto-Germanic *ainagas (source also of Old Saxon enig, Old Norse einigr, Old Frisian enich, Dutch enig, German einig), from PIE root *oi-no- "one, unique." The -y may have diminutive force here.Īs a noun, late 12c.
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