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timeslip

timeslip noun: a timesheet.

Noun

timeslip (plural timeslips)

  1. A timesheet.
    • Fireman Iver Peterson, whom Fireman Cunningham displaced, also submitted a timeslip claiming 100 miles for deadheading...1937, US National Railroad Adjustment Board, Awards
    • Every train crew fills out a timeslip that contains sufficient information with which to compute the crew's hourly wage rate.1970, Management Accounting
  2. (drag racing) An official slip of paper showing the elapsed time for each driver.
  3. A phenomenon that causes unexpected time travel.
    • In any case, neither Morris nor Adeler used a timeslip like Twain.1996, Rebecca A Umland, The use of Arthurian legend in Hollywood film
    • And, although not in a timeslip tale, the horse protagonist of Richard Adams's Traveler (1988) is a creature inherently bound to General Lee...1999, John Clute, John Grant, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy

Examples of timeslip in a sentence

  • Change a timeslip into an 'expense-slip' to track costs.1990, Menu International Software, The Software Catalog: Microcomputers, Winter, 1990:
  • For an instant, she felt as though she were caught in a timeslip — her crew suffering from scurvy, the transporter a significant advantage...2002, Melissa Scott, The Garden:
  • Beam Piper (1948) uses a timeslip to explain a mysterious actual event summarized in the story's prologue...2003, Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn, The Cambridge companion to science fiction:
  • In an apparently fantastic moment, Stephen experiences a timeslip that enables him to secure his own existence.2007, Dominic Head, Ian McEwan:

Forms of timeslip

pluraltimeslips
alternative formtime slip

Origin of timeslip

From time + slip.

Questions about timeslip

What does timeslip mean?
Timeslip means a timesheet.
How do you use timeslip in a sentence?
Change a timeslip into an 'expense-slip' to track costs.
What part of speech is timeslip?
Timeslip is a noun.
What is the plural of timeslip?
The plural of timeslip is timeslips.

Words near timeslip in the dictionary

  1. timesis
  2. timeskip
  3. timeskips
  4. timeslice
  5. timeslices
  6. timeslip
  7. timeslips
  8. timeslot
  9. timeslots
  10. timeslotted
  11. timeslotting

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