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English Dictionary: time of day by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
time of day
n
  1. clock time; "the hour is getting late" [syn: hour, {time of day}]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {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. [bd]Stanly at
            Bosworth field, . . . came time enough to save his
            life.[b8] --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            wound up, prevents the bolt from being withdrawn when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 [bd]good morning,[b8] [bd]good evening,[b8] 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.
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