Source : 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wound up, prevents the bolt from being withdrawn when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.
Source : WordNet®
against time
adv : as fast as possible; before a deadline; "it was a race
against the clock" [syn: {against the clock}]