time capsule
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4.4
- noun
- /taɪm ˈkæpsəl/
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cápsula del tiempo
- In their backyard, the children created a time capsule with their favorite toys and drawings to open in ten years.
- use time capsules
Not not for religious purposes, but I mean, I've done time capsules, I've done rockets.
- Not not for religious purposes, but I mean, I've done time capsules, I've done rockets.
- That project no longer exists, so think of it as a fun little time capsule.
- You could dig a hole in the yard, put something in there, you know, do a time capsule.
- It sort of looks like an escape pod or a time capsule or something like an escape shuttle from Star Trek.
- A wonderful little time capsule we have on our hands, which means I will be starting book two.
- But this video is like when aliens from the future find a time capsule, they're like, and they're like, oh, what is this?
- I feel like that's a time capsule, you know, and people can come by and put in their affections or put in their angst.
- If you had to right now, put in a time capsule your best answer and thesis and final thoughts and words on the hard problem of consciousness.
- The whole shop is a little bit, it feels like a time capsule and time is one of the biggest topic, I think for the production of these tools.
- And I, I really think what we love about videos and cinema and all of it together is it's a time capsule for the human body.
Examples
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"I felt like I'd stepped into an unchanged time capsule from the 1960s," said Jake.
Blog text (6) -
The seeds, leaves, and bones in them provide a time capsule full of information.
Fiction book (2000) -
I put those in my high school time capsule.
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I made us a time capsule.
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This was for the time capsule.
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It's like a time capsule; everything is left as it was 20 years ago.
Blog text (22) -
With the near century long history of the awards, each show has become a fashion time capsule with many iconic moments.
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The following document arrived at the offices of Technology Review in a time capsule dated 2020.
Fiction book (2001) -
We're burying a time capsule at the new school.
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There were empty spaces between the steps beneath the pedestal into which various boxes were inserted, creating a time capsule.
Academic text (2002)
How Preserved
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound combines 'time' (temporal aspect) with 'capsule' (a small container), so the meaning — a container intended to preserve things across time to be opened later — is directly inferable from the parts. This noun+noun compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would very likely understand the MWE.
Etymology
The noun time capsule comes from the picture of a small sealed capsule filled with everyday items and put away for a later time. That's why time capsule means a container that keeps objects safe to be opened in the 'future'.