Tardis

proper noun

1. 1

   Variant of TARDISAlternative form of TARDIS (time machine from the series Doctor Who which is larger on the inside than the outside).

   […] in a cubicle on the top floor which, because of its 21st century appearance, is known to everybody as the 'Tardis'.

   "Yeah, just blew in on the Tardis," Bowie said, unwinding a length of scarf from his throat.

   The Tardis required neither expensive special effects nor a complex plot to imagine a British space programme. The Tardis looked like a police box, the audience eventually learned, because it had a 'chameleon circuit' allowing its shape to change to blend in with each new environment, and this circuit had broken when the Doctor first arrived in London.

   HENRY: Rae, how will you get home? RAE: I thought I'd use the Tardis.

noun

1. 1

   Something which resembles such a machine, either in that it travels through time or in that its interior is or appears to be larger (or more full of information or things) than its exterior suggested.

   What the designers of the Campanian programmes aim for is something like a 'Tardis effect', the dissolving of actual boundaries into a limitless space[…]

   There was that little person, in the image of the future she had conjured up; there was something that it was like to be that little person; and it would be the same as what it was like to be this little person. A self is a Tardis, a time-machine: […]

   British Association of Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) […] BAAF's website is a veritable Tardis of information and I would recommend you go there first.

   As impossible as it seemed, all the prizes had come from the cracker, but Sally had no idea how. When the old woman had said the cracker was unusual, Sally hadn't thought she meant that it was bigger on the inside than it appeared on the outside! A veritable Tardis in fact.

Forms

plural

Tardises