clock
/klɒk/
Meaning
A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day.
To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
The odometer of a motor vehicle.
A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).
To recognize; to assess, register.
A watch (timepiece).
To identify (someone) as having some attribute (for example, being trans or gay).
A time clock.
A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.
A face; the head.
To measure the duration of.
To notice; to take notice of (someone or something).
To measure the speed of.
The seed head of a dandelion.
To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
To beat a video game.
A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.
To expose or attack someone, typically in a targeted and insulting manner.
A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day.
To hit (someone) heavily.
A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
To hatch.
An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
The odometer of a motor vehicle.
A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).
To recognize; to assess, register.
A watch (timepiece).
To identify (someone) as having some attribute (for example, being trans or gay).
A time clock.
A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.
A face; the head.
To measure the duration of.
To notice; to take notice of (someone or something).
To measure the speed of.
The seed head of a dandelion.
To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
To beat a video game.
A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.
To expose or attack someone, typically in a targeted and insulting manner.
A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day.
To hit (someone) heavily.
A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
To hatch.
Examples
When the clock says midnight.
The seasons bring the flower again,
And bring the firstling to the flock;
And in the dusk of thee, the clock
Beats out the little lives of men.
An interesting feature of the church is the invisible clock, which you can hear thumping away as you enter. Constructed in 1525, it is one of the oldest timepieces in England. It chimes the hours and the quarters, and every three hours it plays a hymn. But it has no faces.
In the June days of 1848 Baudelaire reports seeing revolutionaries (he might have been one of them) going through the streets of Paris with rifles, shooting all the clocks.
A 12-hour clock system; an antique clock sale; Acme is a clock manufacturer.
Word Forms
clocks
CLK
clocking
clocked
Etymology
First use appears c. 1370. From Middle English clokke, clok, cloke (“clock”), from Middle Dutch clocke (“bell, clock”), from Old Dutch *klokka, from Medieval Latin clocca (“bell, clock, cloak”), probably of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”) (compare Welsh cloch (“bell”), Old Irish cloc (“bell, clock”)), either onomatopoeic or from Proto-Indo-European *klek- (“to laugh, cackle”) (compare Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną (“to laugh”)). Cognate with Old English clucge (“bell”), Saterland F