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Clock

//klɒk// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day. countable, uncountable

    "When the clock says midnight."

  2. 2
    A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.

    "But this you can't stand, so you throw up your hand, and you find you're as cold as an icicle, In your shirt and your socks (the black silk with gold clocks), crossing Salisbury Plain on a bicycle"

  3. 3
    A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).
  4. 4
    a timepiece that shows the time of day wordnet
  5. 5
    A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time. attributive, countable, uncountable

    "A 12-hour clock system; an antique clock sale; Acme is a clock manufacturer."

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  1. 6
    The odometer of a motor vehicle. British, countable, uncountable

    "This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock."

  2. 7
    An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    The seed head of a dandelion. countable, uncountable
  4. 9
    A time clock. countable, uncountable

    "I can't go off to lunch yet: I'm still on the clock."

  5. 10
    A CPU clock cycle, or T-state. countable, informal, uncountable

    "Executing a NEXT to code takes 7 clocks, or 1.05 microseconds."

  6. 11
    A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock. uncountable
  7. 12
    A watch (timepiece). UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "Arthur Morrison, Chance of the Game But if the clock was a red 'un, and the opportunity undoubted; to be pinched in the Bow Road merely might well imply loss of caste in the mob, but nobody need be ashamed to be pinched anywhere for a gold watch, after all."

  8. 13
    A face; the head. countable, slang, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To measure the duration of. transitive
  2. 2
    To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work. transitive
  3. 3
    To make the sound of a hen; to cluck. Scotland, dated, intransitive
  4. 4
    measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time wordnet
  5. 5
    To measure the speed of. transitive

    "He was clocked at 155 miles per hour."

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  1. 6
    To hatch. Scotland, dated, intransitive
  2. 7
    To hit (someone) heavily. slang, transitive

    "When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him."

  3. 8
    To notice; to take notice of (someone or something). informal, transitive

    "Clock the wheels on that car!"

  4. 9
    To recognize; to assess, register. informal, transitive

    "I'd already clocked her as someone who couldn't reliably be believed when she spoke. And now this too!"

  5. 10
    To identify (someone) as having some attribute (for example, being trans or gay). informal, transitive

    "Once my transition was complete I considered moving to London, where I felt there was less chance of being clocked and a larger support network."

  6. 11
    To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle. British, slang

    "I don't believe that car has done only 40,000 miles. It's been clocked."

  7. 12
    To beat a video game. Australia, British, New-Zealand, slang, transitive

    "Have you clocked that game yet?"

  8. 13
    To expose or attack someone, typically in a targeted and insulting manner. ambitransitive

    "Did you hear what she said about my outfit? She kind of clocked me."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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 Frisian Klokke (“bell, clock”), Dutch klok (“clock, bell”), Low German Klock (“bell, clock”), German Glocke (“bell”), Danish and Norwegian klokke (“clock, bell”), Faroese klokka (“clock, bell”), Icelandic klukka (“clock, bell”), Swedish klocka (“clock, bell”). Doublet of cloak and cloche.

Etymology 2

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 Frisian Klokke (“bell, clock”), Dutch klok (“clock, bell”), Low German Klock (“bell, clock”), German Glocke (“bell”), Danish and Norwegian klokke (“clock, bell”), Faroese klokka (“clock, bell”), Icelandic klukka (“clock, bell”), Swedish klocka (“clock, bell”). Doublet of cloak and cloche.

Etymology 3

Uncertain; designs may have originally been bell-shaped and thus related to Etymology 1, above.

Etymology 4

Uncertain; designs may have originally been bell-shaped and thus related to Etymology 1, above.

Etymology 5

From Middle English clokken, from Old English cloccian, ultimately imitative; compare Dutch klokken, English cluck.

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