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clock
1[ klok ]
noun
- an instrument for measuring and recording time, especially by mechanical means, usually with hands or changing numbers to indicate the hour and minute: not designed to be worn or carried about.
- a meter or other device, as a speedometer or taximeter, for measuring and recording speed, distance covered, or other quantitative functioning.
- Clock, Astronomy. the constellation Horologium.
- Computers. the circuit in a digital computer that provides a common reference train of electronic pulses for all other circuits.
verb (used with object)
- to time, test, or determine by means of a clock or watch:
The racehorse was clocked at two minutes thirty seconds.
- Slang. to strike sharply or heavily:
Somebody clocked him on the face.
- Slang. to identify (someone) as transgender or as the gender they were assigned at birth, especially when they do not wish to be so identified:
She clocked me on our first date, but told me she was transgender too.
verb phrase
- to end work, especially by punching a time clock:
He clocked out early yesterday.
- to begin work, especially by punching a time clock:
She clocked in at 9 a.m. on the dot.
clock
2[ klok ]
noun
- a short embroidered or woven ornament on each side or on the outer side of a sock or stocking, extending from the ankle upward.
verb (used with object)
- to embroider with such an ornament.
clock
1/ klɒk /
noun
- an ornamental design either woven in or embroidered on the side of a stocking
clock
2/ klɒk /
noun
- a timepiece, usually free-standing, hanging, or built into a tower, having mechanically or electrically driven pointers that move constantly over a dial showing the numbers of the hours Compare digital clock watch
- any clocklike device for recording or measuring, such as a taximeter or pressure gauge
- the downy head of a dandelion that has gone to seed
- an electrical circuit that generates pulses at a predetermined rate
- computing an electronic pulse generator that transmits streams of regular pulses to which various parts of the computer and its operations are synchronized
- short for time clock
- around the clock or round the clockall day and all night
- the clockan informal word for speedometer mileometer
- a slang word for face
- against the clock
- under pressure, as to meet a deadline
- (in certain sports, such as show jumping) timed by a stop clock
the last round will be against the clock
- put the clock backto regress
verb
- slang.tr to strike, esp on the face or head
- slang.tr to see or notice
- tr to record time as with a stopwatch, esp in the calculation of speed
- electronics to feed a clock pulse to (a digital device) in order to cause it to switch to a new state
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Derived Forms
- ˈclockˌlike, adjective
- ˈclocker, noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of clock1
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Idioms and Phrases
- around the clock,
- during all 24 hours; ceaselessly.
- without stopping for rest; tirelessly:
working around the clock to stem the epidemic.
- kill the clock, Sports. to use up as much game time as possible when one is winning, as to protect a lead in basketball, ice hockey, or football. Also run out the clock.
- stop the clock, to postpone an official or legal deadline by ceasing to count the hours or minutes that elapse, such as when a new union contract must be agreed upon before an old contract runs out, or when play time in a game must be interrupted for an allowable reason.
More idioms and phrases containing clock
- against the clock
- beat the clock
- clean someone's clock
- like clock-work
- set back (the clock)
- stop someone's clock
- stop the clock
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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