clocklike
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adjective
highly systematic, precise, and dependable: The mail carrier arrives at noon with clocklike regularity.
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clock1 (klɒk) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | digital clock Compare watch 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 |
| 2. | any clocklike device for recording or measuring, such as a taximeter or pressure gauge |
| 3. | the downy head of a dandelion that has gone to seed |
| 4. | an electrical circuit that generates pulses at a predetermined rate |
| 5. | computing an electronic pulse generator that transmits streams of regular pulses to which various parts of the computer and its operations are synchronized |
| 6. | short for time clock |
| 7. | around the clock, round the clock all day and all night |
| 8. | the clock speedometer an informal word for mileometer |
| 9. | (Brit) a slang word for face |
| 10. | against the clock |
| a. under pressure, as to meet a deadline | |
| b. (in certain sports, such as show jumping) timed by a stop clock: the last round will be against the clock | |
| 11. | put the clock back to regress |
| —vb | |
| 12. | slang (Brit), (Austral), (NZ) (tr) to strike, esp on the face or head |
| 13. | slang (Brit) (tr) to see or notice |
| 14. | (tr) to record time as with a stopwatch, esp in the calculation of speed |
| 15. | electronics to feed a clock pulse to (a digital device) in order to cause it to switch to a new state |
| [C14: from Middle Dutch clocke clock, from Medieval Latin clocca bell, ultimately of Celtic origin] | |
| 'clocker1 | |
| —n | |
| 'clocklike1 | |
| —adj | |
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Clocklike
is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
The clocklike spacing between extinctions was nonetheless intriguing.
On the stage there was a large clocklike device with a single hand.
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