clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɒk/
enpr: kläk
ipa: /klɑk/
note: Liverpool
ipa: [kl̥ɒχ]
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: clocks
form: CLK
Etymology: First use appears c. 1370. Middle English clokke, clok, cloke, from Middle Dutch clocke (“bell, clock”), from Old Dutch *klokka, from Medieval Latin clocca, probably of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”) (compare Welsh cloch, Old Irish cloc), either onomatopoeic or from Proto-Indo-European *klek- (“to laugh, cackle”) (compare Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną (“to laugh”)). Related to Old English clucge, Dutch klok, Saterland Frisian Klokke (“bell; clock”), Low German Klock (“bell, clock”), German Glocke, Swedish klocka. Doublet of cloak and cloche.
Senses: examples: text: When the clock says midnight.
text: 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.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto II”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
text: 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.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 163:
text: 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.
ref: 1995, Richard Klein, “Introduction”, in Cigarettes are sublime, Paperback edition, Durham: Duke University Press, published 1993, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 8:
glosses: A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day.
examples: text: A 12-hour clock system; an antique clock sale; Acme is a clock manufacturer.
glosses: A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.
examples: text: This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock.
glosses: The odometer of a motor vehicle.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
glosses: The seed head of a dandelion.
examples: text: I can't go off to lunch yet: I'm still on the clock.
text: We let the guys use the shop's tools and equipment for their own projects as long as they're off the clock.
glosses: A time clock.
examples: text: Executing a NEXT to code takes 7 clocks, or 1.05 microseconds.
ref: 1984, The Journal of Forth Application and Research, volume 2, page 83:
text: The best schedule produced by any hardware algorithm takes 7 clocks, whereas the statically reordered code in Figure 1.2(b) takes only 5 clocks.
ref: 1990, Joseph F. Traub, Barbara J. Grosz, Annual Review of Computer Science, page 180:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
synonyms: clock patience
glosses: A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.
examples: 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.
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: A watch (timepiece).
Synonyms: sense: instrument used to measure or keep track of time
word: chronometer
sense: odometer of a motor vehicle
word: odometer
Derived terms: 12-hour clock
24-hour clock
twenty-four-hour clock
400-day clock
a broken clock is right twice a day
Act of Parliament clock
against the clock
alarm clock
alarum clock
analog clock
analogue clock
anniversary clock
around the clock
around-the-clock
a stopped clock is right twice a day
astronomical clock
atomic clock
attoclock
balloon clock
banjo clock
beat the clock
beer clock
bioclock
biological clock
black clock
body clock
bracket clock
bum-clock
bushman's clock
caesium clock
calendar clock
carriage clock
case clock
chemical clock
chess clock
circadian clock
clean someone's clock
Clock
clock app
clock calm
clockcase
clock cycle
clock down
clock face
Clock Face
clock-face timetable
clock gable
Clockgate
clock generator
clock golf
clock hour
clockhouse
clock is running
clock is ticking
clock it
clock jack
clock-jobber
clockless
clocklike
clockmaker
clockmaking
clock move
clock paradox
clock patience
clockpunk
clock radio
clock rate
clockroom
clock signal
clock skew
clock speed
clockspring
clock star
clocksucker
clock system
clock time
clocktower
clock tower
clock vine
clockward
clockware
clock-watch
clock watcher
clock-watcher
clock-watching
clockweight
clockwinder
clock wipe
clockwise
clockwork
continuous clock
cuckoo clock
dandelion clock
death clock
digital clock
Doomsday Clock
drumhead clock
eight-day clock
epigenetic clock
equation clock
even a stopped clock is right twice a day
face that would stop a clock
fix someone's clock
flip clock
flog the clock
floral clock
flower clock
game clock
get one's clock cleaned
grandfather clock
grandfather's clock
grandmother clock
Horvath clock
hydrogen maser atomic clock
Jack o' the clock
Japanese clock
light clock
logical clock
longcase clock
longitude clock
master clock
microbial clock
milk the clock
misclock
molecular clock
mystery clock
o'clock
off the clock
of the clock
on the clock
optical lattice clock
over-clock
pendulum clock
pigeon clock
pocket clock
pulsar clock
punch clock
put the clock back
put the clock forward
quartz clock
quartz-crystal clock
race against the clock
radio alarm clock
radio clock
ride the clock
Riefler clock
round-the-clock
round the clock
run down the clock
run out the clock
run the clock down
sand clock
segmentation clock
settler's clock
shepherd's clock
Shortt clock
shot clock
skeleton clock
slave clock
speaking clock
star clock
stop clock
stopped clock illusion
stop someone's clock
stream clock
striking clock
synchronized clock
talking clock
tall-case clock
the clock around
ticking clock
time clock
time delay and integration clock
turn back the clock
turn the clock back
twenty-four hour clock
vase clock
vector clock
wall clock
wall-clock time
watchclock
watchman's clock
waterclock
water clock
whatever winds your clock
wind back the clock
world clock