clock
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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 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”), Asturian llueca (“cowbell”), Galician and Portuguese choca (“cowbell”), Doublet of cloak and cloche.
Inflected forms:
form: clocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: CLK
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: clocks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: clocking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: clocked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: clocked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: CLK
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
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.
gloss: A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
countable
uncountable
examples: A 12-hour clock system; an antique clock sale; Acme is a clock manufacturer.
gloss: The odometer of a motor vehicle.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
examples: This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock.
gloss: An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The seed head of a dandelion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A time clock.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I can't go off to lunch yet: I'm still on the clock.
We let the guys use the shop's tools and equipment for their own projects as long as they're off the clock.
gloss: A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: Executing a NEXT to code takes 7 clocks, or 1.05 microseconds.
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.
gloss: A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A watch (timepiece).
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
obsolete
uncountable
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.
gloss: A face; the head.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: To measure the duration of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To measure the speed of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He was clocked at 155 miles per hour.
Dan Patch clocked a scorching 1:55.5 flat.
gloss: To hit (someone) heavily.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him.
gloss: To notice; to take notice of (someone or something).
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: Clock the wheels on that car!
It is true. Carmen is an official gold digger. In fact, she is an instructor at the school of gold digging. Hood rats have been clocking her style for years. Wanting to pull the players she pulled, and wishing they had the looks she had.
Cut to the pub on a lads night out, / Man at the bar cos it was his shout, / Clocks this bird and she looks OK, / Caught him looking and she walks his way,
First it was only when I was with him—we would pass a pretty girl, I would notice her first, and my eyes would dart to his to see him clock her.
He made it to ten yards away. Still they hadn't clocked him. Five yards. He felt increasingly confident about grabbing the actual thief, even if it meant letting the other lad get away. Both were pretty scrawny kids, although the other one was quite a bit older, maybe twenty,[…]
I had just long enough at Lancaster to clock another plaque to a great Victorian railway engineer, Joseph Locke (1805-60).
gloss: To recognize; to assess, register.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: I'd already clocked her as someone who couldn't reliably be believed when she spoke. And now this too!
Bo John and I twisted our heads around as Miranda braked over to the gravelly shoulder, let the Scout wheeze to a stop. She was climbing out, hurrying back to whatever had caught her eye. Bo John leered into the door mirror, clocking her flouncing, leggy strut.
gloss: To identify (someone) as having some attribute (for example, being trans or gay).
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: 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.
Jaz said that the palpitations of fear he used to experience at the prospect of being publicly outed in the gurdwara dissipated after he clocked other gay Sikhs in there, even one who professed a Jat caste identity, he said – Jatness being associated with stereotypical dominant macho masculinity. He reflected that this was a major factor in his rapprochement with his[…]
Consuella Lopez, the director of operations and housing at Casa Ruby, remembers. "The more passable your body was, the less bullying you'd get, the more chances of you getting a regular job at a regular place without somebody clocking you."
Jess was a sixty-something, short, White, bald man who could easily be "clocked" as gay.
Quarantine had thrown a new wrench "do not perceive me" discourse, but trans people have arguably always had a messy relationship to being perceived. We avoid it, and yet we also juice our lives to be seen. Getting clocked feels bad, but being hot feels good.
gloss: To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
pos: verb
tags: UK
slang
examples: I don't believe that car has done only 40,000 miles. It's been clocked.
gloss: To beat a video game.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
slang
transitive
examples: Have you clocked that game yet?
gloss: To expose or attack someone, typically in a targeted and insulting manner.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Did you hear what she said about my outfit? She kind of clocked me.
You clocked, that guy is always running his mouth.
Its always a good day when I can clock someone using the (made up word) "unlessen". I just...ch...
not ariana getting her ass clocked on the set of victorious
she just clocked all these mediocre men
Derived words: 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 arithmetic
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
clock tower
clocktower
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
Etho hopper 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
play 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
townhall 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
water clock
waterclock
whatever winds your clock
wind back the clock
world clock
clockable
clock in
clock off
clock on
clock onto
clock out
clock the tea
clock up
clocky
downclock
overclock
reclock
self-clocking
underclock
upclock
clocker
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