clock
See also:Clock
English
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Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation)IPA(key):/klɒk/
- (General American)enPR:kläk,IPA(key):/klɔk/,/klɑk/
- (Liverpool)IPA(key):[kl̥ɒχ]
Audio(UK): (file) Audio(US): (file) - Rhymes:-ɒk
Etymology 1
editc. 1350–1400,Middle Englishclokke,clok,cloke,fromMiddle Dutchclocke(“bell, clock”),fromOld Dutch*klokka,fromMedieval Latinclocca,probably ofCelticorigin, fromProto-Celtic*klokkos(“bell”)(compareWelshcloch,Old Irishcloc), either onomatopoeic or fromProto-Indo-European*klek-(“to laugh, cackle”)(compareProto-Germanic*hlahjaną(“to laugh”)).
Related toOld Englishclucge,Dutchklok,Saterland FrisianKlokke(“bell; clock”),Low GermanKlock(“bell, clock”),GermanGlocke,Swedishklocka.
Alternative forms
edit- CLK(contraction used in electronics)
Noun
editclock(countableanduncountable,pluralclocks)
- Achronometer,aninstrumentthatmeasurestime,particularlythetime of day.
- 1850,[Alfred, Lord Tennyson],In Memoriam,London:Edward Moxon,[…],→OCLC,Canto II:
- The seasons bring the flower again,
And bring the firstling to the flock;
And in the dusk of thee, theclock
Beats out the little lives of men.
- 1995,Richard Klein, “Introduction”, inCigarettes are sublime,Paperback edition, Durham: Duke University Press, published1993,→ISBN,→OCLC,page 8:
- 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 theclocks.
- (attributive)A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.
- A 12-hourclocksystem; an antiqueclocksale; Acme is aclockmanufacturer.
- (British)Theodometerof amotor vehicle.
- This car has over 300,000 miles on theclock.
- (electronics)Anelectricalsignalthatsynchronizestimingamongdigitalcircuitsofsemiconductorchipsormodules.
- Theseedheadof adandelion.
- Atime clock.
- I can't go off to lunch yet: I'm still on theclock.
- We let the guys use the shop's tools and equipment for their own projects as long as they're off theclock.
- (computing,informal)ACPUclockcycle,orT-state.
- 1984,The Journal of Forth Application and Research,volume 2, page83:
- Executing a NEXT to code takes 7clocks,or 1.05 microseconds.
- 1990,Joseph F. Traub, Barbara J. Grosz,Annual Review of Computer Science,page180:
- The best schedule produced by any hardware algorithm takes 7clocks,whereas the statically reordered code in Figure 1.2(b) takes only 5clocks.
- (uncountable)Aluck-basedpatienceorsolitairecard gamewith thecardslaid outtorepresentthefaceof aclock.
- Synonym:clock patience
Usage notes
editClockoriginally denoted a mechanical timekeeping device that was able to mark the time with chimes or another sounding mechanism, distinguished from atimepiecewhich had no such mechanism and ahorologeand other terms inclusive ofsundials,clepsydras,and similar devices.Clockis now the general term for all timekeeping devices, inclusive of aspects of software that tracks and displays the time, but as a physical object it is still sometimes distinguished from a small portablewatchand from nonmechanical timekeeping devices.
Synonyms
edit- (instrument used to measure or keep track of time):Seechronometer
- (odometer of a motor vehicle):odometer
Derived terms
edit- 12-hour clock
- 24-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
- atomic clock
- attoclock
- balloon clock
- banjo clock
- beat the 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 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
- 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
- flower clock
- game clock
- get one's clock cleaned
- grandfather clock
- grandfather's clock
- grandmother clock
- hydrogen maser atomic clock
- Jack o' the clock
- Japanese clock
- light 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
- of the clock
- on the clock
- over-clock
- pendulum 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
- synchronized clock
- talking clock
- tall-case clock
- ticking clock
- time clock
- time delay and integration clock
- turn back the clock
- turn the clock back
- vase clock
- wall clock
- wall-clock time
- watchclock
- watchman's clock
- water clock
- waterclock
- wind back the clock
- world clock
Translations
editinstrument to measure or keep track of time
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odometer
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electrical signal
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Verb
editclock(third-person singular simple presentclocks,present participleclocking,simple past and past participleclocked)
- (transitive)Tomeasurethedurationof.
- Synonym:time
- (transitive)Tomeasurethespeedof.
- He wasclockedat 155 miles per hour.
- 1996,Jon Byrell,Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers,Sydney: Ironbark, page186:
- Dan Patchclockeda scorching 1:55.5 flat.
- (transitive,slang)Tohit(someone)heavily.
- (transitive,informal)Tonotice;to take notice of (someone or something).
- 2005,Jr. Aaron Bryant,Cupid Is Stupid[1],page19:
- It is true. Carmen is an official gold digger. In fact, she is an instructor at the school of gold digging. Hood rats have beenclockingher style for years. Wanting to pull the players she pulled, and wishing they had the looks she had.
- 2006,Lily Allen(lyrics and music), “Knock 'Em Out”:
- Cut to the pub on a lads night out, / Man at the bar cos it was his shout, /Clocksthis bird and she looks OK, / Caught him looking and she walks his way,
- 2021July 1, Nick Oldham,Scarred,Severn House Publishers Ltd,→ISBN:
- He made it to ten yards away. Still they hadn'tclockedhim. 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,[…]
- 2021December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Lancaster (1860)”, inRAIL,number947,page58:
- I had just long enough at Lancaster toclockanother plaque to a great Victorian railway engineer, Joseph Locke (1805-60).
- (transitive,informal,withas)Torecognize;toassess.
- I'd alreadyclockedher as someone who couldn't reliably be believed when she spoke. And now this too!
- 2000,Phil Austin,Naugahide Days: The Lost Island Stories of Thomas Wood Briar[3],page109:
- 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,clockingher flouncing, leggy strut.
- (transitive,informal)Toidentify(someone) as having some attribute(for example, being trans or gay).
- Synonym:read
- Once my transformation was complete I considered moving to London, where I felt there was less chance of beingclockedand a larger support network.
- 2018September 14, Nicola Frost, Tom Selwyn,Travelling towards Home: Mobilities and Homemaking,Berghahn Books,→ISBN,page23:
- Jaz said that the palpitations of fear he used to experience at the prospect of being publicly outed in the gurdwara dissipated after heclockedother 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[…]
- 2019September 1, Dani Nett, “For Trans Women, Silicone 'Pumping' Can Be A Blessing And A Curse”, inNPR[4]:
- 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 somebodyclockingyou. "
- 2022February 1, Townsand Price-Spratlen,Addiction Recovery and Resilience: Faith-based Health Services in an African American Community,State University of New York Press,→ISBN:
- Jess was a sixty-something, short, White, bald man who could easily be "clocked"as gay.
- 2022March 1, Charlie Markbreiter, “" Other Trans People Make Me Dysphoric ": Trans Assimilation and Cringe”, inThe New Inquiry[5]:
- 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. Gettingclockedfeels bad, but being hot feels good.
- (British,slang)Tofalsifythereadingof theodometerof avehicle.
- (transitive,British,New Zealand,Australia,slang)Tobeatavideo game.
- Have youclockedthat game yet?
Derived terms
editTranslations
editmeasure the duration of
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measure the speed of
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slang: take notice of
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slang: falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle
Etymology 2
editUncertain; designs may have originally been bell-shaped and thus related to Etymology 1, above.
Noun
editclock(pluralclocks)
- A pattern near the heel of asockorstocking.
- 1882,W.S. Gilbert, “When you're lying awake”, inIolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri[6]:
- 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 goldclocks),
crossing Salisbury Plain on a bicycle
- 1894,William Barnes, “Grammer's Shoes”, inPoems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect,page110:
- She'd a gown wi' girt flowers lik' hollyhocks
An zome stockèns o' gramfer's a-knit wi'clocks
- c.1720,Jonathan Swift,An Essay on Modern Education:
- hisstockingswith silver clocks were ravished from him
Translations
editpattern near heel of a sock or stocking
Verb
editclock(third-person singular simple presentclocks,present participleclocking,simple past and past participleclocked)
- (transitive)To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
See also
editEtymology 3
editNoun
editclock(pluralclocks)
- A largebeetle,especially theEuropeandung beetle(Geotrupes stercorarius).
Etymology 4
editFromMiddle Englishclokken,fromOld Englishcloccian,ultimatelyimitative;compareDutchklokken,Englishcluck.
Verb
editclock(third-person singular simple presentclocks,present participleclocking,simple past and past participleclocked)
- (Scotland,intransitive,dated)To make the sound of a hen; tocluck.
- (Scotland,intransitive,dated)Tohatch.
Derived terms
editFurther reading
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Scots
editVerb
editclock(third-person singular simple presentclocks,present participleclockin,simple pastclockit,past participleclockit)
- tohatch(an egg)
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