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CLOCK
clock
(noun) a timepiece that shows the time of day
clock, time
(verb) measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time; “he clocked the runners”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
clock (plural clocks)
An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece.
(British) The odometer of a motor vehicle.
(electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
The seed head of a dandelion.
A time clock.
(computing, informal) A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
Synonyms
• (instrument used to measure or keep track of time): timepiece
• (odometer of a motor vehicle): odometer
Verb
clock (third-person singular simple present clocks, present participle clocking, simple past and past participle clocked)
(transitive) To measure the duration of.
Synonym: time
(transitive) To measure the speed of.
(transitive, slang) To hit (someone) heavily.
Synonyms: slug, smack, thump, whack
(slang) To take notice of; to realise; to recognize someone or something
Synonyms: check out, scope out
(British, slang) To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
Synonyms: turn back (the vehicle's) clock, wind back (the vehicle's) clock
(transitive, British, New Zealand, slang) To beat a video game.
Etymology 2
Origin uncertain; designs may have originally been bell-shaped and thus related to Etymology 1, above.
Noun
clock (plural clocks)
A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
Verb
clock (third-person singular simple present clocks, present participle clocking, simple past and past participle clocked)
(transitive) To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
Etymology 3
Noun
clock (plural clocks)
A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).
Etymology 4
Verb
clock (third-person singular simple present clocks, present participle clocking, simple past and past participle clocked)
(Scotland, intransitive, dated) To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
(Scotland, intransitive, dated) To hatch.
Proper noun
Clock (plural Clocks)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Clock is the 26975th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 899 individuals. Clock is most common among White (89.66%) individuals.
Source: Wiktionary
Clock, n. Etym: [AS. clucge bell; akin to D. klok clock, bell, G. glocke, Dan. klokke, Sw. klocka, Icel. klukka bell, LL. clocca, cloca (whence F. cloche); al perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. & Gael. clog bell, clock, W. cloch bell. Cf. Cloak.]
1. A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person.
2. A watcg, esp. one that strikes. [Obs.] Walton.
3. The striking of a clock. [Obs.] Dryden.
4. A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking. Swift.
Note: The phrases what o'clock it is nine o'clock, etc., are contracted from what of the clock it is nine of the clock, etc. Alarm clock. See under Alarm.
– Astronomical clock. (a) A clock of superior construction, with a compensating pendulum, etc., to measure time with great accuracy, for use in astronomical observatories; -- called a regulator when used by watchmakers as a standard for regulating timepieces. (b) A clock with mechanism for indicating certain astronomical phenomena, as the phases of the moon, position of the sun in the ecliptic, equation of time, etc.
– Electric clock. (a) A clock moved or regulated by electricity or electro-magnetism. (b) A clock connected with an electro-magnetic recording apparatus.
– Ship's clock (Naut.), a clock arranged to strike from one to eight strokes, at half hourly intervals, marking the divisions of the ship's watches.
– Sidereal clock, an astronomical clock regulated to keep sidereal time.
Clock, v. t.
Definition: To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.
Clock, v. t. & i.
Definition: To call, as a hen. See Cluck. [R.]
Clock, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabæus stercorarius).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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