clock meaning
EN
[klɒk] [-ɒk] [klɑk] 
US WClock
- A clock is an instrument to indicate, keep, and co-ordinate time. The word clock is derived ultimately (via Dutch, Northern French, and Medieval Latin) from the Celtic words clagan and clocca meaning "bell".
- The clock is one of the oldest human inventions, meeting the need to consistently measure intervals of time shorter than the natural units: the day, the lunar month, and the year.
- The timekeeping element in every modern clock is a harmonic oscillator, a physical object (resonator) that vibrates or oscillates repetitively at a precisely constant frequency.
- NounPLclocksSUF-lock
- An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece.
- (Britain) The odometer of a motor vehicle.
- This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock.
- (electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
- The seed head of a dandelion.
- A timeclock.
- 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.
- A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
- 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 gold clocks), crossing Salisbury Plain on a bicycle
- A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).
- An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece.
- VerbSGclocksPRclockingPT, PPclocked
- (transitive) To measure the duration of.
- (transitive) To measure the speed of.
- He was clocked at 155 miles per hour.
- (transitive, slang) To hit (someone) heavily.
- When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him.
- (slang) To take notice of; to realise.
- Clock the wheels on that car!
- He finally clocked that there were no more cornflakes.
- (Britain, slang) To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
- I don't believe that car has done only 40,000 miles. It's been clocked.
- (transitive, New Zealand, slang) To beat a video game.
- Have you clocked that game yet?
- (transitive, informal) To recognize someone or something.
- A trans person may be able to easily clock other trans people.
- (transitive) To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
- (intransitive, dated) To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
- (transitive) To measure the duration of.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- I've got to beat the rush. Do me a favor and clock me out.
- Watching the clock will not make time go faster.
- A clock synchronizing circuit for repeaterless low swing interconnects is presented in this paper.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Now there are four in the firehall around the clock.
- I was roused from unconsciousness by the alarm clock.
- Continuous watchfulness is maintained around the clock.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of clock in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "clock" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.