clock
See also: Clock
English
The clock at Big Ben.
The clock of a dandelion.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /klɒk/
- (General American) enPR: kläk, IPA(key): /klɔk/, /klɑk/
- (Scouse) IPA(key): [kl̥ɒχ]
Audio (UK) (file) Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒk
Etymology 1
c. 1350–1400, 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, Saterland Frisian Klokke (“bell; clock”), Low German Klock (“bell, clock”), German Glocke, Swedish klocka.
Doublet of cloak.
Alternative forms
- CLK (contraction used in electronics)
Noun
clock (countable and uncountable, plural clocks)
- An instrument that measures or keeps track of time; a non-wearable timepiece.
- 1995, Klein, Richard, “Introduction”, in Cigarettes are sublime, Paperback edition, Durham: Duke University Press, published 1993, →ISBN, OCLC 613939086, 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 the clocks.
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- (attributive) A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.
- A 12-hour clock system; an antique clock sale; Acme is a clock manufacturer.
- (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 time clock.
- 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.
- (computing, informal) A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
- 1984, The Journal of Forth Application and Research (volume 2, page 83)
- Executing a NEXT to code takes 7 clocks, or 1.05 microseconds.
- 1990, Joseph F. Traub, Barbara J. Grosz, Annual Review of Computer Science (page 180)
- 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.
- 1984, The Journal of Forth Application and Research (volume 2, page 83)
- (uncountable) A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.
- Synonym: clock patience
Synonyms
Derived terms
- 12-hour clock
- 24-hour clock
- a broken clock is right twice a day
- Act of Parliament clock
- against the clock
- alarm clock
- analog clock
- analogue clock
- around-the-clock
- around the clock
- a stopped clock is right twice a day
- atomic clock
- balloon clock
- beat the clock
- biological clock
- black clock
- body clock
- bracket clock
- bum-clock
- bushman's clock
- caesium clock
- carriage clock
- case clock
- chemical clock
- chess clock
- circadian clock
- clean someone's clock
- Clock
- clock calm
- clockcase
- clock cycle
- clock down
- clock face, Clock Face
- clock-face timetable
- clock gable
- clock generator
- clock golf
- clock hour
- clockhouse
- clock is running
- clock is ticking
- clock jack
- clock-jobber
- clockless
- clocklike
- clockmaker
- clock paradox
- clock patience
- clockpunk
- clock radio
- clock rate
- clock signal
- clock speed
- clockspring
- clock star
- clock tower
- clock vine
- clockward
- clock-watch
- clock-watcher
- clock watcher
- clock-watching
- clockweight
- clockwinder
- clockwise
- clockwork
- continuous clock
- cuckoo clock
- dandelion clock
- death clock
- digital clock
- drumhead clock
- eight-day clock
- epigenetic clock
- face that would stop a clock
- flog the clock
- flower clock
- game clock
- grandfather clock
- grandfather's clock
- grandmother clock
- hydrogen maser atomic clock
- Jack o' the clock
- light clock
- longcase clock
- longitude clock
- master clock
- microbial clock
- milk the clock
- molecular clock
- o'clock
- off 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
- round-the-clock
- round the clock
- run down the clock
- run out the clock
- run the clock down
- segmentation clock
- settler's clock
- shepherd's clock
- shot clock
- slave clock
- speaking clock
- star clock
- stop clock
- stop someone's clock
- stream clock
- synchronized clock
- talking clock
- tall-case clock
- ticking clock
- time clock
- turn back the clock
- turn the clock back
- vase clock
- wall clock
- watchman's clock
- water clock
- wind back the clock
- world clock
Translations
instrument to measure or keep track of time
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odometer
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electrical signal
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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.
- 1996, Jon Byrell, Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers, Sydney: Ironbark, page 186:
- Dan Patch clocked a scorching 1:55.5 flat.
- He was clocked at 155 miles per hour.
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- (transitive, slang) To hit (someone) heavily.
- (slang) To take notice of; to realise; to recognize someone or something.
- Clock the wheels on that car!
- He finally clocked that there were no more cornflakes.
- 1988, “Nobody Beats the Biz”, in Goin' Off, performed by Biz Markie:
- Pardon the way that I be talking ’bout the places I be rocking
I love to perform for the people that be clocking
- 2000, Phil Austin, Naugahide Days: The Lost Island Stories of Thomas Wood Briar, page 109:
- 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.
- 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, / Clocks this bird and she looks OK, / Caught him looking and she walks his way,
- 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Lancaster (1860)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 58:
- I had just long enough at Lancaster to clock another plaque to a great Victorian railway engineer, Joseph Locke (1805-60).
- (transgender slang) To identify someone as being transgender.
- A trans person may be able to easily clock other trans people.
- 2019 September 1, Dani Nett, “For Trans Women, Silicone 'Pumping' Can Be A Blessing And A Curse”, in NPR:
- 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."
- 2022 March 1, Charlie Markbreiter, “"Other Trans People Make Me Dysphoric": Trans Assimilation and Cringe”, in The New Inquiry:
- 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.
- (Britain, slang) To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
- (transitive, Britain, New Zealand, slang) To beat a video game.
- Have you clocked that game yet?
Derived terms
Translations
measure the duration of
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measure the speed of
slang: take notice of
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slang: falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle
Etymology 2
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.
- 1894, William Barnes, “Grammer's Shoes”, in Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, page 110:
- 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
- his stockings with silver clocks were ravished from him
Translations
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.
Noun
clock (plural clocks)
- A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).
Etymology 4
Old English cloccian ultimately imitative; compare Dutch klokken, English cluck.
Verb
clock (third-person singular simple present clocks, present participle clocking, simple past and past participle clocked)
Derived terms
Scots
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