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English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /klɒk/, SAMPA: /klQk/
- Rhymes: -ɒk
- (US) enPR: kläk, IPA: /klɑk/, SAMPA: /klAk/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑk
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Etymology 1
c. 1350–1400, Middle English clok, clokke, from Middle Dutch klocke 'bell, clock' (modern klok), from Old Northern French cloque 'bell' (French cloche), from Gaulish clocca (compare Welsh cloch, Irish clog), from Proto-Indo-European *klak. More at laugh. Related to Old English clucge, German Glocke, Swedish klocka.
Noun
clock (plural clocks)
- An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece.
- (UK) 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.
Synonyms
- (instrument used to measure or keep track of time): timepiece
- (odometer of a motor vehicle): odometer
Derived terms
Terms derived from "clock"
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Translations
instrument to measure or keep track of time
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- Tagalog: relo, orasan m. (1)
Verb
to clock (third-person singular simple present clocks, present participle clocking, simple past and past participle clocked)
- (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)
- 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.
- (UK, 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.
Quotations
- to take notice of
- 2000 Phil Austin, Naugahide Days: The Lost Island Stories of Thomas Wood Briar[1], page 109:
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- 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.
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- 2005 Jr. Aaron Bryant, Cupid Is Stupid[2], page 19:
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- 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.
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- 2006 Ken Bruen, [3], page 36:
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- And he waits till I extend my hand, the two fingers visibly crushed. He clocks them, I say, "Phil."
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Synonyms
- (measure the duration of): time
- (measure the speed of):
- (slang: hit (someone)): slug, smack, thump, whack
- (slang: take notice of): check out, scope out
- (slang: falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle): turn back (the vehicle's) clock, wind back (the vehicle's) clock
Derived terms
Translations
measure the duration of
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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.
- 2006 J. Munslow, Kathryn McKelvey, Fashion Source Book[4], ISBN 1405126930, page 231:
- Clocks: These are ornamental designs embroidered or woven on to the ankles of stockings.
- 2004 Sheila McGregor, Traditional Scandinavian Knitting[5], Courier Dover, ISBN 0486433005, page 60:
- Most decoration involved the ankle clocks, and several are shown on p.15 in the form of charts.
- 1894, William Barnes, “Grammer's Shoes”, 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
- 1882, W.S. Gilbert, “When you're lying awake”[6], Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri:
- 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
- 2006 J. Munslow, Kathryn McKelvey, Fashion Source Book[4], ISBN 1405126930, page 231:
Translations
pattern near heel of a sock or stocking
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See also
- Time on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Time
- meter
Scots
Verb
tae clock (third-person singular simple present clocks, present participle clockin, simple past clockit, past participle clockit)
- to hatch (an egg)
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How should I go about repainting a clock?
Q. Not a big deal, but I own a small clock purchased from Pottery Barn. The exterior is wood, painted yellow. Is it acceptable to use wall paint to repaint the clock's exterior? Should I sand before repainting?
Asked by Substitute Teacher - Mon Jul 9 00:47:30 2007 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments
A. If the original paint is peeling, I would recommend hand sanding. Otherwise, you can go ahead and paint it with any type of latex paint...just be sure to use a good brush! A good brush versus paint will give you a quality look!
Answered by AllieCat - Mon Jul 9 03:29:15 2007
Q. Not a big deal, but I own a small clock purchased from Pottery Barn. The exterior is wood, painted yellow. Is it acceptable to use wall paint to repaint the clock's exterior? Should I sand before repainting?
Asked by Substitute Teacher - Mon Jul 9 00:47:30 2007 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments
A. If the original paint is peeling, I would recommend hand sanding. Otherwise, you can go ahead and paint it with any type of latex paint...just be sure to use a good brush! A good brush versus paint will give you a quality look!
Answered by AllieCat - Mon Jul 9 03:29:15 2007
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