Definition of Clock

1. 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"

Exact synonyms: Time
Generic synonyms: Measure, Quantify
Specialized synonyms: Mistime
Derivative terms: Clocking, Time, Time, Timer, Timer

2. Noun. A timepiece that shows the time of day.
Specialized synonyms: Alarm, Alarm Clock, Analog Clock, Chronometer, Cuckoo Clock, Digital Clock, Electric Clock, Pendulum Clock, System Clock, Time Clock, Turret Clock, Wall Clock, Clepsydra, Water Clock, Water Glass
Specialized synonyms: Big Ben
Terms within: Clock Dial, Clock Face, Fusee, Fusee Drive, Movement
Generic synonyms: Horologe, Timekeeper, Timepiece

Definition of Clock

1. n. 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. v. t. To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.

3. v. t. & i. To call, as a hen. See Cluck.

4. n. A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabæus stercorarius).

Definition of Clock

1. Noun. An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece. ¹

2. Noun. (British) The odometer of a motor vehicle. ¹

3. Noun. (electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To measure the duration of. ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) To measure the speed of. ¹

6. Verb. (transitive slang) To hit (someone) ¹

7. Verb. (slang) To take notice of; to realise. ¹

8. Verb. (British slang) To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle. ¹

9. Noun. A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Clock

1. to time with a stopwatch [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clock

clobbered
clobbering
clobbers
clobenpropit
clobenzepam
clobenzorex
clobenztropine
clobetasol
clobetasol propionate
clobutinol
clochard
clochards
cloche
cloches
clocinizine
clock (current term)
clock-face timetable
clock-face timetables
clock-generator
clock-watcher
clock-watching
clock dial
clock face
clock faces
clock generator
clock generators
clock golf
clock in
clock off
clock on

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