clock 
clock (kläk)
noun
- a device used for measuring and indicating time, usually by means of pointers moving over a dial: clocks, unlike watches, are not meant to be worn or carried about
- ☆ time clock
- a measuring or recording device suggestive of a clock, as a taximeter
Etymology: ME clokke, orig., clock with bells < ML clocca, bell < Celt, as in OIr cloc (> OE clugge, OHG glocka), bell < ? IE base *kel-, to cry out, sound > clamor
transitive verb
- to measure the speed or record the time of (a race, runner, motorist, etc.) with a stopwatch or other timing device
- to measure (work done, distance covered, etc.) with a registering device
around the clock
clock (kläk)
noun
Etymology: < ? clock, because of orig. bell shape
clock
n.
Kinds of clocks include: alarm, atomic, cuckoo, electric, digital, wall, grandfather, pendulum; hourglass, mission timer, stopwatch, sundial, wrist watch, clock radio, chronometer, chronograph;
around the clock
Object
- sec: Tara Wilson set up another Wakefield one-two in the 300m hurdles clocking 51.2 secs to beat shot winner Ridsdale.
Converse of object
- tick: Now they're on a hospital roof confronting a rapidly ticking medical clock.
- chime: Opposite is the mechanism of former cathedral chiming clocks, the earliest parts dating from the 15th century.
- synchronize: This system synchronizes a high quality clock at the receiving terminal with a similar clock on the sending terminal.
- turn: Let's turn the clock back 100 years to 1906.
Adjective modifier
- circadian: The daily rhythm of life is maintained by a circadian clock in organisms ranging from bacteria to humans.
- atomic: The vault breathed in blue in time with the atomic clock.
- astronomical: James Ferguson himself designed several astronomical clocks and orreries for use in his lectures.
- biological: Scared that her biological clock is going tick tick tick boom.
- 24-hour: The time is entered based on a 24-hour clock.
- 12-hour: Some countries use a 24-hour clock; others use a 12-hour clock.
Modifies a noun
- tower: There are 334 steps to climb the clock tower; children under 14 are not allowed.
- speed: DSP's start to be outstripped by the Power PC Chip at about 132 MHz clock speed.
Noun used with modifier
- alarm: The type of alarm clock your deaf child chooses will depend on how heavy a sleeper they are.
- cuckoo: Has the immortal line about cuckoo clocks which, according to Wikipedia, isn't even accurate.
- grandfather: Near a grandfather clock to the south, French windows lead to a cool balcony overlooking the formal gardens.
- pendulum: Instructions are given on how to construct a pendulum clock, and readers ' questions are answered.
- longcase: A late 18th century mahogany longcase clock, 87 ½ ' ' high.
- countdown: The Timers view offers 4 countdown clocks which can be run simultaneously.
Possessives
- o: Face the front of the boat at twelve o ' clock.
Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea? 156
Ah! The clock is always slow; It is later than you think.
Oh, to have a little house! To own the hearth and stool and all! The heaped-up sods upon the fire, The pile of turf against the wall! To have a clock with weights and chains And pendulum swinging up and down, A dresser filled with shining delph, Speckled and white and blue and brown!
Covertly the hands of a great clock go round and round! Were they to move quickly and at once the whole secret would be out and the shuffling of all ants be done forever.
I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience: it also marks the time, which is four o'clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere. 788
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshedöthey produced Michelangelo, Leonardo daVinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.
Most people really believe that the Christian commandments (e.g. to love one's neighbour as oneself) are intentionally a little too severeölike putting Kincaid the clockonhalf anhour tomakesure of not being late in the morning.
The day consists of twenty-four hours only. This regulates the size of the house and the ro" le it has to fulfil. For the twenty-four hour day is short, and our acts and thoughts are spurred on by time. If we were taught to regard the hand of the clock as a beneficent but implacable god, we should order our lives more rationally.
Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually! Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come. Fair nature's eye, rise, rise, again, and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but Ayear, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul! O lente, lente currite, noctis equi: The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned. Oh, I'll leap up to my God!öWho pulls me down?ö See, see, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament! One drop would save my soul, half a drop, ah, my Christ.
'Pray, my dear,'quoth my mother,'have you not forgot to wind up the clock?'ö'Good Gö?'cried my father, making an exclamation, but taking care to moderate his voice at the same time,ö'Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?'
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