Clock

/klɒk/ · noun

Meaning

A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day..

Definitions by Sense

1. A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day.
2. (attributive) A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.
3. (British) The odometer of a motor vehicle.
4. (electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
5. The seed head of a dandelion.
6. A time clock.
7. (computing, informal) A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
8. (uncountable) A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.

Example Sentences

When the clock says midnight.

The seasons bring the flower again, ⁠And bring the firstling to the flock; ⁠And in the dusk of thee, the clock Beats out the little lives of men.

An interesting feature of the church is the invisible clock, which you can hear thumping away as you enter. Constructed in 1525, it is one of the oldest timepieces in England. It chimes the hours and the quarters, and every three hours it plays a hymn. But it has no faces.

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.

A 12-hour clock system; an antique clock sale; Acme is a clock manufacturer.

This car has over 300,000 miles on the 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.

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Word Forms

• clocks
• CLK
• clocking
• clocked

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