Meaning of clock | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
3. A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).
4. A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day.
   countable, uncountable
5. A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day
6. A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.
   attributive, countable, uncountable
7. A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time
8. The odometer of a motor vehicle.
   British, countable, uncountable
9. The odometer of a motor vehicle
10. An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
    countable, uncountable
11. An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules
12. The seed head of a dandelion.
    countable, uncountable
13. The seed head of a dandelion
14. A time clock.
    countable, uncountable
15. A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
    countable, informal, uncountable
16. A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.
    uncountable
17. A watch (timepiece).
    UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable
18. A face; the head.
    countable, slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“Executing a NEXT to code takes 7 clocks, or 1.05 microseconds.”

“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.”

“Arthur Morrison, Chance of the Game But if the clock was a red 'un, and the opportunity undoubted; to be pinched in the Bow Road merely might well imply loss of caste in the mob, but nobody need be ashamed to be pinched anywhere for a gold watch, after all.”

“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”

“She'd a gown wi' girt flowers lik' hollyhocks An zome stockèns o' gramfer's a-knit wi' clocks”

“Most decoration involved the ankle clocks, and several are shown on p.15 in the form of charts.”

“Clocks: These are ornamental designs embroidered or woven on to the ankles of stockings.”

“his stockings with silver clocks were ravished from him”

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