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clock 1
(klŏk)n.
1. An instrument other than a watch for measuring or indicating time, especially a mechanical or electronic device having a numbered dial and moving hands or a digital display.
2. A time clock.
3. A source of regularly occurring pulses used to measure the passage of time, as in a computer.
4. Any of various devices that indicate measurement, such as a speedometer or a taximeter.
5. A biological clock.
6. The downy flower head of a dandelion that has gone to seed.
v. clocked, clock·ing, clocks
v.tr.
1. To time, as with a stopwatch: clock a runner.
2. To register or record with a mechanical device: clocked the winds at 60 miles per hour.
3. Informal To strike or hit (someone) forcefully, especially in the face.
v.intr.
Phrasal Verb: 1. To record working hours with a time clock: clocks in at 8:00 and out at 4:00.
2. To be measured or registered, especially at a certain speed or rate. Often used with in: a fastball that clocks in at 95 miles per hour.
clock up Chiefly British Slang
Idioms: To accumulate; rack up: clocked up a number of wins.
around/round the clock
Throughout the entire 24 hours of the day; continuously.
clean (someone's) clock Slang
To beat or defeat decisively: "Immense linemen declared their intentions to clean the clocks of opposing players" (Russell Baker).
kill/run down/run out the clock
Sports To preserve a lead by maintaining possession of the ball or puck until playing time expires.
[Middle English clokke, from Old North French cloque, bell, or from Middle Dutch clocke, bell, clock, both from Medieval Latin clocca, of imitative origin.]
clock′er n.
clock 2
(klŏk)n.
An embroidered or woven decoration on the side of a stocking or sock.
[Perhaps from clock, bell (obsolete), from its original bell-shaped appearance.]
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clock up
vb
(tr, adverb) to record or register: this car has clocked up 80 000 miles.
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| Verb | 1. | clock up - record a distance travelled; on planes and cars |
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w>clock up
vt sep
(athlete, competitor) time → laufen/fahren/schwimmen etc
speed, distance → fahren
(inf) success → verbuchen; that’s another successful deal to clock up to Jim → noch ein erfolgreiches Geschäft, das Jim für sich verbuchen kann; to clock up overtime → Überstunden machen
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clock
(klok) noun1. an instrument for measuring time, but not worn on the wrist like a watch. We have five clocks in our house; an alarm clock (= a clock with a ringing device for waking one up in the morning).
2. an instrument for measuring speed of a vehicle or distance travelled by a vehicle. My car has 120,000 miles on the clock.
verb to register (a time) on a stopwatch etc.
ˈclockwise adverb in the direction of the movement of the hands of a clock. The children moved clockwise round the room, then anticlockwise.
ˈclockwork noun machinery similar to that of a clock. a toy which works by clockwork.
clock in/out/on/off to register or record time of arriving at or leaving work.
clock up to reach a total of. I've clocked up eight thousand miles this year in my car.
like clockwork very smoothly and without faults. Everything went like clockwork.
round the clock the whole day and the whole night. to work round the clock.
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