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Meaning clock meaning

What does clock mean?
Definitions in simple English

clock Noun

— A clock is an instrument that tells you what the time is. A small clock which you carry is called a watch. He was sleepy, and the clock said 11:32. The digital clock on the wall tells her that it is almost six-thirty. She'd never before been in a house which did not have a clock ticking somewhere. — # If a clock is fast, it shows a time after the real time. — #: He looked at the clock and then at his watch: The clock was nine minutes fast. He still had some time. — # If a clock is slow, it shows a time before the real time. — If something goes around the clock, it goes for 24 hours without stop. His family stayed at Scott's bedside around the clock. The museum is open around the clock from May 26 at 12:01 a.m. through May 28 at 11:59 p.m.

clock Verb

— If you clock something, you measure how long it takes or how fast it moves. The police clocked the car at 137 km/h. The drive took twenty-two minutes; he clocked it. — If something clocks a time or a speed, it takes that long or moves that fast. The trip clocks in at about 12 hours. He clocked 9.12 seconds, a new world record. — If you clock in or out at work, school, etc., you record the time they arrive or leave. He clocked in at four a.m. for a twelve-hour shift. — If you clock up a number of things, you reach that total after some time. Because I drive one hour to work, I'm clocking up a lot of miles. — If you clock someone, you hit them hard in the head. He might take some time to wake up. He got clocked pretty good.

clock

— noun a timepiece that shows the time of day — verb (= time) 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

Synonyms clock synonyms

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clock English » English

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Clock English » English

Pendulum Clock Horologium

Topics clock topics

What do people use clock to talk about?
States Time Telling time

Clock, watch
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation

Sports
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation Sports

Basketball
States Big

Measure
Universe, creation Sky

Sun
Daily life Sleep

Wake up

Conjugation clock conjugation

How do you conjugate clock?

clock · verb

Examples clock examples

How do I use clock in a sentence?

Simple sentences

You must come back before nine o'clock.
It's almost six o'clock.
This antique clock is worth one thousand dollars.
Although we waited until ten o'clock, Bill never showed up.
We talked till after eleven o'clock.
I'll stay there till six o'clock.
I leave home before eight o'clock every morning.
This shop is open from 9 to 6 o'clock.
Even though the alarm clock went off, I didn't wake up.
On school nights, Tom goes to bed at nine o'clock, but on Fridays and Saturdays, he stays up much later.
It's eleven o'clock.
How much is this clock?
When Tom was working on the dairy farm, he had to get up at five o'clock every morning to go and milk the cows.
The film started at 2 o'clock.
I make it a rule not to watch television after nine o'clock.
Banks open at nine o'clock.
The church clock gains three minutes a week.
Make sure that you arrive at seven o'clock.
The meeting will start at four o'clock sharp.
I managed to catch the 8 o'clock train by running all the way to the station.
Rosie was allowed to stay up till eleven o'clock.
Molly has a large clock.
It's already ten o'clock at night.
It is almost 12 o'clock.
It's already nine o'clock.
The clock in the church tower struck nine.
No one can turn the clock back.
The meeting began at nine o'clock sharp.
We retire at eleven o'clock.
The movie starts at ten o'clock.
I'll come at three o'clock if it is convenient to you.
If you break the clock again, you'll catch it from Mommy.

Movie subtitles

It's almost as if the clock is being wound back 600 years, to the last time China led the world.
This is the biggest water clock in China.
Now, it's not really clear if the Egyptians, the babylonians or the Chinese invented the water clock.
Su Song combined it with a gear-driven escapement to create the world's first mechanical clock.
And craftsmanship brings us back to that great Chinese invention the clock.
There's no better metaphor for the relentless shift of global power than the clock.
Is this the kind of clock that you sent to foreigners to impress them? That is exactly it.
The rise of the clock, and later the portable watch, went hand in hand with the rise of Europe and the spread of Western civilization.
The Chinese had invented the mechanical clock, but now the imperial court was reduced to accepting superior timepieces as gifts from Europeans.
Starting the clock.
The black one with the 20 thou on the clock.
As the clock struck 12, you all reconvened in here.
I need to have it on a weekday, between nine in the morning and four o'clock while the kids are at school and Marcus is down the depot.
Little Mrs Sengupta's water's broke at four o'clock this morning.
In the telescope there was a clock that needed to be set right.
At nine o'clock the following evening a mysterious barouche stopped on the rotunda side of the Opera.
It's the truth. I was looking into the water when I noticed the clock's reflection.
As I looked at it, the clock chimed 4:00.
Leave me a call for three o'clock.
Yes, at five o'clock in the morning.
Every morning at 10 o'clock he calls us, and at 12 o'clock he's still having breakfast.
Demoiselle. I have the honour and the pleasure to announce his majesty's visit this afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Madame la contesse asks his majesty, the Czar, to come to tea, at 5 o'clock this afternoon.
But his majesty has promised to be at the countess, at 5 o'clock!
It's nearly six o'clock.
Listen, wise guy, I'm setting friend time clock for exactly 9:00 so no squawks out of you guys in the morning.
Do you see that clock?
It's a clock.
It's nearly seven o'clock.
And it's nearly seven o'clock.
Seven o'clock!
Three o'clock, thereabouts.
Miss Newsome, I must ask, where were you at three o'clock?
From 3 o'clock till just now the jury was out deliberating.
Oh, I don't know. You can't put the time clock on these things.
Listen try to call me at 4 o'clock, will you?
Four o'clock.
Eleven o'clock.
He'll make his appearance when the clock on the wall strikes ten.

News and current affairs

Let's turn back the clock a dozen years.
It is easier to use than wind or solar power because it can produce electricity around the clock, without reliance on weather conditions.
It is a workload that boggles the mind, and demands the round-the-clock commitment of the Secretary-General and his team.
The nuclear clock is ticking.
Bao is now under around-the-clock surveillance by eighteen state agents who have even set up a guard post in front of his house.
Doorman buildings provide round-the-clock service to residents and dog-walkers look after pets during the workday.
They helped block the project and establish the notoriously inefficient African club of heads of states, the Organization of African Unity (OAU), thus setting back the clock of African integration by decades.
Some are sawn and polished to be made into clock faces, gewgaws, and souvenirs.
Its workforce labors round the clock and its inventiveness, energy, and diversity counter provincialism with scorn.
During the round-the-clock coverage of the nuclear drama, the specter of Chernobyl has been raised repeatedly.
But now it is simply too late to turn back the clock and start outing communists.
The objective must be to slow the political clock.
A hybrid, caretaker government, including military and civilian elements, may be the best way forward. To slow the clock is not to stop it, however.
The four-month clock began ticking on May 3, following the first meeting of Iraq's new parliament.
They will agree that our ability to distinguish right from wrong is something precious that we should safeguard, not a broken clock that scientists should fix.
But Iran also recognizes that the clock is ticking.
By contrast, he contends, Switzerland's 500 years of democracy and peace produced little more than the cuckoo clock.
And the clock is ticking.
Since the patient's duration of survival is calculated from the time of diagnosis, more sensitive screening starts the clock sooner.
The logo on the Bulletin's cover is a clock, the proximity of whose hands to midnight indicates the editors' judgment of the precariousness of the world situation.
When the Cold War ended, the Bulletin's clock was put back to 17 minutes to midnight.
But the clock has been creeping forward again.
But the clock is ticking.
A manicure, carwash, or a massage is often only a stone's throw from one's home. Doorman buildings provide round-the-clock service to residents and dog-walkers look after pets during the workday.
Maybe the answer is that the clock starts ticking on the five years when the crisis is fully over, which is not yet true in Europe.
Even if China's leadership wanted to, it could no longer clock its subjects from contact with Western goods, markets, ideas.
It is an attempt to turn back the clock to the interwar period, when the focus was on closing off: imposing onerous trade restrictions and persecuting or expelling minority groups.

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