Clockname

• 1

  A surname.

clocknoun詞源 1/klɒk/

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

  • 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.
• 2

  A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.

  • A 12-hour clock system; an antique clock sale; Acme is a clock manufacturer.
• 3

  The odometer of a motor vehicle.

  • This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock.
• 4

  businesselectrical-engineeringelectricityAn electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.

• 5

  The seed head of a dandelion.

• 6

  A time 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.
• 7

  informalcomputingengineeringmathematicsA CPU clock cycle, or T-state.

  • 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.
• 8

  A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.

clockverb詞源 1/klɒk/

• 1

  To measure the duration of.

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  To measure the speed of.

  • He was clocked at 155 miles per hour.
  • Dan Patch clocked a scorching 1:55.5 flat.
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  slangTo hit (someone) heavily.

  • When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him.
• 4

  informalTo notice; to take notice of (someone or something).

  • Clock the wheels on that car!
  • It is true. Carmen is an official gold digger. In fact, she is an instructor at the school of gold digging. Hood rats have been clocking her style for years. Wanting to pull the players she pulled, and wishing they had the looks she had.
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  informalTo recognize; to assess, register.

  • I'd already clocked her as someone who couldn't reliably be believed when she spoke. And now this too!
  • Bo John and I twisted our heads around as Miranda braked over to the gravelly shoulder, let the Scout wheeze to a stop. She was climbing out, hurrying back to whatever had caught her eye. Bo John leered into the door mirror, clocking her flouncing, leggy strut.
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  informalTo identify (someone) as having some attribute (for example, being trans or gay).

  • Once my transition was complete I considered moving to London, where I felt there was less chance of being clocked and a larger support network.
  • Jaz said that the palpitations of fear he used to experience at the prospect of being publicly outed in the gurdwara dissipated after he clocked other gay Sikhs in there, even one who professed a Jat caste identity, he said – Jatness being associated with stereotypical dominant macho masculinity. He reflected that this was a major factor in his rapprochement with his[…]
• 7

  slangTo falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.

  • I don't believe that car has done only 40,000 miles. It's been clocked.
• 8

  slangTo beat a video game.

  • Have you clocked that game yet?

clocknoun詞源 2/klɒk/

• 1

  A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.

  • 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

clockverb詞源 2/klɒk/

• 1

  To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.

clocknoun詞源 3/klɒk/

• 1

  A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).

clockverb詞源 4/klɒk/

• 1

  datedTo make the sound of a hen; to cluck.

• 2

  datedTo hatch.