Definitions for clock

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Spelling: [klok]

IPA: /klɒk/

Clock is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in clock (ccklo).

Definitions for clock

noun

1. an instrument for measuring and recording time, especially by mechanical means, usually with hands or changing numbers to indicate the hour and minute: not designed to be worn or carried about.
2. time clock.
3. a meter or other device, as a speedometer or taximeter, for measuring and recording speed, distance covered, or other quantitative functioning.
4. biological clock.
5. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the constellation Horologium.
6. Computers. the circuit in a digital computer that provides a common reference train of electronic pulses for all other circuits.
7. a short embroidered or woven ornament on each side or on the outer side of a sock or stocking, extending from the ankle upward.

Idioms

1. around the clock, during all 24 hours; ceaselessly. without stopping for rest; tirelessly:
2. clean (someone's) clock, to defeat; vanquish.
3. kill the clock, Sports. to use up as much game time as possible when one is winning, as to protect a lead in basketball, ice hockey, or football. Also, run out the clock.
4. stop the clock, to postpone an official or legal deadline by ceasing to count the hours that elapse, as when a new union contract must be agreed upon before an old contract runs out.

Verb phrases

1. clock in, to begin work, especially by punching a time clock:
2. clock out, to end work, especially by punching a time clock:

verb (used with object)

1. to time, test, or determine by means of a clock or watch:
2. Slang. to strike sharply or heavily:
3. to embroider with such an ornament.

Origin of clock

1350-1400; Middle English clok(ke) Middle Dutch clocke bell, clock; akin to Old English clucge, Old High German glocka (German Glocke), Old Irish clocc bell; cf. cloak

Examples for clock

“I saw many signs of hope,” he said, praising health care workers working around the clock to contain the disease.

From the lower hall the clock chimed one with musical vibrations.

While she was ill she had watched the clock for the time to listen for him.

You may almost distinguish the figures on the clock that has just told the hour.

They thrive on packed schedules, they say, and take pleasure in working around the clock.

She had been there as my mother and I sat with him around the clock, sleeping by his bedside, anxiously checking his vitals.

The wine cellar—one of the best in the world—survived World War II and is guarded around the clock.

Bill Haley had kicked rock off with “Rock Around the clock,” but Elvis Presley made it an international phenomenon.

When supper was over and the clock had struck twelve, the party separated.

The clock struck twelve, and it seemed as if it struck a thousand.