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clock en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /klɑk/ (General-American)
  • [kl̥ɒχ] Liverpool
  • kläk (General-American)
  • (General-American) audio
  • (Received-Pronunciation) audio
  • /klɒk/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *klokkosder. Early Medieval Latin cloccader. Old Northern French cloquebor. Old Dutch *klokka Middle Dutch clockebor. Middle English clokke English clock First use appears c. 1370. From Middle English clokke, clok, cloke (“clock”), from Middle Dutch clocke (“bell, clock”), from Old Dutch *klokka, from Medieval Latin clocca (“bell, clock, cloak”), probably of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”) (compare Welsh cloch (“bell”), Old Irish cloc (“bell, clock”)), either onomatopoeic or from Proto-Indo-European *klek- (“to laugh, cackle”) (compare Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną (“to laugh”)). Cognate with Old English clucge (“bell”), Saterland Frisian Klokke (“bell, clock”), Dutch klok (“clock, bell”), Low German Klock (“bell, clock”), German Glocke (“bell”), Danish and Norwegian klokke (“clock, bell”), Faroese klokka (“clock, bell”), Icelandic klukka (“clock, bell”), Swedish klocka (“clock, bell”), Asturian llueca (“cowbell”), Galician and Portuguese choca (“cowbell”), Doublet of cloak and cloche.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day.
    • 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. 1995, Richard Klein, “Introduction”, in Cigarettes are sublime, Paperback edition, Durham: Duke University Press, published 1993, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 8:
    • 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. 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 163:
    • 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. 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto II”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
  2. (attributive, countable, uncountable) 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. (UK, countable, uncountable) The odometer of a motor vehicle.
    • This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock.
  4. (countable, uncountable) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
  5. (countable, uncountable) The seed head of a dandelion.
  6. (countable, uncountable) A time clock.
    • We let the guys use the shop's tools and equipment for their own projects as long as they're off the clock.
    • I can't go off to lunch yet: I'm still on the clock.
  7. (countable, informal, uncountable) A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
    • Executing a NEXT to code takes 7 clocks, or 1.05 microseconds. 1984, The Journal of Forth Application and Research, volume 2, page 83:
    • 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. 1990, Joseph F. Traub, Barbara J. Grosz, Annual Review of Computer Science, page 180:
  8. (uncountable) A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.
  9. (UK, countable, obsolete, qualifier:thieves' cant, uncountable) A watch (timepiece).
    • , 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.
  10. (countable, slang, uncountable) A face; the head.

Forms

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Deriveds

bushman's clock · wall clock · on the clock · clockward · cuckoo clock · whatever winds your clock · clockless · clock it · chemical clock · anniversary clock · speaking clock · over-clock · clock face · clock speed · clock time · clockmaker · flower clock · put the clock back · attoclock · around the clock · continuous clock · clock rate · misclock · pulsar clock · stop someone's clock · ride the clock · clock-watcher · Clockgate · eight-day clock · dandelion clock · flog the clock · clockhouse · carriage clock · clockweight · time delay and integration clock · star clock · microbial clock · stop clock · clockpunk · round the clock · clock of the mountains · clockwise · run out the clock · clock cycle · pendulum clock · caesium clock · girandole clock · water clock · play clock · 12-hour clock · word clock · digital clock · clock calm · world clock · vase clock · run the clock down · clock golf · 400-day clock · clockwinder · Shortt clock · off the clock · equation clock · clock gable · clock is ticking · Etho hopper clock · townhall clock · watchclock · put the clock forward · radium clock · bracket clock · against the clock · wind back the clock · clock hour · of the clock · round-the-clock · get one's clock cleaned · stopped clock illusion · clock wipe · clockspring · pigeon clock · Act of Parliament clock · synchronized clock · grandfather clock · pocket clock · calendar clock · a stopped clock is right twice a day · analog clock · talking clock · clock vine · even a stopped clock is right twice a day · hydrogen maser atomic clock · radio alarm clock · grandfather's clock · clock-jobber · clockware · milk the clock · striking clock · clock tower · atomic clock · 24-hour clock · clean someone's clock · clock-watching · Jack o' the clock · Horvath clock · clock-watch · alarm clock · slave clock · segmentation clock · clock watcher · clock star · twenty-four-hour clock · shepherd's clock · wall-clock time · circadian clock · a broken clock is right twice a day · bioclock · mystery clock · black clock · skeleton clock · biological clock · clock is running · clockroom · punch clock · tall-case clock · case clock · time clock · clock app · astronomical clock · logical clock · quartz clock · ticking clock · beat the clock · radio clock · clock key · Japanese clock · body clock · molecular clock · grandmother clock · Riefler clock · Clock · the clock around · clock generator · analogue clock · shot clock · Clock Face · race against the clock · vector clock · clock patience · longitude clock · stream clock · clock move · drumhead clock · beer clock · clock skew · chess clock · sand clock · clock-face timetable · clock down · clockwork · flip clock · clocktower · clockmaking · clock system · fix someone's clock · clock paradox · turn back the clock · clock signal · clock radio · clock jack · banjo clock · turn the clock back · optical lattice clock · alarum clock · death clock · face that would stop a clock · around-the-clock · clock arithmetic · quartz-crystal clock · crystal clock · clocksucker · Doomsday Clock · twenty-four hour clock · bum-clock · balloon clock · settler's clock · o'clock · watchman's clock · game clock · master clock · epigenetic clock · floral clock · longcase clock · clockcase · clocklike · run down the clock · waterclock · light clock

Descendants

këlak · kol’ooak

Synonyms

chronometer (instrument used to measure or keep track of time) · odometer (odometer of a motor vehicle) · clock patience

Translations (435)

ti ሰዓት (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ch relós (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ml നാഴികമണി (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · sh takt (electrical signal) · lg esaawa (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · da ur (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · pdt Klock (nds) (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · wuu 鐘 /钟 (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ba сәғәт (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · sw saa (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · af uurwerk (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · nap rilòrgio (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · it odometro (odometer) · fr horloge (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · aht łuhghaghałi (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · iu ᑕᓕᐊᖅ (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · kab ssaɛa (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · zh 時鐘 /时钟 (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · chy éše'he (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ik tuqtuqtaq (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ta கடிகாரம் (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · hsb zeger (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · fo klokka (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · my နာရီ (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · as ঘড়ী (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · war relós (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · lzz საეტი (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · lou lèr (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · zpq relo (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · li klok (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · lmo urelòc (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · tzh sp'isojibal ora (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · qua máze ttítta (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ik siqieburaq (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ga clog (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · mww moo (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · sv ur (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · tzo reloj (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · de Ühra (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · sa घटी (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · alt саат (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · uli kol’ooak (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · de Tacho (odometer) · fy klok (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · uz soat (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · am ሰአት (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · kjh часы (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · bll ina dǫhi (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · lld leroio (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · lkt mázaškaŋškaŋ (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · tpi kilok (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · yue 鐘錶 /钟表 (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · bg одоме́тър (odometer) · nl teller (odometer) · bal کلاک (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · cy cloc (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · egl arlò (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ty hora (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ts xikomba-nkarhi (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · kw klock (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · vec rełogio (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · kmr pîvank (odometer) · ar مݣانة (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ddo сагӏа́т (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · tl taknaan (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · lg omulenganjuba (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · hu kilométeróra (odometer) · gv clag (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · oj diba'igiiziswaan (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · uk такт (electrical signal) · zh 時鐘 /时钟 (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · th นาฬิกา (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · fur orloi (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ne घडी (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · zh 鐘錶 /钟表 (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · mcb poreátsiri (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · mk часовник (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · es cuentakilómetros (odometer) · tl relo (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · fi mittari (odometer) · dak wíhiyayedaŋ (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · el ωρολόγιο (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · nah tepoztlapōhualli (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · la hōrārium (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · inh сахьат (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · an reloch (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · nuj esaawa (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · lmo orelògg (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · mn цаг (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · mop t'ul-pach-k'in (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · tzh relojo (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · lt lai̇̃krodis (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · vep časud (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · scn riloggiu (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · khb ᦐᦱᧉᦜᦲᧈ (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · yo agogo (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · fa ساعَت (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · it tachimetro (odometer) · mwl reloijo (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · hi घड़ी (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · nv náʼoolkiłí (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · rm oura (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · hil taknáan (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · nap rilòrgie (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · sn wachi (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · jv jam (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · sc arrelógiu (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · wuu 時鐘 /时钟 (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · szl godziny (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · vot tunnid (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · pap oloshi (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · nn klokke (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · tn tshupanako (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · lmo relòi (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ems casaaq (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · qu intiwatana (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · rar ora (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · hil orásan (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · haw uaki (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · cs hodiny (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · br dihuner (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · sh ча̀со̄внӣк (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · scn ralogiu (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · el ρολόι (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ast reló (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ty uāti (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · zav relo (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · yi זייגער (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · is klukka (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · lez сят (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · sc arrelórgiu (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · scn rulòggiu (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · kmr demjimêr (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · lmo leròi (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · gd gleoc (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · lb Tacho (odometer) · zza saete (diq) (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · sc rológiu (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · yua p'iisib k'iin (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ctu q'uelo'q'uin (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · tk sagat (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · aeb منقالة (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · roa-gal sourder (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ay uruchinu (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · roa-gal berloqe (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · pa کعڑی (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ko 시계 (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · kl nalunaaqutaq (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ee gaƒomɔ (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · kap саъат (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · dz ཆུ་ཚོད་འཁོར་ལོ (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · chr ᎧᎾᏁᏍᎩ (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · tg соат (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · bg часо́вник (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ilo reloj (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · mr घड्याळ (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ff montor (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · egl arlói (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · sou นากา (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ru часы́ (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · csb zédżer (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · aii ܫܵܥܬܵܐ (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · tin с̄агӏа́ти (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · or ଘଣ୍ଟା (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · hu óra (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · br horolaj (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · am የግድግዳ ሰዓት (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · te గడియారం (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ky саат (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ta கடிகை (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · lo ໂມງ (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · bpl kurok (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · eu ordulari (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · os сахат (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · gag saat (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ml ഘടികാരം (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ksk míⁿoⁿba táⁿmaⁿ (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · bm mɔnturuba (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · wa ôrlodje (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ckb کاتژمێر (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · szl zygar (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ab сааҭ (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · arp hee'iyooo (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · bm waatijiralan (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · sv klocka (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · dak mázaškaŋškaŋ (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · yue 時鐘 /时钟 (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · bo ཆུ་ཚོད (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · coo xʷəč (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · rcf lorloz (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ps ګاړيال (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · dsb zeger (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · din kuenakol dit (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · pt relógio (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · it contachilometri (odometer) · he שָׁעוֹן (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · lou lorlòj (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · fr indicateur de vitesse (odometer) · pt relógio (electrical signal) · pcd horloche (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ro contor de parcurs (odometer) · yue 鐘 /钟 (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · mdf час (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · zu ikilogo (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ia horologio (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · lv laikrādis (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · tr saat (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · lv pulkstenis (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · id lonceng (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · sq orë (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ro impuls (electrical signal) · ny mnenanthawi (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · na krak (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · krl čuasut (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · nl kilometerteller (odometer) · lzz საატი (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · tyv шак (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · dtp jaam (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · gdo ссагӏа́т (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · id jam (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · rue годзи́нка (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · tl orasan (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · sah чаһы (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ro tact (electrical signal) · hil relóh (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · tvl itula (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · hrx Uher (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · kum сагьат (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · sco knock (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · mfe lorloz (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ka საათი (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · lad ora (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · nuj omulenga lyuba (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · cdo 鐘 /钟 (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · gu ઘડિયાળ (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · akz hasissobayka (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · km នាឡិកា (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · esu cass'aq (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ang dæġmǣl (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · myv шкаонкстамопель (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · gil tai (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · tet relójiu (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · la horologium (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · vro kell (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ko 클럭 (electrical signal) · de Uhr (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ha àgṓgó (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · si ඔරලෝසුව (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · unm këlak (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ota ساعت (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · tli gaaw (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · lb Auer (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · pl zegar (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · nb klokke (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · arn relosh (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · sh čàsōvnīk (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ja 時計 (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · lad saat (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · tk saağat (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · vi đồng hồ (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · izh tunnit (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · abq сахӏат (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · aht tatnełt’odzi (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · sk hodiny (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · srn oloisi (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ur گَھڑی (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · az saat (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · eu erloju (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ps ساعت (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · kk сағат (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · de Taktsignal (electrical signal) · su jam (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · uk годи́нник (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ady сыхьат (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · vo glok (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ce сахьт (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ist rilojo (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · de Tachometer (odometer) · ik sassaq (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ar ساعة (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ts wachi (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ro ceas (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · chm шага́т (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · kab tamasragt (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · co orillogiu (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · sm uati (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · crh saat (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · gug aravopapaha (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ss líwáshì (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ja クロック (electrical signal) · tab сяаьт (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · arw kasakabo čikisi (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · crl ᐲᓯᒧᐦᑳᓐ (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · alt саады (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · sc rellozu (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ht revèy (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · sh sȃt (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · grc ὠράριθμον (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · so saacad weyn (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · koi часі (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · dv ގަޑި (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · fi kello (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · kn ಗಡಿಯಾರ (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · pt velocímetro (odometer) · sl ura (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · om sa'aatii (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · krc сагъат (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · gin сагӏат (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · nai-sin 'ora (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · lbe ссят (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · sc orellozu (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · gug ára rechaukaha (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · udm час (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · evn ча̄сы (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · av сагӏат (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · hil réloh (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · hsb časnik (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · sei zaah (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · th โมง (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ccp 𑄊𑄪𑄢𑄨 (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · nso horolosi (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · gl cabaco (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · zaa relój (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · sh такт (electrical signal) · tpi klok (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · oc relòtge (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ote relo (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · it orologio (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · sh са̑т (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · myv част (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · tt сәгать (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · mh awa (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ca rellotge (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · kj ovili (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · mop ajt'ul-pach-k'in (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · zh җун (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · grc ὡρολόγιον (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · syl ꠊꠠꠤ (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ve watshi (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ar سَاعَة (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · es reloj (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · xal час (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · zu iwashi (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · nah tlapōhualli (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · chy kó'ko'ėhasēō'o (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ca rellotge (electrical signal) · xh iwotshi (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · zh 鐘 /钟 (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · za cung (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · pam orasan (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · lad ore (Monastir) (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · eo horloĝo (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · nai-sin 'atob 'osil (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · is úr (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ny saa (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ug سائىتى (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · st sešupanako (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · fo ur (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · nso tleloko class 9/10 (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · cjy 鐘 /钟 (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · fa سَاعَت (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · gl mostra (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · aii ܣܵܥܲܬ (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · din akuen akol (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · sk hodinový impulz (electrical signal) · ja 走行距離計 (odometer) · tg соъат (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ng ovili (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · rw isaha (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · mt arloġġ (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · bua часы (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ig elekere (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · sk tachometer (odometer) · ca comptaquilòmetres (odometer) · ht lòlàj (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · et kell (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · kab tamrilt (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · rup sãhat (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · nd iwatjhi (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · pa ਘੜੀ (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · grk-ita torlòci (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · dar сягӏят (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · es reloj (electrical signal) · kab amasrag (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · aht deltlaagga (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · be гадзі́ннік (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · clt siymaluo (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · mi karaka (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ln ngonga (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · sl tiktakanje (electrical signal) · aht tsesi (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · gd uaireadair (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · mn ᠴᠠᠭ (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · bi klok (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · kmr seet (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · rm ura (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · hak 鐘 /钟 (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · crk ᐲᓯᒧᐦᑳᐣ (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ote mexkodo (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · fr compteur de vitesse (odometer) · bn ঘড়ি (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · hsn 鐘 /钟 (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · wo montar (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · cv сехет (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · scn rològgiu (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · szl zygŏr (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · fy oerwurk (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · gl samoneta (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · sc lellozu (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · pms arlöri (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · nl klok (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · zu isikhathi (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ng otindi (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · lo ນາລິກາ (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · kmr demjimêrk (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · pdt Wauntüa (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · mg famantaranándro (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · gl reloxo (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · lmo orològg (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ny koloko (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · nrf hôlouoge (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ms jam (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · sjd ча̄сс (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · chf relos (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · hy ժամացույց (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · io horlojo (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · lij reléuio (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ckb سەعات (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · zh 鐘 /钟 (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · mnp 鐘 /钟 (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · hu kilométer-számláló (odometer) · sq hanor (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · ps ګړيال (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · se tiibmu (instrument to measure or keep track of time) · gan 鐘 /钟 (instrument to measure or keep track of time)

wikidata: Q376 · wikipedia: clock

clock en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /klɑk/ (General-American)
  • [kl̥ɒχ] Liverpool
  • kläk (General-American)
  • (General-American) audio
  • (Received-Pronunciation) audio
  • /klɒk/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *klokkosder. Early Medieval Latin cloccader. Old Northern French cloquebor. Old Dutch *klokka Middle Dutch clockebor. Middle English clokke English clock First use appears c. 1370. From Middle English clokke, clok, cloke (“clock”), from Middle Dutch clocke (“bell, clock”), from Old Dutch *klokka, from Medieval Latin clocca (“bell, clock, cloak”), probably of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”) (compare Welsh cloch (“bell”), Old Irish cloc (“bell, clock”)), either onomatopoeic or from Proto-Indo-European *klek- (“to laugh, cackle”) (compare Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną (“to laugh”)). Cognate with Old English clucge (“bell”), Saterland Frisian Klokke (“bell, clock”), Dutch klok (“clock, bell”), Low German Klock (“bell, clock”), German Glocke (“bell”), Danish and Norwegian klokke (“clock, bell”), Faroese klokka (“clock, bell”), Icelandic klukka (“clock, bell”), Swedish klocka (“clock, bell”), Asturian llueca (“cowbell”), Galician and Portuguese choca (“cowbell”), Doublet of cloak and cloche.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To measure the duration of.
  2. (transitive) To measure the speed of.
    • Dan Patch clocked a scorching 1:55.5 flat. 1996, Jon Byrell, Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers, Sydney: Ironbark, page 186:
    • He was clocked at 155 miles per hour.
  3. (slang, transitive) To hit (someone) heavily.
    • When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him.
  4. (informal, transitive) To notice; to take notice of (someone or something).
    • First it was only when I was with him—we would pass a pretty girl, I would notice her first, and my eyes would dart to his to see him clock her. 2021, Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation, Random House, →ISBN:
    • 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. 2005, Jr. Aaron Bryant, Cupid Is Stupid, page 19:
    • He made it to ten yards away. Still they hadn't clocked him. Five yards. He felt increasingly confident about grabbing the actual thief, even if it meant letting the other lad get away. Both were pretty scrawny kids, although the other one was quite a bit older, maybe twenty,[…] 2021 July 1, Nick Oldham, Scarred, Severn House Publishers Ltd, →ISBN:
    • Clock the wheels on that car!
    • I had just long enough at Lancaster to clock another plaque to a great Victorian railway engineer, Joseph Locke (1805-60). 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Lancaster (1860)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 58:
    • Cut to the pub on a lads night out, / Man at the bar cos it was his shout, / Clocks this bird and she looks OK, / Caught him looking and she walks his way, 2006, Lily Allen, “Knock 'Em Out”:
  5. (informal, transitive, with as) To 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. 2000, Phil Austin, Naugahide Days: The Lost Island Stories of Thomas Wood Briar, page 109:
  6. (informal, transitive) To identify (someone) as having some attribute (for example, being trans or gay).
    • Jess was a sixty-something, short, White, bald man who could easily be "clocked" as gay. 2022 February 1, Townsand Price-Spratlen, Addiction Recovery and Resilience: Faith-based Health Services in an African American Community, State University of New York Press, →ISBN:
    • Consuella Lopez, the director of operations and housing at Casa Ruby, remembers. "The more passable your body was, the less bullying you'd get, the more chances of you getting a regular job at a regular place without somebody clocking you." 2019 September 1, Dani Nett, “For Trans Women, Silicone 'Pumping' Can Be A Blessing And A Curse”, in NPR:
    • 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.
    • Quarantine had thrown a new wrench "do not perceive me" discourse, but trans people have arguably always had a messy relationship to being perceived. We avoid it, and yet we also juice our lives to be seen. Getting clocked feels bad, but being hot feels good. 2022 March 1, Charlie Markbreiter, “"Other Trans People Make Me Dysphoric": Trans Assimilation and Cringe”, in The New Inquiry:
    • 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[…] 2018 September 14, Nicola Frost, Tom Selwyn, Travelling towards Home: Mobilities and Homemaking, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 23:
  7. (UK, slang) To 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. (Australia, New-Zealand, UK, slang, transitive) To beat a video game.
    • Have you clocked that game yet?
  9. (ambitransitive, qualifier:chiefly African-American Vernacular and LGBTQ slang) To expose or attack someone, typically in a targeted and insulting manner.
    • You clocked, that guy is always running his mouth.
    • not ariana getting her ass clocked on the set of victorious 2020 November 11, @BhadDhad, Twitter (post), archived from the original on 03 Dec 2025:
    • she just clocked all these mediocre men 2025 September 23, @buffys, X (post), archived from the original on 03 Dec 2025:
    • Its always a good day when I can clock someone using the (made up word) "unlessen". I just...ch... 2013 April 30, @NICKIMINAJ, Twitter (post), archived from the original on 03 Dec 2025:
    • Did you hear what she said about my outfit? She kind of clocked me.

Forms

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clocks Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
CLK alternative lexicographic
clocking Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
clocked Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
clocked Tense=Past lexicographic

Coordinates

scope out · check out

Deriveds

clock in · clocker · downclock · clock off · underclock · reclock · clock out · clockable · self-clocking · clock onto · clock the tea · upclock · overclock · clock on · clocky · clock up

Synonyms

slug · read · turn back (the vehicle's) clock · thump · wind back (the vehicle's) clock · time · whack · smack

Translations (22)

ca cronometrar (measure the duration of) · es medir la velocidad de (measure the speed of) · pt notar (slang: take notice of) · pt medir a velocidade de (measure the speed of) · es cronometrar (measure the duration of) · ja 計測する (measure the duration of) · ja 計測する (measure the speed of) · es golpear (slang: hit (someone)) · fi kellottaa (measure the duration of) · ca mesurar la velocitat de (measure the speed of) · no ta tiden på (measure the duration of) · pt cronometrar (measure the duration of) · bg измервам време (measure the duration of) · ja 記録する (measure the duration of) · nl klokken (measure the duration of) · bg измервам скорост (measure the speed of) · fi ottaa aikaa (measure the duration of) · bg забелязвам (slang: take notice of) · ja 測定する (measure the speed of) · ia chronometrar (measure the duration of) · it cronometrare (measure the duration of) · ia mesurar le velocitate de (measure the speed of)

wikipedia: clock

clock en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /klɑk/ (General-American)
  • [kl̥ɒχ] Liverpool
  • kläk (General-American)
  • (General-American) audio
  • (Received-Pronunciation) audio
  • /klɒk/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Uncertain; designs may have originally been bell-shaped and thus related to Etymology 1, above.

Meanings

  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 1882, W.S. Gilbert, “When you're lying awake”, in Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri:
    • his stockings with silver clocks were ravished from him c. 1720, Jonathan Swift, An Essay on Modern Education:
    • Most decoration involved the ankle clocks, and several are shown on p.15 in the form of charts. 2004, Sheila McGregor, Traditional Scandinavian Knitting, Courier Dover, →ISBN, page 60:
    • Clocks: These are ornamental designs embroidered or woven on to the ankles of stockings. 2006, J. Munslow, Kathryn McKelvey, Fashion Source Book, →ISBN, page 231:
    • She'd a gown wi' girt flowers lik' hollyhocks An zome stockèns o' gramfer's a-knit wi' clocks 1894, William Barnes, “Grammer's Shoes”, in Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, page 110:

Forms

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clocks Number=Plur lexicographic

Translations (3)

bg багет (pattern near heel of a sock or stocking) · it baghetta (pattern near heel of a sock or stocking) · fi koriste (pattern near heel of a sock or stocking)

wikipedia: clock

clock en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /klɑk/ (General-American)
  • [kl̥ɒχ] Liverpool
  • kläk (General-American)
  • (General-American) audio
  • (Received-Pronunciation) audio
  • /klɒk/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Uncertain; designs may have originally been bell-shaped and thus related to Etymology 1, above.

Meanings

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

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
clocking Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
clocks Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
clocked Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
clocked Tense=Past lexicographic

Relateds

watch · meter

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clock en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • /klɑk/ (General-American)
  • [kl̥ɒχ] Liverpool
  • kläk (General-American)
  • (General-American) audio
  • (Received-Pronunciation) audio
  • /klɒk/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Meanings

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

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
clocks Number=Plur lexicographic

wikipedia: clock

clock en · VERB · etymology 4

Pronunciation

  • /klɑk/ (General-American)
  • [kl̥ɒχ] Liverpool
  • kläk (General-American)
  • (General-American) audio
  • (Received-Pronunciation) audio
  • /klɒk/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle English clokken, from Old English cloccian, ultimately imitative; compare Dutch klokken, English cluck.

Meanings

  1. (Scotland, dated, intransitive) To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
  2. (Scotland, dated, intransitive) To hatch.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
clocked Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
clocked Tense=Past lexicographic
clocks Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
clocking Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

clocker

wikipedia: clock