Word Finder - clock

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An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece.

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The odometer of a motor vehicle.

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

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An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.

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The seed head of a dandelion.

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A time clock.

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I can't go off to lunch yet: I'm still on the clock.

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A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.

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To measure the duration of.

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• time

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To measure the speed of.

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He was clocked at 155 miles per hour.

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To hit (someone) heavily.

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

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• slug
• smack
• thump
• whack

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To take notice of; to realise; to recognize someone or something

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A trans person may be able to easily clock other trans people.

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• check out
• scope out

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To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.

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

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• turn back (the vehicle's) clock
• wind back (the vehicle's) clock

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To beat a video game.

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Have you clocked that game yet?

An old clock is an antique.

The clock kept on ticking.

He heard the clock ticking.

The porcelain clock on the wall proclaimed the time as ten minutes until twelve, but it didn't seem that late.

King Roger's clock is commemorated in all three.

We don't get much chance to turn the old clock back.

She glanced at the clock on the wall behind him.

It was eleven by the clock, but it seemed peculiarly dark out of doors.

He glanced at the clock.

Her alarm clock woke her at dawn, reminding her it was time for her morning run.

It was midnight when Elisabeth checked the clock.

Its clock tower, surmounted by a statue of Mars, dates from the previous century.

Lifting her head, she glanced at the clock.

She woke later and looked at the clock.

Dusty tossed his phone on the nightstand and set the alarm clock.

His sister's warning came an hour after he last remembered looking at the clock.

He rubbed his eyes and sat up, peering at the clock.

I kept thinking I could hear an alarm clock.

He felt like a packaged pound of dog meat after slightly less than three hours sandwiched in his warm and comfortable bed between Ethel Rosewater's last frenzied spasm of pleasure and the screaming alarm clock.

She caught her breath and looked at the clock.

Thus if d,/ is the increase of 4, due to a displacement from P to P', and k is the component of velocity normal to PP', the flow across PP' is d4 = k.PP'; and taking PP' parallel to Ox, d,, = vdx; and similarly d/ ' = -udy with PP' parallel to Oy; and generally d4,/ds is the velocity across ds, in a direction turned through a right angle forward, against the clock.

The Gothic Wallace Tower in High Street stands on the site of an old building of the same name taken down in 1835, from which were transferred the clock and bells of the Dungeon steeple.

Its clock marks the passing of the days for us all.

Martha glanced at the wall clock.

The woman rummaged through the colorful attire in a frenzy until she retrieved and turned off a large old fashioned alarm clock.

Dean never even heard Gladys Turnbull's muffled alarm clock.

Still half asleep, he glanced at the clock and was shocked to see he'd failed to set his alarm.

It was ten past six, according to his bedside clock.

Jessi put everything away then glanced at the clock.

In the principal square stands the town hall, built in1448-1457in the VenetianGothic style, and skilfully restored after a fire in 1876; opposite is a clock tower resembling that of the Piazza di San Marco at Venice.

Clock and watch-making seems to have been an important trade here in the 18th century.

The post office is a handsome sandstone building in Renaissance style; it is colonnaded on two sides with polished granite columns and surmounted by a clock tower, containing a peal of bells.

A turret to the right of the portal carries a clock called the Jaquemart, on which the hours are struck by two figures.

Among the public buildings constructed since 1911 are the town hall with a clock tower 170 ft.

He made an excellent clock, which because of a slight improvement introduced by James Ferguson in 1757 was long known as Ferguson's clock.

Of the original building only the clock tower (sent from Holland in 1727) remains.

The time between the breaks could be measured in seconds by the clock signals, and in fractions of a second by the tuning-fork record.

The motion of the fork is maintained by the clock acting through an escapement, and the dial registers both the number Koenig's of vibrations of the fork and the seconds, minutes and Tuning-fork hours.

By comparison with a clock of known rate Glock.

There was one opening in its disk, and through this was viewed the pendulum of a clock beating seconds.

Suppose that in N beats of the clock the flashes have moved exactly one place back.

Then the wheel makes 8 N + 1 revolutions in N clock beats, and the fork makes 32 N + 4 vibrations in the same time.

If the clock is going exactly right, this gives a frequency for the fork of 32 + 4/N.

Such a flame may jump down, for instance, to each tick of a neighbouring clock.

Below this pendulum let there be placed another coil through which passes the current to be measured; then when currents pass through these coils the pendulum of the second clock will be either accelerated or retarded relatively to the other clock, since the action of gravity is supplemented by that of an electric attraction or repulsion between the coils.

Hence the second clock will gain or lose on the other.

The two clock motions may be geared to a single counting mechanism which records the difference in the rates of going of the two clocks.

In Intermittent Registering Meters some form of ampere-meter or watt-meter registers the current or power passing into the house; and a clock motion electrically driven is made to take readings of the ampere-meter or watt-meter at definite intervals - say, every five minutes - and to add up these readings upon a set of registered dials.

An old Moorish minaret has been turned into a clock tower.

The French were in possession of the place in 1797 and again in 1805; and in 1809 Marshal Macdonald having, in accordance with the terms of the peace of Vienna, entered the citadel which he had vainly besieged, blew it all up with the exception of the belltower and the citizens' or clock tower.