Word Finder - clocks

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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?

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A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.

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

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

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To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.

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To hatch.

There were no clocks and she had no cell phone.

The chief articles of manufacture are machinery, woollen and cotton goods, silk ribbons, paper, tobacco, leather, china, glass, clocks, jewellery and chemicals.

Body and mind are like two clocks which act together, because both have been set together by God.

His application of the pendulum to regulate the movement of clocks sprang from his experience of the need for an exact measure of time in observing the heavens.

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.

Their proceedings were very cautious and tentative; they excited the curiosity and interest of even the more intelligent Chinese by their clocks, their globes and maps, their books of European engravings, and by Ricci's knowledge of mathematics, including dialling and the projection of maps.

Silk fabrics, coarse woollen cloth, paper and clocks are manufactured.

The determination of the true relation between the length of a pendulum and the time of its oscillation; the invention of the theory of evolutes; the discovery, hence ensuing, that the cycloid is its own evolute, and is strictly isochronous; the ingenious although practically inoperative idea of correcting the "circular error" of the pendulum by applying cycloidal cheeks to clocks - were all contained in this remarkable treatise.

Slaughter-houses, cattle markets and grain markets have been erected at Gorgie, thus obviating the driving of clocks and herds through the streets, which was constantly objected to.

Among other industries are the manufactures of watches, clocks, toys and musical instruments.

The principal industries are the smelting of zinc and the manufacture of cement, rolled zinc, bricks, sulphuric acid and clocks; in 1905 the city's factory products were valued at $3,158,173.

All clocks are constructed on the basis of this method of measurement; that is to say, on the plan of counting the repetitions of some operation, adopted solely on the ground of its being capable of continual repetition with a certain degree of accuracy, and possibly also of automatic compensation for changing conditions.

Practically clocks are regulated by reference to the diurnal rotation of the earth relatively to the stars, which affords a measurement on the repetition principle agreeing with other methods, but more accurate than that given by any existing clock.

Firearms, clocks, musical instruments, toys..

It should be noticed that clocks, on which Tycho Brahe depended very little, were used at Cassel for finding the difference of right ascension between Venus and the sun before sunset; Tycho preferred observing the angular distance between the sun and Venus when the latter was visible in the daytime.

The production of the larger household accessories, such as bedsteads, fenders, gas and electric fittings, clocks, &c., has hardly as yet come under the influence of the art movement.

At the same time a most active production of modern designs was proceeding, stimulated by rewards, with the result that the supply of clocks, lamps, candelabra, statuettes, and other ornaments in bronze and zinc to the rest of Europe became a monopoly of Paris for nearly half a century.

An urban council may also provide public clocks or pay for the reasonable cost of repairing and maintaining any public clocks in the district, though not vested in them.

Among the manufactures of the borough of Bristol are clocks, woollen goods, iron castings, hardware, brass ware, silverplate and bells.

Bristol clocks, first manufactured soon after the War of Independence, have long been widely known.

The manufacturing industries assisted by the government developed rapidly during the later years of the 19th century, notably metal-working, especially such branches of it as require exact and delicate workmanship. Of particular importance are iron and steel goods, locomotives (for which Esslingen enjoys a great reputation), machinery, motor-cars, bicycles, small arms (in the Mauser factory at Oberndorf), all kinds of scientific and artistic appliances, pianos (at Stuttgart), organs and other musical instruments, photographic apparatus, clocks (in the Black Forest),.

When Regiomontanus settled at Nuremberg in 1471, Walther built for their common use an observatory at which in 1484 clocks driven by weights were first used in astronomical determinations.

The orbits thus present themselves to us in the words of a distinguished writer as " Great clocks of eternity which beat ages as ours beat seconds."

Having no clocks, they regard instead the face of the sky; the stars serve them for almanacs; they hunt and fish, they sow and reap in correspondence with the recurrent order of celestial appearances.

Bernhard Walther of Nuremberg (1430-1504), who fitted up an observatory with clocks driven by weights, and developed many improvements in practical astronomy.

The Assembly Hall was furnished with clocks costing $600 dollars each, sofas at $200, and other articles in proportion.

In 1905 the state ranked first in the United States in the value of clocks manufactured, - $6,158,034, or 69.4% of the total product value of the industry for that year in the United States, - and also in the value of plated ware - $8,125,881, being 66.9% of the product value of the United States.

The earliest form of manufacturing was that of household industries, nails, clocks, tin ware and other useful articles being made by hand, and then peddled from town to town.

By the same mark, the ultra reliable LED digital clocks can look absolutely awful in their plastic boxes.

My dad remembers clocks being found broken, like time stood still.

The back of the clocks is fixed with brass screws and hand bound in dark green library buckram.

In 1702 he applied the calculus to clocks driven by a spring.

Opposite is the mechanism of former cathedral chiming clocks, the earliest parts dating from the 15th century.

James Ferguson himself designed several astronomical clocks and orreries for use in his lectures.

Has the immortal line about cuckoo clocks which, according to Wikipedia, isn't even accurate.

The Timers view offers 4 countdown clocks which can be run simultaneously.

Early clocks tended to be of iron, but most clockmakers went on to use brass.

Having left the plane the passenger enters a vast concourse in which clocks display the time is the world's main cities.

A plain cornice separates the bottom stage from the middle stage which has clocks on three faces.

Based on old public records, the Shneider family began making cuckoo clocks in their own farmhouse in 1848.

For example, where Einstein's equation predicts gravitational time dilation the alternative makes clocks tick more slowly due to a gravitational mass increase.

At least the dashboard is well laid out and the yellow clocks are a colorful addition to an otherwise dreary color scheme.

However the invention of the verge escapement in Europe in the 14 th century led to a revolution in mechanical clocks.

This is true even for English ones; for example English mantel clocks from the mid-19th century may have significant gilding.

Two specialist Groups exist to cater for those interested in electrical horology and turret clocks.

Or holiday insurance multi student trip damages caused Cheney Joseph d calculators desk clocks.

We also distribute clocks, radios, novelty lighters and Zippos.

Atomic clocks are accurate to the nearest nanosecond - equivalent to losing or gaining one second in about 33 years!

How atomic clocks work The part of an atomic clock which is responsible for keeping time is actually a quartz crystal oscillator.

Alarm clocks Alarm clocks often use a vibrating pad or flashing lights (or both) to wake up deaf children.