clock
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noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day.
When the clock says midnight.
- 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.
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(British, countable, uncountable)The odometer of a motor vehicle.
This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock.
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(countable, uncountable)(electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
- 5.
(countable, uncountable)The seed head of a dandelion.
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(countable, uncountable)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.
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(countable, informal, uncountable)(computing, informal) A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
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(uncountable)A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.
Đồng nghĩa: clock patience
- 9.
(UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable)(UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) A watch (timepiece).
Arthur Morrison, 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.
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(countable, slang, uncountable)A face; the head.
- 11.
A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
- 12.
A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To measure the duration of.
Đồng nghĩa: time
- 2.
(transitive)To measure the speed of.
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.
Đồng nghĩa: slug, smack, thump, whack
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(informal, transitive)To notice; to take notice of (someone or something).
Clock the wheels on that car!
- 5.
(informal, transitive)(transitive, informal, 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!
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(informal, transitive)To 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.
Đồng nghĩa: read
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(British, 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.
Đồng nghĩa: turn back (the vehicle's) clock, wind back (the vehicle's) clock
- 8.
(Australia, British, New Zealand, slang, transitive)To beat a video game.
Have you clocked that game yet?
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(ambitransitive)(ambitransitive, chiefly African-American Vernacular and LGBTQ slang) To expose or attack someone, typically in a targeted and insulting manner.
Did you hear what she said about my outfit? She kind of clocked me.
You clocked, that guy is always running his mouth.
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(transitive)To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
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(Scotland, dated, intransitive)To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
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(Scotland, dated, intransitive)To hatch.
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First use appears c. 1370. From Middle English clokke, clok, cloke (clock), from Middle Dutch clocke (bell, clock), from *klokka, from clocca (bell, clock, cloak), probably of - origin, from *klokkos (bell) (compare cloch bell, cloc), either or from Proto-Indo-European *klek- (to laugh, cackle) (compare to laugh).