name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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name
A surname.
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noun
A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.
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Usage: attributive, countable, uncountable
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noun
The odometer of a motor vehicle.
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Usage: UK, countable, uncountable
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noun
An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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noun
The seed head of a dandelion.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A time clock.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
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Usage: countable, informal, uncountable
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.
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Usage: uncountable
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Synonyms: clock patience
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noun
A watch (timepiece).
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Usage: UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable
Qualifier: thieves' cant
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noun
A face; the head.
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Usage: countable, slang, uncountable
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noun
A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
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noun
A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).
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verb
To measure the duration of.
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Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: time
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verb
To measure the speed of.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To hit (someone) heavily.
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Usage: slang, transitive
Synonyms: slug, smack, thump, whack
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verb
To notice; to take notice of (someone or something).
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Usage: informal, transitive
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verb
To recognize; to assess, register.
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Usage: informal, transitive
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verb
To identify (someone) as having some attribute (for example, being trans or gay).
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Usage: informal, transitive
Synonyms: read
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verb
To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
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Usage: UK, slang
Synonyms: turn back (the vehicle's) clock, wind back (the vehicle's) clock
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verb
To beat a video game.
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Usage: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, slang, transitive
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verb
To expose or attack someone, typically in a targeted and insulting manner.
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Usage: ambitransitive
Qualifier: chiefly African-American Vernacular and LGBTQ slang
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verb
To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
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Usage: Scotland, dated, intransitive
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verb
To hatch.
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Usage: Scotland, dated, intransitive
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noun
a timepiece that shows the time of day
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: timepiece, timekeeper, horologe
Narrower terms: alarm clock, alarm, analog clock, chronometer, cuckoo clock, digital clock, electric clock, pendulum clock, system clock, time clock, turret clock, wall clock, water clock, clepsydra, water glass, Big Ben
verb
measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: time
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: quantify, measure
Narrower terms: mistime
History
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.
Uncertain; designs may have originally been bell-shaped and thus related to Etymology 1, above.
From Middle English clokken, from Old English cloccian, ultimately imitative; compare Dutch klokken, English cluck.
Across languages
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