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English

Noun

alarmclock

1. Misspelling of alarm clock.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kl?k/
• (General American) enPR: kläk, IPA^(key): /kl?k/
• Scouse IPA^(key): [kl???]
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

c. 1350–1400, Middle English clokke, clok, cloke, from Middle Dutch clocke (“bell, clock”), from Old Northern French cloque (“bell”), from Medieval Latin clocca, probably of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”) (compare Welsh cloch, Old Irish cloc), either onomatopoeic or from Proto-Indo-European *klek- (“to laugh, cackle”) (compare Proto-Germanic *hlahjan? (“to laugh”)).

Related to Old English clucge, Saterland Frisian Klokke (“bell; clock”), Low German Klock (“bell, clock”), German Glocke, Swedish klocka.

Doublet of cloak.

Alternative forms

• CLK (contraction used in electronics)

Noun

clock (plural clocks)

1. An instrument that measures or keeps track of time; a non-wearable timepiece.
2. (attributive) 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. (Britain) The odometer of a motor vehicle.

4. (electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
5. The seed head of a dandelion.
6. A time clock.

7. (computing, informal) A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
   • 1984, The Journal of Forth Application and Research (volume 2, page 83)

     Executing a NEXT to code takes 7 clocks, or 1.05 microseconds.

   • 1990, Joseph F. Traub, Barbara J. Grosz, Annual Review of Computer Science (page 180)

     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.

Synonyms

• (instrument used to measure or keep track of time): timepiece
• (odometer of a motor vehicle): odometer

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

clock (third-person singular simple present clocks, present participle clocking, simple past and past participle clocked)

1. (transitive) To measure the duration of.

   Synonym: time

2. (transitive) To measure the speed of.

3. (transitive, slang) To hit (someone) heavily.

   Synonyms: slug, smack, thump, whack

4. (slang) To take notice of; to realise; to recognize someone or something

   Synonyms: check out, scope out

5. (Britain, slang) To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.

   Synonyms: turn back (the vehicle's) clock, wind back (the vehicle's) clock

6. (transitive, Britain, New Zealand, slang) To beat a video game.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

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

Noun

clock (plural clocks)

1. A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
   • c. 1720, Jonathan Swift, An Essay on Modern Education

     his stockings with silver clocks were ravished from him

Translations

Verb

clock (third-person singular simple present clocks, present participle clocking, simple past and past participle clocked)

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

See also

• meter
• watch

Etymology 3

Noun

clock (plural clocks)

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

Etymology 4

Old English cloccian ultimately imitative; compare Dutch klokken, English cluck.

Verb

clock (third-person singular simple present clocks, present participle clocking, simple past and past participle clocked)

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

Derived terms

• clocker

Further reading

• Time on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Scots

Verb

clock (third-person singular present clocks, present participle clockin, past clockit, past participle clockit)

1. to hatch (an egg)