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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)
- An instrument that measures or keeps track of time; a non-wearable timepiece.
- (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.
- (Britain) The odometer of a motor vehicle.
- (electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
- The seed head of a dandelion.
- A time clock.
- (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.
- 1984, The Journal of Forth Application and Research (volume 2, page 83)
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)
- (transitive) To measure the duration of.
- Synonym: time
- (transitive) To measure the speed of.
- (transitive, slang) To hit (someone) heavily.
- Synonyms: slug, smack, thump, whack
- (slang) To take notice of; to realise; to recognize someone or something
- Synonyms: check out, scope out
- (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
- (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)
- 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
- c. 1720, Jonathan Swift, An Essay on Modern Education
Translations
Verb
clock (third-person singular simple present clocks, present participle clocking, simple past and past participle clocked)
- (transitive) To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
See also
- meter
- watch
Etymology 3
Noun
clock (plural clocks)
- 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)
- (Scotland, intransitive, dated) To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
- (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)
- to hatch (an egg)
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potence
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French potence (“power, a crutch”), from Latin potentia (“power, in Medieval Latin also crutch”), from potens (“powerful”); see potent.
Noun
potence (countable and uncountable, plural potences)
- power or strength; potency
- A stud that acts as a support of a pivot in a watch or clock
- (heraldry) Synonym of crutch
Derived terms
- idempotence
- nilpotence
- unipotence
Related terms
- potency
- potent
- potentate
- potential
- potentiality
Further reading
- potence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- potence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- pet cone
Czech
Etymology
Latin potis
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?pot?nt?s?]
- Rhymes: -?nts?
Noun
potence f
- potency
Related terms
Further reading
- potence in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- potence in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
French
Etymology
From Old French, borrowed from Latin potentia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?.t??s/
Noun
potence f (plural potences)
- (construction) post and braces
- gallows, gibbet (for hanging)
- stem (component on a bicycle)
Usage notes
Beware that this is a false friend, meaning “gallows” (or similar wooden constructions), not “strength”, from the Middle Latin meaning “crutch” of potentia.
Synonyms
- gibet
Derived terms
- gibier de potence
Further reading
- “potence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- écopent
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