Clock
[klɒk] or [klɑk]
Definition
(noun.) a timepiece that shows the time of day.
(verb.) measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time; 'he clocked the runners'.
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Definition
(n.) A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person.
(n.) A watch, esp. one that strikes.
(n.) The striking of a clock.
(n.) A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.
(v. t.) To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.
(v. t. & i.) To call, as a hen. See Cluck.
(n.) A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabaeus stercorarius).
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Definition
n. a beetle—common name in Scotland.
n. a machine for measuring time marking the time by the position of its 'hands' upon the dial-plate or by the striking of a hammer on a bell: (Shak.) the striking of the hour.—n. Clock′work the works or machinery of a clock: machinery steady and regular like that of a clock.—adj. automatic.—Go like clockwork to go along smoothly and without a hitch.—Know what o'clock it is to be wide awake to know how things are.
n. an ornament worked on the side of a stocking.—adj. Clocked ornamented with clocks.
v.i. (Scot.) to cluck: to hatch.—n. Clock′er a clocking hen.
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To dream that you see a clock, denotes danger from a foe. To hear one strike, you will receive unpleasant news. The death of some friend is implied.
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n. A machine of great moral value to man allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.
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Examples
- Dating from three o'clock yesterday. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Oh, at six o'clock: he keeps early hours in the country. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- At nine o'clock in the morning we went and stood before this marble colossus. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A clock in the schoolroom struck nine; Miss Miller left her circle, and standing in the middle of the room, cried-- Silence! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- At two o'clock I descended again to the breakfast-room, a little anxiously. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It was three o'clock in the morning. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Punctually at eleven o'clock, the carriages began to arrive. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I counted a' th' clocks in the town striking afore I'd leave my work. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The clocks thus controlled ought to be so regulated that if left to themselves they would always gain a little, but not more than a few minutes per day. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He made sundials, water clocks, and similar apparatus, a little last gleam of experimental science in the gathering ignorance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But Huygens, the great Dutch scientist, about 1556 was the first to explain the principles and properties of the pendulum as a time measurer and to apply it most successfully to clocks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- However, in 1657 Christian Huygens applied the pendulu m to weight clocks of the old stamp. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The clocks at the corresponding stations were set exactly together, so that the same letter was exposed to view at each instrument at the same instant. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Thus all the clocks in the series could be regulated every hour, for the collapse of the clippers pushed the hand forward if it were too late, or thrust it back if it had gained. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
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