clock
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
clock1
▶noun
- 1 an instrument that measures and indicates the time by means of a dial or a digital display.
■ informal a measuring device resembling a clock, such as a speedometer.
- 2 (also dandelion clock) Brit. the downy spherical seed head of a dandelion. [from the child's game of blowing away the seeds to find out what time it is.]
- 3 Brit. informal a person's face.
- 1 attain or register (a specified time, distance, or speed).
■ achieve (a victory): he clocked up his first win of the year.
- 2 (clock in/out or Brit. on/off) register one's arrival at or departure from work by means of an automatic recording clock.
- 3 Brit. informal notice or watch.
- 4 informal, chiefly Brit. hit on the head.
- 5 Brit. informal illegally wind back the milometer of (a car).
– phrases
round (or around) the clock all day and all night.
turn (or put) back the clock return to the past or to a previous way of doing things.
round (or around) the clock all day and all night.
turn (or put) back the clock return to the past or to a previous way of doing things.
– derivatives
clocker noun.
clocker noun.
– origin ME: from Mid. Low Ger. and MDu. klocke, based on med. L. clocca ‘bell’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
clock2
▶noun an ornamental pattern woven or embroidered on the side of a stocking or sock near the ankle.
– origin C16: of unknown origin.
'clock' also found in these Oxford entries:
alarm clock
- anticlockwise
- arrange
- atomic clock
- balance
- baton
- beat
- biological clock
- body clock
- caesium clock
- carriage clock
- chime
- clean
- clock golf
- clock radio
- clock speed
- clock tower
- clock-watch
- clockwise
- clockwork
- collet
- cuckoo clock
- dandelion clock
- detent
- dial
- digital
- elevenses
- escapement
- escape wheel
- fast
- field goal
- five o'clock shadow
- four o'clock plant
- fusee
- gain
- grandfather clock
- grandmother clock
- half
- half-hour
- hand
- hour
- long-case clock
- lose
- mainspring
- mean solar time
- midnight
- minute hand
- movement
