clock
To measure the duration ofTo measure the duration of.
» This clock is out of order.
Diese Uhr geht nicht.
Эти часы не работают.
Цей годинник не працює.
Meaning
12 senses(transitive)To measure the duration of.
measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time
(transitive)To measure the speed of.
He was clocked at 155 miles per hour.
(slang, transitive)To hit (someone) heavily.
When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him.
(informal, transitive)To notice; to take notice of (someone or something).
Clock the wheels on that car!
(informal, transitive)To recognize; to assess, register.
I'd already clocked her as someone who couldn't reliably be believed when she spoke. And now this too!
(informal, transitive)To identify (someone) as having some attribute (for example, being trans or gay).
Once my transition was complete I considered moving to London, where I felt there was less chance of being clocked and a larger support network.
(UK, slang)To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
I don't believe that car has done only 40,000 miles. It's been clocked.
(Australia, New Zealand, UK, slang, transitive)To beat a video game.
Have you clocked that game yet?
(ambitransitive)To expose or attack someone, typically in a targeted and insulting manner.
Did you hear what she said about my outfit? She kind of clocked me.
You clocked, that guy is always running his mouth.
(transitive)To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
(Scotland, dated, intransitive)To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
(Scotland, dated, intransitive)To hatch.
Examples
646 sentencesThis clock is out of order.
Цей годинник не працює.
ruЭти часы не работают.
deDiese Uhr geht nicht.
Something has happened to this clock.
З цим годинником щось трапилось.
ruС этими часами что-то случилось.
deMit der Uhr ist etwas passiert.
The clock is ten minutes slow.
Годинник відстає на десять хвилин.
ruЭти часы отстают на десять минут.
deDie Uhr geht zehn Minuten nach.
He has to repair the clock.
Він мусить полагодити годинник.
ruОн должен починить часы.
My clock is five minutes fast.
Мій годинник поспішає на п'ять хвилин.
ruУ меня часы на пять минут спешат.
deMeine Uhr geht fünf Minuten vor.
Translations
3 languagesOrigin
First use appears c. 1370. From Middle English clokke, clok, cloke (“clock”), from MiddleFirst 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.
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Forms
clocks, clocking, clocked, clockedPhrasal verbs
6 phrasal verbs- clock upTo accumulate (an amount of time or experience).
- clock offTo leave work, especially by recording the leaving time on a machine
- clock outTo end work; to officially record a time when one terminates a period of work.
- clock onTo record one's time of arrival at work, traditionally by inserting one's card into a timestamping machine.
- clock inTo begin working time, especially by punching in (entering a workplace by punching a time card with the time clock).
- clock downTo tick, buzz or become marked to indicate the passage of time.
Synonyms
8 synonymsWord family
18 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
Collocations
12 patterns- alarm clock
- my alarm clock
- at the clock
- an alarm clock
- alarm clock didn't
- around the clock
- his alarm clock
- the alarm clock
- the clock on
- clock on the
- this clock is
- the clock is