clocks

clock ¹  (klk)

n.

1. An instrument other than a watch for measuring or indicating time, especially a mechanical or electronic device having a numbered dial and moving hands or a digital display.

2. A time clock.

3. A source of regularly occurring pulses used to measure the passage of time, as in a computer.

4. Any of various devices that indicate measurement, such as a speedometer or a taximeter.

5. A biological clock.

6. Botany The downy flower head of a dandelion that has gone to seed.

v. clocked, clock·ing, clocks

v.tr.

1. To time, as with a stopwatch: clock a runner.

2. To register or record with a mechanical device: clocked the winds at 60 miles per hour.

v.intr.

To record working hours with a time clock: clocks in at 8 a.m. and out at 4 p.m.

Idioms:

around/round the clock

Throughout the entire 24 hours of the day; continuously.

clean (someone's) clock Slang

To beat or defeat decisively: "Immense linemen declared their intentions to clean the clocks of opposing players" (Russell Baker).

kill/run out the clock

Sports To preserve a lead by maintaining possession of the ball or puck until playing time expires.

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[Middle English clokke, from Old North French cloque, bell, or from Middle Dutch clocke, bell, clock, both from Medieval Latin clocca, of imitative origin.]

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clocker n.

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clock ²  (klk)

n.

An embroidered or woven decoration on the side of a stocking or sock.

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[Perhaps from clock, bell (obsolete), from its original bell-shaped appearance.]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

clocks - European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage alfilaria, alfileria, Erodium cicutarium, filaree, filaria, pin clover, pin grass, redstem storksbill heron's bill, storksbill - any of various plants of the genus Erodium