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Definition of clock :
1. A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.
2. A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle ( Scarabaeus stercorarius).
3. 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.
4. A watch, esp. one that strikes.
5. The striking of a clock.
6. To call, as a hen. See Cluck.
7. To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.
Synonyms:
digital, atomic, pendulum hourglass, mission timer, clock radio, remember, time clock, horologe, time-marker, timekeeper, wall, wrist watch, cuckoo, grandfather, electric, time, stopwatch
chronology (part of speech: noun)
minutes, diary, time card, timepiece, timer, chronology
chronicle (part of speech: verb)
archive, record, enumerate, log, index, inventory, register, minute, journalize, note, account, catalog, chronicle
chronometer (part of speech: noun)
grandfather clock, watch, chronograph, hourglass, metronome, cuckoo clock, wristwatch, egg timer, sundial, sand glass, stop watch, chronometer
Usage examples:
- But Roy knew it was no use to take the clock. - "Two Boys and a Fortune", Matthew White, Jr..
- When she came to the door the clock struck one, and by the time she got inside she was nearly half dead,- she was that frightened. - "'Round the yule-log: Christmas in Norway", Peter Christen Asbjörnsen.
- He was an admiral, and it was his clock. - "The Gay Cockade", Temple Bailey.