Clock

Etymology 1
c. 1350–1400, clokke:, from  klocke: 'bell, clock' (modern klok:), from Old Northern French cloque: 'bell' (French cloche:), from  clocca: (compare Welsh cloch:, Irish clog:), from. More at laugh. Related to Old English clucge:, Low German Klock: (bell, clock), German Glocke:, Swedish klocka:.

Noun

 * 1) An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece.
 * 2)  The odometer of a motor vehicle.
 * This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock.
 * 1)  An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.

Synonyms

 * (instrument used to measure or keep track of time): timepiece
 * (odometer of a motor vehicle): odometer

Derived terms

 * a broken clock is right twice a day
 * alarm clock
 * atomic clock
 * biological clock
 * body clock
 * carriage clock
 * case clock
 * clean someone’s clock
 * clock generator


 * clock radio
 * clock signal
 * clock-watcher
 * clockwise
 * clockwork
 * cuckoo clock
 * dandelion clock
 * face that would stop a clock
 * grandfather clock


 * o’clock
 * on the clock
 * run down the clock
 * shot clock
 * time clock
 * wall clock
 * water clock
 * work against the clock
 * work around the clock / work round the clock

Verb

 * 1)  To measure the duration of.
 * 2)  To measure the speed of.
 * He was clocked at 155 miles per hour.
 * 1)  To hit (someone)
 * When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him.
 * 1)  To take notice of; to realise.
 * Clock the wheels on that car!
 * He finally clocked that there were no more cornflakes.
 * 1) * 2006,, Knock 'Em Out
 * Cut to the pub on a lads night out,
 * Man at the bar cos it was his shout,
 * Clocks this bird and she looks OK,
 * Caught him looking and she walks his way,
 * 1)  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.

Quotations

 * to take notice of

Synonyms

 * (measure the duration of): time
 * (measure the speed of):
 * (slang: hit (someone)): slug, smack, thump, whack
 * (slang: take notice of): check out, scope out
 * (slang: falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle): turn back (the vehicle's) clock, wind back (the vehicle's) clock

Derived terms

 * clock in
 * clock on
 * clock off
 * clock out
 * clock up

Etymology 2
Origin uncertain; designs may have originally been bell-shaped and thus related to Etymology 1, above.

Noun

 * 1) A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.

Thesaurus
Big Ben, beat time, brood, chronometer, clock movement, clockworks, cover, fix the time, horologe, horologium, keep time, mark time, measure time, set, set the time, sit, ticker, time, timekeeper, timepiece, timer, turnip, watch, watchworks

Noun

 * Afrikaans: uurwerk
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: የግድግዳ ሰዓት
 * Arabic: ساعة
 * Armenian: ժամացույց
 * Azeri:
 * Basque: erloju, ordulari
 * Belarusian: гадзіны
 * Bengali: ঘড়ি
 * Breton: horolaj, -où , dihuner , -ioù (alarm clock)
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: rellotge (portable and non-portable)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Comox:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dakota: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: klok
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: reloxo
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:, ρολόγια
 * Ancient:
 * Hausa: àgṓgó
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: घड़ी
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: horologio
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 時計 (とけい, tokei)
 * Javanese:
 * Korean: (時計)
 * Kurdish: demjimêr, demjimêrk , seet
 * Lakota: mazaskanskan
 * Lakota: mazaskanskan


 * Lao: ນາລິກາ,
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:, laikrādis
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lower Sorbian:
 * Luxembourgish: Auer
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: നാഴികമണി, ഘടികാരം
 * Maltese:
 * Marathi: घड्याळ
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: klokke
 * Nynorsk: klokke
 * Ojibwe: diba'igiiziswaan
 * Papiamentu:
 * Persian: ساعت
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic: uaireadair ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: часовник
 * Roman: časovnik
 * Slovak: hodiny, tachometer, hodinový impulz
 * Slovene:
 * Somali: saacad weyn
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tamil: கதிகரம், கதியரம், கதரம், கெதரம்
 * Telugu: గడియారం (gaDiyaaram)
 * Thai: นาฬิกา
 * Tibetan: ཆུ ཚོད
 * Ukrainian: годинник
 * Urdu: گھڑی
 * Vietnamese:, cái đồng hồ
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: ,
 * Yiddish:
 * West Frisian: ,
 * Yiddish:


 * Catalan: comptaquilòmetres
 * Dutch: teller, kilometerteller
 * Finnish:
 * French: indicateur de vitesse, compteur de vitesse
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: kilométeróra, kilométer-számláló


 * Japanese: 走行距離計 (そうこうきょりけい, sōkōkyorikei)
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji:
 * Luxembourgish: Tacho
 * Portuguese: velocímetro
 * Spanish: cuentakilómetros


 * Catalan:
 * German: Taktsignal
 * Japanese: クロック (kurokku)


 * Serbian:
 * Spanish:


 * : relo, orasan (1)

Verb

 * Bulgarian: измервам време
 * Catalan: cronometrar
 * Dutch: klokken
 * Finnish: ottaa aikaa, kellottaa
 * Interlingua: chronometrar
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 計測する (けいそくする, keisokusuru), 記録する (きろくする, kirokusuru)
 * Norwegian: ta tiden på
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: измервам скорост
 * Catalan: mesurar la velocitat de
 * Interlingua: mesurar le velocitate de


 * Japanese: 計測する (けいそくする, keisokusuru), 測定する (そくていする, sokuteisuru)
 * Portuguese: medir a velocidade de
 * Spanish: medir la velocidad de


 * Spanish: golpear


 * Bulgarian: забелязвам

Noun

 * Bulgarian: багет


 * Finnish:

Verb

 * 1) to hatch an egg