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Definition clock

Etymology 1

c. 1350–1400, Middle English clokke, clok, cloke, from Middle Dutch clocke (“bell, clock”), from Old Northern French cloque (“bell”), from Medieval Latin clocca, probably of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”) (compare Welsh cloch, Irish clog), from Proto-Indo-European *kl?g-, *kl?g- (onomatopoeia).

Related to Old English clucge, Saterland Frisian Klokke (“bell; clock”), Low German Klock (“bell, clock”), German Glocke, Swedish klocka. Related to laugh.

Noun

clock (plural clocks)

1. An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece.
2. (Britain) The odometer of a motor vehicle.
3. (electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
4. The seed head of a dandelion.
5. A time clock.
6. (computing, informal) A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.

Verb

clock (third-person singular simple present clocks, present participle clocking, simple past and past participle clocked)

1. (transitive) To measure the duration of.
2. (transitive) To measure the speed of.
3. (transitive, slang) To hit (someone) heavily.
4. (slang) To take notice of; to realise; to recognize someone or something
5. (Britain, slang) To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
6. (transitive, Britain, New Zealand, slang) To beat a video game.

Etymology 2

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

Noun

clock (plural clocks)

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

Verb

clock (third-person singular simple present clocks, present participle clocking, simple past and past participle clocked)

1. (transitive) To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.

Etymology 3

Noun

clock (plural clocks)

1. A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).

Etymology 4

Old English cloccian; compare Dutch klokken.

Verb

clock (third-person singular simple present clocks, present participle clocking, simple past and past participle clocked)

1. (Scotland, intransitive, dated) To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
2. (Scotland, intransitive, dated) To hatch.

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