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Meaning of clock
noun
- An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece.
- The odometer of a motor vehicle. Example: This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock.
- An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
- The seed head of a dandelion.
- A time clock. Example: I can't go off to lunch yet: I'm still on the clock.
verb
- To measure the duration of.
- To measure the speed of. Example: He was clocked at 155 miles per hour.
- To hit (someone) heavily. Example: When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him.
- To take notice of; to realise; to recognize someone or something Example: A trans person may be able to easily clock other trans people.
- To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle. Example: I don't believe that car has done only 40,000 miles. It's been clocked.
noun
- A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
verb
- To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
noun
- A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).
verb
- To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
- To hatch.
Source: Free Dictionary API.
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