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Clocks

noun
Word Frequency: 2.2

Definitions

1.nounAn instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece.
2.nounThe odometer of a motor vehicle.
"This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock."
3.nounAn electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
4.nounThe seed head of a dandelion.
5.nounA time clock.
"I can't go off to lunch yet: I'm still on the clock."
6.nounA CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
7.verbTo measure the duration of.
8.verbTo measure the speed of.
"He was clocked at 155 miles per hour."
9.verbTo hit (someone) heavily.
"When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him."
10.verbTo take notice of; to realise; to recognize someone or something
"A trans person may be able to easily clock other trans people."
11.verbTo 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."
12.verbTo beat a video game.
"Have you clocked that game yet?"
13.nounA pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
14.verbTo ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
15.nounA large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).
16.verbTo make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
17.verbTo hatch.

Synonyms

timepieceodometercheck outscope outslugsmackthumpwhacktimeturn back (the vehicle's) clockwind back (the vehicle's) clockalfilaria

Rhymes With

paradoxfauxunorthodoxequinoxflummoxfoxboxidiot box
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