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CLOCK

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A timepiece that shows the time of day

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("clock" is a kind of...):

horologe; timekeeper; timepiece (a measuring instrument or device for keeping time)

Meronyms (parts of "clock"):

movement (the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock))

fusee; fusee drive (a spirally grooved spindle in a clock that counteracts the diminishing power of the uncoiling mainspring)

clock dial; clock face (the face of a clock showing hours and minutes of the day)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clock"):

alarm; alarm clock (a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time)

analog clock (a clock that displays the time of day by the position of hands on a dial)

chronometer (an accurate clock (especially used in navigation))

cuckoo clock (clock that announces the hours with a sound like the call of the cuckoo)

digital clock (a clock that displays the time of day digitally)

electric clock (a clock using a small electric motor)

pendulum clock (a clock regulated by a pendulum)

system clock (a time-of-day clock in a computer system)

time clock (clock used to record the hours that people work)

turret clock (a clock with more than one dial to show the time in all directions from a tower)

wall clock (a clock mounted on a wall)

clepsydra; water clock; water glass (clock that measures time by the escape of water)

Instance hyponyms:

Big Ben (clock in the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament, London)

Derivation:

clock (measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time

Example:

he clocked the runners

Synonyms:

clock; time

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "clock" is one way to...):

measure; quantify (express as a number or measure or quantity)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "clock"):

mistime (time incorrectly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

clock (a timepiece that shows the time of day)

clocking (the time taken to traverse a measured course)

Credits

 Context examples: 

On her return, at about nine o’clock, she met a man who asked her if she had seen anything of the child who was lost.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Six o’clock struck on the bells of the church that was so conveniently near to Mr. Utterson’s dwelling, and still he was digging at the problem.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“I’ve just ’eard in my taproom that the four men I spoke of left for Crawley at one o’clock.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It might have been about three o'clock in the morning when Alleyne was aroused from a troubled sleep by a low cry or exclamation.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The research demonstrates how a circadian clock protein in the muscle — BMAL1 — regulates the length and manner of sleep.

(Muscle, Not Brain, May Hold Answers to Some Sleep Disorders, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Promptly at nine o'clock the next morning the green-whiskered soldier came to them, and four minutes later they all went into the Throne Room of the Great Oz.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Keep in mind that the illuminated area of your chart is the tenth house, which correlates on the face of a clock to the hour between the 11 and 12, the very highest point.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The gardener set his eldest son to watch; but about twelve o’clock he fell asleep, and in the morning another of the apples was missing.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I began this desperate voyage on February 15, 1714–15, at nine o’clock in the morning.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The plant anticipates the timing and the direction of dawn, and to me that looks like a reason to have a connection between the clock and the growth pathway.

(Sunflowers move from east to west, and back, by the clock, NSF)