clock

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /klɒk/    美 /klɑk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day. countable,uncountable
    — When the clock says midnight.
  2. A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).
  3. A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
    — But this you can't stand, so you throw up your hand, and you find you're as cold as an icicle, In your shirt and your socks (the black silk with gold clocks), crossing Salisbury Plain on a bicycle
  4. A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time. attributive,countable,uncountable
    — A 12-hour clock system; an antique clock sale; Acme is a clock manufacturer.
  5. The odometer of a motor vehicle. UK,countable,uncountable
    — This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock.
  6. An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules. countable,uncountable
  7. The seed head of a dandelion. countable,uncountable
  8. A time clock. countable,uncountable
    — I can't go off to lunch yet: I'm still on the clock.
  9. A CPU clock cycle, or T-state. countable,informal,uncountable
    — Executing a NEXT to code takes 7 clocks, or 1.05 microseconds.
  10. A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock. uncountable
  11. A watch (timepiece). UK,countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — Arthur Morrison, Chance of the Game But if the clock was a red 'un, and the opportunity undoubted; to be pinched in the Bow Road merely might well imply loss of caste in the mob, but nobody need be ashamed to be pinched anywhere for a gold watch, after all.
  12. A face; the head. countable,slang,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To measure the duration of. transitive
  2. To make the sound of a hen; to cluck. Scotland,dated,intransitive
  3. To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work. transitive
  4. To hatch. Scotland,dated,intransitive
  5. To measure the speed of. transitive
    — He was clocked at 155 miles per hour.
  6. To hit (someone) heavily. slang,transitive
    — When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him.
  7. To notice; to take notice of (someone or something). informal,transitive
    — Clock the wheels on that car!
  8. To recognize; to assess, register. informal,transitive
    — I'd already clocked her as someone who couldn't reliably be believed when she spoke. And now this too!
  9. To identify (someone) as having some attribute (for example, being trans or gay). informal,transitive
    — Once my transition was complete I considered moving to London, where I felt there was less chance of being clocked and a larger support network.
  10. To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle. UK,slang
    — I don't believe that car has done only 40,000 miles. It's been clocked.
  11. To beat a video game. Australia,New-Zealand,UK,slang,transitive
    — Have you clocked that game yet?
  12. To expose or attack someone, typically in a targeted and insulting manner. ambitransitive
    — Did you hear what she said about my outfit? She kind of clocked me.

词形变化

clocks plural CLK alternative clocks present,singular,third-person clocking participle,present clocked participle,past clocked past CLK alternative clocks plural clocks present,singular,third-person clocking participle,present clocked participle,past clocked past clocks plural clocks present,singular,third-person clocking participle,present clocked participle,past clocked past

词汇关系

衍生词
12-hour clock 24-hour clock twenty-four-hour clock 400-day clock a broken clock is right twice a day Act of Parliament clock against the clock alarm clock alarum clock analog clock analogue clock anniversary clock around the clock around-the-clock a stopped clock is right twice a day astronomical clock atomic clock attoclock balloon clock banjo clock beat the clock beer clock bioclock biological clock black clock body clock bracket clock bum-clock bushman's clock caesium clock calendar clock carriage clock case clock chemical clock chess clock circadian clock clean someone's clock Clock clock app clock arithmetic clock calm clockcase clock cycle clock down clock face clock-face timetable clock gable Clockgate clock generator clock golf clock hour clockhouse clock is running clock is ticking clock it clock jack clock-jobber clockless clocklike clockmaker clockmaking clock move clock paradox clock patience clockpunk clock radio clock rate clockroom clock signal clock skew clock speed clockspring clock star clocksucker clock system clock time clock tower clocktower clock vine clockward clockware clock-watch clock watcher clock-watcher clock-watching clockweight clockwinder clock wipe clockwise clockwork continuous clock cuckoo clock dandelion clock death clock digital clock Doomsday Clock drumhead clock eight-day clock epigenetic clock equation clock Etho hopper clock even a stopped clock is right twice a day face that would stop a clock fix someone's clock flip clock flog the clock floral clock flower clock game clock get one's clock cleaned grandfather clock grandfather's clock grandmother clock Horvath clock hydrogen maser atomic clock Jack o' the clock Japanese clock light clock logical clock longcase clock longitude clock master clock microbial clock milk the clock misclock molecular clock mystery clock o'clock off the clock of the clock on the clock optical lattice clock over-clock pendulum clock pigeon clock play clock pocket clock pulsar clock punch clock put the clock back put the clock forward quartz clock quartz-crystal clock race against the clock radio alarm clock radio clock ride the clock Riefler clock round-the-clock round the clock run down the clock run out the clock run the clock down sand clock segmentation clock settler's clock shepherd's clock Shortt clock shot clock skeleton clock slave clock speaking clock star clock stop clock stopped clock illusion stop someone's clock stream clock striking clock synchronized clock talking clock tall-case clock the clock around ticking clock time clock time delay and integration clock townhall clock turn back the clock turn the clock back twenty-four hour clock vase clock vector clock wall clock wall-clock time watchclock watchman's clock water clock waterclock whatever winds your clock wind back the clock world clock clockable clock in clock off clock on clock onto clock out clock the tea clock up clocky downclock overclock reclock self-clocking underclock upclock clocker

词源

词源 1
First use appears c. 1370. From Middle English clokke, clok, cloke (“clock”), from Middle Dutch clocke (“bell, clock”), from Old Dutch *klokka, from Medieval Latin clocca (“bell, clock, cloak”), probably of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”) (compare Welsh cloch (“bell”), Old Irish cloc (“bell, clock”)), either onomatopoeic or from Proto-Indo-European *klek- (“to laugh, cackle”) (compare Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną (“to laugh”)). Cognate with Old English clucge (“bell”), Saterland Frisian Klokke (“bell, clock”), Dutch klok (“clock, bell”), Low German Klock (“bell, clock”), German Glocke (“bell”), Danish and Norwegian klokke (“clock, bell”), Faroese klokka (“clock, bell”), Icelandic klukka (“clock, bell”), Swedish klocka (“clock, bell”), Asturian llueca (“cowbell”), Galician and Portuguese choca (“cowbell”), Doublet of cloak and cloche.
词源 2
Uncertain; designs may have originally been bell-shaped and thus related to Etymology 1, above.
词源 3
From Middle English clokken, from Old English cloccian, ultimately imitative; compare Dutch klokken, English cluck.
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