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1. n. An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece. | |
2. n. (British) The odometer of a motor vehicle. | |
This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock. | |
3. n. (electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules. | |
4. n. The seed head of a dandelion. | |
5. n. A time clock. | |
I can't go off to lunch yet: I'm still on the clock. | |
We let the guys use the shop's tools and equipment for their own projects as long as they're off the clock. | |
6. n. (computing, informal) A CPU clock cycle, or T-state. | |
7. v. To measure the duration of. | |
8. v. To measure the speed of. | |
He was clocked at 155 miles per hour. | |
9. v. (transitive, slang) To hit (someone) heavily. | |
When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him. | |
10. v. (slang) To take notice of; to realise; to recognize someone or something | |
Clock the wheels on that car! | |
He finally clocked that there were no more cornflakes. | |
A trans person may be able to easily clock other trans people. | |
11. v. (UK, slang) To 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. v. (transitive, New Zealand, slang) To beat a video game. | |
Have you clocked that game yet? | |
13. n. A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking. | |
14. v. To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work. | |
15. n. A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle. | |
16. v. (Scotland, intransitive, dated) To make the sound of a hen; to cluck. | |
17. v. (Scotland, intransitive, dated) To hatch. | |