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clock
1. Substantiv:
2. [1] feststehende Uhr, die im Gegensatz zur Armbanduhr nicht getragen werden kann
3. [2] ugs.: ein Instrument, das etwas messen oder beobachten kann (zum Beispiel ein Tachometer)
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clock
1. subst. An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece.
2. subst. (British) The odometer of a motor vehicle.
This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock.
3. subst. (electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
4. subst. The seed head of a dandelion.
5. subst. 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. subst. (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. subst. 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. subst. 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.
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Uhr
1. n-f. (invariable) hours, o'clock (indicates the time within a twelve- or twenty-four-hour period)
Es ist vier Uhr. - It is four o'clock.
Es ist vier Uhr zwölf. - It is twelve minutes past four.
Wieviel Uhr ist es? - What time is it?
2. n-f. clock, watch (instrument used to measure or keep track of time)
(hyponyms, Armbanduhr, Standuhr, Wanduhr)
Meine Uhr geht nach. - My watch is running slow.
3. n-f. (in compounds) meter; gauge (a kind of measuring device, typically for water and gas consumption)
Wasseruhr - water meter
Gasuhr - gas meter
4. n-f. (informal) clockwise direction
mit der Uhr - clockwise
gegen die Uhr - widdershins, counterclockwise

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Beispielsätze

I didn't hear how many times the clock struck.      Ich habe nicht mitbekommen, wie oft die Uhr geschlagen hat. She advanced the hands on the clock.      Sie stellte die Zeiger der Uhr vor. It was a precious clock his grandmother, who was in the hospital, gave him.      Es war eine kostbare Uhr, die ihm seine im Krankenhaus befindliche Großmutter gab. The entire sales staff has worked around the clock for a week.      Alle Mitarbeiter im Vertrieb haben eine Woche lang Tag und Nacht gearbeitet. Every morning I set my watch by the station clock.      Ich stelle meine Uhr jeden Morgen nach der Bahnhofsuhr.

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