Noun: clock
| Singular | clock |
| Plural | clocks |
Sample Sentences
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When the clock says midnight.
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The seasons bring the flower again,
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And bring the firstling to the flock;
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And in the dusk of thee, the clock
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Beats out the little lives of men. [1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto II”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:]
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An interesting feature of the church is the invisible clock, which you can hear thumping away as you enter. Constructed in 1525, it is one of the oldest timepieces in England. It chimes the hours and the quarters, and every three hours it plays a hymn. But it has no faces. [1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 163:]
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In the June days of 1848 Baudelaire reports seeing revolutionaries (he might have been one of them) going through the streets of Paris with rifles, shooting all the clocks. [1995, Richard Klein, “Introduction”, in Cigarettes are sublime, Paperback edition, Durham: Duke University Press, published 1993, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 8:]
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A 12-hour clock system; an antique clock sale; Acme is a clock manufacturer.
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This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock.
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I can't go off to lunch yet: I'm still on the clock.
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We let the guys use the shop's tools and equipment for their own projects as long as they're off the clock.
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Executing a NEXT to code takes 7 clocks, or 1.05 microseconds. [1984, The Journal of Forth Application and Research, volume 2, page 83:]
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The best schedule produced by any hardware algorithm takes 7 clocks, whereas the statically reordered code in Figure 1.2(b) takes only 5 clocks. [1990, Joseph F. Traub, Barbara J. Grosz, Annual Review of Computer Science, page 180:]
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Arthur Morrison, Chance of the Game
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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.
Nouns inflected like clock
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
clokke', Old English Nouns '
clucge', Dutch Nouns '
klok', German Nouns '
Glocke', Faroese Nouns '
klokka', Icelandic Nouns '
klukka', Swedish Nouns '
klocka', Asturian Nouns '
llueca', Portuguese Nouns '
choca'.
Verbs referencing "clock"
German Nouns
Glocke, Portuguese Nouns
choca, Zulu Nouns
ikilogo.