Clock Time Work Back Finish Ten Past Kitchen

• it was ten past six by the kitchen clock.
• the clock struck twelve/midnight.
• the clock is fast/slow.
• the clock has stopped.

clock

1. an instrument for measuring and showing time, in a room, on the wall of a building or on a computer screen (not worn or carried like a watch)
• see also alarm clock
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/alarm-clock
• It was ten past six by the kitchen clock.
• The clock struck twelve/midnight.
• The clock is fast/slow.
• The clock has stopped.
• the clock face (= the front part of a clock with the numbers on)
• The hands of the clock crept slowly around.
• Ellen heard the loud ticking of the clock in the hall.
• = milometer
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/milometer
• a used car with 20 000 miles on the clock
2. if you do something against the clock, you do it fast in order to finish before a particular time
• It was a race against the clock to get the building work finished in time.
3. all day and all night without stopping
4. to finish a task, race, etc. before a particular time
5. to beat somebody at something
• She really cleaned his clock in that debate.
6. to physically attack someone
• Rosario delivered a blow that cleaned his clock, leaving him disabled.
7. the time changes officially, for example at the beginning and end of summer
8. to change the time shown by clocks, usually by one hour, when the time changes officially, for example at the beginning and end of summer
• Remember to put your clocks back tonight.
9. to return to a situation that existed in the past; to remember a past age
• I wish we could turn the clock back two years and give the marriage another chance.
10. to return to old-fashioned methods or ideas
• The new censorship law will turn the clock back 50 years.
11. a situation in which you have to do something or finish something very fast before it is too late
• Getting food to the starving refugees is now a race against time.
12. if a sports team tries to run down/out the clock at the end of a game, it stops trying to score and just tries to keep hold of the ball to stop the other team from scoring
• compare time-wasting
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/time-wasting
13. to stop measuring time in a game or an activity that has a time limit
14. to be careful not to work longer than the required time; to think more about when your work will finish than about the work itself
• see also clock-watcher
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/clock-watcher

Extra Examples

• Her clock told her it was time to get up.
• His countdown clock reads forty seconds.
• I could hear a clock ticking somewhere in the house.
• I’ve set my alarm clock for six tomorrow.
• It’s ten o’clock by the kitchen clock.
• Let’s turn back the clock to the last decade.
• My alarm clock didn’t go off this morning.
• Pressing the 'Yes‘ or 'No‘ response button stops the clock.
• Pressing the buzzer stops the clock.
• That clock’s fast.
• The clock on the mantelpiece said twelve o’clock.
• The clock struck the hour.
• The clocks go back tonight.
• The player beat the clock and set a new record.
• This clock doesn’t keep time.
• With jet lag, your biological clock is out of synch with the actual time.
• employees who are always watching the clock
• to work against the clock

Word Origin

• late Middle English: from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch klocke, based on medieval Latin clocca ‘bell’.