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word clock
definition
noun
A clock is an instrument, for example in a room or on the outside of a building, that shows what time of day it is.
He was conscious of a clock ticking.
He also repairs clocks and watches.
The hands of the clock on the wall moved with a slight click.
...a digital clock.
A time clock in a factory or office is a device that is used to record the hours that people work. Each worker puts a special card into the device when they arrive and leave, and the times are recorded on the card.
Government workers were made to punch time clocks morning, noon and night.
In a car, the clock is the instrument that shows the speed of the car or the distance it has travelled .
The car had 160,000 miles on the clock.
At 240 mph the needle went off the clock.
verb
To clock a particular time or speed in a race means to reach that time or speed.
Elliott clocked the fastest time this year for the 800 metres.
The yacht swayed in 40-knot winds, clocking speeds of 17 knots at times.
If something or someone is clocked at a particular time or speed, their time or speed is measured at that level.
He has been clocked at 11 seconds for 100 metres.
170-mile-an-hour winds were clocked on a mountaintop in North Carolina.
If you clock something, you notice or see it.
I walked past that gate hundreds of times before I clocked it.
inflections clocksclockingclocked
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