clock

(Anglès)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day.
2. (attributive, countable, uncountable) A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.
3. (British, countable, uncountable) The odometer of a motor vehicle.
4. (countable, uncountable) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
5. (countable, uncountable) The seed head of a dandelion.
6. (countable, uncountable) A time clock.
7. (countable, informal, uncountable) A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
8. (uncountable) A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.
9. (UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable) A watch (timepiece).

Verb

1. (transitive) To measure the duration of.
2. (transitive) To measure the speed of.
3. (slang, transitive) To hit (someone) heavily.
4. (informal, transitive) To notice; to take notice of (someone or something).
5. (informal, transitive) To recognize; to assess, register.
6. (informal, transitive) To identify (someone) as having some attribute (for example, being trans or gay).
7. (British, slang) To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
8. (Australia, British, New-Zealand, slang, transitive) To beat a video game.

Verb

To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.

Verb

1. (Scotland, dated, intransitive) To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
2. (Scotland, dated, intransitive) To hatch.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/klɒk/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: clokke

Cognat amb gal·lès: cloch

Cognat amb irlandès antic: cloc

Cognat amb anglès antic: clucge

Cognat amb neerlandès: klok

Cognat amb Saterfriesisch: Klokke

Cognat amb baix alemany: Klock

Cognat amb alemany: Glocke

Cognat amb suec: klocka

Heretat de anglès mitjà: clokken

Heretat de anglès antic: cloccian

Cognat amb neerlandès: klokken

Cognat amb anglès: cluck

In summary

First use appears c. 1370. Middle English clokke, clok, cloke, from Middle Dutch clocke (“bell, clock”), from Old Dutch *klokka, from Medieval Latin clocca, probably of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”) (compare Welsh cloch, Old Irish cloc), either onomatopoeic or from Proto-Indo-European *klek- (“to laugh, cackle”) (compare Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną (“to laugh”)). Related to Old English clucge, Dutch klok, Saterland Frisian Klokke (“bell; clock”), Low German Klock (“bell, clock”), German Glocke, Swedish klocka. Doublet of cloak and cloche.

Conceptes

rellotge

cronometrar

mesurar la velocitat de

pèndol

pèndola

comptaquilòmetres

quantificar

calcular el temps

mesurar

Sinònims

watch

⌚

timepiece

time

⌚

wristwatch

bell

🔔

hour

o’clock

sun

🌞

ticker

chronometer

milometer

time clock

timer

wrist watch

knowledge

time-piece

quantify

speedometer

spider

🕷️

star

⭐

stopwatch

⏱️

sundial

swing

taximeter

timekeeper

time of day

wall clock

campana

time piece

dor beetle

horologium

measure time

clock oscillator

timing clock

common dor beetle

dumble dor

lousy watchman

time-of-day

bellflower

chronograph

chronoscope

clocks

dandelion

day

face

gong

horologe

hours

mark down

measure

Traduccions

orologio

reloj

Uhr

horloge

klok

relógio

montre

⌚

zegar

ρολόι

uurwerk

saat

⌚

ساعة

pendule

horloge

⌚

horologium

Frases

The clock struck to mark the third period .

Crampton donated a clock as a personal gift to the church .