clock

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

orologio

cronometrare

⌚

orologio da polso

calcolare la durata di

oriuolo

quantificare

clock

misuratore del tempo

cronometro

baghetta

sinonimi

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

Traduzioni

reloj

Uhr

horloge

relógio

klok

montre

⌚

rellotge

ρολόι

uurwerk

saat

⌚

pendule

ساعة

horloge

⌚

horologium

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/klɒk/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: clokke

Affine gallese: cloch

Affine irlandese antico: cloc

Affine inglese antico: clucge

Affine olandese: klok

Affine saterfriesisch: Klokke

Affine basso tedesco: Klock

Affine tedesco: Glocke

Affine svedese: klocka

Ereditato da inglese medio: clokken

Ereditato da inglese antico: cloccian

Affine olandese: klokken

Affine inglese: 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.

Frasi

The clock struck to mark the third period .

L'orologio ha colpito per segnare il terzo periodo.

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

Crampton ha donato un orologio come dono personale alla chiesa.