clock

Significado (Inglês)

Noun

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

Verb

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

Verb

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

Verb

1. To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
2. To hatch.

Sinônimos

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

notice

pendulum

punch

👊

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/klɒk/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: clokke

Cognato com galês: cloch

Cognato com irlandês arcaico: cloc

Cognato com inglês arcaico: clucge

Cognato com holandês: klok

Cognato com Saterfriesisch: Klokke

Cognato com baixo alemão: Klock

Cognato com alemão: Glocke

Cognato com sueco: klocka

Herdado de inglês médio: clokken

Herdado de inglês arcaico: cloccian

Cognato com holandês: klokken

Cognato com inglês: cluck

In summary

c. 1350–1400, 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.

Frases

The clock struck to mark the third period .

O relógio ocorreu para marcar o terceiro período.

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

Crampton doou um relógio como um presente pessoal para a igreja.