clocks
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Definitions ofclocks
- An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece.
- The odometer of a motor vehicle.
Example: "This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock."
- An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
- The seed head of a dandelion.
- A time clock.
Example: "I can't go off to lunch yet: I'm still on the clock."
- A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
- To measure the duration of.
Synonyms: time
- To measure the speed of.
Example: "He was clocked at 155 miles per hour."
- To hit (someone) heavily.
Example: "When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him."
- To take notice of; to realise; to recognize someone or something
Synonyms: "check out", "scope out"
Example: "A trans person may be able to easily clock other trans people."
- To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
Synonyms: "turn back (the vehicle's) clock", "wind back (the vehicle's) clock"
Example: "I don't believe that car has done only 40,000 miles. It's been clocked."
- To beat a video game.
Example: "Have you clocked that game yet?"
- A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
- To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
- A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).
- To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
- To hatch.
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