clock

clock meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

Examples of clock in a sentence

• An interesting feature of the church is the invisible clock, which you can hear thumping away as you enter.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 163:
• In the June days of 1848 Baudelaire reports seeing revolutionaries (he might have been one of them) going through the streets of Paris with rifles, shooting all the clocks.1995, Richard Klein, “Introduction”, in Cigarettes are sublime, Paperback edition, Durham: Duke University Press, published 1993, →ISBN...
• Cut to the pub on a lads night out, / Man at the bar cos it was his shout, / Clocks this bird and she looks OK, / Caught him looking and she walks his way,2006, Lily Allen, “Knock 'Em Out”:
• First it was only when I was with him—we would pass a pretty girl, I would notice her first, and my eyes would dart to his to see him clock her.2021, Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation, Random House, →ISBN:

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Synonyms of clock

• odometer
• chronometer
• clock patience
• time
• slug
• smack
• thump
• whack
• read
• turn back (the vehicle's) clock

All synonyms of clock

Forms of clock

Past tense of clock: clocked

Plural of clock: clocks

Origin of clock

First use appears c. 1370. From Middle English clokke, clok, cloke (“clock”), from Middle Dutch clocke (“bell, clock”), from Old Dutch *klokka, from Medieval Latin clocca (“bell, clock, cloak”), probably of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”) (compare Welsh cloch (“bell”), Old Irish cloc (“bell, clock”)), either onomatopoeic or from Proto-Indo-European *klek- (“to laugh, cackle”) (compare Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną (“to laugh”)). Cognate with Old English clucge (“bell”), Saterland Frisian Klokke (“bell, clock”), Dutch klok (“clock, bell”), Low German Klock (“bell, clock”), German Glocke (“bell”), Danish and Norwegian klokke (“clock, bell”), Faroese klokka (“clock, bell”), Icelandic klukka (“clock, bell”), Swedish klocka (“clock, bell”), Asturian llueca (“cowbell”), Galician and Portuguese choca (“cowbell”), Doublet of cloak and cloche.

Uncertain; designs may have originally been bell-shaped and thus related to Etymology 1, above.

From Middle English clokken, from Old English cloccian, ultimately imitative; compare Dutch klokken, English cluck.

Words formed from clock

• 12-hour clock
• 24-hour clock
• twenty-four-hour clock
• 400-day clock
• a broken clock is right twice a day
• Act of Parliament clock
• against the clock
• alarm clock
• alarum clock
• analog clock
• analogue clock
• anniversary clock
• around-the-clock
• around the clock
• a stopped clock is right twice a day
• astronomical clock
• atomic clock
• attoclock
• balloon clock
• banjo clock
• beat the clock
• beer clock
• bioclock
• biological clock
• black clock
• body clock
• bracket clock
• bum-clock
• bushman's clock
• caesium clock
• calendar clock
• carriage clock
• case clock
• chemical clock
• chess clock
• circadian clock
• clean someone's clock
• clock app
• clock arithmetic
• clock calm
• clockcase
• clock cycle
• clock down
• clock face
• clock-face timetable
• clock gable
• Clockgate
• clock generator
• clock golf
• clock hour
• clockhouse
• clock is running
• clock is ticking
• clock it
• clock jack
• clock-jobber
• clock key
• clockless
• clocklike
• clockmaker

Related words

• meter
• watch

Phrases with clock

• a clock
• clock in
• clock on
• clock up
• clock off
• clock out
• clock move
• clock onto
• clock rate
• clock skew
• clock star
• clock time

Words that rhyme with clock

• stock
• block
• rock
• cock
• brock
• lock
• shock
• knock
• dock
• crock
• jock
• sock

Questions about clock

What does clock mean?

Clock means a chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day.

What is clock in Hindi?

Clock in Hindi is घड़ी (ghaṛī). See Clock meaning in Hindi.

How do you use clock in a sentence?

An interesting feature of the church is the invisible clock, which you can hear thumping away as you enter.

What part of speech is clock?

Clock can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.

How do you pronounce clock?

Clock is pronounced /klɒk/ (UK).

What is the plural of clock?

The plural of clock is clocks.