clock

Plural: clocks

Noun

a timepiece that shows the time of day
A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day.
A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.
The odometer of a motor vehicle.
An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
The seed head of a dandelion.
A time clock.
A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.
A watch (timepiece).
A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).

Verb

Verb Forms: clocked, clocking, clocks

To measure the time taken for an event.
measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time
- "he clocked the runners"
To measure the duration of.
To measure the speed of.
To hit (someone) heavily.
To notice; to take notice of (someone or something).
To recognize; to assess, register.
To identify (someone) as having some attribute (for example, being trans or gay).
To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
To beat a video game.
To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
To hatch.

Examples

A 12-hour clock system; an antique clock sale; Acme is a clock manufacturer.
Clock the wheels on that car!
Have you clocked that game yet?
He was clocked at 155 miles per hour.
I can't go off to lunch yet: I'm still on the clock.
I don't believe that car has done only 40,000 miles. It's been clocked.
I'd already clocked her as someone who couldn't reliably be believed when she spoke. And now this too!
Once my transition was complete I considered moving to London, where I felt there was less chance of being clocked and a larger support network.
The other Words With Friends player began to CLOCK his turns, indicating impatience.
This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock.
We let the guys use the shop's tools and equipment for their own projects as long as they're off the clock.
When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him.
When the clock says midnight.

Origin / Etymology

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.

Synonyms

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

Scrabble Score: 13

clock: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
clock: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
clock: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 16

clock: valid Words With Friends Word