English Dictionary

clock

/klɒk/

noun

An instrument that measures or keeps track of time; a non-wearable timepiece. / (attributive) A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.

I looked at the clock and realized I was late for my meeting.

意味（1）

An instrument that measures or keeps track of time; a non-wearable timepiece.

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.

意味（2）

(attributive) A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.

A 12-hour clock system; an antique clock sale; Acme is a clock manufacturer.

意味（3）

(Britain) The odometer of a motor vehicle.

This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock.

意味（4）

(electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.

意味（5）

The seed head of a dandelion.

意味（6）

A time clock.

I can't go off to lunch yet: I'm still on the clock.

意味（7）

(computing, informal) A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.

Executing a NEXT to code takes 7 clocks, or 1.05 microseconds.

意味（8）

(uncountable) A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.