clock

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

clock [clock clocks clocked clocking] noun, verb BrE [klɒk] NAmE [klɑːk]
noun
1. countable an instrument for measuring and showing time, in a room or on the wall of a building (not worn or carried like a watch)
• It was ten past six by the kitchen clock.
•The clock struck twelve/midnight.
•The clock is fast/slow.
• The clock has stopped.
•the clock face (= the front part of a clock with the numbers on)
•The hands of the clock crept slowly around.
•Ellen heard the loud ticking of the clock in the hall.
see also ↑alarm clock, ↑biological clock, ↑body clock, ↑carriage clock, ↑cuckoo clock, ↑grandfather clock, ↑o'clock, ↑time clock
2. the clocksingular (informal) = ↑milometer
•a used car with 20 000 miles on the clock
more at beat the clock at ↑beat _v., a race against time/the clock at ↑race _n., stop the clock at ↑stop _v., watch the clock at ↑watch _v.

Word Origin:
late Middle English: from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch klocke, based on medieval Latin clocca ‘bell’.

Example Bank:
•Her clock told her it was time to get up.
•His countdown clock reads forty seconds.
•I could hear a clock ticking somewhere in the house.
•I've set my alarm clock for six tomorrow.
•It's ten o'clock by the kitchen clock.
•Let's turn back the clock to the last decade.
•My alarm clock didn't go off this morning.
•Pressing the ‚Yes‘ or ‚No‘ response button stops the clock.
•Pressing the buzzer stops the clock.
•That clock's fast.
•The clock on the mantelpiece said twelve o'clock.
•The clock struck the hour.
•The clocks go back tonight.
•The player beat the clock and set a new record.
•This clock doesn't keep time.
•With jet lag, your biological clock is out of synch with the actual time.
•employees who are always watching the clock
•to work against the clock
Idioms: ↑against the clock ▪ ↑clocks go back ▪ ↑put the clock back ▪ ↑put the clocks back ▪ ↑round the clock ▪ ↑run out the clock
Derived: ↑clock in ▪ ↑clock out ▪ ↑clock up something
 
verb
1. ~ sth to reach a particular time or speed
•He clocked 10.09 seconds in the 100 metres final.
2. to measure the speed at which sb/sth is travelling
•~ sb doing sth The police clocked her doing over 100 miles an hour.
•~ sb/sth (at sth) Wind gusts at 80 m.p.h. were clocked at Rapid City.
3. ~ sb | ~ that… | ~ what/where, etc… (BrE, informal)to notice or recognize sb
•I clocked her in the driving mirror.
4. ~ sth (BrE, informal)to illegally reduce the number of miles shown on a vehicle's ↑milometer (= instrument that measures the number of miles it has travelled) in order to make the vehicle appear to have travelled fewer miles than it really has
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
late Middle English: from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch klocke, based on medieval Latin clocca ‘bell’.
 
See also: ↑punch in ▪ ↑punch out ▪ ↑set the clocks back