Definition of Clock

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Definition of Clock

Clock

A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person.

A watch, esp. one that strikes.

The striking of a clock.

A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.

To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.

To call, as a hen. See Cluck.

A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabaeus stercorarius).

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Clock Quotations

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
Pablo Picasso

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
Ernest Hemingway

My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.
Rodney Dangerfield

I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.
Jerry Garcia

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.
Wilson Mizner

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
William Blake

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.
Henny Youngman

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
William Faulkner

Clock Translations

clock in Danish is ur
clock in Dutch is uurwerk, klok
clock in Finnish is kello
clock in French is horloge
clock in German is Uhr, Uhr, Taktgeber
clock in Italian is orologio
clock in Norwegian is klokke, ur
clock in Portuguese is pulso de disparo
clock in Spanish is reloh
clock in Swedish is ur, klocka

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