clock

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n. 时钟, 计时器, (袜子上的)绣花边花 vt. 绣花样, 记时, 记录 vi. 记录时间 [计] 时钟

发音

UK /klɒk/
US /klɑk/
/kl̥ɒχ/

词形变化

clocks 复数 clocks 三单 clocking 现在分词 clocked 过去式 clocked 过去分词

别名

CLK

释义与例句

n. A1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day.

    可数 不可数

    When the clock says midnight.

  2. 2.

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

    定语 可数 不可数

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

  3. 3.

    The odometer of a motor vehicle.

    可数 不可数

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

  4. 4.

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

    可数 不可数 商务 工程 物理 电子
  5. 5.

    The seed head of a dandelion.

    可数 不可数
  6. 6.

    A time clock.

    钟

    时钟

    钟表

    可数 不可数

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

  7. 7.

    A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.

    可数 非正式 不可数 计算机 工程 数学
  8. 8.

    A face; the head.

    可数 俚语 不可数
  9. 9.

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

    不可数 可数
  10. 10.

    A watch (timepiece).

    英国 可数 废旧 不可数

    Arthur Morrison, Chance of the Game But if the clock was a red 'un, and the opportunity undoubted; to be pinched in the Bow Road merely might well imply loss of caste in the mob, but nobody need be ashamed to be pinched anywhere for a gold watch, after all.

  11. 1.

    A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.

  12. 1.

    A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).

v.
  1. 1.

    To measure the duration of.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To hit (someone) heavily.

    俚语 及物

    When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him.

  3. 3.

    To notice; to take notice of (someone or something).

    非正式 及物

    Clock the wheels on that car!

  4. 4.

    To recognize; to assess, register.

    非正式 及物

    I'd already clocked her as someone who couldn't reliably be believed when she spoke. And now this too!

  5. 5.

    To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.

    俚语

    I don't believe that car has done only 40,000 miles. It's been clocked.

  6. 6.

    To beat a video game.

    澳大利亚 新西兰 俚语 及物

    Have you clocked that game yet?

  7. 7.

    To expose or attack someone, typically in a targeted and insulting manner.

    及物/不及物

    Did you hear what she said about my outfit? She kind of clocked me.

    You clocked, that guy is always running his mouth.

  8. 8.

    To measure the speed of.

    及物

    He was clocked at 155 miles per hour.

  9. 9.

    To identify (someone) as having some attribute (for example, being trans or gay).

    非正式 及物

    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.

  10. 1.

    To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.

    及物
  11. 1.

    To hatch.

    苏格兰 过时 不及物
  12. 2.

    To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.

    苏格兰 过时 不及物

词汇关系

名词

上位词 3

timepiece horologe timekeeper

下位词 10

alarm alarm clock analog clock chess clock chronometer clepsydra cuckoo clock digital clock pendulum clock time clock

部分词 3

movement clockface fusee
动词

同义词 1

time

上位词 2

measure quantify

下位词 1

mistime

相关短语

put the clock back 把钟拨慢, 向后倒退, 开倒车, 守旧规, 倒行逆施 turn the clock back 时光倒转；开倒车；将时钟倒转 alarm clock 闹钟 clock in 打卡上班 clock out 用打卡机记录下班时间 clock off 打卡以记录下班时间 clock face 钟面 clock watcher 老是看钟等下班的人; 盼下班的雇员 clock radio n. 有定时自动开关功能的收音机, 收音机闹钟 clock up 记录 clock paradox clock generator [计] 时钟发生器 clock generators clock speed [计] 时钟速度

词源

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.

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