CLOCKS

Definition

1. An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece.
2. The odometer of a motor vehicle.
   “This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock.”
3. An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
4. The seed head of a dandelion.
5. A time clock.
   “I can't go off to lunch yet: I'm still on the clock.”

1. To measure the duration of.
2. To measure the speed of.
   “He was clocked at 155 miles per hour.”
3. To hit (someone) heavily.
   “When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him.”
4. To take notice of; to realise; to recognize someone or something
   “A trans person may be able to easily clock other trans people.”
5. To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
   “I don't believe that car has done only 40,000 miles. It's been clocked.”

1. A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.

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

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

1. To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
2. To hatch.

Source: Wiktionary

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