clock

nountimekeeping device

Synonyms for clock

noun timekeeping device

Word Origin & History

late 14c., clokke, originally "clock with bells," probably from Middle Dutch clocke (Dutch klok) "a clock," from Old North French cloque (Old French cloke, Modern French cloche), from Medieval Latin (7c.) clocca "bell," probably from Celtic (cf. Old Irish clocc, Welsh cloch, Manx clagg "a bell") and spread by Irish missionaries (unless the Celtic words are from Latin); ultimately of imitative origin.

Replaced Old English dægmæl, from dæg "day" + mæl "measure, mark" (see meal (n.1)). The Latin word was horologium; the Greeks used a water-clock (klepsydra, literally "water thief"). Image of put (or set) the clock back "return to an earlier state or system" is from 1862. Round-the-clock (adj.) is from 1943, originally in reference to bomber air raids.

Example Sentences forclock

The clock struck twelve, and it seemed as if it struck a thousand.

You may almost distinguish the figures on the clock that has just told the hour.

When supper was over and the clock had struck twelve, the party separated.

While she was ill she had watched the clock for the time to listen for him.

From the lower hall the clock chimed one with musical vibrations.

Then it was so still she could hear the clock tick in the next room.

The ticking of the clock emphasized the inexorable silence of the house.

The clock ticked with an assured peace, as if knowing it marked eternal hours.

Knowledge dripped from his finger-ends; he had it ready, like oil to give a clock.

Well, we took the key, an' hung it up inside the clock—an' there 'tis now!

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Synonyms for clock

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Synonyms for clock

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