Определение o' clock в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь
- 12-hour clock
- A timekeeping convention in which the 24 hours of the day are divided into two periods called ante meridiem and post meridiem
- 24-hour clock
- A timekeeping convention in which the 24 hours of the day are treated as one single period
- Act of Parliament clock
- A large clock, once hung in inns, erroneously thought to derive from a tax on clocks
- Jack o' the clock
- Any of the mechanical figures that come out regularly to strike the bell of a clock
- a stopped clock is right twice a day
- A normally unreliable person or instrument can occasionally provide correct information, even if only by accident
- against the clock
- In a time-restricted manner, to meet a deadline, hurriedly, timed
- alarm clock
- A clock with an alarm that can be set to sound at a determined time
- analog clock
- A clock that displays the time using hands
- around the clock
- All the time or seemingly all the time; constantly
They worked around the clock to finish the project on time.
- around-the-clock
- All day and night; all of the time
- atomic clock
- An extremely accurate reference clock whose operation is based on an atomic process, typically the frequency of electromagnetic radiation associated with a specified energy-level transition in an element such as cesium
- balloon clock
- A form of bracket clock with a balloon-shaped case
- biological clock
- Any of several mechanisms that regulate the periodicity of biological functions
- biological clock
- The progression from puberty to menopause during which a woman can bear children
- body clock
- biological clock
- carriage clock
- A small clock with a carrying handle, originally designed for travelling
- case clock
- A clock in a specified type of case
- chemical clock
- any mixture of compounds whose relative concentrations oscillate, and in which such change is marked by a visible rhythmic change in colour
- chess clock
- A device consisting of two clocks and a switch for running one at a time, used in chess games to measure how much time each player spends
- chess-clock
- Attributive form of chess clock
chess-clock hitter.
- clean someone's clock
- To defeat decisively, in a physical fight or other competition or negotiation
The heavily-tattooed Perez never recovered, getting nailed with flush head shots before a clean-up left hook cleaned his clock.
- clock
- 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.
- clock
- A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking
- clock
- An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece
- clock
- To hit (someone)
When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him.
- clock
- To take notice of; to realise
Caught him looking and she walks his way,.
- clock
- The odometer of a motor vehicle
This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock.
- clock
- An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules
- clock
- To measure the speed of
He was clocked at 155 miles per hour.
- clock
- To measure the duration of
- clock face
- The surface of a clock that contains the dial and hands
- clock faces
- plural form of clock face
- clock generator
- a circuit that produces a timing signal for use in synchronizing a circuit's operation
- clock generators
- plural form of clock generator
- clock in
- To begin working time, especially by punching in
We clocked in at 7:30, but didn't actually do any work until at least 8.
- clock in
- To be measured at
Big Joe clocks in at 384 pounds, far outweighing his opponent.
- clock off
- to end work
Most of the staff has already clocked off for the night, you should do the same.
- clock out
- To officially record a work-termination time for
I clocked myself out as soon as I could.
- clock out
- To end work; to officially record a time when one terminates a period of work
They stated that the reason they were late was because their relief did not arrive in time for them to return to the guard house and clock out.
- clock out
- To transmit individual bits of data under the control of a clock
- clock paradox
- The phenomenon in which two observers who start together with identical clocks, follow different timelines, and then rejoin can have different elapsed times on their clocks, especially if one travels at a relativistic speed
- clock radio
- An alarm clock that includes a radio; a radio alarm clock
- clock speed
- The rate, measured in hertz, at which a processor performs its fundamental operations
- clock tower
- A tower, usually in a prominent position, having a large clock in a high position, often with several faces
- clock up
- To accumulate a large amount of time
To become a pilot, you must clock up at least 1,000 hours flying time.
- clock up
- To accumulate a large distance
My car has clocked up over 5,000 miles in the last month.
- clock-face timetable
- A service pattern where services depart at regular intervals, and thus at the same number of minutes past each hour
The new clock-face timetable means services to Cardiff now depart at 10 and 40 minutes past the hour.
- clock-face timetables
- plural form of clock-face timetable
- clock-generator
- Attributive form of clock generator, noun
- clock-watcher
- A person who is eager for time to pass (e.g., at work or school), especially when faced with an undesirable task
The teacher had a heart-to-heart talk with the student who was a clock-watcher, stressing the importance of putting his mind to his schoolwork.
- clock-watching
- continually looking at the time to see how much longer one has to work or study
- continuous clock
- In sports that use a clock, especially American football, a rule where the clock operates continuously in a one-sided game, so as to hasten the end of the contest
- cuckoo clock
- A clock that announces the time by a cuckoo sound, often equipped with a mechanical cuckoo
- dandelion clock
- A children's amusement in which the number of puffs needed to blow the filamentous achenes from a dandelion is supposed to tell the time
- eight o'clock
- The start of the ninth hour of the day in both the 12-hour and the 24-hour clock; 8: 00
- eleven o'clock
- The start of the twelfth hour of the day in both the 12-hour and the 24-hour clock; 11: 00
- face that would stop a clock
- A shockingly unattractive face
Archie was an artist, finely chiselled, the type girls go for like catnip. He . . . was expected to marry an American heiress. But she loved a muscular curate with a face that would stop a clock.
- face that would stop a clock
- A shockingly attractive face
I can remember when you could stop a clock.
- five o'clock
- The start of the sixth hour of the day in both the 12-hour and the 24-hour clock; 5: 00
- five o'clock shadow
- A beard growth visible late in the day on a man whose face was clean-shaven in the morning
- five o'clock shadows
- plural form of five o'clock shadow
- four o'clock
- The start of the fifth hour of the day in both the 12-hour and the 24-hour clock; 4: 00
- four-o'clock
- Any of several plants, of the genus ''Mirabilis, whose funnel-shaped flowers open in late afternoon
- game clock
- A clock used to time a ball game
- grandfather clock
- A longcase clock
- grandfather's clock
- Alternative form of grandfather clock
- great clock
- Any clock with a diameter of one-hundred feet
- longcase clock
- A freestanding weight-driven pendulum clock, having the pendulum and weights in a tall case
- nine o'clock
- The start of the tenth hour of the day in both the 12-hour and the 24-hour clock; 9: 00
- o'clock
- After a numeral, designates the relative heading, from a given point and heading, to another point, as if the given point is at the centre of a clock and the numeral twelve is aligned with the given heading
- o'clock
- After a numeral, designates the time when the minute hand of a clock or watch points to twelve (as opposed to a certain number of minutes before or after that time) and the hour hand points to the specified numeral
- off the clock
- Not being paid for working
- off the clock
- Relaxing
- off the clock
- Not at work
- on the clock
- In the official time remaining in a game or other sporting event
With only three seconds on the clock and the Knicks about to win, 102-96, in their playoff opener against the Philadelphia 76ers at Madison Square Garden last night, Rick Pitino enjoyed the moment.
- on the clock
- During one's official working hours; in or into a position of remunerated employment
The board authorized the Building Department to schedule Saturday inspections for water line installations as a service to residents and businesses. It requires inspections to be done on the clock and in a town vehicle.
- on the clock
- In the official time expired in a game or other sporting event
There were 26 minutes on the clock before Scotland had their first real opportunity.
- on the clock
- Displayed on the dial of a clock (timepiece)
It was six o'clock on the clock. His own watch had stopped.
- on the clock
- Of a taxicab, engaged for hire; displayed numerically as time or fare on the meter of a taxicab
Significant monies are wasted each week as bankers leave taxis outside, waiting on the clock, while they finish their lunches.
- on the clock
- Remunerated per unit of time
Alas, the delivery boy is on the clock; he could and would work must faster on commission!.
- on the clock
- Working at one's job; occupied in some manner during one's hours of remunerated employment
I guess it ain't all bad, Kerr said, lighting another cigarette. I'm on the clock, so I'm getting paid while I wait..
- on the clock
- Displayed numerically on the mileage or kilometric gauge
And with 112,000 miles on the clock this isn't scary mileage for this type of car.
- one o'clock
- The start of the second hour in both the 12-hour and the 24-hour clock; 1: 00
- punch clock
- A device that records, on timecards, the times that employees start and finish work
- put the clock back
- To change the time in a time zone to an earlier time
Don't forget that this Sunday we put the clocks back an hour.
- put the clock forward
- To change the time in a time zone to a later time
Don't forget that this Sunday we put the clocks forward an hour.
- quartz clock
- Any timepiece that makes use of the piezoelectric property of a quartz crystal
- quartz-crystal clock
- a clock which is regulated by a quartz crystal
- radio alarm clock
- A combination radio and alarm clock
- radio clock
- A clock that is synchronized to a remote time standard by means of radio signals
- round the clock
- nonstop, 24 hours per day
He had his team work round the clock to get the project finished in time.
- round-the-clock
- Continuously, all day long. From the concept that it happens while the hands of the clock go all the way around
- run down the clock
- To waste time at the end of a match such that it is terminated by running out of time
- run out the clock
- To preserve a lead in a game by retaining possession, to waste time
- segmentation clock
- A molecular oscillator, governed by periodic shifts in gene expression, which influences the timing of vertebrate somitogenesis
- seven o'clock
- The start of the eighth hour of the day in both the 12-hour and the 24-hour clock; 7: 00
- six o'clock
- The start of the seventh hour of the day in both the 12-hour and the 24-hour clock; 6: 00
- speaking clock
- a person employed to read the time over a phone line
- speaking clock
- A service provided by telephone companies where people can get the time by phoning a certain number
- synchronized clock
- A technique of timing the delivery of fires by placing all units on a common time. The synchronized clock uses a specific hour and minute based on either local or universal time. Local time is established using the local time zone. (JP 3-09.3); (JP 1-02)
- tall-case clock
- A longcase clock
- ten o'clock
- The start of the eleventh hour of the day in both the 12-hour and the 24-hour clock; 10: 00
- ten-o'clock
- Attributive form of ten o'clock
ten-o'clock newscast.
- three o'clock
- The start of the fourth hour of the day in both the 12-hour and the 24-hour clock; 3: 00
- time clock
- A device that records, on timecards, the times that employees start and finish work
- turn back the clock
- To return to a previous state
We had a terrible year so we agreed to turn back the clock and go on as if it hadn't happened.
- turned back the clock
- Simple past tense and past participle of turn back the clock
- turning back the clock
- Present participle of turn back the clock
- turns back the clock
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of turn back the clock
- twelve o'clock
- The first hour of the day in both the 12-hour and the 24-hour clock and also noon in the 12-hour clock; 12: 00
- two o'clock
- The start of the third hour of the day in both the 12-hour and the 24-hour clock; 2: 00
- wall-clock
- Attributive form of wall clock
wall-clock imperturbability.
- water clock
- A clepsydra
- water clock
- A device for measuring time by letting water flow out of a container, usually through a tiny aperture
- wind back the clock
- Figuratively to return in time to an earlier period of history
- wind the clock
- set the correct hour on the clock
- clock
- {n} an instrument to show time, beetle, large insect, ornament, part of a stocking
- clock-puncher
- A clock puncher is someone at a job who is eagerly anticipating the end of the work day and will do almost anything to waste time, not do his/her work and then immediately leave at the time they are supposed to, or immediately following the day's departure of their boss
Mikey pissed the day away doing no work and then immediately left right after his boss did. What a clock puncher!.
- five o'clock shadow
- A very short growth of beard on a man's face who did shave in the morning but whose beard is so strong that it is again visible in the afternoon. - "You have a five o'clock shadow, honey," Irene said, "and we're going to the opera. Why don't you shave again quickly?"
- four o'clock
- (Botanik, Bitkibilim) Any of several plants of the genus Mirabilis having flowers that open in late afternoon. (hyponym) common four-o'clock, marvel-of-Peru, Mirabilis jalapa, Mirabilis uniflora
- longcase clock
- Grandfather clock
- turn back the clock
- Turn (or put) back the clock: return to the past or to a previous way of doing things
- work around the clock
- (deyim) Work almost 24 hours a day
- o'clock
- of the clock
- o'clock
- according to the clock; "it's three o'clock in Tokyo now
- o'clock
- You use o'clock after numbers from one to twelve to say what time it is. For example, if you say that it is 9 o'clock, you mean that it is nine hours after midnight or nine hours after midday. The trouble began just after ten o'clock last night I went to sleep, and at two o'clock in the morning I woke up. one o'clock/two o'clock etc one of the times when the clock shows the exact hour as a number from 1 to 12 (of the clock)
