英语词汇“clock”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

clock

释义

a device with a dial and hands or a digital display for indicating or measuring time

informal a recording or metering device with a dial and indicator attached to a mechanism, esp a speedometer or milometer

Brit, informal a person's face

Brit the fluffy head of a dandelion when it has gone to seed

against the clock

within a strictly limited space of time

round the clock

continuously all day and night

turn back the clock

to revert to an earlier or past state or condition

[Middle English clok via Middle Dutch andearly French from medieval Latin clocca bell]

esp in sports, to time (somebody or something) with a stopwatch or electric timing device

to register (a time, distance, or speed) on a mechanical recording device

Brit, informal (often + up) to attain (a time, speed, etc) or achieve (a victory, success, etc)

informal to hit (somebody)

He clocked him on the jaw

Brit, informal to see or observe (somebody or something)

Brit, informal to turn back the milometer of (a vehicle) illegally to make it appear to have done a lower mileage

an ornamental pattern on the outside ankle or side of a stocking or sock

[prob from clock¹ in its original sense ‘bell’; from its original bell-like shape]

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