Synonyms for clock

Grammar : Noun

Spell : klok

Phonetic Transcription : klɒk

Top 10 synonyms for clock

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Définition of clock

Origin : 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.

noun timekeeping device

Example sentences :

The clock struck twelve, and it seemed as if it struck a thousand.
Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

You may almost distinguish the figures on the clock that has just told the hour.
Extract from : « The Haunted Mind (From "Twice Told Tales") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

When supper was over and the clock had struck twelve, the party separated.
Extract from : « Life in London » by Edwin Hodder

While she was ill she had watched the clock for the time to listen for him.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

From the lower hall the clock chimed one with musical vibrations.
Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various

Then it was so still she could hear the clock tick in the next room.
Extract from : « The Little Colonel » by Annie Fellows Johnston

The ticking of the clock emphasized the inexorable silence of the house.
Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown

The clock ticked with an assured peace, as if knowing it marked eternal hours.
Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown

Knowledge dripped from his finger-ends; he had it ready, like oil to give a clock.
Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown

I've gone an' got our clock an' our coverlids from where they were stored in the Blaisdells' barn.
Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown

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