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The correct spelling is clock.
How to pronounce clock
/klɒk/
nounIPA: /klɒk/
Say it like: Clo-k
The correct spelling is clock. An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece. For example: "This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock."
Usage Examples
“This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock.”
“I can't go off to lunch yet: I'm still on the clock.”
“He was clocked at 155 miles per hour.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece.
- 2.The odometer of a motor vehicle.
- 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.
verb
- 1.To measure the duration of.
- 2.To measure the speed of.
- 3.To hit (someone) heavily.
- 4.To take notice of; to realise; to recognize someone or something
- 5.To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
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