(n.) A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person.
(n.) A watch, esp. one that strikes.
(n.) The striking of a clock.
(n.) A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.
(v. t.) To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.
(v. t. & i.) To call, as a hen. See Cluck.
(n.) A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabaeus stercorarius).
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical pharmacists were required to clock in at 51 institutions (15.0%), staff pharmacists at 62 (18.2%), and pharmacy technicians at 144 (42.9%).
(2) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
(3) It is suggested the participation of glycogen (starch) in the self-oscillatory mechanism of the futile cycle formed by the phosphofructokinase and fructose bisphosphatase reactions may give rise to oscillations with the period of 10(3)-10(4) min, which may serve as the basis for the cell clock.
(4) There were still 25 seconds left on the clock when Vernon Davis reeled in a catch at the Baltimore nine-yard line, but San Francisco could not convert on second or third down.
(5) Keepy-uppys should be a simple skill for a professional footballer, so when Tom Ince clocked himself in the face with the ball while preparing to take a corner early in the second half, even he couldn't help but laugh.
(6) It was previously believed that the period of the circadian clock was primarily responsive to externally imposed tonic or phasic events.
(7) After a hiatus, Smith is back with a flourish for her genre-bending new novel How to be Both , and David Mitchell has been longlisted for a third time, for The Bone Clocks .
(8) The great diversity of D(2)O effects on biological systems in general is briefly reviewed and the need for rejectable hypotheses concerning the action of D(2)O on circadian clocks is stressed because current speculation on its action yields "predictions" expected from almost any hypothesis.
(9) Sina has set up a round-the-clock "rumour control" team and has begun issuing warnings to users judged to have crossed the line and suspending and deleting accounts.
(10) We hypothesize that ultradian oscillators are coupled to yield a composite circadian clock in Drosophila.
(11) Two periods of intense glucose release to blood were recognized: the maxima were attained at 4 and 12 o'clock.
(12) Listen to Stoopid Symbol Of Woman Hate or Can't Stand Up For 40-Inch Busts (both songs were inspired by a hatred of sexist advertising) and you can hear Amon Duul and Hawkwind scaring the living shit out of Devo and Clock DVA.
(13) Attempts were made to damage the Olympic clock in the square.
(14) As the clock struck and glasses clinked, we toasted the new.
(15) Hot cross buns must be made and eaten on Good Friday before 11 o’clock, otherwise their meaning is lost.
(16) The results indicated that the internal "clock" in lithium-treated patients was slower than in the two other groups, but only at night.
(17) The commemoration began when the clock on the neo-gothic Town Hall struck 12, and a maroon was fired from the roof.
(18) Recent findings indicate that treatment with a short-acting benzodiazepine, triazolam, can induce major shifts in the circadian clock of golden hamsters.
(19) 4.05am GMT 90 mins +3 RSL coming forward again as the clock runs down.
(20) No biological clock phenotypes have been reported for this tissue in any of the per mutants, per protein mapped to different subcellular locations in different tissues.
Clockwork
Definition:
(n.) The machinery of a clock, or machinery resembling that of a clock; machinery which produces regularity of movement.
Example Sentences:
(1) A Clockwork Orange did well enough at the box office, then suddenly disappeared from British screens.
(2) It was only after a lengthy investigation that they realised their multibillion machine was flexing with the tides of Lake Geneva and picking up stray currents from the TGV train, which came and went like clockwork from Geneva station down the road.
(3) The machinery - the spinning gazebo, the train, the paddle-powered airship - whirrs along at the delicate yet exhilarating pace of clockwork.
(4) If Burma fails to end its systematic persecution of the Rohingya the “sailing season” will begin again like clockwork, one way or another.
(5) Their clockwork cities are ever more immaculate, but Morin admits they fall short on the people front: the sense of a city as a wondrous, unconducted symphony of individual minds.
(6) Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange , David Bowie unveiling Ziggy Stardust or David Hockney's Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy .
(7) The former Thick of It star's first outing as the Time Lord, in an episode set in a Victorian London menaced by a Tyrannosaurus Rex in the Thames and clockwork robots harvesting human organs for spare parts, had an average of 6.8 million viewers, a 32.5% share of the available TV audience.
(8) These happen as regularly as clockwork: universities telling all their rejects that their application has succeeded; data protection conferences accidentally sharing everyone’s details; office lovers broadcasting their intimate affair to the entire organisation.
(9) With his headphones bizarrely perched across his forehead, he looks like he could be undergoing the electric shock treatment in A Clockwork Orange .
(10) Unlike Isaac Newton's clockwork universe, where everything follows clear-cut laws on how to move and prediction is easy if you know the starting conditions, the uncertainty principle enshrines a level of fuzziness into quantum theory.
(11) A Clockwork Jerusalem , the exhibition we have curated for the British pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale , tells the story of this century of planning, starting with the maps of poverty in late-Victorian London, produced by Charles Booth, that graphically communicated the crisis of urban inequality.
(12) Astonishingly, his Super 8 films were returned from the developers at Kodak regular as clockwork.
(13) By looking at the movement of Mars, Kepler had calculated that planets orbited the sun in elliptical paths and, in a kind of celestial clockwork, his three laws of planetary motion allowed astronomers to work out the position of the planets in the future based on data from past records.
(14) Think of a canine terminator with a giant clockwork jaw of steel and razor wire: that's Malcolm's dog.
(15) 3.23pm BST Clockwork Cuckoo (@cuckooclockwork) Timmy Bibble's Friendship Club stand at #radiusfestival !
(16) Believing, incorrectly, that he was terminally ill, Burgess set out to write a rapid succession of short novels to provide for his wife, one of them being A Clockwork Orange, published in 1962.
(17) In a pre-course such as this, the academic authorities could borrow one of the central themes from A Clockwork Orange .
(18) That pre-1789 Versailles imagery – for Kubrick the distilled essence of a corrupt paradise built on bloodshed, poverty and suffering – would reappear in the last shot of A Clockwork Orange ("I was cured all right!
(19) He still makes a film a year, on time, on budget, like clockwork.
(20) But the day the play opened the London Evening Standard 's front page lead about the government's latest reform package was headed 'PUNISHMENT FOR THE 1990s - Jail the dangerous criminals, hard labour for the rest', while inside was a report on gang muggings headed 'Fear that Stalks the Streets' and a story about a 1970s Secret Service disinformation scheme known as 'Operation Clockwork Orange'.