(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.
Whack
Definition:
(v. t.) To strike; to beat; to give a heavy or resounding blow to; to thrash; to make with whacks.
(v. i.) To strike anything with a smart blow.
(n.) A smart resounding blow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, a huge whack of his income comes from Rupert Murdoch.
(2) The cold, hard political calculation is that it makes more sense for the coalition to hit the poorest and weakest – by making swingeing cuts to welfare – than to whack the middle class or the powerful.
(3) If you are on the back end you are kind of playing whack-a-mole, trying to pick this up,” one source said.
(4) Consequently, after Hartson fed Jason Koumas on the right in the first minute and the ball was cleared to Savage on the edge of the Russian box, Savage whacked at the bouncing ball excitedly.
(5) There is a difference between grabbing a bedside lamp and whacking an intruder because you are worried about the children and hitting someone and then stabbing them 17 times," one source said.
(6) "The NSA has a slogan internally — 'we track 'em, you whack 'em' – where they help to target drone strikes."
(7) This is why, you see, people with rucksacks pummel all those in their immediate vicinity with their giant sacks as they trundle on their way, whacking them about as they blithely move about trains, pavements or any other public area.
(8) It was the happiest Luke Shaw had ever been to take a whack from one of his team-mates.
(9) Nor are they exotic Mafia hits like the killing of Castellano; these are low-level whackings, often linked to squabbles over drugs.
(10) Compare that with a sale price (including downloads) of $630 and Apple makes $452 on each phone: a whacking gross margin of 72%.
(11) But not past the always reliable Cole, who whacks it out for a corner.
(12) Fletcher had the image within a week, and the first thing he noticed was something that had been speculated to exist – “this whacking great canal coming down from the north”.
(13) The huge signs advertising a collapse in prices are already stacked in department stores’ stockrooms as the final spasm of Christmas Eve top-whack spending is taking place.
(14) He whacks the shields of policemen who earn less in a year than a banker does in a day.
(15) Historically, sadly, we never had a cost-control culture, they were out of whack.” Flybe has signed a five-year deal at City.
(16) Whacking the bankers directly and visibly – ensuring they pay back what they cost the rest of us – might have struck the right populist chord too.
(17) I remember an interview where he says he took great delight in whacking the opposing players whenever he had the chance."
(18) But ultimately, it’s human emissions that have thrown a pretty finely-tuned system out of whack.
(19) Instead, Ignatieff got whacked, and the left-leaning New Democratic party did very well indeed, astonishing even themselves.
(20) 9.11pm BST 67 min: Isco has a whack at the Atlético goal through a thicket of legs from the right-hand side of the D, but drags his effort well wide left.