Dictionary Entry
clock
clock is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, transitive/intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 9 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
A watch, esp. one that strikes.
- 3noun
The striking of a clock.
- 4noun
A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.
- 5transitive verb
To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.
- 6transitive/intransitive verb
To call, as a hen. See Cluck.
- 7noun
A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabaeus stercorarius).
- 8noun
a timepiece that shows the time of day
- 9verb
measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time
"he clocked the runners"
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