clock: translation
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noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ accurate
▪ 12-hour, 24-hour
▪ digital, electric
▪ atomic
▪ time
▪ bedside, kitchen
▪ alarm, carriage, cuckoo, grandfather, pendulum, travel (AmE), travelling (BrE), wall
▪ ticking
▪ countdown (AmE)
▪ His countdown clock reads forty seconds.
▪ biological, body, circadian (biology), internal
▪ With jet lag, your biological clock is out of synch with the actual time.
VERB + CLOCK
▪ reset, set, wind
▪ I've set my alarm clock for six tomorrow.
▪ move back (AmE), put back (BrE), set back (AmE), turn back (often figurative)
▪ Let's turn back the clock to the last decade.
▪ move ahead (AmE), put forward (BrE), set ahead (AmE), turn forward (often figurative)
▪ calibrate, synchronize
▪ stop (for example in a game)
▪ Pressing the buzzer stops the clock.
▪ check, glance at, look at
▪ watch
▪ employees who are always watching the clock (= wanting their day's work to end)
▪ beat (= do something in less time than is allowed)
▪ The player beat the clock and set a new record.
CLOCK + VERB
▪ beep, buzz, chime (sth), ring, strike sth, tick
▪ The clock struck the hour.
▪ I could hear a clock ticking somewhere in the house.
▪ stop
▪ keep time
▪ This clock doesn't keep time.
▪ be fast, be slow
▪ gain time, lose time
▪ be right, be wrong
▪ go back, go forward
▪ The clocks go back tonight.
▪ say sth, tell sth
▪ The clock on the wall said twelve o'clock.
▪ Her clock told her it was time to get up.
▪ go off
▪ My alarm clock didn't go off this morning.
CLOCK + NOUN
▪ face
▪ tower
▪ radio
PREPOSITION
▪ against the clock
▪ to work against the clock (= to work fast in order to finish before a particular time)
▪ around the clock, round the clock (= all day and all night) (esp.BrE)
▪ to work around the clock
▪ by the clock
▪ It's ten o'clock by the kitchen clock.
PHRASES
▪ the dial of a clock, the face of a clock, the hands of a clock
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verb
Clock is used with these nouns as the object: ↑mile