clock

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymstime

   Broaderquantify

   Narrowermistime

Other forms of clock

plural

clocks·

past tense

clocked·

present participle

clocking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about clock

What does clock mean?

clock means "a timepiece that shows the time of day". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in clock?

clock has 1 syllable: clock. In IPA it is /ˈklɑk/.

What is another word for clock?

Close synonyms include time. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is clock a common word?

clock is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with clock?

1 word rhymes with clock. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.