| Engelsk > Engelsk |
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| clock |
| 1. n. An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece. |
| 2. n. (British) The odometer of a motor vehicle. |
| This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock. |
| 3. n. (electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules. |
| 4. n. The seed head of a dandelion. |
| 5. n. A time clock. |
| I can't go off to lunch yet: I'm still on the clock. |
| We let the guys use the shop's tools and equipment for their own projects as long as they're off the clock. |
| 6. n. (computing, informal) A CPU clock cycle, or T-state. |
| 7. v. To measure the duration of. |
| 8. v. To measure the speed of. |
| He was clocked at 155 miles per hour. |
| 9. v. (transitive, slang) To hit (someone) heavily. |
| When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him. |
| 10. v. (slang) To take notice of; to realise; to recognize someone or something |
| Clock the wheels on that car! |
| He finally clocked that there were no more cornflakes. |
| A trans person may be able to easily clock other trans people. |
| 11. v. (UK, slang) To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle. |
| I don't believe that car has done only 40,000 miles. It's been clocked. |
| 12. v. (transitive, New Zealand, slang) To beat a video game. |
| Have you clocked that game yet? |
| 13. n. A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking. |
| 14. v. To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work. |
| 15. n. A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle. |
| 16. v. (Scotland, intransitive, dated) To make the sound of a hen; to cluck. |
| 17. v. (Scotland, intransitive, dated) To hatch. |
| Svenska > Engelsk |
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| klocka |
| 1. n-c. clock, watch; an instrument used to measure or keep track of time |
| 2. n-c. (in questions) the time (of day) |
| Vad är klockan? - What time is it? |
| 3. n-c. bell; metallic resonating object |
| 4. n-c. bell; signal at a school |
| 5. v. to time, to measure time; e.g. how fast a runner runs a distance |
| 6. v. to clock, to synchronize using a clock or clock pulses |
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