Parola del giorno in inglese

Definizioni

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clock
1. sost. orologio
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clock
1. subst. An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece.
2. subst. (British) The odometer of a motor vehicle.
This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock.
3. subst. (electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
4. subst. The seed head of a dandelion.
5. subst. 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. subst. (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. subst. 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. subst. 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.
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orologio
1. subst. clock, watch (timekeeping instruments)

Frasi esempio

Your clock is more expensive than mine.      Il vostro orologio è più costoso del mio. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.      Anche un orologio fermo segna l'ora giusta due volte al giorno. My alarm clock didn't go off this morning.      La mia sveglia non ha suonato stamattina. There is no clock in my room.      Non ci sono orologi nella mia stanza. The clock is ten minutes slow.      L'orologio è indietro di cinque minuti.

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