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

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My alarm clock didn't go off this morning, so I missed my bus.      Mi despertador no sonó esta mañana, así que perdí el autobús. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.      Incluso un reloj roto está a la hora dos veces al día. The clock that I have is made of gold.      El reloj que tengo está hecho de oro. It seems my clock is slightly off.      Parece que mi reloj está ligeramente desajustado. Let's set this clock's date.      Vamos a ajustar la fecha en este reloj.

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