clock

  1. Noun.  An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece.
  2. Noun.  (British) The odometer of a motor vehicle.
  3. Noun.  (electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
  4. Verb.  (transitive) To measure the duration of.
  5. Verb.  (transitive) To measure the speed of.
  6. Verb.  (transitive, slang) To hit (someone).
  7. Verb.  (slang) To take notice of; to realise.
  8. Verb.  (British, slang) To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
  9. Noun.  A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.

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