- clock
- {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} nounADJECTIVE▪ accurate▪ 12-hour, 24-hour▪ digital, electric▪ atomic▪ time▪ bedside, kitchen▪ alarm, carriage, cuckoo, grandfather, pendulum, travel (AmE), travelling (BrE), wall▪ ticking▪ countdown (AmE)▪
His countdown clock reads forty seconds.
▪ biological, body, circadian (biology), internal▪With jet lag, your biological clock is out of synch with the actual time.
VERB + CLOCK▪ reset, set, wind▪I've set my alarm clock for six tomorrow.
▪ move back (AmE), put back (BrE), set back (AmE), turn back (often figurative)▪Let's turn back the clock to the last decade.
▪ move ahead (AmE), put forward (BrE), set ahead (AmE), turn forward (often figurative)▪ calibrate, synchronize▪ stop (for example in a game)▪Pressing the buzzer stops the clock.
▪ check, glance at, look at▪ watch▪employees who are always watching the clock (= wanting their day's work to end)
▪ beat (= do something in less time than is allowed)▪The player beat the clock and set a new record.
CLOCK + VERB▪ beep, buzz, chime (sth), ring, strike sth, tick▪The clock struck the hour.
▪I could hear a clock ticking somewhere in the house.
▪ stop▪ keep time▪This clock doesn't keep time.
▪ be fast, be slow▪That clock's fast.
▪ gain time, lose time▪ be right, be wrong▪ go back, go forward▪The clocks go back tonight.
▪ say sth, tell sth▪The clock on the wall said twelve o'clock.
▪Her clock told her it was time to get up.
▪ go off▪My alarm clock didn't go off this morning.
CLOCK + NOUN▪ face▪ tower▪ radioPREPOSITION▪ against the clock▪to work against the clock (= to work fast in order to finish before a particular time)
▪ around the clock, round the clock (= all day and all night) (esp. BrE)▪to work around the clock
▪ by the clock▪It's ten o'clock by the kitchen clock.
PHRASES▪ the dial of a clock, the face of a clock, the hands of a clock{{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}}verbClock is used with these nouns as the object: ↑mile
Collocations dictionary. 2013.
