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# clock

«clock» in Mova's school dictionary: **a machine that shows the time, on a wall or a table** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (clock, clocks; o'clock); verb (clock, clocks, clocked)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A clock is a machine that shows the time, on a wall or a table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clock/#m1)

2) O'clock names an exact hour: «three o'clock». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clock/#m2)

3) To clock is to measure a time or a speed: «She clocked 12 seconds». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clock/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

«o'clock» names the hour on a 12-hour clock face; a clock face has 12 hours; the short hand shows hours, the long hand minutes; phrases: «o'clock», «alarm clock», «clockwise», «around the clock» (all day and night), «against the clock»

### examples

- A film starts at 3 o'clock and lasts 2 hours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clock/#x1)
- The shop opens at 9 o'clock and closes at 5 o'clock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clock/#x2)
- It is 11 o'clock. What time will it be in 3 hours? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clock/#x3)
- My alarm clock rings at 7. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clock/#x4)
- The clock on the wall is 5 minutes slow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clock/#x5)
- Turn the lid clockwise to close it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clock/#x6)
- Nurses work around the clock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clock/#x7)
- We raced against the clock to finish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clock/#x8)
- It was two o'clock in the morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clock/#x9)

### note

A clock face has 12 hours; a day has 24 hours. Add hours to the start on a 12-hour clock; after 12 comes 1 again. Trap: from 9 o'clock to 5 o'clock is 8 hours, not 9 − 5. «o'clock» is used only for whole hours, not «3:15 o'clock».

### In the corpora

- [Then you say so and suggest a clock, a calendar or a grown-up, instead of making it up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/29-who-you-are-being-wrong-and-learning/6/)
- [You may not know the real date, because you only know what is in your lessons; a clock or calendar can tell.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/29-who-you-are-being-wrong-and-learning/11/)
- [Focused practice means practising with full attention on one goal; watching the clock while repeating easy parts changes very little.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/6/)
- [O'clock is short for "of the clock", so its apostrophe also marks missing letters.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/34-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging/17/)
- [Rhyme is when words end with the same sound, such as wall and fall, or dock and clock.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «clock» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clock/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.