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📖 Определения и значения для слова clock

📒 an instrument for measuring and showing time, in a room, on the wall of a building or on a computer screen (not worn or carried like a watch)

The clock struck twelve/midnight.
The clock is fast/slow (= showing a time later/earlier than the true time).
The clock has stopped.

📒 the milometer in a vehicle (= an instrument that measures the number of miles the vehicle has travelled)

on the clock a used car with 20 000 miles on the clock

📒 if you do something against the clock, you do it fast in order to finish before a particular time

It was a race against the clock to get the building work finished in time.
to work against the clock

📒 all day and all night without stopping

Staff have been working around the clock to resolve the problems.

📒 to finish a task, race, etc. before a particular time

The player beat the clock and set a new record.

📒 to defeat or do better than somebody at something

She really cleaned his clock in that debate.

📒 to hit somebody or beat them in a fight

There was a fight and my grandfather cleaned the guy's clock.

📒 used to say that there's not much time left before something happens

The clock is ticking down to midnight on New Year’s Eve.
The clock is ticking for one mystery lottery winner who has less than 24 hours to claim a £64 million prize.

📒 the time changes officially, for example at the beginning and end of summer

The clocks go back tonight.

📒 to return to a situation that existed in the past; to remember a past age

I wish we could turn the clock back two years and give the marriage another chance.
Let's turn back the clock to the last decade.

📒 to return to old-fashioned methods or ideas

The new censorship law will turn the clock back 50 years.

📒 to change the time shown by clocks, usually by one hour, when the time changes officially, for example at the beginning and end of summer

Remember to put your clocks back tonight.

📒 a situation in which you have to do something or finish something very fast before it is too late

Getting food to the starving refugees is now a race against time.

📒 if a sports team tries to run down/out the clock at the end of a game, it stops trying to score and just tries to keep hold of the ball to stop the other team from scoring

📒 to stop measuring time in a game or an activity that has a time limit

📒 to be careful not to work longer than the required time; to think more about when your work will finish than about the work itself

employees who are always watching the clock

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