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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
clock
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
alarm clock
at three o'clock/seven thirty etc on the dot (=at exactly 3:00/7:30 etc)
▪ Mr Green arrived at six on the dot.
bell/clock tower
▪ The bell tower was added to the church in 1848.
biological clock ticking
▪ career women who hear the biological clock ticking
biological clock
▪ career women who hear the biological clock ticking
body clock
carriage clock
clock cycle
clock speed
▪ a clock speed of 1 gigahertz
cuckoo clock
dandelion clock
five o'clock shadow
grandfather clock
it’s turned 2 o'clock/5/midday etc
▪ It’s just turned three.
race against time/the clock
▪ The astronauts are racing against time to repair the spaceship.
The clocks go forward
▪ The clocks go forward this weekend.
time clock
wall-mounted clock/heater/lights etc
working round the clock (=working day and night without stopping)
▪ Forty police officers are working round the clock to find Murray’s killer.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
biological
▪ It's the men now, as often as not, who hear the biological clock ticking loudest.
▪ We watch commercials for pregnancy testers that warn women to remember their biological clocks.
▪ The way Max's biological clock is ticking, it's a wonder Emma didn't call out the bomb squad.
▪ Unlike mechanical clocks, which are completely blind to their surroundings, a biological clock gets reset every day by the sun.
▪ The ticking of the biological clock.
▪ Of course, nature being unjust as ever, I have no biological clock of my own.
▪ You are an owl-and-lark couple, people whose biological clocks simply don't match.
digital
▪ Her gold watch and her digital clock agree that it is nineteen minutes past eight.
▪ Smith looked at his watch, at the wall clock, at the digital clock.
▪ As she descended the escalator towards the platforms, she noticed the digital clock in the ceiling.
▪ The digital 24-hour clock, for instance, can be set with one hand.
▪ I look at the digital clock, built into the bedside.
▪ As I move round I see the numerals of a digital clock.
▪ The digital clock was counting down towards the performance.
internal
▪ This theory also implies that the internal body clock takes up to five years to develop fully.
▪ When users set the alarm in the internal clock, they would click on a picture of a rooster.
▪ His internal clock indicated that his energy levels were at zero.
▪ There is no pill of which we are aware that can be relied upon to promote adjustment of the internal clock.
▪ For example, during the daytime the internal clock as well as our life-style and environment raise body temperature and the urinary removal of water.
▪ At night our internal clock, sleep, and our inactive environment act together to decrease temperature and urinary loss.
mechanical
▪ With the gradual introduction of mechanical clocks around the fourteenth century, hours of standard length became general.
▪ Unlike mechanical clocks, which are completely blind to their surroundings, a biological clock gets reset every day by the sun.
▪ The first mechanical clocks were large and unwieldy, and there was soon a desire for smaller and more portable mechanisms.
▪ But like a single gear in a mechanical clock, timeless can not keep good time all by itself.
▪ Despite the invention of the mechanical clock, for most people time remained uneven in quality.
▪ According to our present knowledge, this machine was the nearest the artificers of antiquity came to inventing a truly mechanical clock.
▪ It would seem that the date of the invention of the mechanical clock is probably some time between 1280 and 1300.
■ NOUN
alarm
▪ He checked the little luminous dial on his alarm clock: ten past three.
▪ I rolled over, sat up, blinked, and glared at the alarm clock.
▪ One matching baby-blue Samsonite hatbox, containing my shoes, portable alarm clock, and toilet articles.
▪ Or him who said he heard the horn, moaning softly like an alarm clock under an eiderdown?
▪ He must have gone to sleep at last for the next thing he heard was his alarm clock.
▪ The clinic responded with two more alarm clocks before prescribing drugs.
▪ I usually set my alarm clock for five, ready for me to be away two hours later at dawn.
body
▪ In all cases, the effect of the body clock is being accentuated by our life-style, generally by means of the hormone adrenalin.
▪ This theory also implies that the internal body clock takes up to five years to develop fully.
▪ Is it a function of our body clock or our life-style, or due to some interaction between the two?
▪ The body clock has been studied very little in older volunteers and so we do not know the answer to this.
▪ Those few studies that have been carried out in free-running experiments suggest that the body clock might run slightly faster.
▪ Do they result from the body clock, from sleep loss - or from some mixture of these factors?
▪ Our body clock as well as our habits will need modification.
carriage
▪ In the silence she heard the ticking of the carriage clock.
▪ He glanced at the carriage clock on the polished rosewood desk.
▪ When they left she found an antique carriage clock in the hallway missing and also some jewellery.
▪ As Ashi dressed swiftly her eyes were drawn back to the carriage clock.
▪ I'd take carriage clocks and videos.
church
▪ The single chime of a church clock rang out suddenly in the darkness.
▪ My heat was pounding as I began to count the strokes of the church clock.
▪ The church clock struck a quarter to twelve, and still the bride did not come.
▪ The church clock, slowly and deliberately striking seven in the morning, was like a knell to that day's death.
▪ As the church clock struck twelve, they listened to the heavy notes ringing out from the church tower.
▪ Local legend states that when it hears the church clock strike twelve it goes down to the River Avon to drink.
▪ Twelve was striking on the church clock.
▪ He increased his pace and arrived back at the hall as the church clock was striking six.
cuckoo
▪ I am famous for cuckoo clocks and chocolate.
▪ Beside the portrait was a carved cuckoo clock with green ivy and purple grapes growing around a green front door.
▪ There was a grotesque inventiveness, a deliberate eccentricity in the idea of the cuckoo clock that Melanie had never encountered.
▪ The cuckoo clock spun round and round.
▪ Have you seen those cuckoo clocks which have little weathermen as part of the mechanism?
▪ Melanie and Aunt Margaret sat in complete silence but for the ponderous ticking of the cuckoo clock and its regular two note interjections.
face
▪ The seconds crawl past as if they were anchored to the clock face.
▪ Neurologists like to draw a circle and ask the patient to fill in a clock face.
▪ Do you know just what your clock face is like?
▪ Some of you may well be surprised to find that your image of that clock face was mistaken.
▪ What was the precise time on that clock face when you looked at it just now?
grandfather
▪ The solemnly ticking grandfather clock by the door said two minutes to the half hour when Charles heard the Bishop approaching.
▪ She'd heard the grandfather clock down in the hall chime every quarter-hour until three o'clock.
▪ The room was silent, apart from the hollow and remorseless tick of a grandfather clock in the corner.
▪ No one in the hall except the grandfather clock I'd seen floating in my dream; no one came out of the sitting room.
▪ As he moved the beam, the shadow of the grandfather clock in the hall twisted and grew across the ceiling.
▪ The muffled tick of the grandfather clock echoed in one corner.
▪ The grandfather clock in an oak case is one of seven clocks and two barometers in the house.
▪ Clock stolen: A grandfather clock worth £1,000 was stolen from a house at Kepwick, near Thirsk.
kitchen
▪ Nine o'clock the kitchen clock said.
▪ Mrs Kelleher looked up to the yellow face of the kitchen clock.
▪ Waking with a jump, disorientated for a moment, Hilary stared in disbelief at the kitchen clock.
▪ The kitchen clock croaked and creaked, seeming to match the uneven rhythm of his heart.
▪ By Philippa's kitchen clock it was now a quarter past one.
▪ Glanced up at the kitchen clock.
radio
▪ The clock radio flashing the time at 88 past 88.
▪ Next to the bed was a table, a box of tissues, and a clock radio.
▪ The plastic speaker was the size of a bedside clock radio.
shot
▪ Even with the shot clock, teams with a lead can take time off the clock late in the game.
▪ The Heat led by 1 and the shot clock was approaching zero.
▪ Dead center as the shot clock went to zero.
speed
▪ The new iterations will feature a higher clock speed processor and two chips per board.
▪ For example, the 6x686-P200 system I tested uses a Cyrix chip with a clock speed of 166 megahertz.
▪ This is used to indicate the clock speed of computers.
▪ Despite the different clock speeds, all three offer roughly comparable performance when used to upgrade a 486 system.
▪ As of last week, Sun was still tinkering with the Viking's clock speeds.
▪ Faster clock speeds are expected later this year.
time
▪ A pseudo-variable which reads and sets the elapsed time clock.
▪ Dear Help Wanted: We punch a time clock and our employer has a rigid lateness policy.
▪ Alternatively, a single softner operating on a time clock and regenerating during the night may be the best solution.
▪ Baby schedules did not fit any time clock.
▪ Ensure that you are familiar with any heating controls the system may have such as a time clock or programmer.
▪ I was not looking at a time clock or hours.
▪ If there were a time clock for murder, it would show one every twenty-six minutes.
▪ The building had no water and the scoreboard had no time clock.
tower
▪ Some parts of the painting, such as the area around the clock tower are nearly finished at this stage.
▪ The famous clock tower stays as a permanent reminder.
▪ Only the clock tower on the stables showed from behind the trees.
▪ The only additions are the 30-year-old first pier and the clock tower seen in the distance.
▪ There is also an appealing clock tower, built in 1899.
▪ Henry was wasting his time and, as if to underline this fact, he glanced at the clock tower.
▪ The church dominates the commercial centre with its clock tower visible from the housing developments on the outskirts.
▪ A popular rendezvous and a familiar landmark with its prominent clock tower.
wall
▪ Julie cradled the mug of tea in both hands and looked at the wall clock on the other side of the kitchen.
▪ The yellow light shone on the wall clock.
▪ Vienna double weight wall clock, £330 and a Victorian sewing table, £340.
▪ Smith looked at his watch, at the wall clock, at the digital clock.
▪ Two garden seats went at £155; a Vienna wall clock made £190 and a school clock £90.
▪ A wall clock will tell you the time of day but not its manufactured brethren.
▪ Directly before her was a large wall clock.
▪ Von Stein had been checking the wall clock in the laboratory then looking back at his notes for some time.
■ VERB
beat
▪ Their aim - to beat the clock and each other in a competition to find the fastest draw in the country.
▪ Use a timer and ask the student to beat the clock.
▪ Secondly, it has to beat the clock.
▪ In both halves, the Owls had difficulty setting up their offense and often rushed bad shots to beat the 35-second clock.
▪ Sometimes I wake early to beat the clock.
glance
▪ He glanced at the carriage clock on the polished rosewood desk.
▪ You glance at the clock. 11: 15.
▪ She glanced at the clock, and away again quickly.
▪ I glanced at the clock with uneasiness.
▪ Unthinkingly she glanced at the clock on the bedside-table and tears stung her eyes.
▪ Dunne glanced at the clock that hung beneath the picture of Robert Emmet.
hear
▪ Then, above the screams of the wind, he heard the great clock striking in the market place.
▪ He was alone and could hear the Kremlin clock.
▪ He must have gone to sleep at last for the next thing he heard was his alarm clock.
▪ Waiting to see what would happen to his brother, and therefore to him, he heard clocks.
▪ She'd heard the grandfather clock down in the hall chime every quarter-hour until three o'clock.
▪ It's the men now, as often as not, who hear the biological clock ticking loudest.
▪ He heard a clock strike eight.
▪ He heard the clock over the bus-station strike midnight.
look
▪ Conway looked at his clock and got out of bed.
▪ He would drift off to sleep again, only to wake and look at the clock.
▪ Then I looked closer at the clock.
▪ But overall, it looked like no other clock ever seen before or since.
▪ It looked like the clock was running faster than usual.
▪ Benjy looked up at the clock.
▪ We look at the pub clock and wonder where the rest of the band are.
▪ Wade fixed a pair of drinks, passed one over to Claude, and looked up at the clock over the stove.
race
▪ Thorns Gill is too precious to suffer damage by boots racing against the clock.
▪ That was the day Clinton, racing the clock, considered clemency for Rich and 175 others.
run
▪ The Saints then ran out the clock.
▪ But the Oilers tried to get a first down, to work the ball closer and run the clock down.
▪ There are now 21 talk shows on daytime television; two cable channels run them around the clock.
▪ Kaufman already had carried twice to run out the clock, gaining nothing.
set
▪ As with all radioactive methods, it is important to be clear about what sets the radioactive clock to zero.
▪ Bright light is one of the cues provided by nature to help set your clock.
▪ A pseudo-variable which reads and sets the elapsed time clock.
▪ TIMES$ A 24 character long string pseudo-variable which reads and sets the system clock.
▪ When setting the clock, the day of the week may be omitted.
▪ I usually set my alarm clock for five, ready for me to be away two hours later at dawn.
▪ He covered her with a blanket and set the alarm clock to ring in an hour, wrapping it in a towel.
stop
▪ The hands appear to stop when the clock gets to the boundary. 12.
▪ She wished she could stop the clock for a while and try to take it all in.
▪ Some expend tremendous energy desperately trying to stop the clock.
▪ The phone stopped ringing and the clock ticked then the phone started again and the clock stopped.
▪ The phone stopped and the clock ticked and the phone started a third time.
▪ The phone stopped, the clock ticked.
▪ If you are bled totally dry and white, they will simply stop the clock.
strike
▪ Twelve was striking on the church clock.
turn
▪ It was almost like turning the clock back a couple of centuries.
▪ Only if somebody can come up with a way to turn back the clock.
▪ No-one can turn back the clock.
▪ The most important thing now is not to turn the clock back.
▪ What is past is past and you can not turn the clock back.
▪ It is time to stop trying to turn back the clock.
▪ Has some one turned the clock back 100 years and forgotten to tell me?
▪ He thinks you can turn the clock back.
watch
▪ And watched the clock so he could call a halt to it as soon as possible.
▪ A houseful of people watched me around the clock, which only made me more determined.
▪ She watched the clock hands go round.
▪ If White wanted Black to be watched around the clock, he would have hired two or three men, not one.
▪ I am watching the clock, counting the minutes till the last period of the morning is over.
wind
▪ We thought we could wind the clock down and take our shot.
work
▪ For the past 4 days, they've been working around the clock and through the night.
▪ And they stopped at exactly twelve hours, so there were no penalties for overtime. everything worked by the clock.
▪ But the computers we work with operate on clocks that run to the thousands of cycles per second.
▪ Men from the Royal Engineers and local contractors have been working around the clock to make the barracks habitable.
▪ The company worked around the clock to repair the problem.
▪ Staff will work round the clock.
▪ They gave themselves entirely over to their employers and worked around the clock.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
analogue clock/watch
▪ An old-fashioned analogue watch and a chunky bracelet on the right wrist might be observed through half-closed lids.
at ten thirty/2 o'clock etc sharp
be going on (for) 5 o'clock/60/25 etc
beat the clock
▪ Secondly, it has to beat the clock.
▪ Sometimes I wake early to beat the clock.
▪ Their aim - to beat the clock and each other in a competition to find the fastest draw in the country.
▪ Use a timer and ask the student to beat the clock.
getting on for 90/10 o'clock/2,000 etc
one o'clock/two o'clock etc
punch the clock
▪ Bob is glad to have a job where he doesn't have to punch the clock.
▪ Bobby punched the clock in four other maquilas before she got her current job as a clothes inspector at the Minsa plant.
put a clock/watch back
put a clock/watch forward
the (9 o'clock) watershed
travelling rug/clock etc
▪ And he takes a travelling rug with him - another of those fussy bag-and-baggage objects which assert the novel's tonality.
▪ At a quarter to four by the little travelling clock at his bedside he got out of bed and went to the window.
watch the clock
▪ And watched the clock so he could call a halt to it as soon as possible.
▪ I am watching the clock, counting the minutes till the last period of the morning is over.
▪ Only then did she let herself watch the clock to the strains of Beethoven's Apassionata.
▪ She watched the clock hands go round.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As the clock struck twelve, the Judge placed the black hat on his head.
▪ He covered her with a blanket and set the alarm clock to ring in an hour, wrapping it in a towel.
▪ He would drift off to sleep again, only to wake and look at the clock.
▪ In essence, fire is networked to a clock.
▪ It has volleyball, softball, concerts, and art shows around the clock.
▪ The clock probably came from elsewhere in London..
▪ Two garden seats went at £155; a Vienna wall clock made £190 and a school clock £90.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
mile
▪ The Astra has now clocked up 17,300 miles and our time together is almost at an end.
▪ Altogether on the trip we clocked up over 1800 miles.
▪ Islander was now really beginning to clock up the miles.
sec
▪ The Gateshead Harrier clocked 8 mins 38.7 secs to eclipse Dennis Coates' time of 8:48.0, set in 1981.
▪ Under the weather or not Ashcroft clocked 2 mins 13.8 secs, almost a second faster than her winning time last year.
▪ Livingstone clocked 18 mins 6 secs for the 3 1/2 miles in heavy rain, beating Vose by ten metres.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
analogue clock/watch
▪ An old-fashioned analogue watch and a chunky bracelet on the right wrist might be observed through half-closed lids.
at ten thirty/2 o'clock etc sharp
one o'clock/two o'clock etc
the (9 o'clock) watershed
travelling rug/clock etc
▪ And he takes a travelling rug with him - another of those fussy bag-and-baggage objects which assert the novel's tonality.
▪ At a quarter to four by the little travelling clock at his bedside he got out of bed and went to the window.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The runner from Lynbrook clocked the fastest time this season on the mile run.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But he'd soon shut up if he clocked the Stud Hoss in the car park.
▪ Livingstone clocked 18 mins 6 secs for the 3 1/2 miles in heavy rain, beating Vose by ten metres.
▪ Roemer now recognized that earlier attempts to clock the speed of light had failed because the distances tested were too short.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clock

Clock \Clock\, v. t. & i. To call, as a hen. See Cluck. [R.]

Clock

Clock \Clock\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle ( Scarab[ae]us stercorarius).

Clock

Clock \Clock\ (kl[o^]k), v. t. To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.

Clock

Clock \Clock\ (kl[o^]k), n. [AS. clucge bell; akin to D. klok clock, bell, G. glocke, Dan. klokke, Sw. klocka, Icel. klukka bell, LL. clocca, cloca (whence F. cloche); al perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. & Gael. clog bell, clock, W. cloch bell. Cf. Cloak.]

  1. A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions; in ordinary mechanical clocks for domestic or office use the time is indicated on a typically circular face or dial plate containing two hands, pointing to numbers engraved on the periphery of the face, thus showing the hours and minutes. The works of a mechanical clock are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. In electrical or electronic clocks, the time may be indicated, as on a mechanical clock, by hands, but may also be indicated by direct digital readout, with the hours and minutes in normal Arabic numerals. The readout using hands is often called analog to distinguish it from the digital readout. Some clocks also indicate the seconds. Clocks are not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person. Specialized clocks, such as atomic clocks, may be constructed on different principles, and may have a very high precision for use in scientific observations.

  2. A watch, esp. one that strikes. [Obs.]
    --Walton.

  3. The striking of a clock. [Obs.]
    --Dryden.

  4. A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking. --Swift. Note: The phrases what o'clock? it is nine o'clock, etc., are contracted from what of the clock? it is nine of the clock, etc. Alarm clock. See under Alarm. Astronomical clock.

    1. A clock of superior construction, with a compensating pendulum, etc., to measure time with great accuracy, for use in astronomical observatories; -- called a regulator when used by watchmakers as a standard for regulating timepieces.

    2. A clock with mechanism for indicating certain astronomical phenomena, as the phases of the moon, position of the sun in the ecliptic, equation of time, etc. Electric clock.

      1. A clock moved or regulated by electricity or electro-magnetism.

      2. A clock connected with an electro-magnetic recording apparatus.

        Ship's clock (Naut.), a clock arranged to strike from one to eight strokes, at half hourly intervals, marking the divisions of the ship's watches.

        Sidereal clock, an astronomical clock regulated to keep sidereal time.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
clock

"to time by the clock," 1883, from clock (n.1). The slang sense of "hit, sock" is 1941, originally Australian, probably from earlier slang clock (n.) "face" (1923). Related: Clocked; clocking.

clock

"ornament pattern on a stocking," 1520s, probably identical with clock (n.1) in its older sense and meaning "bell-shaped ornament."

clock

late 14c., clokke, originally "clock with bells," probably from Middle Dutch clocke (Dutch klok) "a clock," from Old North French cloque (Old French cloke, Modern French cloche), from Medieval Latin (7c.) clocca "bell," probably from Celtic (compare Old Irish clocc, Welsh cloch, Manx clagg "a bell") and spread by Irish missionaries (unless the Celtic words are from Latin); ultimately of imitative origin.\n

\nReplaced Old English dægmæl, from dæg "day" + mæl "measure, mark" (see meal (n.1)). The Latin word was horologium; the Greeks used a water-clock (klepsydra, literally "water thief"). Image of put (or set) the clock back "return to an earlier state or system" is from 1862. Round-the-clock (adj.) is from 1943, originally in reference to air raids. To have a face that would stop a clock "be very ugly" is from 1886. (Variations from c.1890 include break a mirror, kill chickens.)\n\nremember I remember\n
That boarding house forlorn,\n
The little window where the smell\n
Of hash came in the morn.\n
I mind the broken looking-glass,\n
The mattress like a rock,\n
The servant-girl from County Clare,\n
Whose face would stop a clock.\n

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[... etc.; "The Insurance Journal," Jan. 1886]

Wiktionary
clock

Etymology 1 alt. 1 An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece. 2 (context British English) The odometer of a motor vehicle. 3 (context electronics English) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules. 4 The seed head of a dandelion. 5 A timeclock. n. 1 An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece. 2 (context British English) The odometer of a motor vehicle. 3 (context electronics English) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules. 4 The seed head of a dandelion. 5 A timeclock. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To measure the duration of. 2 (context transitive English) To measure the speed of. 3 (context transitive slang English) To hit (someone) heavily. 4 (context slang English) To take notice of; to realise. 5 (context British slang English) To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle. 6 (context transitive New Zealand slang English) To beat a video game. 7 (context transitive informal English) To recognize someone or something Etymology 2

n. A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking. vb. (context transitive English) To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work. Etymology 3

n. A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (''Scarabaeus stercorarius''). Etymology 4

vb. (context intransitive dated English) To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.

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WordNet
clock

v. measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time; "he clocked the runners" [syn: time]

clock

n. a timepiece that shows the time of day

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Wikipedia
CLOCK

Clock (Circadian Locomotor Output Cycles Kaput) is a gene encoding a basic helix-loop-helix- PAS transcription factor (CLOCK) that affects both the persistence and period of circadian rhythms. CLOCK functions as an essential activator of downstream elements in the pathway critical to the generation of circadian rhythms.

Clock (disambiguation)

A clock is an instrument for measuring time.

Clock or Clocks may also refer to:

Clock (cryptography)

In cryptography, the clock was a method devised by Polish mathematician-cryptologist Jerzy Różycki, at the Polish General Staff's Cipher Bureau, to facilitate decrypting German Enigma ciphers.

Clock (restaurant)

Clock was a Swedish hamburger restaurant chain originally founded by an offshoot from the US-based Carrols. The chain suffered from mismanagement and declared bankruptcy; as the government had acquired the forfeited company, it was incorporated into the state-owned restaurant chain SARA.

As Carrols, Clock used the McDonald's concept with names for hamburgers such as 'Big Clock' (' Big Mac'). Using a huge clock as its logo, the chain grew to be very successful and widespread during the 1970s and 1980s, even branching out to China, but got into economic problems in the 1990s and started closing or selling restaurants. In 1996 Clock actually sold six restaurants (four in Stockholm and two in Gothenburg) to McDonald's. The same year, as part of what turned out to be a new business strategy, the company bought the hotel and restaurant company Provobis, which had the same main owner, Rolf Lundström, who thereby consolidated his holdings. It also attempted to reduce its own ownership in restaurants and increase the number of franchise restaurants, but by 1998 only 14 Clock restaurants remained, of which six were sold the same year and the remaining eight at the beginning of 1999. The company took the name Provobis, and was in 2000 bought by the large Scandic Hotels corporation.

McDonald's continued to expand in Sweden during this period (as did other American chains such as Burger King and Pizza Hut), but in an interview in 1996 the CEO of Clock explained the problems of his company with the increasing competition from other types of fast food such as kebab and sandwiches.

Clock and the Clock logo is as of 2007 a registered trade mark of Swedish company F&S.

Clock (band)
For the 1990s dance act, see Clock (dance act)

Clock is a band featuring Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell and P.J. Smith, who sang backing vocals on Def Leppard's cover of the Sweet song "Action" on Def Leppard's Retro Active (1993) album.

Clock's album, Through Time (1998) features the original version of " To Be Alive", which is featured on Def Leppard's Euphoria (1999) album.

Other members have included Mark Schulman, Mark Browne, and Manny Alvarez.

Category:American rock music groups

Clock (dance act)

Clock was an English band primarily led by Stu Allan and Pete Pritchard. They started as an English equivalent of "2 Unlimited" when they recruited rapper Marcus Thomas (using the name ODC MC), and vocalist Lorna Saunders (using the name Tinka) to front the act. Thomas left in 1998 to join the band Tzant, to be replaced by Ché-gun Peters.

They had a string of Top 40 hits with nine covers throughout the 1990s on the UK Singles Chart. They also released hardcore versions of their hits under the name Visa. Clock broke up in 1999 due to a number of personal reasons; they weren't able to continue at the same pace as they had before.

In 2004, Saunders appeared on BBC Television's Never Mind The Buzzcocks in the celebrity line-up. It was announced that she was now working as a legal secretary. In 2015, it was revealed that Lorna Saunders works as a lawyer for Jackamans and is married with two kids.

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Usage examples of "clock".

The tolling of a distant clock absently spoke the midnight hour, but Cassandra was wide awake as she dreamed, consumed by better days.

His field of vision contracted until it embraced only the clock and the accelerometer, fifteen g, and four hundred and eighty seconds to go.

In despair, she saw the clock tick down to zero, watching as Rennell resisted acknowledging his incapacity.

I observed with pleasure that the clock in the alcove had an alarum, for I was beginning, in spite of love, to be easily influenced by the power of sleep.

He gave up at last, albeit not before I had traveled with him to several of the Twelve Cities where he had contracts to install water clocks.

O clock and took a hearty alfresco breakfast with his officers under the shade of a spread tarpaulin and then, from the rear seat of the Rolls, he gave a clenched fist cavalry order to advance.

Work proceeded round the clock on several Federation ships, but the uniformly open horizon absorbed sound better than anechoic paneling.

When ah finish ah clocks this spider in the bath so ah blasts the cunt wi baith taps, flushin the fucker away, before gaun in tae the bedroom next door.

At last the clock roused me from my reverie, and I began to feel restless that no one came to give me anything to eat or to bring me a bed whereon to sleep.

One of the streets leading into it is called Kanzlerstrasse, a narrow, cobbled affair with a bierhaus on the corner, under a clock.

Ferracini stopped to buy a paper at a curbside kiosk, while Cassidy crossed the street and wandered around the square, stopping finally in a doorway at the corner opposite the bierhaus with the clock over its entrance as Lindemann had described.

Now there were either seats slung from above, in which one felt much like a bag of sugar, or chairs bolted to a base plate on springs: in both these cases the weight was quickly indicated by a pointer which swung round a gigantic clock face.

The clock in the drugstore where the buses stopped said there were ten minutes to go.

By the aid of these we then busied our souls in dreams - reading, writing, or conversing, until warned by the clock of the advent of the true Darkness.

But he did ask me to keep my eyes peeled for a cheapish long-case clock.