Clock vs Wild - What's the difference?
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An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece.
(British) The odometer of a motor vehicle.
(electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
The seed head of a dandelion.
A timeclock.
To measure the duration of.
To measure the speed of.
(slang) To hit (someone) heavily.
(slang) To take notice of; to realise.
* 2006 , (Lily Allen), Knock 'Em Out
(British, slang) To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
(transitive, New Zealand, slang) To beat a video game.
A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
* {{quote-journal, 1882, journal=Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri, author= W.S. Gilbert, title=When you're lying awake
, passage=But this you can't stand, so you throw up your hand,
and you find you're as cold as an icicle,
In your shirt and your socks (the black silk with gold clocks ),
crossing Salisbury Plain on a bicycle}}* {{quote-journal, 1894, journal=Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, author=William Barnes, page=110, title=Grammer's Shoes
, passage=She'd a gown wi' girt flowers lik' hollyhocks
An zome stockèns o' gramfer's a-knit wi' clocks }}* {{quote-book, 2004, title=Traditional Scandinavian Knitting, author=Sheila McGregor, page=60, publisher=Courier Dover
, passage=Most decoration involved the ankle clocks , and several are shown on p.15 in the form of charts.}}
* {{quote-book, 2006, title=Fashion Source Book, author=J. Munslow, Kathryn McKelvey, page=231
, passage=Clocks : These are ornamental designs embroidered or woven on to the ankles of stockings.}}
(dated) To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
(Webster 1913)
1000 English basic words
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Untamed; not domesticated.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
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, title= (senseid) Unrestrained or uninhibited.
Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=August 7, author=Chris Bevan, work=BBC Sport
, title= Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
Enthusiastic.
Inaccurate.
Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
(nautical) Hard to steer; said of a vessel.
(mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
Inaccurately; not on target.
The undomesticated state of a wild animal
(chiefly, in the plural) a wilderness
* 1730–1774 , Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland
To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially as a gang.
* 1989 , David E. Pitt, Jogger's Attackers Terrorized at Least 9 in 2 Hours , New York Times (April 22, 1989), page 1:
*:: ...Chief of Detectives Robert Colangelo, who said the attacks appeared unrelated to money, race, drugs, or alcohol, said that some of the 20 youths brought in for questioning has told investigators that the crime spree was the product of a pastime called "wilding".
*:: "It's not a term that we in the police had heard before," the chief said, noting that the police were unaware of any similar incident in the park recently. "They just said, 'We were going wilding.' In my mind at this point, it implies that they were going to raise hell."...
As a noun clock
is an instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece or clock can be a pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking or clock can be a large beetle, especially the european dung beetle (scarabaeus stercorarius ).As a verb clock
is to measure the duration of or clock can be to ornament (eg the side of a stocking) with figured work or clock can be (dated) to make the sound of a hen; to cluck.As a proper noun wild is
for a wild person, or for someone living in uncultivated land.clock
English
(wikipedia clock)Etymology 1
c. 1350–1400, (etyl) , (etyl) Glocke, (etyl) klocka. More at (laugh).Alternative forms
* (contraction used in electronics)Noun
(en noun)- This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock .
- I can't go off to lunch yet, I'm still on the clock .
- We let the guys use the shop's tools and equipment for their own projects as long as they're off the clock .
Synonyms
* (instrument used to measure or keep track of time) timepiece * (odometer of a motor vehicle) odometerDerived terms
* a broken clock is right twice a day * alarm clock * atomic clock * beat the clock * biological clock * body clock * carriage clock * case clock * clean someone's clock * clock generator * clockhouse * clock radio * clock signal * clock-watcher * clockwise * clockwork * cuckoo clock * dandelion clock * face that would stop a clock * grandfather clock * o'clock * on the clock * run down the clock * shot clock * time clock * wall clock * water clock * work against the clock * work around the clock / work round the clockVerb
(en verb)- He was clocked at 155 miles per hour.
- When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him.
- Clock the wheels on that car!
- He finally clocked that there were no more cornflakes.
- Cut to the pub on a lads night out,
- Man at the bar cos it was his shout,
- Clocks this bird and she looks OK,
- Caught him looking and she walks his way,
- I don't believe that car has done only 40,000 miles. It's been clocked.
- Have you clocked that game yet?
Quotations
* to take notice of ** {{quote-book, 2000, title=Naugahide Days: The Lost Island Stories of Thomas Wood Briar, author=Phil Austin, page=109citation, passage=Bo John and I twisted our heads around as Miranda braked over to the gravelly shoulder, let the Scout wheeze to a stop. She was climbing out, hurrying back to whatever had caught her eye. Bo John leered into the door mirror, clocking her flouncing, leggy strut.}} ** {{quote-book, 2005, title=Cupid Is Stupid, author=Jr. Aaron Bryant, page=19
citation, passage=It is true. Carmen is an official gold digger. In fact, she is an instructor at the school of gold digging. Hood rats have been clocking her style for years. Wanting to pull the players she pulled, and wishing they had the looks she had.}} ** {{quote-book, 2006, Dublin Noir: The Celtic Tiger Vs. the Ugly American, author=Ken Bruen, page=36
citation, passage=And he waits till I extend my hand, the two fingers visibly crushed. He clocks them, I say, "Phil."}}
Synonyms
* (measure the duration of) time * (measure the speed of) * slug, smack, thump, whack * check out, scope out * turn back (the vehicle's) clock, wind back (the vehicle's) clockDerived terms
* clock in * clock on * clock off * clock out * clock upEtymology 2
Origin uncertain; designs may have originally been bell-shaped and thus related to Etymology 1, above.Noun
(en noun)citation
and you find you're as cold as an icicle,
In your shirt and your socks (the black silk with gold clocks ),
crossing Salisbury Plain on a bicycle}}
An zome stockèns o' gramfer's a-knit wi' clocks }}
citation
citation
- (Jonathan Swift)
See also
* meter * watchExternal links
* (Time)Etymology 3
Etymology 4
Verb
(en verb)wild
English
Adjective
(er)- Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.
- The woods and desert caves, / With wild thyme and gadding vine o'ergrown.
David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
Man City 2-3 Man Utd, passage=City, in contrast, were lethargic in every area of the pitch and their main contribution in the first half-hour was to keep referee Phil Dowd busy, with Micah Richards among four of their players booked early on, in his case for a wild lunge on Young.}}
- a wild roadstead
Antonyms
* (mathematics) tameDerived terms
* in the wild * walk on the wild side * wild allspice * wild and woolly * wild animal * wild balsam apple * wild basil * wild blueberry * wild boar * wild bugloss * wild camomile * wild card * wildcard * wildcarrot * wild cat * wildcat * wildcat strike * wildcatter * wild celery * wild cherry * wild child * wildcrafting * wild cumin * wild drake * wildebeest * wild elder * wilden * wilder * wilderness * wildest * wild-eyed * wildfire * wildflower * wildfowl * wild geranium * wild ginger * wild goose * wild goose chase * wild-goose chase * wild hyacinth * wilding * wild Irishman * wildish * wild land * wild licorice * wildlife * wildly * wild mammee * wild marjoram * wild mustard * wildness * wild oat * wild pieplant * wild pigeon * wild pink * wild pitch * wild plantain * wild plum * wild purslane * wild rice * wild rye * wild Spaniard * wild strawberry * wildstyle * wild turkey * wild vanilla * Wild West * wildwoodAdverb
(en adverb)- The javelin flew wild and struck a spectator, to the horror of all observing.
Noun
(en noun)- After mending the lion's leg, we returned him to the wild
- Thus every good his native wilds impart
- Imprints the patriot passion on his heart;
- And e’en those ills that round his mansion rise
- Enhance the bliss his scanty funds supplies.