clock

• n. 時計；タイマー
• vt. 記録する；時を刻む
• vi. 時計を計る；時間を記録する
• n. （時計）人の名前；（英）クルック

擬音語、カチカチという時計の音を真似る、クリックを比較する。

clock

clock: [14] The clock appears to have been so named because it told the hours by the chiming of a ‘bell’, medieval Latin clocca. The Latin word, which emerged in the 7th century and may have been of Irish origin, probably reached English via Middle Dutch klocke. Besides being applied to time-pieces, it has also lent its name to two garments on account of their supposedly bell-like shape: cloak [13], which comes from the Old French dialect cloke or cloque, and cloche hat [20], from French cloche ‘bell’.
=> cloak, cloche

clock (n.1)

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.

Replaced Old English d?gm?l, from d?g "day" + m?l "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.)

remember I remember
That boarding house forlorn,
The little window where the smell
Of hash came in the morn.
I mind the broken looking-glass,
The mattress like a rock,
The servant-girl from County Clare,
Whose face would stop a clock.

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

clock (v.)

"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 (n.2)

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

1. It was just gone 7 o ' clock this evening when I finished.

今夜私がやったのは7時を過ぎたばかりでした。

2.He sat listening to the tick of the grandfather clock .

彼はそこに座って、床に落ちた大きな振り子時計の音を聞いていた。

3.Outside，Bruce glanced at his watch："Dear me，nearly oneo ' clock ."

が出てきて、ブルースは自分の時計をちらっと見て、「神様、早く。」

He stole a glance at the clock behind her.

彼は彼女の背後にある時計をこっそり見た。

5.For a few minutes she sat on her bed watching the clock .

彼女はベッドに座って時計を見つめて数分間見た。