clock

clock
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
n. timepiece, chronometer (See chronometry).
II
(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. timepiece, timekeeper, time-marker, timer, time clock, horologe.
Kinds of clocks include: alarm, atomic, cuckoo, electric, digital, wall, grandfather, pendulum; hourglass, mission timer, stopwatch, sundial, wrist watch, clock radio, chronometer, chronograph; see also watch 1 .
around the clock,
Syn. continuously, continually, night and day, twenty-four hours a day; see regularly 2 .
v.
Syn. time, measure time, register speed, register distance; see measure 1 , time .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
timepiece, chronometer, timer, watch, hourglass.
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) verb To record the speed or duration of: time. See REMEMBER, TIME.

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