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Clock can be a noun or a verb.

clock used as a noun:

  1. An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece.
  2. The odometer of a motor vehicle.
    "This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock."
  3. An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
  4. A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

clock used as a verb:

  1. To measure the duration of.
  2. To measure the speed of.
    "He was clocked at 155 miles per hour."
  3. To hit (someone)
    "When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him."
  4. To take notice of; to realise.
    "Clock the wheels on that car!"
  5. To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
    "I don't believe that car has done only 40,000 miles. It's been clocked."

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

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What type of word is clock?

As detailed above, 'clock' can be a noun or a verb. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Noun usage: This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock.
  2. Verb usage: He was clocked at 155 miles per hour.
  3. Verb usage: When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him.
  4. Verb usage: Clock the wheels on that car!
  5. Verb usage: He finally clocked that there were no more cornflakes.
  6. Verb usage: I don't believe that car has done only 40,000 miles. It's been clocked.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of clock are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of clock, and guess at its most common usage.

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The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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