I.
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ accurate
▪ 12-hour , 24-hour
▪ digital , electric
▪ atomic
▪ time
▪ bedside , kitchen
▪ alarm , carriage , cuckoo , grandfather , pendulum , travel ( AmE ), travelling ( BrE ), wall
▪ ticking
▪ countdown ( AmE )
▪
His countdown ~ reads forty seconds.
▪ biological , body , circadian ( biology ), internal
▪
With jet lag, your biological ~ is out of synch with the actual time.
VERB + CLOCK
▪ reset , set , wind
▪
I've set my alarm ~ for six tomorrow.
▪ move back ( AmE ), put back ( BrE ), set back ( AmE ), turn back ( often figurative )
▪
Let's turn back the ~ to the last decade.
▪ move ahead ( AmE ), put forward ( BrE ), set ahead ( AmE ), turn forward ( often figurative )
▪ calibrate , synchronize
▪ stop (for example in a game)
▪
Pressing the buzzer stops the ~.
▪ check , glance at , look at
▪ watch
▪
employees who are always watching the ~ (= wanting their day's work to end)
▪ beat (= do something in less time than is allowed)
▪
The player beat the ~ and set a new record.
CLOCK + VERB
▪ beep , buzz , chime (sth) , ring , strike sth , tick
▪
The ~ struck the hour.
▪
I could hear a ~ ticking somewhere in the house.
▪ stop
▪ keep time
▪
This ~ doesn't keep time.
▪ be fast , be slow
▪
That clock's fast.
▪ gain time , lose time
▪ be right , be wrong
▪ go back , go forward
▪
The ~s go back tonight.
▪ say sth , tell sth
▪
The ~ on the wall said twelve o'clock.
▪
Her ~ told her it was time to get up.
▪ go off
▪
My alarm ~ didn't go off this morning.
CLOCK + NOUN
▪ face
▪ tower
▪ radio
PREPOSITION
▪ against the ~
▪
to work against the ~ (= to work fast in order to finish before a particular time)
▪ around the ~ , round the ~ (= all day and all night) ( esp. BrE )
▪
to work around the ~
▪ by the ~
▪
It's ten o'clock by the kitchen ~.
PHRASES
▪ the dial of a ~ , the face of a ~ , the hands of a ~
II.
verb
Clock is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ mile