time clock
21Real Time Clock — clock (inside a computer) that shows the current time by the TIME command in DOS (continues running even when the computer is turned off), RTC …
22clock — clock1 [kläk] n. [ME clokke, orig., clock with bells < ML clocca, bell < Celt, as in OIr cloc (> OE clugge, OHG glocka), bell < ? IE base * kel , to cry out, sound > CLAMOR] 1. a device used for measuring and indicating time,… …
23race against time clock — race against time/the clock a race against time/the clock an attempt to do something very quickly because there is only a short time in which it can be done. Rescuers were racing against time last night to reach the four divers, trapped 200 feet… …
24(a) race against time clock — a ˌrace against ˈtime/the ˈclock idiom a situation in which you have to do sth or finish sth very fast before it is too late • Getting food to the starving refugees is now a race against time. Main entry: ↑raceidiom …
25time card — time ,card noun count a card used in a time clock for recording what time you start and finish work …
26(a) race against time clock — an attempt to do something very quickly because there is only a short time in which it can be done. It s a race against time to get the building finished before the rainy season sets in …
27Clock — For other uses, see Clock (disambiguation). Timepiece redirects here. For the Kenny Rogers album, see Timepiece (album). Platform clock at King s Cross railway station, London …
28Time discipline — In sociology and anthropology, time discipline is the general name given to social and economic rules, conventions, customs, and expectations governing the measurement of time, the social currency and awareness of time measurements, and people s… …
29clock — clock1 W3S2 [klɔk US kla:k] n [Date: 1300 1400; : Middle Dutch; Origin: clocke bell, clock , from Medieval Latin clocca bell , from a Celtic language] 1.) an instrument that shows what time it is, in a room or outside on a building ▪ The clock on …
30clock — 1 noun (C) 1 an instrument in a room or on a public building that shows what time it is: The clock was ticking on the mantelpiece. | the clock strikes three/half past four etc: The church clock struck midnight. | the clock says... (=the clock… …
