Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 71
Cling (v. i.) [(+to)] 黏著；纏著；緊握不放；依附，依靠，依戀 To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast, especially by twining round or embracing; as, the tendril of a vine clings to its support; -- usually followed by to or together.
And what hath life for thee That thou shouldst cling to it thus? -- Mrs. Hemans.
Cling (v. t.) To cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or embracing. [Obs.]
I clung legs as close to his side as I could. -- Swift.
Cling (v. t.) To make to dry up or wither. [Obs.]
If thou speak'st false, Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive, Till famine cling thee. -- Shak.
Cling (n.) Adherence; attachment; devotion. [R.]
A more tenacious cling to worldly respects. -- Milton.
Cling (n.) Fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit [syn: cling, clingstone].
Cling (v.) Come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation; "The dress clings to her body"; "The label stuck to the box"; "The sushi rice grains cohere" [syn: cling, cleave, adhere, stick, cohere].
Cling (v.) To remain emotionally or intellectually attached; "He clings to the idea that she might still love him."
Cling (v.) Hold on tightly or tenaciously; "hang on to your father's hands"; "The child clung to his mother's apron" [syn: cling, hang].
Clingstone (a.) Having the flesh attached closely to the stone, as in some kinds of peaches.
Clingstone (n.) A fruit, as a peach, whose flesh adheres to the stone.
Clingstone (n.) Fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit [syn: cling, clingstone].
Clingy (a.) Apt to cling; adhesive. [R.]
Clinical (a.) Alt. of Clinic.
Clinic (a.) Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.
Clinic (a.) Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject.
Clinical baptism, Baptism administered to a person on a sick bed.
Clinical instruction, Instruction by means of clinics.
Clinical lecture (Med.), A discourse upon medical topics illustrated by the exhibition and examination of living patients.
Clinical
medicine, Clinical
surgery, That part of medicine or surgery which is occupied with the
investigation of disease in the living subject.
Clinic (n.) One confined to the bed by sickness.
Clinic (n.) (Eccl.) One who receives baptism on a sick bed. [Obs.] -- Hook.
Clinic (n.) (Med.) A medical facility, often connected with a school or hospital, which treats primarily outpatients.
Clinic (n.) (Med.) A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils.
Clinic (n.) A lesson or series of lessons taught to persons not expert in some activity, in which the errors of the students are pointed out, and remedial actions are suggested.
Clinic (n.) (Sports) A performance so excellent as to be considered a model for emulation. [fig.]
Clinic (n.) A medical establishment run by a group of medical specialists.
Clinic (n.) Meeting for diagnosis of problems and instruction or remedial work in a particular activity.
Clinic (n.) A healthcare facility for outpatient care.
Clinical (a.) Relating to a clinic or conducted in or as if in a clinic and depending on direct observation of patients; "clinical observation"; "clinical case study."
Clinical (a.) Scientifically detached; unemotional; "he spoke in the clipped clinical monotones typical of police testimony."
Clinic (n.) [ C ] (B1) 診所；門診部 A building, often part of a hospital, to which people can go for medical care or advice relating to a particular condition.
// Bring your baby to the clinic and we'll take a look at her.
// Antenatal clinics provide care for pregnant women.
Idiom: Hold a clinic
Hold a clinic 門診；提供門診服務 To be available at a particular place to provide medical care to members of the public.
// Dr Clark holds a clinic on Tuesday mornings.
Hold a clinic (UK) 提供諮詢 To be available at a particular place to provide advice to members of the public.
// Our MP holds a clinic every Friday evening.
Clinical (a.) Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.
Clinical (a.) Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject.
Clinical (a.) (Medical) (C1) 門診的，臨床的 Used to refer to medical work or teaching that relates to the examination and treatment of ill people.
// Clinical tests/ training.
// The Department of Clinical Medicine.
// Clinical trials of the new drug may take five years.
Clinical (a.) (Without emotionI) (C2) (Disapproving) 冷漠的；無動於衷的；無感情的 Expressing no emotion or feelings.
// She seems to have a very clinical attitude towards her children.
Clinical (a.) (Without emotion) 無特色的；冷冰冰的；樸素的 Showing no character and warmth.
// We were going to paint our kitchen white, but we decided that would look too clinical.
Clinical depression (n.) [ U ] 抑鬱症 A mental illness that causes feelings of sadness and loss of hope, changes in sleeping and eating habits, loss of interest in your usual activities, and pains that have no physical explanation.
Clinically (adv.) In a clinical manner.
Clinically (adv.) In a clinical manner; "she is clinically qualified."
Clinique (n.) [F.] (Med.) A clinic.
Clinanthium (n.) (Bot.) The receptacle of the flowers in a composite plant; -- also called clinium.
Clinium (n.) (Bot.) See Clinanthium.
Clinked (imp. & p. p.) of Clink.
Clinking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clink.
Clink (v. t.) To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together.
And let me the canakin clink. -- Shak.
Clink (v. i.) To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound. "The clinking latch." -- Tennyson.
Clink (v. i.) To rhyme. [Humorous]. -- Cowper.
Clink (n.) A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies. "Clink and fall of swords." -- Shak.
Clink (n.) A prison cell; a lockup; -- probably orig. the name of the noted prison in Southwark, England. [Colloq.] "I'm here in the clink." -- Kipling.
Clink (n.) A short light metallic sound [syn: chink, click, clink].
Clink (n.) A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence) [syn: jail, jailhouse, gaol, clink, slammer, poky, pokey].
Clink (v.) Make a high sound typical of glass; "champagne glasses clinked to make a toast."
Clink (v.) Make or emit a high sound; "tinkling bells" [syn: tinkle, tink, clink, chink].
Clinkant (a.) See Clinquant.
Compare: Clinquant
Clinquant (a.) [F.] Glittering; dressed in, or overlaid with, tinsel finery. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Clinquant (n.) Tinsel; Dutch gold.
Clinquant (a.) Glittering with gold or silver [syn: clinquant, tinseled, tinselly].
Clinker (n.) A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.
Clinker (n.) Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag.
Clinker (n.) A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging.
Clinker (n.) A kind of brick. See Dutch clinker, under Dutch.
Clinker (n.) A fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire [syn: cinder, clinker].
Clinker (n.) A hard brick used as a paving stone [syn: clinker, clinker brick].
Clinker (v.) Clear out the cinders and clinker from; "we clinkered the fire frequently."
Clinker (v.) Turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning.
Clinker-built (a.) (Naut.) Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak.
Clinker-built (a.) Having overlapping hull planks [syn: clinker-built, clincher-built, lap-strake, lap-straked, lap-streak, lap-streaked] [ant: carvel-built].
Compare: Phonolite
Phonolite (n.) (Min.) A compact, feldspathic, igneous rock containing nephelite, ha["u]ynite, etc. Thin slabs give a ringing sound when struck; -- called also clinkstone.
Clinkstone (n.) (Min.) An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
Clinodiagonal (n.) (Crystallog.) That diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which makes an oblique angle with the vertical axis. See Crystallization.
Clinodiagonal (a.) Pertaining to, or the direction of, the clinodiagonal.
Clinodome (n.) (Crystallog.) See under Dome.
Clinographic (a.) Pertaining to that mode of projection in drawing in which the rays of light are supposed to fall obliquely on the plane of projection.
Clinoid (a.) (Anat.) Like a bed; -- applied to several processes on the inner side of the sphenoid bone.
Clinometer (n.) (Geol.) An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level. -- Dana.
Clinometer (n.) An instrument used by surveyors in order to measure an angle of inclination or elevation [syn: clinometer, inclinometer].
Clinometric (a.) Pertaining to, or ascertained by, the clinometer.
Clinometric (a.) Pertaining to the oblique crystalline forms, or to solids which have oblique angles between the axes; as, the clinometric systems.
Clinometry (n.) (Geol.) That art or operation of measuring the inclination of strata.
Clinopinacoid (n.) (Crystallog.) The plane in crystals of the monoclinic system which is parallel to the vertical and the inclined lateral (clinidiagonal) axes.
Clinorhombic (a.) (Crystallog.) Possessing the qualities of a prism, obliquely inclined to a rhombic base; monoclinic.
Clinquant (a.) [F.] Glittering; dressed in, or overlaid with, tinsel finery. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Clinquant (n.) Tinsel; Dutch gold.
Clinquant (a.) Glittering with gold or silver [syn: clinquant, tinseled, tinselly].
Clio (n.) The Muse who presided over history.
Clione (n.) A genus of naked pteropods. One species (Clione papilonacea), abundant in the Arctic Ocean, constitutes a part of the food of the Greenland whale. It is sometimes incorrectly called Clio.
Clip (v. i.) To move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite it.
Straight flies as chek, and clips it down the wind. -- Dryden.
Clip (n.) An embrace. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Clip (n.) A cutting; a shearing.
Clip (n.) The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.
Clip (n.) A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.
Clip (n.) An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree. -- Knight.
Clip (n.) (Far.) A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; -- called also toe clip and beak.
Clip (n.) A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip. [Colloq. U. S.]
Clip (n.) (Mach.) A part, attachment, or appendage, for seizing, clasping, or holding, an object, as a cable, etc.
Clip (n.) (Angling) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
Clip (n.) A rapid gait. "A three-minute clip." -- Kipling.
Clipped (imp. & p. p.) of Clip.
Clipping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clip.
Clip (v. t.) To embrace, hence; to encompass.
O . . . that Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about, Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself. -- Shak.
Clip (v. t.) To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin.
Sentenced to have his ears clipped. -- Macaulay.
Clip (v. t.) To curtail; to cut short.
All my reports go with the modest truth; No more nor clipped, but so. -- Shak.
In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs. -- Swift.
Clip (n.) A metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun [syn: cartridge holder, cartridge clip, clip, magazine].
Clip (n.) An instance or single occasion for some event; "this time he succeeded"; "he called four times"; "he could do ten at a clip" [syn: time, clip].
Clip (n.) Any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together.
Clip (n.) An article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress
Clip (n.) The act of clipping or snipping [syn: clip, clipping, snip].
Clip (n.) A sharp slanting blow; "he gave me a clip on the ear."
Clip (v.) Sever or remove by pinching or snipping; "nip off the flowers" [syn: nip, nip off, clip, snip, snip off].
Clip (v.) Run at a moderately swift pace [syn: trot, jog, clip].
Clip (v.) Attach with a clip; "clip the papers together" [ant: unclip].
Clip (v.) Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden" [syn: snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back].
Clip (v.) Terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent; "My speech was cut short"; "Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries" [syn: clip, curtail, cut short].
CLIP, () Compiler Language for Information Processing.
CLIP, () Common LISP in Parallel.
CLiP, () A documentation extractor by Eric W. van Ammers that recognises a particular style of comments. This style can be adjusted to suit virtually any programming language and target documentation language. CLiP was designed to be compatible with hypertext systems.
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Clipper (n.) One who clips; specifically, one who clips off the edges of coin.
The value is pared off from it into the clipper's pocket. -- Locke.
Clipper (n.) A machine for clipping hair, esp. the hair of horses.
Clipper (n.) (Naut.) A vessel with a sharp bow, built with a fast hull and tall sails, rigged for fast sailing, and used in trade where the cargo capacity was less important than the speed; -- called also clipper ship. -- Clip"per-built`, a.
Note: The name was first borne by "Baltimore clippers" famous as privateers in the early wars of the United States. --Locke.
Clipper (n.) (Electronics) a circuit that limits the amplitude of a waveform.
Syn: limiter.
Yankee Clipper, (a) A clipper ship built in the United States. See clipper [3].
Yankee Clipper, (b) Joe DiMaggio; -- a nickname for the player who was a prominent member of the New York Yankees baseball team in the 1940's.
Clipper (n.) (Electronics) A nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform); "a limiter introduces amplitude distortion" [syn: limiter, clipper]
Clipper (n.) A fast sailing ship used in former times [syn: clipper, clipper ship].
Clipper (n.) Shears for cutting grass or shrubbery (often used in the plural).
Clipper (n.) Scissors for cutting hair or finger nails (often used in the plural).
Clipper, () An integrated circuit which implements the SkipJack algorithm. The Clipper is manufactured by the US government to encrypt telephone data. It has the added feature that it can be decrypted by the US government, which has tried to make the chip compulsory in the United States. Phil Zimmerman (inventor of PGP) remarked, "This doesn't even pass the sniff test" (i.e. it stinks).
Clipper, () A compiled dBASE dialect from Nantucket Corp, LA. Versions: Winter 85, Spring 86, Autumn 86, Summer 87, 4.5 (Japanese Kanji), 5.0. It uses the Xbase programming language. (2004-09-01)
Clipping (n.) The act of embracing. [Obs.]
Clipping (n.) The act of cutting off, curtailing, or diminishing; the practice of clipping the edges of coins.
Note: This practise was common when precious metals such as silver or gold were used in commonly circulated major coins, such as the dime, quarter, and higher denominations; scoundrels would remove small slivers of precious metal from the edges of many coins, eventually accumulating enough precious metal to be worth a significant sum, while passing on the clipped coins at their nominal values. After most governments discontinued coinage in silver and gold in the late 1900's, the practice became obsolete. The serrations, or milling, at the edges of coins was introduced to defeat the practice by making the result of clipping evident. Many coins continued to be made with milled edges even after the practice of clipping was rendered pointless by use of non-precious metals in coinage.
Clipping by Englishmen is robbing the honest man who receives clipped money. -- Locke.
Clipping (n.) That which is clipped off or out of something; a piece separated by clipping; as, newspaper clippings.
Clipping (n.) (Football) The act of hitting a player from behind, for the purpose of blocking. It is illegal in football because it can lead to injury to the blocked player, who cannot anticipate the action. A penalty of 10 yards or more may be assessed against the team of the offending player.
Clipping (n.) An excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine; "he searched through piles of letters and clippings" [syn: clipping, newspaper clipping, press clipping, cutting, press cutting].
Clipping (n.) Cutting down to the desired size or shape [syn: trim, trimming, clipping].
Clipping (n.) The act of clipping or snipping [syn: clip, clipping, snip].
Clique (n.) A narrow circle of persons associated by common interests or for the accomplishment of a common purpose; -- generally used in a bad sense.
Clique (v. i.) To To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot; -- used with together.
Clique (n.) An exclusive circle of people with a common purpose [syn: clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack, camp].
Clique, () A maximal totally connected subgraph.
Given a graph with nodes N, a clique C is a subset of N where every node in C is directly connected to every other node in C (i.e. C is totally connected), and C contains all such nodes (C is maximal). In other words, a clique contains all, and only, those nodes which are directly connected to all other nodes in the clique. [Is this correct?] (1996-09-22)
Cliquish (a.) Of or pertaining to a clique; disposed to from cliques; exclusive in spirit. -- Cli"*quish*ness, n.
Cliquish (a.) Befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior [syn: clannish, cliquish, clubby, snobbish, snobby].
Cliquism (n.) The tendency to associate in cliques; the spirit of cliques.
Clitellus (n.) (Zool.) A thickened glandular portion of the body of the adult earthworm, consisting of several united segments modified for reproductive purposes.
Clitoris (n.) (Anat.) 【解】陰核；陰蒂 A small organ at the upper part of the vulva, homologous to the penis in the male.
Clitoris (n.) A female sexual organ homologous to the penis [syn: clitoris, clit, button].
Clitoris (n.) [C] 陰蒂，陰核 A sexual organ above the vagina that can give a woman sexual pleasure when it is touched.
Compare: Clitoral
Clitoral (a.) 陰蒂的 Relating to involving the clitoris ( = a sexual organ above the vagina that can give woman sexual pleasure when it is touched).
// There is now greater understanding of the clitoral structure.
Compare: Vulva
Vulva (n.) [Anatomy] 【解】陰戶，女陰，女性的外陰部 The female external genitals.
Vulva (n.) [Zoology] The external opening of the vagina or reproductive tract in a female mammal or nematode.
Compare: Nematode
Nematode (n.) [Zoology] 【動】線蟲類（的） A worm of the large phylum Nematoda, such as a roundworm or threadworm.
Compare: Homologus
Homologus (a.) (Comparative more homologous, superlative most homologous) 相應的 Showing a degree of correspondence or similarity.
Homologus (a.) (Biology) Corresponding to a similar structure in another life form with a common evolutionary origin.
// Flippers and hands are homologous structures.
Homologus (a.) (Chemistry) Belonging to a series of aliphatic organic compounds that differ only by the addition of a CH2 group.
Homologus (a.) (Genetics) Having the same morphology as another chromosome; relating to a homologue.
Compare: Penis
Penis (n.) (Penises, penes) 【解】陽物；陰莖 The male genital organ of higher vertebrates, carrying the duct for the transfer of sperm during copulation. In humans and most other mammals, it consists largely of erectile tissue and serves also for the elimination of urine.
Penis (n.) [Zoology] A type of male copulatory organ present in some invertebrates, such as gastropod mollusks.
Compare: Mons pubis
Mons pubis (n.)〔拉丁語〕【解剖學】陰阜 The mons pubis is a pad of fatty tissue that covers the pubic bone. It’s sometimes referred to as the mons, or the mons veneris in females. While both sexes have a mons pubis, it’s more prominent in females.
Clivers (n.) See Cleavers.
Clivities (n. pl. ) of Clivity.
Clivity (n.) Inclination; ascent or descent; a gradient.
Cloacae (n. pl. ) of Cloaca.
Cloaca (n.) A sewer; as, the Cloaca Maxima of Rome.
Cloaca (n.) A privy.
Cloaca (n.) The common chamber into which the intestinal, urinary, and generative canals discharge in birds, reptiles, amphibians, and many fishes.
Cloacal (a.) Of or pertaining to a cloaca.
Cloak (n.) A loose outer garment, extending from the neck downwards, and commonly without sleeves. It is longer than a cape, and is worn both by men and by women.
Cloak (n.) That which conceals; a disguise or pretext; an excuse; a fair pretense; a mask; a cover.
Cloaked (imp. & p. p.) of Cloak.
Cloaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cloak.
Cloak (v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a cloak; hence, to hide or conceal.
Now glooming sadly, so to cloak her matter. -- Spenser.
Syn: See Palliate.
Cloakedly (adv.) In a concealed manner.
Cloaking (n.) The act of covering with a cloak; the act of concealing anything.
To take heed of their dissemblings and cloakings. -- Strype.
Cloaking (n.) The material of which of which cloaks are made.
Cloakroom (n.) A room, attached to any place of public resort, where cloaks, overcoats, etc., may be deposited for a time.
Compare: Coatroom
Coatroom (n.) A room where coats and other articles can be left temporarily; -- called also cloakroom.
Syn: cloakroom.
Cloakroom (n.) A private lounge off of a legislative chamber
Cloakroom (n.) A room where coats and other articles can be left temporarily [syn: cloakroom, coatroom].
Clock (v. t.) To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.
Clock (v. t. & i.) To call, as a hen. See Cluck. [R.]
Clock (n.) A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle ({Scarabaeus stercorarius).
Clock (n.) A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions; in ordinary mechanical clocks for domestic or office use the time is indicated on a typically circular face or dial plate containing two hands, pointing to numbers engraved on the periphery of the face, thus showing the hours and minutes. The works of a mechanical clock are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. In electrical or electronic clocks, the time may be indicated, as on a mechanical clock, by hands, but may also be indicated by direct digital readout, with the hours and minutes in normal Arabic numerals. The readout using hands is often called analog to distinguish it from the digital readout. Some clocks also indicate the seconds. Clocks are not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person. Specialized clocks, such as atomic clocks, may be constructed on different principles, and may have a very high precision for use in scientific observations.
Clock (n.) A watch, esp. one that strikes. [Obs.] -- Walton.
Clock (n.) The striking of a clock. [Obs.] -- Dryden.
Clock (n.) A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking. -- Swift.
Note: The phrases what o'clock? it is nine o'clock, etc., are contracted from what of the clock? it is nine of the clock, etc.
Alarm clock. See under Alarm.
Astronomical clock. (a) A clock of superior construction, with a compensating pendulum, etc., to measure time with great accuracy, for use in astronomical observatories; -- called a regulator when used by watchmakers as a standard for regulating timepieces.
Astronomical clock. (b) A clock with mechanism for indicating certain astronomical phenomena, as the phases of the moon, position of the sun in the ecliptic, equation of time, etc.
Electric clock. (a) A clock moved or regulated by electricity or electro-magnetism.
Electric clock. (b) A clock connected with an electro-magnetic recording apparatus.
Ship's clock (Naut.), A clock arranged to strike from one to eight strokes, at half hourly intervals, marking the divisions of the ship's watches.
Sidereal clock, An astronomical clock regulated to keep sidereal time.
Clock (n.) A timepiece that shows the time of day.
Clock (v.) Measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time; "he clocked the runners" [syn: clock, time].
Clock (n., v.) [techspeak] The master oscillator that steps a CPU or other digital circuit through its paces. This has nothing to do with the time of day, although the software counter that keeps track of the latter may be derived from the former.
Clock (v. t.) To run a CPU or other digital circuit at a particular rate. ?If you clock it at 1000MHz, it gets warm.?. See overclock.
Clock (v. t.) To force a digital circuit from one state to the next by applying a single clock pulse. ?The data must be stable 10ns before you clock the latch.?
Clock, () A circuit in a processor that generates a regular sequence of electronic pulses used to synchronise operations of the processor's components. The time between pulses is the cycle time and the number of pulses per second is the clock rate (or frequency).
The execution times of instructions on a computer are usually measured by a number of clock cycles rather than seconds. Clock rates for various models of the computer may increase as technology improves, and it is usually the relative times one is interested in when discussing the instruction set.
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Clock, (n.) A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.
A busy man complained one day: "I get no time!" "What's that you say?" Cried out his friend, a lazy quiz; "You have, sir, all the time there is. There's plenty, too, and don't you doubt it -- We're never for an hour without it." Purzil Crofe
Clocklike (a.) 準確如時鐘的；時鐘般有規律的 Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical.
Their services are clocklike, to be set Backward and forward at their lord's command. -- B. Jonson.
Clockwork (n.) 鐘錶的機械；發條裝置 [U] The machinery of a clock, or machinery resembling that of a clock; machinery which produces regularity of movement.
Clockwork (n.) Any mechanism of geared wheels that is driven by a coiled spring; resembles the works of a mechanical clock.
Clod (n.) 塊；土塊，泥塊 [C]；泥土；土壤 [U] A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay. "Clods of a slimy substance." -- Carew. "Clods of iron and brass." -- Milton. "Clods of blood." -- E. Fairfax.
The earth that casteth up from the plow a great clod, is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod. -- Bacon.
Clod (n.) The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
The clod Where once their sultan's horse has trod. -- Swift.
Clod (n.) That which is earthy and of little relative value, as the body of man in comparison with the soul.
This cold clod of clay which we carry about with us. -- T. Burnet.
Clod (n.) A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt -- Dryden.
Clod (n.) A part of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder. See Illust. of Beef.