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CLOCK IN
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Register one's arrival at work
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "clock in" is one way to...):
enter; put down; record (make a record of; set down in permanent form)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Antonym:
clock out (register one's departure from work)
Context examples:
Her youth, civil manners, and liberal pay procured her all the attention that a traveller like herself could require; and stopping only to change horses, she travelled on for about eleven hours without accident or alarm, and between six and seven o'clock in the evening found herself entering Fullerton.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
A man who had been in motion since eight o'clock in the morning, and might now have been still, who had been long talking, and might have been silent, who had been in more than one crowd, and might have been alone!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
It was dated from Rosings, at eight o'clock in the morning, and was as follows:—Be not alarmed, madam, on receiving this letter, by the apprehension of its containing any repetition of those sentiments or renewal of those offers which were last night so disgusting to you.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
At three o'clock in the afternoon, all the fashionable world at Nice may be seen on the Promenade des Anglais—a charming place, for the wide walk, bordered with palms, flowers, and tropical shrubs, is bounded on one side by the sea, on the other by the grand drive, lined with hotels and villas, while beyond lie orange orchards and the hills.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It is Christmas Eve. I dance, drink, make a good time, for to-morrow is Christmas Day and we will rest. But no. It is five o'clock in the morning—Christmas morning. I am two hours asleep. The man stand by my bed. 'Come, Charley,' he says, 'harness the dogs. We start.'
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
We had started from Yarmouth at three o'clock in the afternoon, and we were due in London about eight next morning.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The declivity was so small, that I walked near a mile before I got to the shore, which I conjectured was about eight o’clock in the evening.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
A clock in the schoolroom struck nine; Miss Miller left her circle, and standing in the middle of the room, cried—Silence! To your seats!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to look out of my bedroom window about two o’clock in the morning.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I shall drive there in my carriage at two o’clock in the afternoon for three successive days; the first day it will be drawn by four white, the second by four chestnut, and the last by four black horses; but if you fail to keep awake and I find you sleeping, I shall not be set free.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
