Explore Clocks through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like filaria. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Clocks meaning
plural of clock
Synonyms of Clocks
Using Clocks
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of clock
- Useful related words include: redstem storksbill, storksbill, erodium cicutarium, pin clover.
- In the example corpus, clocks often appears in combinations such as: the clocks, clocks in, clocks and.
Context around Clocks
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 13 start, 7 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Clocks
- In this selection, "clocks" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, alarm, atomic, word, software, forward and watches stand out and add context to how "clocks" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about pendulum clocks and alarm clocks with visible. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "clocks" sits close to words such as assumes, authenticity and calculation, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with clocks
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Clocks Forward, Clocks Back: How Does Your Sleep Suffer? (9 words)
Word clocks Software word clock Word clocks are clocks that display the time visually using sentences. (16 words)
Counters are useful for digital clocks and timers, and in oven timers, VCR clocks, etc. citation. (16 words)
For example, if you are going to bed at 11:00 p.m., turn your clocks to 10:00 p.m. That way, your clocks will be accurate when you awaken Sunday, and you’ll be on time for church services. (41 words)
Bürgi's clocks were a great improvement in accuracy as they were correct to within a minute a day. citation citation These clocks helped the 16th-century astronomer Tycho Brahe to observe astronomical events with much greater precision than before. (40 words)
While regular alarm clocks are great, they're very much outpaced by modern smart alarm clocks that have a ton of great features, including ones that can help you get to sleep. (32 words)
Clocks Forward, Clocks Back: How Does Your Sleep Suffer? (9 words)
Example sentences (20)
Word clocks Software word clock Word clocks are clocks that display the time visually using sentences.
Clocks Forward, Clocks Back: How Does Your Sleep Suffer?
Analogue clocks, watches, car radio displays, and microwave and oven clocks will most likely need to be adjusted manually.
While regular alarm clocks are great, they're very much outpaced by modern smart alarm clocks that have a ton of great features, including ones that can help you get to sleep.
Traditionally, this starts when we change the clocks an hour – and we’re moving the clocks by one hour on Sunday 29 March at 1am.
Water clocks have been around for something like 3500 years, and fully mechanical clocks have been around for something like 700 years.
For example, if you are going to bed at 11:00 p.m., turn your clocks to 10:00 p.m. That way, your clocks will be accurate when you awaken Sunday, and you’ll be on time for church services.
Our clocks are back to normal, and by now, our inner clocks have caught up as well.
But other household clocks such as those on alarm clocks, microwaves, stoves and car radios have to be manually updated.
One of the top members of a school leaders association in the UK, Malcolm Trobe, said they're installing digital clocks after students complained they couldn't understand the clocks in classrooms.
Alarm clocks with visible indicators are sometimes used to indicate to children too young to read the time that the time for sleep has finished; they are sometimes called training clocks.
Analog game clocks A typical analog chess clock Analog clocks are equipped with a "flag" (a Dutch invention) that falls to indicate the exact moment the player's time has expired.
Bürgi's clocks were a great improvement in accuracy as they were correct to within a minute a day. citation citation These clocks helped the 16th-century astronomer Tycho Brahe to observe astronomical events with much greater precision than before.
Clocks may also have the facility to make a loud alert signal at a specified time, typically to waken a sleeper at a preset time; they are referred to as alarm clocks.
Concept Each satellite will have two rubidium atomic clocks and two passive hydrogen maser atomic clocks, critical to any satellite-navigation system, and a number of other components.
Counters are useful for digital clocks and timers, and in oven timers, VCR clocks, etc. citation.
Experimental Setup of Huygens synchronization of two clocks In 1665 Huygens made a curious observation about pendulum clocks.
Extremely precise atomic clocks on the surface of the Earth, for example, are found to measure less time (run slower) when compared to similar clocks in space.
For example, if the Earth clocks age 1 day less on each leg, the amount that the Earth clocks will lag behind amounts to 2 days.
For these reasons mercury pendulums were used in the highest precision clocks, but gridirons were used in quality regulator clocks.
Common combinations with clocks
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the clocks 44×
- clocks in 28×
- clocks and 15×
- alarm clocks 12×
- clocks back 9×
- atomic clocks 9×
- clocks have 8×
- your clocks 8×
- clocks on 8×
- clocks are 7×