clock
/klɑk/ nom C2- A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
Pluriel clocks
Verbes à particule et expressions
- clock down To tick, buzz or become marked to indicate the passage of...
- clock in embaucher, pointer
- clock off to leave work, especially by recording the leaving time o...
- clock on To grow older; to proceed.
- clock onto Synonym of clock on (but used transitively).
- clock out To end work; to officially record a time when one termina...
- clock up To accumulate (an amount of time or experience).
Dans la bibliothèque
It was four o’clock when Dantès was placed in this chamber.
At last, about ten o’clock, and just as Dantès began to despair, steps were heard in the corridor, a key turned in the lock, the bolts creaked, the massy oaken door flew open, and a flood of light from two torches pervaded the apartment.
He had hurried back to the house, followed within a few minutes by the police sergeant, who arrived at the scene of the crime a little after twelve o’clock, after taking prompt steps to warn the county authorities that something serious was afoot.
And although the entertainment was fixed for twelve o’clock, an hour previous to that time the balcony was filled with impatient and expectant guests, consisting of the favored part of the crew of the Pharaon, and other personal friends of the bridegroom, the whole of whom had arrayed themselves in their choicest costumes, in order to do greater honor to the occasion.
Autres résultats
- clock horloge, indicateur de vitesse, compteur de vit... A1
- clock To ornament C2
- clock To measure the duration of. C2
- clock A large beetle, especially the European dung be... C2
- clock down To tick, buzz or become marked to indicate the ...
- clock in embaucher, pointer
- clock off to leave work, especially by recording the leav...
- clock on To grow older
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