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Around The Clock

Definition: Around The Clock

Around The Clock

Adverb

1. Without stopping; "she worked around the clock".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Around The Clock

Synonyms: for 24 hours (adv), round the clock (adv). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Around The Clock

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Got a team of monkeys working around the clock on this? (The Usual Suspects; writing credit: Christopher McQuarrie.)

With the supermodel calling service, thousands of supermodels will call you around the clock! (Mr. Show; writing credit: Scott Aukerman; Jerry Collins)

Lyrics

Gonna rock, gonna rock around the clock tonight ("Rock Around the Clock"; performing artist: Bill Haley & the Comets)

We're gonna rock around the clock tonight ("Rock Around the Clock"; performing artist: Bill Haley & the Comets)

Movie/TV Titles

Twist Around the Clock (1961)

Rock Around the Clock (1956)

Around the Clock with the Marines (1918)

Rock Around the Clock (1987)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Around The Clock

DomainTitle

Books

  • High Rise: How 1,000 Men and Women Worked Around the Clock for Five Years and Lost $200 Million Building a Skyscraper (reference)

  • Rocking Around the Clock : Music Television, Post Modernism and Consumer Culture (reference)

  • Up All Hours: Scorching Tales of Sex Around the Clock ( Title Changed from Unzipped) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Around The Clock

Computer Images:
Around The Clock

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Photo Album: Around The Clock

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"... gets a 'go' signal from USS Leyte flight deck 0fficer as she is launched for anti-submarine patrol during LANTPHIBEX. The specially-designed aircraft were kept flying around the clock during the overseas transit of the amphibious force, and combined with sonar-equipped helicopters and Navy blimps, provided effective protection against four marauding 'Enemy' subs." Quoted from the original caption, which was released by USS Leyte (CVS-32) under date of 1 November 1955. Credit: NAVY.

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. At mealtimes clear around the clock, four company restaurants provide food for the employees. Location: a large Midwest machine tool plant. Credit: Library of Congress.

Around the clock with somebody's stenog. "7 a.m. out of the hay". Credit: Library of Congress.

Around the clock, or Fun in a music hall the funniest show in the world. Credit: Library of Congress.

Around the clock introducing Ritchie's London Pantomime Co. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Around The Clock

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

When your kidneys were healthy, they worked around the clock to remove wastes from your blood. (references)

Business

Other discount stores, such as Kim's Club also are instituting around the clock store hours in response to consumers demand. (references)

Children

Russia

According to a 1998 Human Rights Watch report, many children with disabilities in institutions are confined to beds around the clock or to rooms that are lit, heated, and furnished inadequately. (references)

Economic History

Indonesia

The Foreign Agricultural Service's Home Page is http://www.fas.usda.gov/. The FAS home page provides exporters, producers, processors, researchers, trade organizations, financial institutions, and other interested individuals and groups with access to data, analysis, trade policy developments and agricultural trade activities - around the clock and around the world. (references)

Minorities

Germany

The synagogue, as well as all other synagogues and Jewish community buildings, remained under police protection around the clock since the incident. (references)

Travel

Panama

There are some hotel coffee shops that are open around the clock. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Around The Clock

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

rock around the clock

67

around the clock

13
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Around The Clock

Language Translations for "around the clock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

gjatë ditës e natës. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

денонощен (day and night). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

日夜 (day and night). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

éjjel-nappal (day and night, night and day, round the clock). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

四六時中 (day and night). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しろくじちゅう (day and night). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arounday ethay ockclay

   

Portuguese

  

em 24 horas direto, dia e noite. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

круглосуточный (around-the-clock, day and night, day-and-night, round the clock, round-the-clock). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

non-stop (non-stop). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

dygnet runt (round the clock). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tam gün devam eden, gün boyunca (round the clock), gün boyu süren (day-long). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

цілодобовий (day and night, noctidial, round the clock). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Around The Clock

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-h-k-l-n-o-o-r-t-u"

-4 letters: coanchored, coauthored, octahedron, outcoached.

-5 letters: accounted, accoutred, cartooned, cartouche, chloracne, chlordane, chocolate, chondrule, colocated, concluder, concordat, conductor, contoured, coronated, craunched, creodonta, decathlon, decontrol, headcount, nucleator, ochlocrat, outlander, outranked, outrocked, rockhound, trauchled, truckload, uncharted, uncloaked, unclothed, uncolored, uncracked, undercoat, undercool, undertook, unlatched.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Around The Clock


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 72 6F 75 6E 64      54 68 65      43 6C 6F 63 6B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01110010 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 00100000 01010100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01000011 01101100 01101111 01100011 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#114 &#111 &#117 &#110 &#100 &#32 &#84 &#104 &#101 &#32 &#67 &#108 &#111 &#99 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0072 006F 0075 006E 0064      0054 0068 0065      0043 006C 006F 0063 006B

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

358481878070254747123778816977

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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