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Definition: Around The Clock |
Around The ClockAdverb1. Without stopping; "she worked around the clock". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Around The ClockSynonyms: for 24 hours (adv), round the clock (adv). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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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. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
rock around the clock | 67 |
around the clock | 13 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 em 24 horas direto, dia e noite. (various references) круглосуточный (around-the-clock, day and night, day-and-night, round the clock, round-the-clock). (various references) non-stop (non-stop). (various references) dygnet runt (round the clock). (various references) tam gün devam eden, gün boyunca (round the clock), gün boyu süren (day-long). (various references) цілодобовий (day and night, noctidial, round the clock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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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)
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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)A r o u n d   T h e   C l o c k |
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 |
| 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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