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Definition: Clocking |
ClockingNoun1. The time taken to traverse a measured course; "it was a world record clocking". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Electrical Engineering | The arrangement of connector inserts, jackscrews, polarising pins, sockets, keys, keyways, or housing configurations to prevent the mismating or cross-mating of connectors. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: Clocking |
| Specialty definitions using "clocking": METER INSPECTOR. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Clocking Off (2000) | |
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| "Clocking" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 98.55% of the time. "Clocking" is used about 69 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 98.55% | 68 | 40,606 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.45% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 69 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "clocking": clocking-in, clocking-in card, clocking-on. | |
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| 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 |
clocking over | 38 |
clocking device speed | 18 |
clocking device radar | 17 |
clocking | 14 |
cpu clocking | 6 |
clocking off | 5 |
over clocking cpu | 5 |
clocking in system | 4 |
clocking system | 4 |
clocking mac | 3 |
amd clocking over | 2 |
clocking over processor | 2 |
clocking over software | 2 |
clocking computer | 2 |
clocking over pc | 2 |
clocking internet speed | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "clocking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 计时 (timed). (various references) | |
Danish | polarisation (polarisation, polarization), forvekslingsspærre (polarisation, polarization). (various references) | |
Dutch | polarisatie (polarisation, polarization). (various references) | |
Finnish | polarisointi (polarisation, polarization). (various references) | |
French | carton de pointage (clocking-in card), carte de pointage (clocking-in card), les vitesses pures et commerciales de la machine d'abattage ont été mesurées par pendulage direct (the theoretical and operational speeds of the winning machine were measured by direct clocking), fiche de pointage (clocking-in card). (various references) | |
German | Taktgeben, Takterzeugung (generation), Polarisierung (polarization), Gleichlauf (synchronism, synchronization). (various references) | |
Greek | πόλωση (polarity, polarization), πολοθέτηση (polarisation, polarization). (various references) | |
Italian | scheda di controllo (check list, clocking-in card, time card, time record, time sheet), le velocit pure e commerciali della macchina d'abbattimento sono state misurate mediante cronometraggio diretto (the theoretical and operational speeds of the winning machine were measured by direct clocking). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 計時 (timing). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | けいじ (apocalypse, auspicious event, bulletin, copula, criminal case, defer to another as if an older brother, detective, notice, revelation, timing). (various references) | |
Korean | 시간을 잼. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ockingclay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | as velocidades puras e comerciais da máquina de arranque foram determinadas por cronometragem directa (the theoretical and operational speeds of the winning machine were measured by direct clocking). (various references) | |
Romanian | pontare, pontaj (timekeeping). (various references) | |
Russian | синхронизировать синхронизация (sync, syncing, timing). (various references) | |
Spanish | polarización (polarization). (various references) | |
Swedish | polarisation (polarisation, polarization). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Clocking" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: clockings, Cockings, coocking. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cockling. | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-g-i-k-l-n-o" | |
-1 letter: cocking, locking. | |
-2 letters: clonic, coking. | |
-3 letters: click, cling, clink, clock, clonk, coign, colic, colin, conic, incog, klong, lingo, logic, nicol. | |
-4 letters: cion, clog, clon, coil, coin, coni, conk, gink, icon, ikon, kiln, kilo, king, kino, lick, ling, link, lino, lion, loci, lock, loin, long, nick, nock, noil, oink. | |
-5 letters: cig, cog, col, con, gin, ick. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-g-i-k-l-n-o" | |
+2 letters: cuckolding. | |
+3 letters: cockbilling, cocktailing, coldcocking. | |
+5 letters: lockstitching. | |
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