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Definition: Round-the-clock |
Round-the-clockAdjective1. At all times; "around-the-clock nursing care". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Round-the-clockSynonyms: around-the-clock (adj), day-and-night (adj), nonstop (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: continuous navigation (transportation), round-the-clock navigation (transportation), round-the-clock operation (computing, post & telecom). |
Crosswords: Round-the-clock |
| Specialty definitions using "round-the-clock": SUPERVISOR, IDENTIFICATION AND COMMUNICATIONS. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In patients who are hospitalized or who receive round-the-clock care, treatment schedules or hospital routines also may disrupt sleep. (references) | |
Economic History | Slovak Rep | Sunday shopping and round-the-clock shopping are permitted under Slovak law. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Round-the-clock" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 94.87% of the time. "Round-the-clock" is used about 39 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 94.87% | 37 | 56,631 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.13% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 39 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "round-the-clock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Finnish | ympärivuorokautinen. (various references) | |
Korean | 둥글 시계. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ound-the-clockray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | continuamente (around-the-clock, ceaselessly, constantly, continually, continuously, day-and-night, hourly, night and day). (various references) | |
Russian | круглосуточный (around the clock, around-the-clock, day and night, day-and-night, round the clock). (various references) | |
Thai | ตลอ"เวลา (livelong). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | suốt ng y đêm (around-the-clock). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-h-k-l-n-o-o-r-t-u" | |
-4 letters: chondrule, concluder, conductor, contoured, decontrol, outrocked, rockhound, unclothed, uncolored, undercool, undertook. | |
-5 letters: checkout, chortled, chuckled, chuckler, clotured, clutched, coholder, coloured, concerto, conclude, condoler, conducer, cornuted, creodont, crotched, crouched, crunched, crutched, cuckooed, decolour, elkhound, honoured, knothole, occulted, occulter, roundlet, trounced, truckled, unchoked, unclothe, uncocked, uncooked, uncooled, uncorked, unhooked, unlocked, unrooted. | |
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