CLOCK ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clock on mean? 

• CLOCK ON (verb)
  The verb CLOCK ON has 1 sense:

1. register one's arrival at work

  Familiarity information: CLOCK ON used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLOCK ON (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Register one's arrival at work

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

clock in; clock on; punch in

Hypernyms (to "clock on" is one way to...):

enter; put down; record (make a record of; set down in permanent form)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

At length, the steady ticking of the undisturbed clock on the wall tormented me to that degree that I resolved to go to bed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We had been out for one of our evening rambles, Holmes and I, and had returned about six o’clock on a cold, frosty winter’s evening.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The tin alarm-clock on the table ticked on, but Martin Eden, his face buried on his arms, did not hear it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The elegant little clock on the mantel-piece had struck eleven with its silver sounds, and the watchman was beginning to be heard at a distance telling the same tale, before Mr Elliot or any of them seemed to feel that he had been there long.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

His absence was discovered at seven o’clock on Tuesday morning.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The facts are these: about four o’clock on Christmas morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was returning from some small jollification and was making his way homeward down Tottenham Court Road.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)