Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A clock that can be set to sound a bell or buzzer at a desired hour.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A clock which can be so set as to make a loud and continued noise at a particular time, in order to arouse from sleep or attract attention.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a clock or watch which can be so set as to ring or strike loudly at a prearranged hour, to wake from sleep, or excite attention.
- n. See under Alarm.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time
Examples
“Then all the morris bells began to jingle like an alarm clock and she woke.”
“Reaching out, she picked up the small, gold-cased alarm clock sitting on the coffee table to check the time.”
“My alarm clock didn't go off this morning, instead I woke up to the sound of my cell phone ringing, it was my daughter Kirstin calling to say "Happy Mother's Day".”
“The alarm clock sounds as usual at six A.M. Jill had automatically set it the night before.”
“The alarm clock by Jim's bedside shrieked suddenly in the first hint of daylight, and Jim sprang from his pillow with the alertness of a Jack-in-the-box, and grabbed the clock, to stop its further eloquence.”
“On this night, the alarm clock was named “Fook Yoo.””
“I think the woodchuck's alarm clock always goes off before April is done, and he comes forth, apparently not to break his long fast, but to find his mate.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘alarm clock’.
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Take five
Two-word phrases composed of five-letter words. There are a couple with three words (great white shark), but I stuck those on Triads 3.
belly laugh, bench press, bette davis, black angus, blank check, booby hatch, brain coral, bronx cheer, brown dwarf, buddy holly, burnt umber, cabin fever and 195 more...
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TECH - furniture
The universe as IKEA sees it.
Furniture, haberdashery, household articles and a lot more. The bulk of the list (750 entries) are IKEA articles in the original English version IKEA use...active-response c..., add-on-unit for s..., adjustable slatte..., alarm clock, alkaline battery, anti-slip socks, anti-slip underlay, armchair, armrest, artificial flower, artificial garland, artificial plant ... and 830 more...
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TN5 Lesson 50
snapshot, what's wrong, composer, German, guitar, play, feed, enough, fed, peach, syrup, top and 21 more...
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Tick Tock Ya Don't Stop
Kinds of clocks.
sundial, hourglass, gnomon, water clock, tally stick, clepsydra, pendulum clock, grandfather clock, longcase clock, chamber clock, cuckoo clock, clock tower and 34 more...
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hazel
dimbox, flatwheeler, egg harbor, clothesline, whiskbroom, let's blouse, crabhanger, shifter, snugglepup, petting party, finale hopper, hiphound and 61 more...
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Room At The Inn
Words to do with hotels, inns, resorts, guesthouses ... broad in scope :-)
no-show, guesthouse, booking, room, single, double, triple, restaurant, concierge, laundry service, turn-down, porter and 81 more...
Tweets
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