Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A clock made to be hung upon the wall.
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- noun Attributive form of
wall clock
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Examples
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I pressed the controller's green button and ViewNet obliged by streaming an elaborate image into my optic nerves: a small classroom complete with a wall-clock, a chalkboard, windows revealing someone's conception of a typical schoolyard, and a row of bizarre students seated at old-fashioned desks.
Who Do You Say I Am 2010
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We got to work in the working group and I am very happy to announce that as of today there is now a draft specification for addressing time offsets by wall-clock time.
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We got to work in the working group and I am very happy to announce that as of today there is now a draft specification for addressing time offsets by wall-clock time.
ginger's thoughts » Media Fragment addressing into a live stream 2009
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I would love to have a wall-clock version of this.
Boing Boing: January 22, 2006 - January 28, 2006 Archives 2006
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Even a wall-clock, a PDA, or a thermometer seemed to help.
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In wall-clock years, she is younger than Sirhan; it's like having a bizarrely knowing younger sister mysteriously injected into his life to replace the eigenmother who stayed home and died with the Ring Imperium decades ago.
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She stared helplessly at the old familiar things: the armchair, the range, the wall-clock, a glass jar painted with gaudy flowers.
Death of a Harbormaster Simenon, Georges 1942
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Damp, streaked faces, for the most part pale and somewhat heavy, turned incessantly toward the large wall-clock at one end of the room.
V. V.'s Eyes Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905
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The wall-clock monotonously ticked behind the wall.
Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904
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Then she would sleep and dream that once more Edward stood upon the threshold and kissed her and turned to his cold room; but she -- she had made a noble fire in her little grate; and the room was full of primroses, red and white and lilac; and the wall-clock chimed instead of striking -- an intoxicating fairy chime; and there were clear sheets as of old.
Gone to Earth Mary Gladys Meredith Webb 1904
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