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PRONUNCIATION OF CLOCKLIKE

clocklike  [ˈklɒkˌlaɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CLOCKLIKE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Clocklike is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CLOCKLIKE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of clocklike in the English dictionary

The definition of clocklike in the dictionary is unusually regular. Other definition of clocklike is resembling a clock in appearance.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CLOCKLIKE


corklike
ˈkɔːkˌlaɪk
epic-like
ˈɛpɪkˌlaɪk
folklike
ˈfəʊkˌlaɪk
forklike
ˈfɔːkˌlaɪk
lake-like
ˈleɪkˌlaɪk
masklike
ˈmɑːskˌlaɪk
milklike
ˈmɪlkˌlaɪk
necklike
ˈnekˌlaɪk
oaklike
ˈəʊkˌlaɪk
parklike
ˈpɑːkˌlaɪk
rocklike
ˈrɒkˌlaɪk
sacklike
ˈsækˌlaɪk
saclike
ˈsækˌlaɪk
silklike
ˈsɪlkˌlaɪk
smocklike
ˈsmɒkˌlaɪk
smokelike
ˈsməʊkˌlaɪk
snakelike
ˈsneɪkˌlaɪk
stalklike
ˈstɔːkˌlaɪk
sticklike
ˈstɪkˌlaɪk
tanklike
ˈtæŋkˌlaɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CLOCKLIKE

clochard
cloche
clock
clock card
clock face
clock golf
clock off
clock on
clock repairer
clock tower
clock up
clock-radio
clock-watcher
clock-watching
clocker
clockmaker
clockwise
clockwork
clockwork precision
clod

WORDS THAT END LIKE CLOCKLIKE

alike
beaklike
bricklike
brooklike
chalklike
cocklike
disklike
dislike
hawklike
hooklike
husklike
inklike
like
nooklike
peaklike
sharklike
streaklike
there´s nothing like
tusklike
unlike

Synonyms and antonyms of clocklike in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «clocklike» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CLOCKLIKE

Find out the translation of clocklike to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of clocklike from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «clocklike» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

clocklike
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cronométrica
570 millions of speakers

English

clocklike
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

clocklike
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

clocklike
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

clocklike
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

clocklike
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

clocklike
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

clocklike
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Seperti jam
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

clocklike
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

clocklike
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

clocklike
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Jam kaya
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

clocklike
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

clocklike
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

घड्याळ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

clocklike
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cronometrica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

clocklike
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

clocklike
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

clocklike
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

clocklike
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

clocklike
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

clocklike
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

clocklike
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of clocklike

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CLOCKLIKE»

The term «clocklike» is used very little and occupies the 171.559 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CLOCKLIKE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about clocklike

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CLOCKLIKE»

Discover the use of clocklike in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to clocklike and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
From Suns to Life: A Chronological Approach to the History ...
A first, important issue of the molecular clock approach is the fact that a global clocklike behaviour of the sequences is certainly not the rule. Several empirical studies evidenced variations in the rate of molecular evolution among taxa, both at ...
Muriel Gargaud, Philippe Claeys, Purificación López-García, 2007
2
The Geometry of Biological Time
This second edition of a classic mathematical biology book deals with the dynamics of processes that repeat themselves regularly.
Arthur T. Winfree, 2001
3
Animal Evolution: Genomes, Fossils, and Trees
In general, these types of features would be expected to change in a saltatory, non-clocklike manner. This may seem, at first, to be wrongheaded, since great effort has been expended in many studies to identify clocklike characters, to enable ...
Maximilian J. Telford, D. Timothy J. Littlewood, 2009
4
Selected Philosophical and Methodological Papers
Within each of these alternative chains, there are points at which the cerebral machinery functions clocklike, and there are other points at which it functions cloudlike. (And even if it functioned clocklike at all points in the chain, the cloudlike ...
Paul Everett Meehl, C. Anthony Anderson, Keith Gunderson, 1991
5
Biodiversity Dynamics: Turnover of Populations, Taxa, and ...
It is this requirement, that divergence be clocklike, that has the effect of limiting comparisons between models and data to those studies using molecular genetic data. For closely related species, the divergence of DNA is often roughly clocklike .
Michael L. McKinney, James A. Drake, 2013
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Niedermeyer's Electroencephalography: Basic Principles, ...
However, most of the biologic phenomena resulting from large population interactions, such as the EEG, are rarely associated with clocklike rhythmicity. At the other limit of the definition is the wave, as a single variation of a parameter between ...
Donald L. Schomer, Fernando Lopes da Silva, 2012
7
Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards
Both methods are seen to be fundamentally in error because they treat political phenomena as "clocklike," when in reality there are aspects of political life that make the clock metaphor ultimately inappropriate — in particular (imperfect) ...
Henry E. Brady, David Collier, 2004
8
Bones of Contention: Controversies in the Search for Human ...
thing in evolutionary biology could proceed in a regular, clocklike manner. Slow yes. Gradual, yes. But no one considered the process was clocklike." His position on this is clear: you must always test whether your protein or proteins operate ...
Roger Lewin, 1997
9
Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine: Expert Consult ...
Prophylaxis of hypnic headache has been successful with lithium carbonate, flunarizine, indomethacin, and caffeine. The attack itself responds best to the administration of aspirin. Hemicrania Horologica Hemicrania horologica, or clocklike ...
Meir H. Kryger, Thomas Roth, William C. Dement, 2010
10
Extinction and Radiation: How the Fall of Dinosaurs Led to ...
Genomic changes in each major lineage would remain relatively stochastically clocklike throughout the Late Cretaceous. At the K/T boundary and shortly thereafter the fossil record of eutherian mammals (based largely on North American ...
J. David Archibald, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CLOCKLIKE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term clocklike is used in the context of the following news items.
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TV Picks for July 6: 'Odd Mom Out,' 'The Island'
... learn why a series of great-white-shark attacks has occurred with clocklike precision at Surf Beach, Calif., in the same month, every two years. «The Seattle Times, Jul 15»
2
TV best bets: Mon., July 6
There, a series of Great White shark attacks have struck with clocklike precision every two years, at the same beach in the same month, in 2010 ... «NorthJersey.com, Jul 15»
3
Don't Go Into the Water! SHARK WEEK Returns to Discovery …
Return of the Great White Serial Killer seeks to find answers for a series of Great White shark attacks that have occurred with clocklike precision ... «Broadway World, Jul 15»
4
Workout Moves You Can Do at the Beach
Keeping your standing leg slightly bent, making sure the knee isn't over the toes, point and extend the other leg in a clocklike shape, at the 12, ... «New York Magazine, Jul 15»
5
In retirement, Nobel Laureate takes up Moon Bounce
... of radiation with clocklike regularity. The work earned Taylor and his Princeton colleague Russell Hulse the Nobel Prize in physics in 1993. «Southgate Amateur Radio Club, Jul 15»
6
In retirement, Nobelist takes up moon bouncing
... used radio waves to probe the secrets of pulsars, the spinning, magnetized neutron stars that emit bursts of radiation with clocklike regularity. «Science News, Jun 15»
7
The REAL Crisis Has Just Begun
... China was thought to be the engine that pulled the world out of recession, thanks to its near-clocklike hitting of 7%+ in GDP growth per year. «Gold Seek, Jun 15»
8
Hospital ICUs Mine Big Data in Push for Better Outcomes
Seven colored sections on a clocklike dial show imminent dangers in red, developing problems in yellow and completed tasks in green. «Wall Street Journal, Jun 15»
9
Tokyo tourism video showing 'miracle' train cleaning crew at work …
A short video to promote tourism that shows the clocklike precision with which Japanese custodial crews clean the nation's bullet trains during ... «Asahi Shimbun, Jun 15»
10
Discovery Channel Announces 'Shark Week' 2015 Schedule
Return of the Great White Serial Killer seeks to find answers for a series of Great White shark attacks that have occurred with clocklike precision ... «TVbytheNumbers, Jun 15»

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