A security company that uses round-the-clock surveillance is keeping an eye on things.
#ROUND THE CLOCK MEANING MOVIE#
At the end of each round, the player further around the clock is in the lead. Haley then recorded a successful cover of the Big Joe Turner song ' Shake, Rattle And Roll ,' and on March 25, 1955, 'Rock Around The Clock' was featured in the movie Blackboard Jungle, which gave it a surge in popularity and prompted Decca to re-release the single. Use the adjective round-the-clock to mean always, at any time of day. Once a player has made it back all the way around the board and hits a 20, they are then required to hit a bulls eye in order to complete the game. round-the-clock adjective (or as adverb round the clock) throughout the day and night Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition William Collins Sons & Co. I mind the broken looking-glass, The mattress like a rock, The servant-girl from County Clare, Whose face would stop a clock. The next players complete the round by each shooting 3 darts each and attempt to make their way around the clock. 1890 include break a mirror, kill chickens.) I remember I remember That boarding house forlorn, The little window where the smell Of hash came in the morn. What does round-the-clock mean Information and translations of round-the-clock in the most comprehensive dictionary definitions resource on the web. To have a face that would stop a clock "be very ugly" is from 1886. No one had blended country and R&B on a single before the Comets Rock the Joint in 1952. Round-the-clock (adj.) is from 1943, originally in reference to air raids. Whichever way you slice it, even forgetting Rock Around the Clock, he was at the front of the queue. The image of put (or set) the clock back "return to an earlier state or system" is from 1862. The Latin word was horologium (source of French horologe, Spanish reloj, Italian oriolo, orologio) the Greeks used a water-clock ( klepsydra, literally "water thief " see clepsydra). Replaced Old English dægmæl, from dæg "day" + mæl "measure, mark" (see meal (n.1)). echoic, imitating the rattling made by the early handbells of sheet-iron and quadrilateral shape, rather than the ringing of the cast circular bells of later date. The meaning of CLOCK is a device other than a watch for indicating or measuring time commonly by means of hands moving on a dial broadly : any periodic system by.
"machine to measure and indicate time mechanically" (since late 1940s also electronically), late 14c., clokke, originally "clock with bells," probably from Middle Dutch clocke (Dutch klok) "a clock," from Old North French cloque (Old French cloke, Modern French cloche "a bell"), from Medieval Latin clocca "bell," which probably is from Celtic (compare Old Irish clocc, Welsh cloch, Manx clagg "a bell") and spread by Irish missionaries (unless the Celtic words are from Latin).
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