Cryptic crossword clue
Notice in time 5

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CLOCK

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What does CLOCK mean?

CLOCK noun
  1. An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece.
  2. The odometer of a motor vehicle.
  3. An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
  4. The seed head of a dandelion.
  5. A time clock.
  6. A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
CLOCK verb
  1. To measure the duration of.
  2. To measure the speed of.
  3. To hit (someone) heavily.
  4. To take notice of; to realise; to recognize someone or something
  5. To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
  6. To beat a video game.
CLOCK noun
  1. A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
CLOCK verb
  1. To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
CLOCK noun
  1. A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).
CLOCK verb
  1. To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
  2. To hatch.

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