"clockcase" meaning in English

See clockcase in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: clockcases [plural]
Etymology: clock + case Etymology templates: {{compound|en|clock|case}} clock + case Head templates: {{en-noun}} clockcase (plural clockcases)
  1. A case built to contain a clock; the casing of a case clock.

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for clockcase meaning in English (1.6kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "clock",
        "3": "case"
      },
      "expansion": "clock + case",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "clock + case",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "clockcases",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "clockcase (plural clockcases)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English endocentric compounds",
          "parents": [
            "Endocentric compounds",
            "Compound terms",
            "Terms by etymology"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 249",
          "text": "It was a miserable evening; outside it was snowing and blowing, and in the squire's parlour the candle burned so dimly that you could scarcely distinguish anything in the room but a clock-case with some Chinese ornaments, a large mirror in an old-fashioned frame, and a silver family tankard.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A case built to contain a clock; the casing of a case clock."
      ],
      "id": "en-clockcase-en-noun-4lNn3dr~",
      "links": [
        [
          "case",
          "case"
        ],
        [
          "clock",
          "clock"
        ],
        [
          "casing",
          "casing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "case clock",
          "case clock"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "clockcase"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "clock",
        "3": "case"
      },
      "expansion": "clock + case",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "clock + case",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "clockcases",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "clockcase (plural clockcases)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 2-syllable words",
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English endocentric compounds",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 249",
          "text": "It was a miserable evening; outside it was snowing and blowing, and in the squire's parlour the candle burned so dimly that you could scarcely distinguish anything in the room but a clock-case with some Chinese ornaments, a large mirror in an old-fashioned frame, and a silver family tankard.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A case built to contain a clock; the casing of a case clock."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "case",
          "case"
        ],
        [
          "clock",
          "clock"
        ],
        [
          "casing",
          "casing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "case clock",
          "case clock"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "clockcase"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.