0 a clock that you can set to wake you up at a particular time with a loud noise: --
I've set the alarm for 7.30.
My alarm clock went off at 7.30.
1 a clock that you can set to make a noise at a particular time, esp. to wake you from sleep --
If one wants to get an alarm clock so that one may save daylight one finds the utmost difficulty.
It serves as an alarm clock to thousands.
This means that the alarm clock will become just as much a part of drivers' equipment as the tachograph has unfortunately proved to be.
He was actually at work before he discovered that it was not his packed meal but the alarm clock.
If a man is found to have a waiter's kit and an alarm clock in his luggage, he is obviously seeking employment.
It is like rolling over in bed when the alarm clock of technology sounds, and drawing the blanket of tradition up round our ears.
I have increasing anxieties about people buying insurance policies because they get a free alarm clock.
If they will not get up in the morning, they are bought an alarm clock.
