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Alarm Clock
Also known as: Clock, Alarm
Unicode: U+23F0
Description
A timepiece set in advance to startle a person awake at the designated time with its two bells. That is, before hitting snooze. Appearance varies across platforms, but depicted as a classic, wind-up, bedside alarm clock, often red in color. May be used for various content concerning alarms, alerts, sleeping, waking, and time more generally.
Image Variants
3D
Color
Flat
High Contrast
Version Information
Emoji Version:1.0
Unicode Version:6.0
Keywords
alarmclock
Shortcodes
| Platform | Shortcode | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Emojipedia | :alarm_clock: | |
| GitHub | :alarm_clock: | |
| Slack | :alarm_clock: | |
| Discord | :alarm_clock: |
Additional Information
Category:Miscellaneous Technical -> User interface symbols
Definition:
A small clock with two bells to scare a person awake at a pre-set time. Alarm Clock was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to http://emojipedia.org/alarm-clock/
Adjectives:
- Before a time limit expires
Verbs:
- To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands in an analog clock.
- Make a clicking or ticking sound
- Make a clicking noise.
- Fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised
- Warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness
- To measure the duration of.
- To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of.
- Measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time
- To measure time.
- To measure the amount of time an object takes to complete a course (e.g., "to clock a race car").
Nouns:
- Time is the fourth dimension and a measure in which events can be ordered from the past through the present into the future, and also the measure of durations of events and the intervals between them.
- Inevitable passing of events.
- Dimension in which events can be ordered from the past through the present into the future
- Time is a concept referring to the perceived flow of actions and events from the past to future, or to its measurement.
- A period of time in which a given event is valid. The valid time interval includes the valid start time, and all moments of time up to, but not including the valid end time.
- The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past.
- The dimension of the physical universe which, at a given place, orders the sequence of events.
- The continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
- Type of clock.
- A clock with an alarm that can be set to sound at a determined time.
- A button on an alarm clock which, when pressed, silences the alarm temporarily, granting a few more minutes of sleep before the alarm sounds again.
- A clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time