Talk:clock out

From WT:RFV

clock out

Rfv-sense: to run out of time. Apparently my use of this is idiosyncratic and unattestable. I couldn't find it among hundreds of collocations at b.g.c. I have added 2 other senses. The electronics one should be looked at by an electronics engineer-type. DCDuring TALK 18:25, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

You might also try chess. I can't find a cite, but I seem to remember it being used in a chess sense for timed games. --EncycloPetey 21:48, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

I have heard it used as a euphemism for death, which might be an extension of the RFV sense. - [The]DaveRoss 22:41, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

As an aside, DCD, I always read your "clocked out" as a transitive verb rather than an intransitive one: "I am hereby clocking out this term" (closing it because of elapsed time). Equinox ◑ 19:04, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Clocking out is not official terminology, though 30 days is considered to be the earliest at which something can be stricken.

I think it would be ergative, both transitive and intransitive, with the meanings relating in a predictable pattern. I thought that with the passage of time the RfV would "clock out" on its own (intransitively). Its time ran out. I didn't do it. It's not my fault. I was merely drawing attention to the fact, especially for entries where I had entered the RfV and thereby felt debarred from striking. DCDuring TALK 20:02, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

I had interpreted this use as intransitive, just as you intended it, and it didn't strike me as being at all odd. Until you listed it here, it never occurred to me that I'd never heard this use anywhere else. —Ruakh_TALK 00:27, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

English: the language of easy invention. DCDuring TALK 01:35, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

BTW, what's a good substitute. "Expired"? "Out of time"? "Past 30 days"? "Past its attest-by date"? Is it useful enough to keep as wikijargon (in WT:GLOSS)? DCDuring TALK 01:49, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

RFV failed, sense removed. —Ruakh_TALK 22:59, 1 November 2010 (UTC)