The difference between Check out and Clock
When used as verbs, check out means to confirm and pay for goods and services at a facility (e.g.: supermarket, online store, hotel) when leaving, whereas clock means to measure the duration of.
Clock is also noun with the meaning: an instrument used to measure or keep track of time.
check bellow for the other definitions of Check out and Clock
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Check out as a verb (intransitive):
To confirm and pay for goods and services at a facility (e.g.: supermarket, online store, hotel) when leaving.
Examples:
"Be sure to check out of the hotel before noon."
"I'm done shopping, so I'll go check out now."
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Check out as a verb (transitive):
To withdraw (an item), as from a library, and have the withdrawal recorded.
Examples:
"He checked his favorite mystery out for the twenty-third time."
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Check out as a verb (transitive):
To record (someone) as leaving the premises or as taking something therefrom, as from a library or shop.
Examples:
"The desk clerk checked out the family that had been staying in room 322."
"The library assistant was checking people out."
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Check out as a verb (transitive):
To examine, inspect, look at closely, ogle; to investigate; to gather information so as to make a decision.
Examples:
"He was hanging out at the beach, checking out the young women in bikinis."
"He checked out the rumor, and managed to verify that it was true."
"'Check it out! Best prices in town."
"'Check ''this'' out! They just arrested the Mayor!"
"When you're there, check out the Cheddar Cheese Museum! It's a hoot!"
"'Check us out on the Web at en.wiktionary.org!"
"I don't know which gym to join, so I'm going to stop by both this weekend to check them out."
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Check out as a verb (transitive, computing):
To obtain source code from a repository.
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Check out as a verb (intransitive):
To become disinterested in an activity and cease to participate in more than a perfunctory manner; to become uncooperative.
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Check out as a verb (intransitive):
To become catatonic or otherwise nonresponsive.
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Check out as a verb (intransitive):
To leave in a hurry.
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Check out as a verb (intransitive, euphemistic, by extension):
To die.
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Check out as a verb (intransitive):
To prove (after an investigation) to be the case / in order.
Examples:
"The first two leads check out; I'll assume the third one is also valid."
"Their stories checked out."
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Clock as a noun:
An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece.
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Clock as a noun (British):
The odometer of a motor vehicle.
Examples:
"This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock."
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Clock as a noun (electronics):
An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
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Clock as a noun:
The seed head of a dandelion.
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Clock as a noun:
A time clock.
Examples:
"I can't go off to lunch yet: I'm still on the clock."
"We let the guys use the shop's tools and equipment for their own projects as long as they're off the clock."
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Clock as a noun (computing, informal):
A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
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Clock as a verb (transitive):
To measure the duration of.
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Clock as a verb (transitive):
To measure the speed of.
Examples:
"He was clocked at 155 miles per hour."
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Clock as a verb (transitive, slang):
To hit (someone) heavily.
Examples:
"When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him."
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Clock as a verb (slang):
To take notice of; to realise; to recognize someone or something
Examples:
"'Clock the wheels on that car!"
"He finally clocked that there were no more cornflakes."
"A trans person may be able to easily clock other trans people."
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Clock as a verb (British, slang):
To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
Examples:
"I don't believe that car has done only 40,000 miles. It's been clocked.'"
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Clock as a verb (transitive, New Zealand, slang):
To beat a video game.
Examples:
"Have you clocked that game yet?"
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Clock as a noun:
A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
Examples:
"rfquotek Jonathan Swift"
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Clock as a verb (transitive):
To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
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Clock as a noun:
A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle ().
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Clock as a verb (Scotland, intransitive, dated):
To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
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Clock as a verb (Scotland, intransitive, dated):
To hatch.