The difference between Clock and Meter
When used as nouns, clock means an instrument used to measure or keep track of time, whereas meter means (always meter) a device that measures things.
When used as verbs, clock means to measure the duration of, whereas meter means to measure with a metering device.
check bellow for the other definitions of Clock and Meter
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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.
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Meter as a noun:
(always meter) A device that measures things.
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Meter as a noun:
(always meter) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.
Examples:
"gas meter'' qualifier also falls under sense 1"
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Meter as a noun (dated):
(always meter) One who metes or measures.
Examples:
"a labouring coal-meter'"
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Meter as a noun (chiefly, _, US, elsewhere [[metre]]):
The base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), conceived of as 1/10000000 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, and now defined as the distance light will travel in a vacuum in 1/299792458 second.
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Meter as a noun (chiefly, _, US, elsewhere [[metre]]):
An increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure.
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Meter as a noun (chiefly, _, US, elsewhere [[metre]], prosody):
The rhythm pattern in a poem.
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Meter as a noun (chiefly, _, US, elsewhere [[metre]]):
A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.
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Meter as a noun (obsolete):
A poem.
Examples:
"rfquotek Robynson (More's Utopia)"
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Meter as a verb:
to measure with a metering device.
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Meter as a verb:
to imprint a postage mark with a postage meter
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Meter as a verb:
to regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things such as anticipation or breath)