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

  1. Clock as a noun:

    An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece.

  2. Clock as a noun (British):

    The odometer of a motor vehicle.

    Examples:

    "This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock."

  3. Clock as a noun (electronics):

    An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.

  4. Clock as a noun:

    The seed head of a dandelion.

  5. 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."

  6. Clock as a noun (computing, informal):

    A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.

  1. Clock as a verb (transitive):

    To measure the duration of.

  2. Clock as a verb (transitive):

    To measure the speed of.

    Examples:

    "He was clocked at 155 miles per hour."

  3. Clock as a verb (transitive, slang):

    To hit (someone) heavily.

    Examples:

    "When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him."

  4. 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."

  5. 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.'"

  6. Clock as a verb (transitive, New Zealand, slang):

    To beat a video game.

    Examples:

    "Have you clocked that game yet?"

  1. Clock as a noun:

    A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Jonathan Swift"

  1. Clock as a verb (transitive):

    To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.

  1. Clock as a noun:

    A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle ().

  1. Clock as a verb (Scotland, intransitive, dated):

    To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.

  2. Clock as a verb (Scotland, intransitive, dated):

    To hatch.

  1. Meter as a noun:

    (always meter) A device that measures things.

  2. Meter as a noun:

    (always meter) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.

    Examples:

    "gas meter'' qualifier also falls under sense 1"

  3. Meter as a noun (dated):

    (always meter) One who metes or measures.

    Examples:

    "a labouring coal-meter'"

  4. 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.

  5. Meter as a noun (chiefly, _, US, elsewhere [[metre]]):

    An increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure.

  6. Meter as a noun (chiefly, _, US, elsewhere [[metre]], prosody):

    The rhythm pattern in a poem.

  7. 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.

  8. Meter as a noun (obsolete):

    A poem.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Robynson (More's Utopia)"

  1. Meter as a verb:

    to measure with a metering device.

  2. Meter as a verb:

    to imprint a postage mark with a postage meter

  3. 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)