The difference between Clock and Slug
When used as nouns, clock means an instrument used to measure or keep track of time, whereas slug means any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
When used as verbs, clock means to measure the duration of, whereas slug means to drink quickly.
check bellow for the other definitions of Clock and Slug
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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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Slug as a noun:
Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
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Slug as a noun (obsolete):
A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.
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Slug as a noun:
A bullet (projectile).
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Slug as a noun:
A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
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Slug as a noun:
A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
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Slug as a noun (journalism):
A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use.
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Slug as a noun (physics, rarely used):
the Imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.
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Slug as a noun:
A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
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Slug as a noun:
A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
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Slug as a noun (television editing):
A black screen.
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Slug as a noun (metal typesetting):
A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug.
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Slug as a noun (regional):
A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
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Slug as a noun (US, slang, District of Columbia):
A hitchhiking commuter.
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Slug as a noun (web design):
The last part of a , the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
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Slug as a noun (obsolete):
A hindrance, an obstruction.
Examples:
"rfquotek Francis Bacon"
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Slug as a noun:
A ship that sails slowly.
Examples:
"rfquotek Halliwell"
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Slug as a noun:
A hard blow, usually with the fist.
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Slug as a verb:
To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
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Slug as a verb (transitive):
To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
Examples:
"He insulted my mother, so I slugged him."
"The fighter slugged his opponent into unconsciousness."
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Slug as a verb:
To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
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Slug as a verb (intransitive, of a bullet):
To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
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Slug as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):
To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.
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Slug as a verb (transitive):
To load with a slug or slugs.
Examples:
"to slug a gun"
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Slug as a verb:
To make sluggish.
Examples:
"rfquotek Milton"