The difference between Clock and Thump

When used as nouns, clock means an instrument used to measure or keep track of time, whereas thump means a blow that produces a muffled sound.

When used as verbs, clock means to measure the duration of, whereas thump means to hit (someone or something) as if to make a thump.


check bellow for the other definitions of Clock and Thump

  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. Thump as a noun:

    A blow that produces a muffled sound.

  2. Thump as a noun:

    The sound of such a blow; a thud.

  3. Thump as a noun (dated, colloquial, euphemism):

    Examples:

    "Where the thump have you been?!"

  1. Thump as a verb (transitive):

    To hit (someone or something) as if to make a thump.

  2. Thump as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to make a thumping sound.

    Examples:

    "The cat thumped its tail in irritation."

  3. Thump as a verb (intransitive):

    To thud or pound.

  4. Thump as a verb (intransitive):

    To throb with a muffled rhythmic sound.

    Examples:

    "Dance music thumped from the nightclub entrance."