The difference between Clock and Time
When used as nouns, clock means an instrument used to measure or keep track of time, whereas time means a dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions.
When used as verbs, clock means to measure the duration of, whereas time means to measure or record the time, duration, or rate of.
check bellow for the other definitions of Clock and Time
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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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Time as a noun (uncountable):
The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past. A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension. Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy. The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.
Examples:
"'Time stops for nobody. the ebb and flow of time'"
"Both science-fiction writers and physicists have written about travel through time."
"'Time slows down when you approach the speed of light."
"An essential definition of time should entail neither speed nor direction, just change."
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Time as a noun (uncountable):
A duration of time. A quantity of availability of duration. A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression. The serving of a prison sentence. An experience. An era; (with the, sometimes in plural) the current era, the current state of affairs. A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day. Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.
Examples:
"More time is needed to complete the project. You had plenty of time, but you waited until the last minute. Are you finished yet? Time’s up!"
"a long time; Record the individual times for the processes in each batch. Only your best time is compared with the other competitors. The algorithm runs in O(n<sup>2</sup>) time."
"The judge leniently granted a sentence with no hard time. He is not living at home because he is doing time."
"We had a wonderful time at the party."
"Roman times; the time of the dinosaurs"
"In my time, we respected our elders."
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Time as a noun (uncountable):
An instant of time. How much of a day has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device. A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive). A numerical indication of a particular moment. An instance or occurrence. Closing time. The hour of childbirth. (as someone's time) The end of someone's life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined.
Examples:
"Excuse me, have you got the time? What time is it, do you guess? Ten o’clock? A computer keeps time using a clock battery."
"it’s time for bed; it’s time to sleep; we must wait for the right time; it's time we were going"
"at what times do the trains arrive?; these times were erroneously converted between zones"
"When was the last time we went out? I don’t remember."
"see you another time; that’s three times he’s made the same mistake"
"Okay, but this is the last time. No more after that!"
"Last call: it's almost time."
"It was his time."
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Time as a noun (countable):
The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
Examples:
"Let's synchronize our watches so we're not on different time."
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Time as a noun (countable):
Ratio of comparison.
Examples:
"your car runs three times faster than mine; that is four times as heavy as this"
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Time as a noun (grammar, dated):
Tense.
Examples:
"the time of a verb"
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Time as a noun (music):
The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division.
Examples:
"common or triple time; the musician keeps good time."
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Time as a verb:
To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of.
Examples:
"I used a stopwatch to time myself running around the block."
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Time as a verb:
To choose when something begins or how long it lasts.
Examples:
"The President timed his speech badly, coinciding with the Super Bowl."
"The bomb was timed to explode at 9:20 p.m."
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Time as a verb (obsolete):
To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
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Time as a verb (obsolete):
To pass time; to delay.
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Time as a verb:
To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
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Time as a verb:
To measure, as in music or harmony.