Clock vs. Meter

Clocknoun

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

Clocknoun

(British) The odometer of a motor vehicle.

Clocknoun

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

Clocknoun

The seed head of a dandelion.

Clocknoun

A time clock.

Clocknoun

A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.

Clocknoun

A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.

Clockverb

(transitive) To measure the duration of.

Clockverb

(transitive) To measure the speed of.

Clockverb

To hit (someone) heavily.

Clockverb

(slang) To take notice of; to realise; to recognize someone or something

Clockverb

To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.

Clockverb

To beat a video game.

Clockverb

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

Clockverb

To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.

Clockverb

To hatch.

Clocknoun

A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions; in ordinary mechanical clocks for domestic or office use the time is indicated on a typically circular face or dial plate containing two hands, pointing to numbers engraved on the periphery of the face, thus showing the hours and minutes. The works of a mechanical clock are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. In electrical or electronic clocks, the time may be indicated, as on a mechanical clock, by hands, but may also be indicated by direct digital readout, with the hours and minutes in normal Arabic numerals. The readout using hands is often called analog to distinguish it from the digital readout. Some clocks also indicate the seconds. Clocks are not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person. Specialized clocks, such as atomic clocks, may be constructed on different principles, and may have a very high precision for use in scientific observations.

Clocknoun

A watch, esp. one that strikes.

Clocknoun

The striking of a clock.

Clocknoun

A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.

Clocknoun

A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabæus stercorarius).

Clockverb

To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.

Clockverb

To call, as a hen. See Cluck.

Clocknoun

a timepiece that shows the time of day

Clockverb

measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time;

Clock

A clock is a device used to measure, verify, keep, and indicate time. The clock is one of the oldest human inventions, meeting the need to measure intervals of time shorter than the natural units: the day, the lunar month, and the year.

Meternoun

(always meter) A device that measures things.

Meternoun

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

Meternoun

(always meter) (dated) One who metes or measures.

Meternoun

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.

Meternoun

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

Meternoun

The rhythm pattern in a poem.

Meternoun

A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.

Meternoun

(obsolete) A poem.

Meterverb

to measure with a metering device.

Meterverb

to imprint a postage mark with a postage meter

Meterverb

to regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things such as anticipation or breath)

Meternoun

One who, or that which, metes or measures. See Coal-meter.

Meternoun

An instrument for measuring, and usually for recording automatically, the quantity measured.

Meternoun

A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.

Meternoun

Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on number, quantity, and accent of syllables; rhythm; measure; verse; also, any specific rhythmical arrangements; as, the Horatian meters; a dactylic meter.

Meternoun

A poem.

Meternoun

A measure of length, equal to 39.37 English inches, the standard of linear measure in the metric system of weights and measures. It was intended to be, and is very nearly, the ten millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole, as ascertained by actual measurement of an arc of a meridian. See Metric system, under Metric.

Meternoun

the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)

Meternoun

any of various measuring instruments for measuring a quantity

Meternoun

(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

Meternoun

rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time

Meterverb

measure with a meter;

Meterverb

stamp with a meter indicating the postage;