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Boat vs Clock - What's the difference?

boat | clock |

In lang=en terms the difference between boat and clock

is that boat is to place in a boat while clock is to ornament (eg the side of a stocking) with figured work.

As nouns the difference between boat and clock

is that boat is a craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind while clock is an instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece or clock can be a pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking or clock can be a large beetle, especially the european dung beetle (scarabaeus stercorarius ).

As verbs the difference between boat and clock

is that boat is to travel by boat while clock is to measure the duration of or clock can be to ornament (eg the side of a stocking) with figured work or clock can be (dated) to make the sound of a hen; to cluck.

boat

English

(wikipedia boat)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind.
  • *
  • *:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
  • *, chapter=8
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Philander went into the next room
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Yesterday’s fuel , passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).}}
  • (lb) A full house.
  • A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.
  • :
  • (lb) One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.
  • The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.
  • Usage notes

    There is no explicit limit, but the word boat usually refers to a relatively small watercraft, smaller than a ship but larger than a dinghy.

    Synonyms

    * (craft on or in water) craft, ship, vessel

    Hyponyms

    (Terms denoting specific kinds of boat) * (A craft on or in water) ark, bangca, barge, canoe, catamaran, caravel, carrack, coracle, cruiser, cutter, dhow, dinghy, dory, dragon boat, Dutch barge, East Indiaman, felucca, ferry, ferryboat, fishing boat, flatboat, folding boat, galley, galleon, gig, go-fast boat, gondola, guardboat, gunboat, houseboat, hovercraft, hydrofoil, hydroplane, iceboat, inflatable boat, inflatable raft, jetboat, jetski, junk, , kayak, keelboat, ketch, lifeboat, log boat, longboat, luxemotor, mackinaw boat, mailboat, motorboat, motorsailer, narrowboat, Norfolk wherry, outrigger canoe, paddleboat, peniche, pinnace, policeboat, powerboat, raft, rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RIB), riverboat, rowboat, sailboat, schooner, scow, seaboat, sealship, Seiner, ship of the line, skiff, sloop, steamboat, submarine, surfboat, swan boat, tender, tjalk, trawler, trireme, trimaran, troller, tug, tugboat, U-boat, wangkang, water taxi, whaleboat, yacht, yawl

    Derived terms

    * boatable * boatage * boatbill * boatbuilder * boatel, botel * boater * boatful * boathook * boathouse * boatie * boating * boatless * boatlift * boatload * boatman, boatsman * boatmanship, boatsmanship * boatneck * boatslip * boatswain * boatswainbird * boattail * boatwoman * boatwright * boatyard * burn one's boats * float someone's boat * gravy boat * houseboat * in the same boat * longtail boat * miss the boat * narrowboat, narrow boat * push the boat out * rock the boat * speedboat * twist-boat * U-boat

    See also

    *

    References

    * Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To travel by boat.
  • To transport in a boat.
  • to boat goods
  • To place in a boat.
  • to boat oars

    Statistics

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    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words ----

    clock

    English

    (wikipedia clock)

    Etymology 1

    c. 1350–1400, (etyl) , (etyl) Glocke, (etyl) klocka. More at (laugh).

    Alternative forms

    * (contraction used in electronics)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece.
  • (British) The odometer of a motor vehicle.
  • This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock .
  • (electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
  • The seed head of a dandelion.
  • A timeclock.
  • 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 .
    Synonyms
    * (instrument used to measure or keep track of time) timepiece * (odometer of a motor vehicle) odometer
    Derived terms
    * a broken clock is right twice a day * alarm clock * atomic clock * beat the clock * biological clock * body clock * carriage clock * case clock * clean someone's clock * clock generator * clockhouse * clock radio * clock signal * clock-watcher * clockwise * clockwork * cuckoo clock * dandelion clock * face that would stop a clock * grandfather clock * o'clock * on the clock * run down the clock * shot clock * time clock * wall clock * water clock * work against the clock * work around the clock / work round the clock

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To measure the duration of.
  • To measure the speed of.
  • He was clocked at 155 miles per hour.
  • (slang) To hit (someone) heavily.
  • When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him.
  • (slang) To take notice of; to realise.
  • Clock the wheels on that car!
    He finally clocked that there were no more cornflakes.
  • * 2006 , (Lily Allen), Knock 'Em Out
  • Cut to the pub on a lads night out,
    Man at the bar cos it was his shout,
    Clocks this bird and she looks OK,
    Caught him looking and she walks his way,
  • (British, slang) To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
  • I don't believe that car has done only 40,000 miles. It's been clocked.
  • (transitive, New Zealand, slang) To beat a video game.
  • Have you clocked that game yet?
    Quotations
    * to take notice of ** {{quote-book, 2000, title=Naugahide Days: The Lost Island Stories of Thomas Wood Briar, author=Phil Austin, page=109 citation , passage=Bo John and I twisted our heads around as Miranda braked over to the gravelly shoulder, let the Scout wheeze to a stop. She was climbing out, hurrying back to whatever had caught her eye. Bo John leered into the door mirror, clocking her flouncing, leggy strut.}} ** {{quote-book, 2005, title=Cupid Is Stupid, author=Jr. Aaron Bryant, page=19 citation , passage=It is true. Carmen is an official gold digger. In fact, she is an instructor at the school of gold digging. Hood rats have been clocking her style for years. Wanting to pull the players she pulled, and wishing they had the looks she had.}} ** {{quote-book, 2006, Dublin Noir: The Celtic Tiger Vs. the Ugly American, author=Ken Bruen, page=36 citation , passage=And he waits till I extend my hand, the two fingers visibly crushed. He clocks them, I say, "Phil."}}
    Synonyms
    * (measure the duration of) time * (measure the speed of) * slug, smack, thump, whack * check out, scope out * turn back (the vehicle's) clock, wind back (the vehicle's) clock
    Derived terms
    * clock in * clock on * clock off * clock out * clock up

    Etymology 2

    Origin uncertain; designs may have originally been bell-shaped and thus related to Etymology 1, above.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
  • * {{quote-journal, 1882, journal=Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri, author= W.S. Gilbert, title=When you're lying awake citation
  • , passage=But this you can't stand, so you throw up your hand,
    and you find you're as cold as an icicle,
    In your shirt and your socks (the black silk with gold clocks ),
    crossing Salisbury Plain on a bicycle}}
  • * {{quote-journal, 1894, journal=Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, author=William Barnes, page=110, title=Grammer's Shoes
  • , passage=She'd a gown wi' girt flowers lik' hollyhocks
    An zome stockèns o' gramfer's a-knit wi' clocks }}
  • * {{quote-book, 2004, title=Traditional Scandinavian Knitting, author=Sheila McGregor, page=60, publisher=Courier Dover citation
  • , passage=Most decoration involved the ankle clocks , and several are shown on p.15 in the form of charts.}}
  • * {{quote-book, 2006, title=Fashion Source Book, author=J. Munslow, Kathryn McKelvey, page=231 citation
  • , passage=Clocks : These are ornamental designs embroidered or woven on to the ankles of stockings.}}
    (Jonathan Swift)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
  • See also

    * meter * watch

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Scarabaeus stercorarius ).
  • Etymology 4

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dated) To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
  • (Webster 1913) 1000 English basic words ----