Clock vs Crock - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between clock and crock

is that clock is to ornament (eg the side of a stocking) with figured work while crock is to give off crock or smut.

As nouns the difference between clock and crock

is that 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 ) while crock is a stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container or crock can be the loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut.

As verbs the difference between clock and crock

is that 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 while crock is to break something or injure someone or crock can be to give off crock or smut.

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.

External links

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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 ----

crock

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) crokke, from (etyl) crocc, . See also (l).

Noun

(en noun)

A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.

* 1590-96 , '', 1750, ''The Works of Spenser , Volume 3, page 181,

Therefore the Vulgar did about him flock / And cluster thick unto his lea?ings vain; / Like fooli?h Flies about an Honey-Crock ; / In hope by him great Benefit to gain, / And uncontrolled Freedom to obtain.

A piece of broken pottery, a shard.

(UK) A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.

Old crocks ’ home = home for the aged

* 1925 , , Gutenberg Australia eBook #0300621,

He was getting very proud of the way he had learned to manage his game leg, and it occurred to him that here was a chance of testing his balance.“Not so bad that, for a crock ,” he told himself, as he lay full length in the sun watching the faint line of the Haripol hills overtopping the ridge of Crask.

* 1932 , Helen Simpson, Boomerang , Gutenberg Australia eBook #0800611,

He was in love with a girl, whose full name he did not tell me, and whom he had not seen for two years. She was a Lady Diana Someone, so much I knew, very lovely, a sort of relation, and he believed he had a chance if only the doctors could do something to help his asthma. “Can?t ask a girl to marry a crock .”

(UK) An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse).

Old crocks race = veteran car rally

(slang, countable, and, uncountable) Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.

:That is a bunch of crock .

The story is a crock .

A low stool.

* 1709 , '', 1822, Alexander Chalmers (editor), ''The Tatler , 2007 Facsimile Edition, page 12,

I then inquired for the person that belonged to the petticoat; and, to my great surprise, was directed to a very beautiful young damsel, with so pretty a face and shape, that I bid her come out of the crowd, and seated her upon a little crock at my left hand.

Verb

(en verb)

To break something or injure someone.

* 1904 , P.G. Wodehouse, [http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/gldbt10.txt]:

"That last time I brought down Barry I crocked him. He's in his study now with a sprained ankle. ..."

* 2007 January 3, Daily Mirror :

Thousands of cars crocked by dodgy fuel

* 2006 April 30, The Sunday Times :

Ferreira ... peremptorily expunges England’s World Cup chances by crocking Wayne Rooney.

(textiles, leatherworking) To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.

* 1917 , John H. Pfingsten, "Colouring-matter for leather and method of using the same" [http://www.google.com/patents?id=G3xVAAAAEBAJ], US Patent 1371572, page 1:

thus producing a permanent, definite color thereon which will not fade or crock , and at the same time using up all of the coloring matter.

* 1964 , Isabel Barnum Wingate, Know Your Merchandise [http://books.google.com/books?id=XuJGAAAAMAAJ], page 109:

Colored fabrics should be dried separately for the first few times to prevent crocking (rubbing off of dye).

* 2002 , Sandy Scrivano, Sewing With Leather & Suede [http://books.google.com/books?id=3ZXZ6f2KNLwC], ISBN 1579902731, page 95:

In leather garments, lining also prevents crocking of color onto skin or garments worn underneath.

(horticulture) To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.

* 1900 , H.A. Burberry, The Amateur Orchid Cultivators' Guide Book [http://books.google.com/books?id=PeECAAAAYAAJ], page 21:

The pots should be crocked for drainage to one-half their depth and the plants made moderately firm in the compost, as already indicated...

To store (butter, etc.) in a crock.

(Halliwell)

Derived terms

* crocker * crockery * crockpot * crock of gold * crock of shit * crock haircut

References

* Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[http://www.studiopotter.org/articles/?art=art0001] (etymology)

Etymology 2

Compare (etyl) , Scots (crochit), covered.

Noun

(-)

The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut.

Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth.

Verb

(en verb)

To give off crock or smut.

(Webster 1913)