Clock vs Hat - What's the difference?
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An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece.
(British) The odometer of a motor vehicle.
(electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
The seed head of a dandelion.
A timeclock.
To measure the duration of.
To measure the speed of.
(slang) To hit (someone) heavily.
(slang) To take notice of; to realise.
* 2006 , (Lily Allen), Knock 'Em Out
(British, slang) To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
(transitive, New Zealand, slang) To beat a video game.
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
, 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
, 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
, passage=Clocks : These are ornamental designs embroidered or woven on to the ankles of stockings.}}
(dated) To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
(Webster 1913)
1000 English basic words
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A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone or a cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.
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*:There was a neat hat -and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
(lb) A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
*1993 , Susan Loesser, A Most Remarkable Fella: Frank Loesser and the Guys and Dolls in His Life: A Portrait by His Daughter , Hal Leonard Corporation (2000), ISBN 978-0-634-00927-3,
*:My mother was wearing several hats in the early fifties: hostess, scout, wife, and mother.
(lb) Any receptacle from which numbers/names are pulled out in a lottery.
# The lottery or draw itself.
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(lb) A hat switch.
*2002 , Ernest Pazera, Focus on SDL , p.139:
*:The third type of function allows you to check on the state of the joystick's buttons, axes, hats , and balls.
*1997 October 6th, “
*:I’lll have to leave it up to antiques experts to tell you when objects were marked that way, but I can tell you it’s called a “hacek” (with the hat' over the “c” and pronounced “hacheck”.) It is used to show that a “c” is pronounced as “ch” and an “s” as “sh.” Sometimes linguists just call it the “' hat .”
As verbs the difference between clock and hat
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 hat is has.As a noun 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 ).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)- This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock .
- 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) odometerDerived 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 clockVerb
(en verb)- He was clocked at 155 miles per hour.
- When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him.
- Clock the wheels on that car!
- He finally clocked that there were no more cornflakes.
- 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,
- I don't believe that car has done only 40,000 miles. It's been clocked.
- 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=109citation, 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) clockDerived terms
* clock in * clock on * clock off * clock out * clock upEtymology 2
Origin uncertain; designs may have originally been bell-shaped and thus related to Etymology 1, above.Noun
(en noun)citation
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}}
An zome stockèns o' gramfer's a-knit wi' clocks }}
citation
citation
- (Jonathan Swift)
See also
* meter * watchExternal links
* (Time)Etymology 3
Etymology 4
Verb
(en verb)hat
English
Noun
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