Clock vs Heat - 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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(uncountable) Thermal energy.
* 2007 , James Shipman, Jerry Wilson, Aaron Todd, An Introduction to Physical Science: Twelfth Edition , pages 106–108:
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, title= (uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.
(uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
(uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
(uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.
(uncountable, slang) The police.
(uncountable, slang) One or more firearms.
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(countable, baseball) A fastball.
(uncountable) A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.
(countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race
(countable) One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
(countable) A hot spell.
(uncountable) Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
(uncountable) The output of a heating system.
To cause an increase in temperature of an object or space; to cause something to become hot (often with "up").
To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
* Shakespeare:
To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
* Dryden:
To arouse, to excite (sexually).
As nouns the difference between clock and heat
is that clock is an instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece while heat is thermal energy.As verbs the difference between clock and heat
is that clock is to measure the duration of while heat is to cause an increase in temperature of an object or space; to cause something to become hot often with "up".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
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- (Jonathan Swift)
See also
* meter * watchExternal links
* (Time)Etymology 3
Etymology 4
Verb
(en verb)heat
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) hete, from (etyl) .Noun
- Heat' and temperature, although different, are intimately related. [...] For example, suppose you added equal amounts of ' heat to equal masses of iron and aluminum. How do you think their temperatures would change?if the temperature of the iron increased by 100 C°, the corresponding temperature change in the aluminum would be only 48 C°.
Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.}}
Derived terms
* heat capacity * heat death * heat engine * heat exchanger * heat lamp * heatproof * heat pump * heat rash * heat-resistant * heat-seeking * heat shield * heat sink * heatstroke * heat treatment * heatwave * in heat * on heatEtymology 2
From (etyl) heten, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- I'll heat up the water.
- Pray, walk softly; do not heat your blood.
- A noble emulation heats your breast.
- The massage heated her up.