Clock vs. Cluck — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Clock and Cluck
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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.
Cluck
The characteristic sound made by a hen when brooding or calling its chicks.
Clock
An instrument other than a watch for measuring or indicating time, especially a mechanical or electronic device having a numbered dial and moving hands or a digital display.
Cluck
A sound similar to this.
Clock
A time clock.
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Cluck
(Informal) A stupid or foolish person.
Clock
A source of regularly occurring pulses used to measure the passage of time, as in a computer.
Cluck
To utter the characteristic sound of a hen.
Clock
Any of various devices that indicate measurement, such as a speedometer or a taximeter.
Cluck
To make a sound similar to that of a hen, as in coaxing a horse.
Clock
A biological clock.
Cluck
To call by making the characteristic sound of a hen or a similar sound.
Clock
The downy flower head of a dandelion that has gone to seed.
Cluck
To express by clucking
He clucked disapproval.
Clock
An embroidered or woven decoration on the side of a stocking or sock.
Cluck
The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.
Clock
To time, as with a stopwatch
Clock a runner.
Cluck
Any sound similar to this.
Clock
To register or record with a mechanical device
Clocked the winds at 60 miles per hour.
Cluck
A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.
Clock
(Informal) To strike or hit (someone) forcefully, especially in the face.
Cluck
(intransitive) To make such a sound.
Clock
To record working hours with a time clock
Clocks in at 8:00 and out at 4:00.
Cluck
(transitive) To cause (the tongue) to make a clicking sound.
My mother clucked her tongue in disapproval.
Clock
To be measured or registered, especially at a certain speed or rate. Often used with in
A fastball that clocks in at 95 miles per hour.
Cluck
To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
Clock
An instrument that measures or keeps track of time; a non-wearable timepiece.
Cluck
To suffer withdrawal from heroin.
Clock
(attributive) A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.
A 12-hour clock system; an antique clock sale; Acme is a clock manufacturer.
Cluck
To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen.
Clock
(British) The odometer of a motor vehicle.
This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock.
Cluck
To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
She, poor hen, fond of no second brood,Has clucked three to the wars.
Clock
(electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
Cluck
The call of a hen to her chickens.
Clock
The seed head of a dandelion.
Cluck
A click. See 3d Click, 2.
Clock
A time 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.
Cluck
The sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks)
Clock
A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
Cluck
Make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens
Clock
(uncountable) A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.
Clock
A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
Clock
(transitive) To measure the duration of.
Clock
(transitive) To measure the speed of.
He was clocked at 155 miles per hour.
Clock
To hit (someone) heavily.
When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him.
Clock
(slang) To take notice of; to realise; to recognize someone or something.
Clock the wheels on that car!
He finally clocked that there were no more cornflakes.
Clock
(transgender slang) To identify someone as being transgender.
A trans person may be able to easily clock other trans people.
Clock
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.
Clock
To beat a video game.
Have you clocked that game yet?
Clock
(transitive) To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
Clock
To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
Clock
To hatch.
Clock
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.
Clock
A watch, esp. one that strikes.
Clock
The striking of a clock.
Clock
A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.
Clock
A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabæus stercorarius).
Clock
To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.
Clock
To call, as a hen. See Cluck.
Clock
A timepiece that shows the time of day
Clock
Measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time;
He clocked the runners
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