Clock vs. Meter — What's the Difference?

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.

The measured arrangement of words in poetry, as by accentual rhythm, syllabic quantity, or the number of syllables in a line.

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.

A particular arrangement of words in poetry, such as iambic pentameter, determined by the kind and number of metrical units in a line.

A time clock.

The rhythmic pattern of a stanza, determined by the kind and number of lines.

A source of regularly occurring pulses used to measure the passage of time, as in a computer.

Division into measures or bars.

Any of various devices that indicate measurement, such as a speedometer or a taximeter.

A specific rhythm determined by the number of beats and the time value assigned to each note in a measure.

A biological clock.

The international standard unit of length, approximately equivalent to 39.37 inches. It was redefined in 1983 as the distance traveled by light in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second. See Table at measurement.

The downy flower head of a dandelion that has gone to seed.

Any of various devices designed to measure time, distance, speed, or intensity or indicate and record or regulate the amount or volume, as of the flow of a gas or an electric current.

An embroidered or woven decoration on the side of a stocking or sock.

A postage meter.

To time, as with a stopwatch

A parking meter.

To register or record with a mechanical device

To measure with a meter

(Informal) To strike or hit (someone) forcefully, especially in the face.

To supply in a measured or regulated amount

To record working hours with a time clock

To imprint with postage or other revenue stamps by means of a postage meter or similar device

To be measured or registered, especially at a certain speed or rate. Often used with in

To provide with a parking meter or parking meters

An instrument that measures or keeps track of time; a non-wearable timepiece.

A device that measures things.

(attributive) A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.

A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.

(British) The odometer of a motor vehicle.

One who metes or measures.

(electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.

(American spelling) The base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), conceived as 1/10,000,000 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, and now defined as the distance light will travel in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 seconds.

The seed head of a dandelion.

(American spelling) The overall rhythm of a song or poem; particularly, the number of beats in a measure or syllables in a line.

A time clock.

(obsolete) A poem.

A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.

(American spelling) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.

(uncountable) A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.

To measure with a metering device.

A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.

To imprint a postage mark with a postage meter.

(transitive) To measure the duration of.

To regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things such as anticipation or breath).

(transitive) To measure the speed of.

One who, or that which, metes or measures. See Coal-meter.

To hit (someone) heavily.

An instrument for measuring, and usually for recording automatically, the quantity measured.

(slang) To take notice of; to realise; to recognize someone or something.

A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.

(transgender slang) To identify someone as being transgender.

Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on number, quantity, and accent of syllables; rhythm; measure; verse; also, any specific rhythmical arrangements; as, the Horatian meters; a dactylic meter.

To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.

A poem.

To beat a video game.

A measure of length, equal to 39.37 English inches, the standard of linear measure in the metric system of weights and measures. It was intended to be, and is very nearly, the ten millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole, as ascertained by actual measurement of an arc of a meridian. See Metric system, under Metric.

(transitive) To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.

The basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)

To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.

Any of various measuring instruments for measuring a quantity

To hatch.

(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

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.

Rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time

A watch, esp. one that strikes.

Measure with a meter;

The striking of a clock.

Stamp with a meter indicating the postage;

A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.

A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabæus stercorarius).

To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.

To call, as a hen. See Cluck.

A timepiece that shows the time of day

Measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time;