Difference between Clock and Time

What is the difference between Clock and Time?

Clock as a noun is an instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece. while Time as a noun is the inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past.

Clock

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece. The odometer of a motor vehicle. An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules. A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To measure the duration of. To measure the speed of. To hit (someone) To take notice of; to realise. To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.

Example sentence: Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

Time

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To measure seconds, hours etc passed, especially using a clock of some kind.To choose how long something lasts.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past.A quantity of availability in time.A measurement of a quantity in time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.The serving of a prison sentence.How much of a day has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (esp. with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.A numerical indication of a particular moment.An instance or occurrence.An experience.An era; (with the, sometimes in plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.(with possessive) A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.

Example sentence: You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

We hope you now know whether to use Clock or Time in your sentence.

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