What's the difference between clock and crock?

Clock


Definition:

  • (n.) A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works 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. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person.
  • (n.) A watch, esp. one that strikes.
  • (n.) The striking of a clock.
  • (n.) A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.
  • (v. t.) To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.
  • (v. t. & i.) To call, as a hen. See Cluck.
  • (n.) A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabaeus stercorarius).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clinical pharmacists were required to clock in at 51 institutions (15.0%), staff pharmacists at 62 (18.2%), and pharmacy technicians at 144 (42.9%).
  • (2) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
  • (3) It is suggested the participation of glycogen (starch) in the self-oscillatory mechanism of the futile cycle formed by the phosphofructokinase and fructose bisphosphatase reactions may give rise to oscillations with the period of 10(3)-10(4) min, which may serve as the basis for the cell clock.
  • (4) There were still 25 seconds left on the clock when Vernon Davis reeled in a catch at the Baltimore nine-yard line, but San Francisco could not convert on second or third down.
  • (5) Keepy-uppys should be a simple skill for a professional footballer, so when Tom Ince clocked himself in the face with the ball while preparing to take a corner early in the second half, even he couldn't help but laugh.
  • (6) It was previously believed that the period of the circadian clock was primarily responsive to externally imposed tonic or phasic events.
  • (7) After a hiatus, Smith is back with a flourish for her genre-bending new novel How to be Both , and David Mitchell has been longlisted for a third time, for The Bone Clocks .
  • (8) The great diversity of D(2)O effects on biological systems in general is briefly reviewed and the need for rejectable hypotheses concerning the action of D(2)O on circadian clocks is stressed because current speculation on its action yields "predictions" expected from almost any hypothesis.
  • (9) Sina has set up a round-the-clock "rumour control" team and has begun issuing warnings to users judged to have crossed the line and suspending and deleting accounts.
  • (10) We hypothesize that ultradian oscillators are coupled to yield a composite circadian clock in Drosophila.
  • (11) Two periods of intense glucose release to blood were recognized: the maxima were attained at 4 and 12 o'clock.
  • (12) Listen to Stoopid Symbol Of Woman Hate or Can't Stand Up For 40-Inch Busts (both songs were inspired by a hatred of sexist advertising) and you can hear Amon Duul and Hawkwind scaring the living shit out of Devo and Clock DVA.
  • (13) Attempts were made to damage the Olympic clock in the square.
  • (14) As the clock struck and glasses clinked, we toasted the new.
  • (15) Hot cross buns must be made and eaten on Good Friday before 11 o’clock, otherwise their meaning is lost.
  • (16) The results indicated that the internal "clock" in lithium-treated patients was slower than in the two other groups, but only at night.
  • (17) The commemoration began when the clock on the neo-gothic Town Hall struck 12, and a maroon was fired from the roof.
  • (18) Recent findings indicate that treatment with a short-acting benzodiazepine, triazolam, can induce major shifts in the circadian clock of golden hamsters.
  • (19) 4.05am GMT 90 mins +3 RSL coming forward again as the clock runs down.
  • (20) No biological clock phenotypes have been reported for this tissue in any of the per mutants, per protein mapped to different subcellular locations in different tissues.

Crock


Definition:

  • (n.) The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut; also, coloring matter which rubs off from cloth.
  • (v. t.) To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth.
  • (v. i.) To give off crock or smut.
  • (n.) A low stool.
  • (n.) Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher.
  • (v. t.) To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He frequently skips lunch, such as today’s offering of meat salad, and preferred to make his own meals before the prison staff revoked his Crock-Pot.
  • (2) A total of 22 patients operated according to Henry Crock's indications and followed-up after 2 years were reviewed.
  • (3) I prefer a crocked Messi to anyone else fully fit."
  • (4) Denilson, and not Campbell, is on for the crocked Gallas.
  • (5) Ethical consumerism, once again, has turned out to be a crock.
  • (6) How much real world evidence needs to accumulate before politicians in the UK will stop stoking the politics of envy, as though there really was a hidden crock of gold at the end of the rainbow?
  • (7) Trephination with the modified Crock trephine yielded disks with diameters close to 7.3 mm in all meridians.
  • (8) A professor of public law at the University of Sydney, Mary Crock, said immigration officers had asked the asylum seekers just four questions before determining they should be handed back: their name, age, where they came from and why they didn’t want to go back.
  • (9) If Bucholtz is crocked, lets hope Nieves had been showing Doubront videos of Mike Marshall from '74 with the Dodgers and '79 with the Twins.
  • (10) The third was a squamous cell carcinoma of the limbus treated by lamellar excision with the Crock Contact-lens Corneal Cutter; the wound was allowed to granulate, and in so doing, caused negligible astigmatism.
  • (11) Gino Pozzo, son of the family business's founder, Giampaolo, stated on taking over that they are interested in investing in their English club for similar measured progress, not a rapid sprint to the Premier League's crock of gold, fortified by loan deals.
  • (12) Many of the patients termed crocks have symptoms referable to the gastrointestinal system, and they are at considerable health risk, since they usually alienate health care personnel.
  • (13) Look after the wealthy and clever and they will look after everyone else – that’s the moral basis of capitalism, and it’s a crock.
  • (14) "Anybody can tell you that asking someone in the middle of the high seas simple questions like that is not going to deliver anything near the information you need to work out if they are refugees or not," said Crock, a migration and refugee law expert.
  • (15) "So much has been made of Factory apparently turning The Smiths down, but that's a crock of shit.
  • (16) Elderly patients are sometimes stereotyped as "crocks" and "gomers"--crotchety chronic complainers beyond help and hope.
  • (17) Even Chiles was moved to described it as a "crock of shit" , but any decision to axe it would be a blow for ITV director of television Peter Fincham, who was responsible for ditching GMTV.
  • (18) Henry Crock was the first to reveal its principal pathogenetic factor, disc resorption, and to accurately describe the syndrome and its surgical treatment.
  • (19) Michael Heseltine had already been anointed as the new minister for Merseyside to stabilise Liverpool but without any crock of gold and, as the cabinet papers reveal, on what Thatcher's closest advisers considered to be a "doomed mission".
  • (20) Meanwhile, unemployment in Greece is around 27%; the public debt now is higher than it was when Athens collapsed, and the banking system is so crocked that small and mid-sized businesses in Greece are starved of credit (compare that with the generous terms and conditions a tech start-up in Berlin can now get).