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Clocking vs Locking - What's the difference?

clocking | locking |

As verbs the difference between clocking and locking

is that clocking is present participle of clock while locking is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between clocking and locking

is that clocking is a time measurement made according to a clock while locking is the act by which something is locked.

clocking

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A time measurement made according to a clock.
  • * 2012 , Kurt C. Schlichting, Grand Central's Engineer
  • At all of the major “breakup” yards where the railroads unloaded and loaded freight — waterfront railyards, pier stations, and inland freight depots — teams conducted clockings , recording all movements of trains
  • * 2012 , R. Flodna Knob, The Monster Between My Legs
  • He picked up the sheet of paper which showed the clockings of the two employees. He looked again at the clockings that Earrell had made and smiled to himself; on the fifth of the month, he had skipped his break completely

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    locking

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is locked.
  • * 1862 , Wilkie Collins, No Name
  • On the other hand, it was just as probable that these comings and goings, these lockings and unlockings, might be attributable to the existence of some private responsibility, which had unexpectedly intruded itself into the old man's easy existence...
  • (computing) Using a lock or a mutex to restrict the access to a part of a code to at most one process.
  • Derived terms

    * double-checked locking