Home vs Clock - What's the difference?
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(lb) A dwelling.
#One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one’s family; also, one’s birthplace.
#* (William Tyndale), , xx, 10:
#*:And the disciples wet awaye agayne vnto their awne home .
#*1808 , (John Dryden), (Walter Scott) (editor), The Works of John Dryden :
#*:Thither for ease and soft repose we come: / Home is the sacred refuge of our life; / Secured from all approaches, but a wife.
#*1822 , (John Howard Payne), :
#*:Home'! '''home'''! sweet, sweet '''home'''! / There’s no place like '''home''', there’s no place like ' home .
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#*:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
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#*:Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes , burying victims under rubble and sludge.
#The place where a person was raised; Childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.
#*2004', Jean Harrison, '''''Home :
#*:The rights listed in the UNCRC cover all areas of children's lives such as their right to have a home and their right to be educated.
#The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
#*1837 , (George Gordon Byron),
#*:He enter'd in the house—his home' no more, / For without hearts there is no ' home ;
#A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
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#(lb) The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
#*1769 , King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, , xii, 5:
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One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
*1863', (Nathaniel Hawthorne), ''
*:Visiting these famous localities, and a great many others, I hope that I do not compromise my American patriotism by acknowledging that I was often conscious of a fervent hereditary attachment to the native soil of our forefathers, and felt it to be our own Old Home .
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*:So this was my future home , I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
*1980 , (Peter Allen), song, (I Still Call Australia Home) :
*:I've been to cities that never close down / From New York to Rio and old London town / But no matter how far or how wide I roam / I still call Australia home .
The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
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*1706', (Matthew Prior), ''An Ode, Humbly Inscribed to the Queen, on the ?ucce?s of Her Maje?ty's Arms, 1706'', as republished in '''1795 , Robert Anderson (editor), ''The Works of the British Poets :
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*1849 , (Alfred Tennyson), :
*:Her eyes are homes of silent prayer, / Nor other thought her mind admits / But, he was dead, and there he sits, / And he that brought him back is there.
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*:Africa is home to so many premier-league diseases (such as AIDS, childhood diarrhoea, malaria and tuberculosis) that those in lower divisions are easily ignored.
(lb) A focus point.
# The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
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#(lb) Home plate.
#(lb) The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
#(lb) The landing page of a website; the site's homepage.
Shortened form of homeboy .
*2008 , (Breaking Bad)'', ''Cancer Man :
*:Jesse Pinkman: Hey, homes . I'm joking! OK? I'm totally joking!
(usually with "in on") To seek or aim for something.
* 2008 July, Ewen Callaway, New Scientist :
Of or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.
Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.
To one’s home or country.
* 1863 , (Nathaniel Hawthorne),
Close; closely.
* 1625 , (Francis Bacon), dedication to the Duke of Buckingham, in Essays Civil and Moral ,
* 1718 , (Robert South), Twelve Sermons Preached at Several Times, And upon ?everal Occasions ,
To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length.
* c.1603 , (William Shakespeare) The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice , Act 5, Scene 1,
In one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home.
(UK, soccer) Into the goal.
* 2004 ,
(internet) To the home page.
An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece.
(British) The odometer of a motor vehicle.
(electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
The seed head of a dandelion.
A timeclock.
To measure the duration of.
To measure the speed of.
(slang) To hit (someone) heavily.
(slang) To take notice of; to realise.
* 2006 , (Lily Allen), Knock 'Em Out
(British, slang) To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
(transitive, New Zealand, slang) To beat a video game.
A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
* {{quote-journal, 1882, journal=Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri, author= W.S. Gilbert, title=When you're lying awake
, passage=But this you can't stand, so you throw up your hand,
and you find you're as cold as an icicle,
In your shirt and your socks (the black silk with gold clocks ),
crossing Salisbury Plain on a bicycle}}* {{quote-journal, 1894, journal=Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, author=William Barnes, page=110, title=Grammer's Shoes
, passage=She'd a gown wi' girt flowers lik' hollyhocks
An zome stockèns o' gramfer's a-knit wi' clocks }}* {{quote-book, 2004, title=Traditional Scandinavian Knitting, author=Sheila McGregor, page=60, publisher=Courier Dover
, passage=Most decoration involved the ankle clocks , and several are shown on p.15 in the form of charts.}}
* {{quote-book, 2006, title=Fashion Source Book, author=J. Munslow, Kathryn McKelvey, page=231
, passage=Clocks : These are ornamental designs embroidered or woven on to the ankles of stockings.}}
(dated) To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
(Webster 1913)
1000 English basic words
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As nouns the difference between home and clock
is that home is (computing) a key that when pressed causes the cursor to go to the first character of the current line, or on the internet to the top of the web page while clock is an instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece or clock can be a pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking or clock can be a large beetle, especially the european dung beetle (scarabaeus stercorarius ).As a proper noun home
is .As a verb clock is
to measure the duration of or clock can be to ornament (eg the side of a stocking) with figured work or clock can be (dated) to make the sound of a hen; to cluck.home
English
Noun
(wikipedia home) (en noun)Don Juan:
Our Old '''Home: A Series of English Sketches :
Synonyms
* tenement, house, dwelling, abode, domicile, residence * home baseDerived terms
* at home * at-homeness * bring home * broken home * drive home * funeral home * holiday home * homebuilder * home computer * Home Depot * home-grown * home help * home is where you hang your hat * home is where the heart is * home-made * home movie * homeowner * home ownership, homeownership * home plate * home run * Home Secretary * homesickness * home stretch * home teach * home team * motor home * nursing home * parental home (home)Verb
(hom)- The missile was able to home in on the target.
- Much like a heat-seeking missile, a new kind of particle homes in on the blood vessels that nourish aggressive cancers, before unleashing a cell-destroying drug.
Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* home base * home brew * home economics * home farm * home front * home lot * home movie * home page * home port * home plate * home range * home rule * home ruler * home run * home stretch * home theater * home thrust * home videoAdverb
(-)- go home'', ''come home'', ''carry home .
Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches,
- He made no complaint of his ill-fortune, but only repeated in a quiet voice, with a pathos of which he was himself evidently unconscious, "I want to get home to Ninety-second Street, Philadelphia."
- I do now publish my Essays; which of all my other works have been most current : for that, as it seems, they come home to men's business and bosoms.
- How home the charge reaches us, has been made out by ?hewing with what high impudence ?ome among?t us defend sin, ...
- to drive a nail home'''''; ''to ram a cartridge '''home
- ... Wear thy good rapier bare, and put it home : ...
- Everyone's gone to watch the game; there's nobody home .
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- Walker was penalised for a picking up a Gerry Taggart backpass and from the resulting free-kick, Keane fired home after Johnnie Jackson's initial effort was blocked.
- Click here to go home .
Usage notes
* is often used in the formation of compound words, many of which need no special definition; as, home-brewed, home-built, home-grown, etc.Derived terms
* bring home * come home * haul home the sheets of a sail * till the cows come home * turn homeclock
English
(wikipedia clock)Etymology 1
c. 1350–1400, (etyl) , (etyl) Glocke, (etyl) klocka. More at (laugh).Alternative forms
* (contraction used in electronics)Noun
(en noun)- This car has over 300,000 miles on the 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 .
Synonyms
* (instrument used to measure or keep track of time) timepiece * (odometer of a motor vehicle) odometerDerived terms
* a broken clock is right twice a day * alarm clock * atomic clock * beat the clock * biological clock * body clock * carriage clock * case clock * clean someone's clock * clock generator * clockhouse * clock radio * clock signal * clock-watcher * clockwise * clockwork * cuckoo clock * dandelion clock * face that would stop a clock * grandfather clock * o'clock * on the clock * run down the clock * shot clock * time clock * wall clock * water clock * work against the clock * work around the clock / work round the clockVerb
(en verb)- He was clocked at 155 miles per hour.
- When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him.
- Clock the wheels on that car!
- He finally clocked that there were no more cornflakes.
- Cut to the pub on a lads night out,
- Man at the bar cos it was his shout,
- Clocks this bird and she looks OK,
- Caught him looking and she walks his way,
- I don't believe that car has done only 40,000 miles. It's been clocked.
- Have you clocked that game yet?
Quotations
* to take notice of ** {{quote-book, 2000, title=Naugahide Days: The Lost Island Stories of Thomas Wood Briar, author=Phil Austin, page=109citation, passage=Bo John and I twisted our heads around as Miranda braked over to the gravelly shoulder, let the Scout wheeze to a stop. She was climbing out, hurrying back to whatever had caught her eye. Bo John leered into the door mirror, clocking her flouncing, leggy strut.}} ** {{quote-book, 2005, title=Cupid Is Stupid, author=Jr. Aaron Bryant, page=19
citation, passage=It is true. Carmen is an official gold digger. In fact, she is an instructor at the school of gold digging. Hood rats have been clocking her style for years. Wanting to pull the players she pulled, and wishing they had the looks she had.}} ** {{quote-book, 2006, Dublin Noir: The Celtic Tiger Vs. the Ugly American, author=Ken Bruen, page=36
citation, passage=And he waits till I extend my hand, the two fingers visibly crushed. He clocks them, I say, "Phil."}}
Synonyms
* (measure the duration of) time * (measure the speed of) * slug, smack, thump, whack * check out, scope out * turn back (the vehicle's) clock, wind back (the vehicle's) clockDerived terms
* clock in * clock on * clock off * clock out * clock upEtymology 2
Origin uncertain; designs may have originally been bell-shaped and thus related to Etymology 1, above.Noun
(en noun)citation
and you find you're as cold as an icicle,
In your shirt and your socks (the black silk with gold clocks ),
crossing Salisbury Plain on a bicycle}}
An zome stockèns o' gramfer's a-knit wi' clocks }}
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- (Jonathan Swift)