Clockwork
['klɒkwɜːk] or ['klɑk'wɝk]
Definition
(noun.) any mechanism of geared wheels that is driven by a coiled spring; resembles the works of a mechanical clock.
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Definition
(n.) The machinery of a clock, or machinery resembling that of a clock; machinery which produces regularity of movement.
Typist: Mag
Examples
- Except in the one grand case of Captain Lennox's offer, everything went on with the regularity of clockwork. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- By compressing or exhausting air through this tube it is obvious that the lever, N, will be raised or depressed, and the clockwork set going accordingly. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The contractions and expansions set in motion the clockwork which marks the rate of consumption. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In France, all is clockwork, all is order. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Under a roll, see Fig. 8, a ribbon of paper is drawn by the clockwork. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The details of the clockwork I leave to the ingenuity of your readers. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Time locks are constructed on the principle of clockwork, so that they cannot be opened even with the proper key until a regulated interval of time has elapsed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The instrument is so constructed that clockwork at the top registers the number of revolutions made by the disk in one second. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This movement of the disks is recorded by clockwork devices on a dial face. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- That's the place where we are to lunch; and, by Jove, there's the boy with the basket, punctual as clockwork! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He regarded him as a damaged piece of clockwork, which it would be creditable to his skill to set agoing again. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The printing of the characters is effected in various ways; sometimes by clockwork mechanism and sometimes by the direct action of an electromagnet. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- There the clockwork, which was to explode her within a certain length of time, was set and she was abandoned. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The quadrant, B, has cogs cut, between which Z slides and stops the motion of A, which is moved, as before, by clockwork. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Today most of the clockwork motor talking machines are built upon the principles disclosed in the Macdonald Spring Motor patent. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Typist: Ludwig