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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
clockwork
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
regular as clockwork (=always at the same time)
▪ He phones us every Sunday at six, regular as clockwork.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
regular
▪ For any social species whose behaviour is less regular than clockwork, even this ground-clearing goal is a daunting task.
■ VERB
go
▪ Whereas Prost had been delayed as the Ferrari mechanics fiddled with the right-rear wheel, Senna's stop went like clockwork.
▪ It does not go off like clockwork.
▪ Then we had been surprised when our ascent of the nearby Jankopiti had gone like clockwork.
run
▪ A universe that ran like clockwork also evinced design.
▪ Sometimes it ran like clockwork, sometimes-as I wrote at the time-it ran like the movie Clockwise.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Every time they do it, it comes off like clockwork.
▪ He clicked the lever, and the clockwork motor whirred.
▪ Like clockwork the three nurses and I followed along with the male radio voice and did a ten-minute exercise routine.
▪ Many beginners start to practise their forms in a kind of clockwork, robotic manner.
▪ You don't have to play these cat and mouse games with your clockwork soldiers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clockwork

Clockwork \Clock"work`\ (-w[^u]rk`), n. The machinery of a clock, or machinery resembling that of a clock; machinery which produces regularity of movement.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
clockwork

also clock-work, 1660s, "mechanism of a clock," from clock (n.1) + work (n.). Figurative sense of "anything of unvarying regularity" is recorded earlier (1620s).

Wiktionary
clockwork

n. A mechanism powered by a coiled spring and regulated by some form of escapement; the power is transmitted through toothed gearwheels and used to drive a mechanical clock, toy, or other device.

WordNet
clockwork

n. any mechanism of geared wheels that is driven by a coiled spring; resembles the works of a mechanical clock

Wikipedia
Clockwork

Clockwork refers to the inner workings of either a mechanical clock (where it is also called a movement) or other mechanism that works similarly, with a complex series of gears.

Clockworks are often powered by a clockwork motor consisting of a mainspring, a spiral torsion spring of metal ribbon. Energy is stored in the mainspring manually by winding it up, turning a key attached to a ratchet which twists the mainspring tighter. Then the force of the mainspring turns the clockwork's gears, until the stored energy is used up. The adjectives wind-up and spring-powered refer to mainspring-powered clockwork devices, which include clocks and watches, kitchen timers, music boxes, and wind-up toys.

Clockwork (film)

Clockwork is a 1978 American short horror film directed by Sam Raimi, starring Scott Spiegel and Cheryl Guttridge.

Clockwork (disambiguation)

Clockwork refers to a device powered by the energy of a wound spring released through a series of gears.

Clockwork may also refer to:

Clockwork (novel)

Clockwork (also called Clockwork, or All Wound Up) is an illustrated short children's novel by Philip Pullman, first published in the United Kingdom in 1996 by Doubleday. It was first published in the United States by Arthur A. Levine Books in 1998. The Doubleday edition was illustrated by Peter Bailey and the Arthur A. Levine Books edition was illustrated by Leonid Gore. It was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Book Award and for a Carnegie Medal in 1997.

Pullman has stated that the novel was inspired by an old clock in London's Science Museum. Inspired by the movement of the clock's gears, he wrote the story with elements that move in opposite directions.

Clockwork (Juelz Santana song)

"Clockwork" is the fourth single by American rapper Juelz Santana from his second studio album What the Game's Been Missing! (2005).

Clockwork (Phrase album)

Clockwork is the second studio album by Phrase. Originally intended for a late 2007 release it was put out in April 2009. It includes collaborations with Bliss n Eso, Jackson Jackson and Daniel Merriweather and has guest appearances by Kram and Wendy Matthews. Clockwork was nominated for an ARIA for best urban album, nominated for Triple J's album of the year and was feature album on Triple J.

Clockwork (Angelus Apatrida album)

Clockwork is the third studio album release by the Spanish thrash metal band Angelus Apatrida.

Clockwork (Easton Corbin song)

"Clockwork" is a song recorded by American country music artist Easton Corbin. It was released in January 2014 as the lead single from Corbin's third studio album, About to Get Real. The song was written by Carson Chamberlain, Ashley Gorley and Wade Kirby.

Clockwork (Ashley Roberts song)

"Clockwork" is a song by American singer Ashley Roberts. The song was written by Roberts and produced by Red Triangle. It was released as her official debut single on May 25, 2014 by Metropolis London Music Limited from her debut solo album Butterfly Effect.

Usage examples of "clockwork".

Four servants came forward, two carrying a clockwork man of polished brass and steel, the other two a huge and heavy box full of cogs, pins, hooks, fastenersand most curiously of all, a large chessboard of alternating brass and steel squares.

Cooper, the overseer of the new plantation at Panola in Mississippi, was a splendid fellow, who ran the estate as if it was his own, and Mitchell, the overseer here at The Forks, was thoroughly reliable, maintaining a clockwork efficiency, and if not actually liked by the slaves, he was MERGING 315 not too bitterly resented by them, Sally thought.

And then they began to move, slowly at first, choreographing their clockwork movements to music from a grindingly slow fairground organ.

Lady Maranta, for the edification of the masses, has sponsored a clockworks exhibition at City House.

The right cross came at me regular as clockwork and I moved under it and landed two and sometimes four punches to the spot under his heart.

Time ambushed them on Mondays, on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, regular as clockwork.

But it is the metaphors of Cartesian clockwork and hydraulics rather than Cartesian dualism which concern me at present.

The Nihilists, he told me, often use clockworks to set off their machines at the time they decide on.

Instead of slowmatches you have to light, you crank this clockwork spring and the wheel spins and spits sparks into a pan.

Or perhaps they were, after all, frail and gentle folk who could not even resist the kidnapping of one of their numberBut who then loosed the clockwork machines to destroy the valley?

Still, for all he knew, its associates had set one of the clockwork monsters on their trail.

That was what he intended-a cold, clean stream and a moment to rest in a more sheltered place, difficult for -die clockwork machines to negotiate.

Baptiste went into the tower to see that the clockwork was in order for the night.

There were no more accidents to the clockwork after the first one was repaired.

It was not a desperate vigil like that affair with the broken clockwork eight years before.