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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
timepiece
noun
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▪ An example: Watchmaking changed relatively little for more than a century, and timepieces were sold in watch and jewelry shops.
▪ His brother James helped, though neither one of them signed the timepiece, strangely enough.
▪ It's more like clock-a-block for timepiece collector and repairer, Sandra Pember.
▪ The case may have hidden the whirligig aspects of the timepiece.
▪ The chronograph is the timepiece of choice for today's active man-on-the-go.
▪ The weight of the badge became a timepiece, measuring a basic cycle.
▪ This fun timepiece features a talking alarm, a one-year guarantee and a long-life battery.
▪ Use some pebbles to make a clock Transform a collection of stones from the beach into a unique timepiece.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Timepiece

Timepiece \Time"piece`\, n. A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
timepiece

1765, from time (n.) + piece (n.).

Wiktionary
timepiece

n. Any device that measures or registers time; a clock or watch, especially one lacking a chime or other striking mechanism.

WordNet
timepiece

n. a measuring instrument or device for keeping time [syn: timekeeper]

Wikipedia
Timepiece (album)

Timepiece is the twenty-sixth studio album of 1930s and 1940s jazz standards by Country music superstar Kenny Rogers, released on 143/ Atlantic Records. It was produced by David Foster. The album did not chart.

Timepiece (horse)

Timepiece (foaled 7 February 2007) is a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. In a racing career which lasted from September 2009 until September 2012 she won six of her twenty-one races and ran consistently well in top-class races over distances between one mile and ten furlongs.

Bred and owned by Khalid Abdullah and trained by Henry Cecil, Timepiece showed great promise as a juvenile in 2009 when she won two of her three races including the Montrose Stakes. In the following year she was regarded as a leading contender for the Epsom Oaks and although she finished only eighth in the classic she recorded significant victories in the Sandringham Handicap and the James Seymour Stakes. She reached her peak as a four-year-old in 2011 when she followed up a win in the Warwickshire Oaks with a career-best performance to win the Group One Falmouth Stakes, as well as finishing second in the Prix Jean Romanet and third in the Prix Rothschild. In 2012 Timepiece finished second in the Nassau Stakes and third in the Prix Jean Romanet before being retired from racing at the end of the year.

Usage examples of "timepiece".

From its chains dangled various chatelettes made from rustproof materials: brass scissors, a golden etui with a manicure set inside, a bodkin, a spoon, a vinaigrette, a needle-case, a small looking-glass, a cup-sized strainer for spike-leaves, a timepiece that had stopped, and whose case was inlaid with ivory and bronze, a workbox containing small reels of thread, an enameled porcelain thimble and a silver one, silver-handled buttonhooks and a few spare buttonsglass-topped, enclosing tiny picturesa miniature portrait of her mother worked in enamels, several rowan-wood tilhals, a highly ornamented anlace, a penknife, an empty silver-gilt snuff-box, and a pencil.

The courtier checked over the ornate clasp holding together the medley of chatelettes: the scissors, the manicure set, bodkin, spoon, vinaigrette, needle-case, the looking-glass and spike-leaf strainer, the faulty timepiece, the workbox, the portrait and tilhals, the anlace, penknife, snuff-box, and pencil.

Sculptured figures, all dusty gilt, clung for dear life as the old timepiece reverberated with tiny jangly explosions.

Chilton told me that a master horologist sells timepieces, not trollops.

The Clockmaker, though he had few interests other than antique timepieces, knew that this pope was a rather controversial figure.

This is a most effectual way of treating a delicate Genevan timepiece.

For your information, the sun sets on First Port at 9:30 this morning, so it will be dark on Marn when you arrive, but both of you have absolute timepieces.

The two lower rooms consisted of a dining-room, with a table, chairs, and side-board of walnut,and a wainscoted parlor, without ornaments, carpet, or timepiece.

If Gasperettes give away timepieces, Puffins follow on with grandfather clocks and Whifflets with chronometers.

From its chains dangled various chatelettes made from rustproof materials: brass scissors, a golden etui with a manicure set inside, a bodkin, a spoon, a vinaigrette, a needle-case, a small looking-glass, a cup-sized strainer for spike-leaves, a timepiece that had stopped, and whose case was inlaid with ivory and bronze, a workbox containing small reels of thread, an enameled porcelain thimble and a silver one, silver-handled buttonhooks and a few spare buttons—glass-topped, enclosing tiny pictures—a miniature portrait of her mother worked in enamels, several rowan-wood tilhals, a highly ornamented anlace, a penknife, an empty silver-gilt snuff-box, and a pencil.

Vonetta Beesley had always been as reliable as the atomic clock at Greenwich, by which all the nations of the world set their timepieces.

They took Billy's timepiece, his cigar lighter and small tri-di cube of a couple screwing that he kept as a good luck charm.

If the timepiece on the carpet had, in fact, been smashed in the course of the violent struggle that appeared to have taken place in the chamber, Delmont had been murdered a little more than two hours earlier.

I tinkered and cleaned and oiled and fiddled with the old-fashioned regulator until it was as accurate a timepiece as its age and essential character allowed.

This famous timepiece, always regulated on the Greenwich meridian, which was now some seventy-seven degrees westward, was at least four hours slow.