Definition of clockwork in English:

clockwork

nounˈklɒkwəːkˈklɑkˌwərk

mass noun

A mechanism with a spring and toothed gearwheels, used to drive a mechanical clock, toy, or other device.
quartz watches are more accurate than those driven by clockwork
Example sentencesExamples
- My mother was like the evil clockwork of some kind of villainous clock gone haywire.
- Loves are lost, hearts are broken, games become mere clockwork, and his passion dies.
- More a series of sketches than a linear plot, Mon Oncle operates much like a clockwork: a series of gears, repeated movements that set off countermovements.
- Inventor Trevor Baylis had spent years trying to raise finance for his wind-up clockwork radio.
- He was the talisman, the cog in the clockwork that made the whole mechanism function.
- Later on the pinnacle of technology was the clockwork.
- These Ancients, more ancient than ours but still not literally ancient, saw the world not as a giant clockwork but as an organism.
- I can't tell you how long I've been here on this traffic island, the clockwork in my watch rusted to a halt long long ago.
- Of inventions which proved to have major significance, only the lens and clockwork travelled in the opposite direction, eastwards across Eurasia.
- Here's how Sait's son Yousuff describes the clockwork: The wall clock works for a week for one winding.

adjectiveˈklɒkwəːkˈklɑkˌwərk

1attributive Driven by clockwork.
a clockwork motor
Example sentencesExamples
- Fine mechanical clockwork components allude to timing and precision; the shells or fossils also refer to time, and the format suggests balance and endurance.
- Puppets are thus to be distinguished from dolls, clockwork automata, and other toys.
- The baroque churches are glorious, chocolate-box designs, as playful and loveable as the clockwork stars of Toccata for Toy Trains.
- Sanderlings are characteristic of sandy beaches, running back and forth, with the ebb and flow of the tide, like so many little clockwork toys.
- Ok, not to worry - they've probably got a back-up clockwork ticker-tape machine lying about somewhere that'll do the job.
- She joined Otley Junior Players and her first starring role was as a clockwork doll at the age of five.
- He manages to create a believable world of automatons and clockwork mechanisms against a backdrop of the real world.
- I'd be better off at Lidd with a clockwork dummy than be with you!
- It is not a principle, like a clockwork design applied to the universe: It is an efficient intention, by an intellectual power.
- They were real passions, and at first I thought ‘hey, wouldn't it be good to use the Internet to trade clockwork tin toys’.
- It was gigantic and made of black metal, a great column filled with gears, levers, and pulleys moving together in a chaotic clockwork melee.
- The new paradigm, moving beyond Newton's majestic clockwork metaphor, guides us to a new way of approaching decisionmaking.
- To me the shape is more like an orrery, a clockwork model of the solar system.
- Danielle jumped up and down and clapped her hands above her head like a clockwork toy gone haywire.
- And now that clockwork watches - and clocks themselves - have become virtual antiques, I thought I might be able to make a living doing what I love to do.
- I'm stuck again, eighty feet above the warehouse floor, surrounded by Scooby Doo shampoo, clockwork frogs and sponge basketballs.
- It is a Thirties clockwork race game, in which two tin spaceships take turns to advance along a tramline track.
- Roddick is an investor in Freeplay, the company that manufactures clockwork radios, and Hotel du Vin, the boutique hotel chain.
- The external world appeared to be an automaton, a clockwork mechanism that had been regulated once and for all.
- In the early days they had a clockwork tape recorder, and sat under trees with storytellers and bottles of rum.
1. 1.1 Very smooth and regular.
  the clockwork precision of the galaxy
  Example sentencesExamples
  The company is filled with superb technologists who are prepared to obsolete products in their prime and to churn out new ones with clockwork regularity.
  Crowds have been excellent, the organisation clockwork and the sport on show has been almost universally of the highest standard.
  The entire show was coordinated with clockwork precision by the Adventure Zone staff, headed by Major Swaraj Roy.
  Truly, Hero is so tightly organized that the viewer may balk at its clockwork elegance.
  He performed a few feats with clockwork precision.
  In fact, war is often the realm of chaos, lacking the sort of clockwork linear predictability so beloved of conventional analysts both inside and outside the military.
  The rest is how the extensive training to enable the three to act on clockwork precision is done and the robbery is met with success.
  With clockwork precision 50 women completed it in 10.42 hours.
  Their bodies seemed like a temple for artistic expression that gestured and moved with clockwork precision.
  The formal structure and brisk tempo of the third movement required almost clockwork precision.
  His universe was not clockwork and right angled but smoky and numinous.
  While dub is typically revered for its clockwork rhythm that snaps the mind into a trance, what is heard between the beats and the notes matter just as much.
2. 1.2 Repetitive and predictable.
  it was a clockwork existence for the children
  Example sentencesExamples
  It was truly amazing to the young man how clockwork Marcus was, each poster, every billboard, he spent a specific amount of time on it, no more, no less.
  Jolted by a mugging into the feeling that he is leading a clockwork, incomplete existence, Walker subsequently walks out on his spouse.
  Reductionist science grew from the clockwork logic of Descartes.
  For one thing, human beings do not experience themselves as being clockwork automata.
  There may be no other director in Hollywood who embodies the clockwork reliability of a fine timepiece more than Ron Howard.
  The Metro North commuter trains disturb the local fauna with clockwork regularity.
  Children slept in dormitories, they ate together in silence, and they lived their days to a clockwork routine which never varied.
  The clockwork appearance of periodical cicadas in late May to mid-June has long fascinated, and perplexed, entomologists.
  They take place with clockwork regularity all the year round.
  I ran this house with clockwork efficiency, but I did nothing worthwhile for my own fulfillment.
  In the clockwork universe outlined by Newton and his followers, one can calculate, and hence predict, everything.
  What American audiences want most, she learns, is clockwork morality plays about neglectful mothers and errant wives.
  Yet there was only one recorded clockwork crime, in which a tramp was beaten to death by a teenager.
  Fires, both natural and human-caused, have burned seasonally dry parts of the island with clockwork regularity for millennia.
  Regular as clockwork, you see drug dealers at the same times in the same places, five times a day, for drug drop-offs.
  She's having marital difficulties, but can't stop fixating on her clockwork household.
  Kant's private life is often parodied as one of clockwork routine, fastidious, donnish, and self-centred.
  Today he moved like a clockwork man, functioning in precise patterns, thinking of nothing and feeling none.
  It is a life dominated by clockwork routine, in which nothing out of the ordinary ever happens and the future already seems set in concrete.
  I watched them both, a little taken aback, as Von Rogoff and Herr Lindstrom made clockwork conversation.
  Synonyms
  monotonous, tedious, boring, uninteresting, humdrum, mundane, tiresome, wearisome, dreary, soul-destroying, mind-numbing

Phrases

as regular as clockwork

Very regularly; repeatedly and predictably.
she used to give me these chocolates Christmas and Easter, as regular as clockwork
Example sentencesExamples
- The comedic cut scenes are as regular as clockwork and often as predictable.
- A new generation comes through as regular as clockwork.
- Larry made his appearance every Sunday morning, as regular as clockwork, with a copy of the Northern Star, damp from the press.
- Since we get a a magazine by postal subscription, delivered as regular as clockwork every Friday, we were rather suspicious.
- Usually, it was as regular as clockwork, but this month she was grateful for the delay.
- Each month, as regular as clockwork I would send her money so she didn't have to go back to the bar and we emailed to stay in touch.
- The customers who voted for him said he is as regular as clockwork.
- He's a typical old man; very set in his ways and as regular as clockwork.
- Reversals on the Sun, however, are almost as regular as clockwork - every 11 years, with its magnetic axis changing position for most of that time.
- Transits of Venus occur as regular as clockwork, following a simple cycle.

like clockwork

1Very smoothly and easily.
the event ran like clockwork
Example sentencesExamples
- Everything was going smoothly - like clockwork.
- Everything that he organised was spot-on and ran like clockwork.
- The whole thing ran like clockwork, from pre-show to post-show.
- That dry run ensured everything on the big day itself ran like clockwork.
- You couldn't always expect things to go smoothly like clockwork, but he did.
- The laboratory ran like clockwork and he kept a watchful eye on the welfare of his staff.
- Everything ran like clockwork for the Irish fivesome who had to quickly move on to launches in Belfast, Edinburgh, Manchester and London.
- With the help of everyone, the day ran like clockwork.
- A picnic atmosphere prevailed and thankfully everything ran like clockwork, even with a huge entry of over 200 competitors.
- Each stage ran like clockwork and bands had nothing but nice comments for the entire affair.
Synonyms
without a hitch, like clockwork, with no trouble, without difficulty, easily, effortlessly, as planned, to plan, according to plan, swimmingly, satisfactorily, very well
1. 1.1With mechanical regularity.
  these hens lay like clockwork
  Example sentencesExamples
  But last night the many city residents who nominated the man who has kept Hull's timepieces running like clockwork for 40 years, declared ‘it's about time’.
  The #3 Audi ran like clockwork throughout the race.
  I hadn't seen Matt in a while, but his phone-calls were regular like clockwork, or had been until a week ago.
  Well, listen, when I dealt with women who were having crack-addicted babies every year like clockwork, I didn't like them particularly.
  I am very pleased to have won, the car ran like clockwork.
  But at SRC, we've built a system of mechanisms that makes innovation happen like clockwork.
  Like most things Korean, they run like clockwork and like most things, almost no effort is required to use them.
  Synonyms
  without exception, unfailingly, constantly, regularly, invariably, dependably, conscientiously, reliably, faithfully, predictably, punctually, religiously, whatever happened, always

Definition of clockwork in US English:

clockwork

nounˈklɑkˌwərkˈkläkˌwərk

A mechanism with a spring and toothed gearwheels, used to drive a mechanical clock, toy, or other device.
Example sentencesExamples
- More a series of sketches than a linear plot, Mon Oncle operates much like a clockwork: a series of gears, repeated movements that set off countermovements.
- Of inventions which proved to have major significance, only the lens and clockwork travelled in the opposite direction, eastwards across Eurasia.
- Inventor Trevor Baylis had spent years trying to raise finance for his wind-up clockwork radio.
- Here's how Sait's son Yousuff describes the clockwork: The wall clock works for a week for one winding.
- Loves are lost, hearts are broken, games become mere clockwork, and his passion dies.
- He was the talisman, the cog in the clockwork that made the whole mechanism function.
- I can't tell you how long I've been here on this traffic island, the clockwork in my watch rusted to a halt long long ago.
- These Ancients, more ancient than ours but still not literally ancient, saw the world not as a giant clockwork but as an organism.
- My mother was like the evil clockwork of some kind of villainous clock gone haywire.
- Later on the pinnacle of technology was the clockwork.

adjectiveˈklɑkˌwərkˈkläkˌwərk

1attributive Driven by clockwork.
a clockwork motor
a clockwork toy
Example sentencesExamples
- The baroque churches are glorious, chocolate-box designs, as playful and loveable as the clockwork stars of Toccata for Toy Trains.
- He manages to create a believable world of automatons and clockwork mechanisms against a backdrop of the real world.
- It is a Thirties clockwork race game, in which two tin spaceships take turns to advance along a tramline track.
- The external world appeared to be an automaton, a clockwork mechanism that had been regulated once and for all.
- In the early days they had a clockwork tape recorder, and sat under trees with storytellers and bottles of rum.
- And now that clockwork watches - and clocks themselves - have become virtual antiques, I thought I might be able to make a living doing what I love to do.
- Sanderlings are characteristic of sandy beaches, running back and forth, with the ebb and flow of the tide, like so many little clockwork toys.
- I'd be better off at Lidd with a clockwork dummy than be with you!
- Fine mechanical clockwork components allude to timing and precision; the shells or fossils also refer to time, and the format suggests balance and endurance.
- Roddick is an investor in Freeplay, the company that manufactures clockwork radios, and Hotel du Vin, the boutique hotel chain.
- It is not a principle, like a clockwork design applied to the universe: It is an efficient intention, by an intellectual power.
- Puppets are thus to be distinguished from dolls, clockwork automata, and other toys.
- They were real passions, and at first I thought ‘hey, wouldn't it be good to use the Internet to trade clockwork tin toys’.
- The new paradigm, moving beyond Newton's majestic clockwork metaphor, guides us to a new way of approaching decisionmaking.
- It was gigantic and made of black metal, a great column filled with gears, levers, and pulleys moving together in a chaotic clockwork melee.
- To me the shape is more like an orrery, a clockwork model of the solar system.
- Ok, not to worry - they've probably got a back-up clockwork ticker-tape machine lying about somewhere that'll do the job.
- Danielle jumped up and down and clapped her hands above her head like a clockwork toy gone haywire.
- She joined Otley Junior Players and her first starring role was as a clockwork doll at the age of five.
- I'm stuck again, eighty feet above the warehouse floor, surrounded by Scooby Doo shampoo, clockwork frogs and sponge basketballs.
1. 1.1 Very smooth and regular.
  the clockwork precision of the galaxy
  Example sentencesExamples
  The rest is how the extensive training to enable the three to act on clockwork precision is done and the robbery is met with success.
  Crowds have been excellent, the organisation clockwork and the sport on show has been almost universally of the highest standard.
  Their bodies seemed like a temple for artistic expression that gestured and moved with clockwork precision.
  He performed a few feats with clockwork precision.
  While dub is typically revered for its clockwork rhythm that snaps the mind into a trance, what is heard between the beats and the notes matter just as much.
  With clockwork precision 50 women completed it in 10.42 hours.
  The entire show was coordinated with clockwork precision by the Adventure Zone staff, headed by Major Swaraj Roy.
  The formal structure and brisk tempo of the third movement required almost clockwork precision.
  In fact, war is often the realm of chaos, lacking the sort of clockwork linear predictability so beloved of conventional analysts both inside and outside the military.
  Truly, Hero is so tightly organized that the viewer may balk at its clockwork elegance.
  The company is filled with superb technologists who are prepared to obsolete products in their prime and to churn out new ones with clockwork regularity.
  His universe was not clockwork and right angled but smoky and numinous.
2. 1.2 Repetitive and predictable.
  it was a clockwork existence for the children
  Example sentencesExamples
  The clockwork appearance of periodical cicadas in late May to mid-June has long fascinated, and perplexed, entomologists.
  Kant's private life is often parodied as one of clockwork routine, fastidious, donnish, and self-centred.
  Today he moved like a clockwork man, functioning in precise patterns, thinking of nothing and feeling none.
  She's having marital difficulties, but can't stop fixating on her clockwork household.
  There may be no other director in Hollywood who embodies the clockwork reliability of a fine timepiece more than Ron Howard.
  It is a life dominated by clockwork routine, in which nothing out of the ordinary ever happens and the future already seems set in concrete.
  I watched them both, a little taken aback, as Von Rogoff and Herr Lindstrom made clockwork conversation.
  Regular as clockwork, you see drug dealers at the same times in the same places, five times a day, for drug drop-offs.
  In the clockwork universe outlined by Newton and his followers, one can calculate, and hence predict, everything.
  The Metro North commuter trains disturb the local fauna with clockwork regularity.
  For one thing, human beings do not experience themselves as being clockwork automata.
  Reductionist science grew from the clockwork logic of Descartes.
  Jolted by a mugging into the feeling that he is leading a clockwork, incomplete existence, Walker subsequently walks out on his spouse.
  Yet there was only one recorded clockwork crime, in which a tramp was beaten to death by a teenager.
  It was truly amazing to the young man how clockwork Marcus was, each poster, every billboard, he spent a specific amount of time on it, no more, no less.
  I ran this house with clockwork efficiency, but I did nothing worthwhile for my own fulfillment.
  Fires, both natural and human-caused, have burned seasonally dry parts of the island with clockwork regularity for millennia.
  Children slept in dormitories, they ate together in silence, and they lived their days to a clockwork routine which never varied.
  They take place with clockwork regularity all the year round.
  What American audiences want most, she learns, is clockwork morality plays about neglectful mothers and errant wives.
  Synonyms
  monotonous, tedious, boring, uninteresting, humdrum, mundane, tiresome, wearisome, dreary, soul-destroying, mind-numbing

Phrases

as regular as clockwork

Very regularly; repeatedly and predictably.
Example sentencesExamples
- The comedic cut scenes are as regular as clockwork and often as predictable.
- Each month, as regular as clockwork I would send her money so she didn't have to go back to the bar and we emailed to stay in touch.
- He's a typical old man; very set in his ways and as regular as clockwork.
- Usually, it was as regular as clockwork, but this month she was grateful for the delay.
- The customers who voted for him said he is as regular as clockwork.
- Larry made his appearance every Sunday morning, as regular as clockwork, with a copy of the Northern Star, damp from the press.
- A new generation comes through as regular as clockwork.
- Since we get a a magazine by postal subscription, delivered as regular as clockwork every Friday, we were rather suspicious.
- Transits of Venus occur as regular as clockwork, following a simple cycle.
- Reversals on the Sun, however, are almost as regular as clockwork - every 11 years, with its magnetic axis changing position for most of that time.

like clockwork

1Very smoothly and easily.
the event ran like clockwork
Example sentencesExamples
- With the help of everyone, the day ran like clockwork.
- Everything that he organised was spot-on and ran like clockwork.
- Everything ran like clockwork for the Irish fivesome who had to quickly move on to launches in Belfast, Edinburgh, Manchester and London.
- Each stage ran like clockwork and bands had nothing but nice comments for the entire affair.
- That dry run ensured everything on the big day itself ran like clockwork.
- You couldn't always expect things to go smoothly like clockwork, but he did.
- A picnic atmosphere prevailed and thankfully everything ran like clockwork, even with a huge entry of over 200 competitors.
- Everything was going smoothly - like clockwork.
- The laboratory ran like clockwork and he kept a watchful eye on the welfare of his staff.
- The whole thing ran like clockwork, from pre-show to post-show.
Synonyms
without a hitch, like clockwork, with no trouble, without difficulty, easily, effortlessly, as planned, to plan, according to plan, swimmingly, satisfactorily, very well
1. 1.1With mechanical regularity.
  these hens lay like clockwork
  Example sentencesExamples
  I hadn't seen Matt in a while, but his phone-calls were regular like clockwork, or had been until a week ago.
  But at SRC, we've built a system of mechanisms that makes innovation happen like clockwork.
  Like most things Korean, they run like clockwork and like most things, almost no effort is required to use them.
  Well, listen, when I dealt with women who were having crack-addicted babies every year like clockwork, I didn't like them particularly.
  I am very pleased to have won, the car ran like clockwork.
  But last night the many city residents who nominated the man who has kept Hull's timepieces running like clockwork for 40 years, declared ‘it's about time’.
  The #3 Audi ran like clockwork throughout the race.
  Synonyms
  without exception, unfailingly, constantly, regularly, invariably, dependably, conscientiously, reliably, faithfully, predictably, punctually, religiously, whatever happened, always

单词	clockwork
释义	Definition of clockwork in English: clockwork nounˈklɒkwəːkˈklɑkˌwərk mass noun A mechanism with a spring and toothed gearwheels, used to drive a mechanical clock, toy, or other device. quartz watches are more accurate than those driven by clockwork Example sentencesExamples My mother was like the evil clockwork of some kind of villainous clock gone haywire. Loves are lost, hearts are broken, games become mere clockwork, and his passion dies. More a series of sketches than a linear plot, Mon Oncle operates much like a clockwork: a series of gears, repeated movements that set off countermovements. Inventor Trevor Baylis had spent years trying to raise finance for his wind-up clockwork radio. He was the talisman, the cog in the clockwork that made the whole mechanism function. Later on the pinnacle of technology was the clockwork. These Ancients, more ancient than ours but still not literally ancient, saw the world not as a giant clockwork but as an organism. I can't tell you how long I've been here on this traffic island, the clockwork in my watch rusted to a halt long long ago. Of inventions which proved to have major significance, only the lens and clockwork travelled in the opposite direction, eastwards across Eurasia. Here's how Sait's son Yousuff describes the clockwork: The wall clock works for a week for one winding. adjectiveˈklɒkwəːkˈklɑkˌwərk 1attributive Driven by clockwork. a clockwork motor Example sentencesExamples Fine mechanical clockwork components allude to timing and precision; the shells or fossils also refer to time, and the format suggests balance and endurance. Puppets are thus to be distinguished from dolls, clockwork automata, and other toys. The baroque churches are glorious, chocolate-box designs, as playful and loveable as the clockwork stars of Toccata for Toy Trains. Sanderlings are characteristic of sandy beaches, running back and forth, with the ebb and flow of the tide, like so many little clockwork toys. Ok, not to worry - they've probably got a back-up clockwork ticker-tape machine lying about somewhere that'll do the job. She joined Otley Junior Players and her first starring role was as a clockwork doll at the age of five. He manages to create a believable world of automatons and clockwork mechanisms against a backdrop of the real world. I'd be better off at Lidd with a clockwork dummy than be with you! It is not a principle, like a clockwork design applied to the universe: It is an efficient intention, by an intellectual power. They were real passions, and at first I thought ‘hey, wouldn't it be good to use the Internet to trade clockwork tin toys’. It was gigantic and made of black metal, a great column filled with gears, levers, and pulleys moving together in a chaotic clockwork melee. The new paradigm, moving beyond Newton's majestic clockwork metaphor, guides us to a new way of approaching decisionmaking. To me the shape is more like an orrery, a clockwork model of the solar system. Danielle jumped up and down and clapped her hands above her head like a clockwork toy gone haywire. And now that clockwork watches - and clocks themselves - have become virtual antiques, I thought I might be able to make a living doing what I love to do. I'm stuck again, eighty feet above the warehouse floor, surrounded by Scooby Doo shampoo, clockwork frogs and sponge basketballs. It is a Thirties clockwork race game, in which two tin spaceships take turns to advance along a tramline track. Roddick is an investor in Freeplay, the company that manufactures clockwork radios, and Hotel du Vin, the boutique hotel chain. The external world appeared to be an automaton, a clockwork mechanism that had been regulated once and for all. In the early days they had a clockwork tape recorder, and sat under trees with storytellers and bottles of rum. 1.1 Very smooth and regular. the clockwork precision of the galaxy Example sentencesExamples The company is filled with superb technologists who are prepared to obsolete products in their prime and to churn out new ones with clockwork regularity. Crowds have been excellent, the organisation clockwork and the sport on show has been almost universally of the highest standard. The entire show was coordinated with clockwork precision by the Adventure Zone staff, headed by Major Swaraj Roy. Truly, Hero is so tightly organized that the viewer may balk at its clockwork elegance. He performed a few feats with clockwork precision. In fact, war is often the realm of chaos, lacking the sort of clockwork linear predictability so beloved of conventional analysts both inside and outside the military. The rest is how the extensive training to enable the three to act on clockwork precision is done and the robbery is met with success. With clockwork precision 50 women completed it in 10.42 hours. Their bodies seemed like a temple for artistic expression that gestured and moved with clockwork precision. The formal structure and brisk tempo of the third movement required almost clockwork precision. His universe was not clockwork and right angled but smoky and numinous. While dub is typically revered for its clockwork rhythm that snaps the mind into a trance, what is heard between the beats and the notes matter just as much. 1.2 Repetitive and predictable. it was a clockwork existence for the children Example sentencesExamples It was truly amazing to the young man how clockwork Marcus was, each poster, every billboard, he spent a specific amount of time on it, no more, no less. Jolted by a mugging into the feeling that he is leading a clockwork, incomplete existence, Walker subsequently walks out on his spouse. Reductionist science grew from the clockwork logic of Descartes. For one thing, human beings do not experience themselves as being clockwork automata. There may be no other director in Hollywood who embodies the clockwork reliability of a fine timepiece more than Ron Howard. The Metro North commuter trains disturb the local fauna with clockwork regularity. Children slept in dormitories, they ate together in silence, and they lived their days to a clockwork routine which never varied. The clockwork appearance of periodical cicadas in late May to mid-June has long fascinated, and perplexed, entomologists. They take place with clockwork regularity all the year round. I ran this house with clockwork efficiency, but I did nothing worthwhile for my own fulfillment. In the clockwork universe outlined by Newton and his followers, one can calculate, and hence predict, everything. What American audiences want most, she learns, is clockwork morality plays about neglectful mothers and errant wives. Yet there was only one recorded clockwork crime, in which a tramp was beaten to death by a teenager. Fires, both natural and human-caused, have burned seasonally dry parts of the island with clockwork regularity for millennia. Regular as clockwork, you see drug dealers at the same times in the same places, five times a day, for drug drop-offs. She's having marital difficulties, but can't stop fixating on her clockwork household. Kant's private life is often parodied as one of clockwork routine, fastidious, donnish, and self-centred. Today he moved like a clockwork man, functioning in precise patterns, thinking of nothing and feeling none. It is a life dominated by clockwork routine, in which nothing out of the ordinary ever happens and the future already seems set in concrete. I watched them both, a little taken aback, as Von Rogoff and Herr Lindstrom made clockwork conversation. Synonyms monotonous, tedious, boring, uninteresting, humdrum, mundane, tiresome, wearisome, dreary, soul-destroying, mind-numbing Phrases as regular as clockwork Very regularly; repeatedly and predictably. she used to give me these chocolates Christmas and Easter, as regular as clockwork Example sentencesExamples The comedic cut scenes are as regular as clockwork and often as predictable. A new generation comes through as regular as clockwork. Larry made his appearance every Sunday morning, as regular as clockwork, with a copy of the Northern Star, damp from the press. Since we get a a magazine by postal subscription, delivered as regular as clockwork every Friday, we were rather suspicious. Usually, it was as regular as clockwork, but this month she was grateful for the delay. Each month, as regular as clockwork I would send her money so she didn't have to go back to the bar and we emailed to stay in touch. The customers who voted for him said he is as regular as clockwork. He's a typical old man; very set in his ways and as regular as clockwork. Reversals on the Sun, however, are almost as regular as clockwork - every 11 years, with its magnetic axis changing position for most of that time. Transits of Venus occur as regular as clockwork, following a simple cycle. like clockwork 1Very smoothly and easily. the event ran like clockwork Example sentencesExamples Everything was going smoothly - like clockwork. Everything that he organised was spot-on and ran like clockwork. The whole thing ran like clockwork, from pre-show to post-show. That dry run ensured everything on the big day itself ran like clockwork. You couldn't always expect things to go smoothly like clockwork, but he did. The laboratory ran like clockwork and he kept a watchful eye on the welfare of his staff. Everything ran like clockwork for the Irish fivesome who had to quickly move on to launches in Belfast, Edinburgh, Manchester and London. With the help of everyone, the day ran like clockwork. A picnic atmosphere prevailed and thankfully everything ran like clockwork, even with a huge entry of over 200 competitors. Each stage ran like clockwork and bands had nothing but nice comments for the entire affair. Synonyms without a hitch, like clockwork, with no trouble, without difficulty, easily, effortlessly, as planned, to plan, according to plan, swimmingly, satisfactorily, very well 1.1With mechanical regularity. these hens lay like clockwork Example sentencesExamples But last night the many city residents who nominated the man who has kept Hull's timepieces running like clockwork for 40 years, declared ‘it's about time’. The #3 Audi ran like clockwork throughout the race. I hadn't seen Matt in a while, but his phone-calls were regular like clockwork, or had been until a week ago. Well, listen, when I dealt with women who were having crack-addicted babies every year like clockwork, I didn't like them particularly. I am very pleased to have won, the car ran like clockwork. But at SRC, we've built a system of mechanisms that makes innovation happen like clockwork. Like most things Korean, they run like clockwork and like most things, almost no effort is required to use them. Synonyms without exception, unfailingly, constantly, regularly, invariably, dependably, conscientiously, reliably, faithfully, predictably, punctually, religiously, whatever happened, always noun.1 phr. Definition of clockwork in US English: clockwork nounˈklɑkˌwərkˈkläkˌwərk A mechanism with a spring and toothed gearwheels, used to drive a mechanical clock, toy, or other device. Example sentencesExamples More a series of sketches than a linear plot, Mon Oncle operates much like a clockwork: a series of gears, repeated movements that set off countermovements. Of inventions which proved to have major significance, only the lens and clockwork travelled in the opposite direction, eastwards across Eurasia. Inventor Trevor Baylis had spent years trying to raise finance for his wind-up clockwork radio. Here's how Sait's son Yousuff describes the clockwork: The wall clock works for a week for one winding. Loves are lost, hearts are broken, games become mere clockwork, and his passion dies. He was the talisman, the cog in the clockwork that made the whole mechanism function. I can't tell you how long I've been here on this traffic island, the clockwork in my watch rusted to a halt long long ago. These Ancients, more ancient than ours but still not literally ancient, saw the world not as a giant clockwork but as an organism. My mother was like the evil clockwork of some kind of villainous clock gone haywire. Later on the pinnacle of technology was the clockwork. adjectiveˈklɑkˌwərkˈkläkˌwərk 1attributive Driven by clockwork. a clockwork motor a clockwork toy Example sentencesExamples The baroque churches are glorious, chocolate-box designs, as playful and loveable as the clockwork stars of Toccata for Toy Trains. He manages to create a believable world of automatons and clockwork mechanisms against a backdrop of the real world. It is a Thirties clockwork race game, in which two tin spaceships take turns to advance along a tramline track. The external world appeared to be an automaton, a clockwork mechanism that had been regulated once and for all. In the early days they had a clockwork tape recorder, and sat under trees with storytellers and bottles of rum. And now that clockwork watches - and clocks themselves - have become virtual antiques, I thought I might be able to make a living doing what I love to do. Sanderlings are characteristic of sandy beaches, running back and forth, with the ebb and flow of the tide, like so many little clockwork toys. I'd be better off at Lidd with a clockwork dummy than be with you! Fine mechanical clockwork components allude to timing and precision; the shells or fossils also refer to time, and the format suggests balance and endurance. Roddick is an investor in Freeplay, the company that manufactures clockwork radios, and Hotel du Vin, the boutique hotel chain. It is not a principle, like a clockwork design applied to the universe: It is an efficient intention, by an intellectual power. Puppets are thus to be distinguished from dolls, clockwork automata, and other toys. They were real passions, and at first I thought ‘hey, wouldn't it be good to use the Internet to trade clockwork tin toys’. The new paradigm, moving beyond Newton's majestic clockwork metaphor, guides us to a new way of approaching decisionmaking. It was gigantic and made of black metal, a great column filled with gears, levers, and pulleys moving together in a chaotic clockwork melee. To me the shape is more like an orrery, a clockwork model of the solar system. Ok, not to worry - they've probably got a back-up clockwork ticker-tape machine lying about somewhere that'll do the job. Danielle jumped up and down and clapped her hands above her head like a clockwork toy gone haywire. She joined Otley Junior Players and her first starring role was as a clockwork doll at the age of five. I'm stuck again, eighty feet above the warehouse floor, surrounded by Scooby Doo shampoo, clockwork frogs and sponge basketballs. 1.1 Very smooth and regular. the clockwork precision of the galaxy Example sentencesExamples The rest is how the extensive training to enable the three to act on clockwork precision is done and the robbery is met with success. Crowds have been excellent, the organisation clockwork and the sport on show has been almost universally of the highest standard. Their bodies seemed like a temple for artistic expression that gestured and moved with clockwork precision. He performed a few feats with clockwork precision. While dub is typically revered for its clockwork rhythm that snaps the mind into a trance, what is heard between the beats and the notes matter just as much. With clockwork precision 50 women completed it in 10.42 hours. The entire show was coordinated with clockwork precision by the Adventure Zone staff, headed by Major Swaraj Roy. The formal structure and brisk tempo of the third movement required almost clockwork precision. In fact, war is often the realm of chaos, lacking the sort of clockwork linear predictability so beloved of conventional analysts both inside and outside the military. Truly, Hero is so tightly organized that the viewer may balk at its clockwork elegance. The company is filled with superb technologists who are prepared to obsolete products in their prime and to churn out new ones with clockwork regularity. His universe was not clockwork and right angled but smoky and numinous. 1.2 Repetitive and predictable. it was a clockwork existence for the children Example sentencesExamples The clockwork appearance of periodical cicadas in late May to mid-June has long fascinated, and perplexed, entomologists. Kant's private life is often parodied as one of clockwork routine, fastidious, donnish, and self-centred. Today he moved like a clockwork man, functioning in precise patterns, thinking of nothing and feeling none. She's having marital difficulties, but can't stop fixating on her clockwork household. There may be no other director in Hollywood who embodies the clockwork reliability of a fine timepiece more than Ron Howard. It is a life dominated by clockwork routine, in which nothing out of the ordinary ever happens and the future already seems set in concrete. I watched them both, a little taken aback, as Von Rogoff and Herr Lindstrom made clockwork conversation. Regular as clockwork, you see drug dealers at the same times in the same places, five times a day, for drug drop-offs. In the clockwork universe outlined by Newton and his followers, one can calculate, and hence predict, everything. The Metro North commuter trains disturb the local fauna with clockwork regularity. For one thing, human beings do not experience themselves as being clockwork automata. Reductionist science grew from the clockwork logic of Descartes. Jolted by a mugging into the feeling that he is leading a clockwork, incomplete existence, Walker subsequently walks out on his spouse. Yet there was only one recorded clockwork crime, in which a tramp was beaten to death by a teenager. It was truly amazing to the young man how clockwork Marcus was, each poster, every billboard, he spent a specific amount of time on it, no more, no less. I ran this house with clockwork efficiency, but I did nothing worthwhile for my own fulfillment. Fires, both natural and human-caused, have burned seasonally dry parts of the island with clockwork regularity for millennia. Children slept in dormitories, they ate together in silence, and they lived their days to a clockwork routine which never varied. They take place with clockwork regularity all the year round. What American audiences want most, she learns, is clockwork morality plays about neglectful mothers and errant wives. Synonyms monotonous, tedious, boring, uninteresting, humdrum, mundane, tiresome, wearisome, dreary, soul-destroying, mind-numbing Phrases as regular as clockwork Very regularly; repeatedly and predictably. Example sentencesExamples The comedic cut scenes are as regular as clockwork and often as predictable. Each month, as regular as clockwork I would send her money so she didn't have to go back to the bar and we emailed to stay in touch. He's a typical old man; very set in his ways and as regular as clockwork. Usually, it was as regular as clockwork, but this month she was grateful for the delay. The customers who voted for him said he is as regular as clockwork. Larry made his appearance every Sunday morning, as regular as clockwork, with a copy of the Northern Star, damp from the press. A new generation comes through as regular as clockwork. Since we get a a magazine by postal subscription, delivered as regular as clockwork every Friday, we were rather suspicious. Transits of Venus occur as regular as clockwork, following a simple cycle. Reversals on the Sun, however, are almost as regular as clockwork - every 11 years, with its magnetic axis changing position for most of that time. like clockwork 1Very smoothly and easily. the event ran like clockwork Example sentencesExamples With the help of everyone, the day ran like clockwork. Everything that he organised was spot-on and ran like clockwork. Everything ran like clockwork for the Irish fivesome who had to quickly move on to launches in Belfast, Edinburgh, Manchester and London. Each stage ran like clockwork and bands had nothing but nice comments for the entire affair. That dry run ensured everything on the big day itself ran like clockwork. You couldn't always expect things to go smoothly like clockwork, but he did. A picnic atmosphere prevailed and thankfully everything ran like clockwork, even with a huge entry of over 200 competitors. Everything was going smoothly - like clockwork. The laboratory ran like clockwork and he kept a watchful eye on the welfare of his staff. The whole thing ran like clockwork, from pre-show to post-show. Synonyms without a hitch, like clockwork, with no trouble, without difficulty, easily, effortlessly, as planned, to plan, according to plan, swimmingly, satisfactorily, very well 1.1With mechanical regularity. these hens lay like clockwork Example sentencesExamples I hadn't seen Matt in a while, but his phone-calls were regular like clockwork, or had been until a week ago. But at SRC, we've built a system of mechanisms that makes innovation happen like clockwork. Like most things Korean, they run like clockwork and like most things, almost no effort is required to use them. Well, listen, when I dealt with women who were having crack-addicted babies every year like clockwork, I didn't like them particularly. I am very pleased to have won, the car ran like clockwork. But last night the many city residents who nominated the man who has kept Hull's timepieces running like clockwork for 40 years, declared ‘it's about time’. The #3 Audi ran like clockwork throughout the race. Synonyms without exception, unfailingly, constantly, regularly, invariably, dependably, conscientiously, reliably, faithfully, predictably, punctually, religiously, whatever happened, always noun.1 phr.
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