clockwork — قاموس الإنجليزية

اسم

1. 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.

   الاستعمال

   • غير معدود
   • usually

   أمثلة

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   Many contrivances for making model horses move up and down as on roundabouts were patented in 1887, and toy horses pulling toy carts were made to imitate galloping by means of clockwork.

2. The action of behaving mechanically in the manner of a clock.

   الاستعمال

   • غير معدود
   • usually

   أمثلة

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   The mind feeds upon the body: pale sickness, and early decrepitude, overmaster even its spiritual essence. Too late it discovers that this earth is its prison, and not its home: the heart beats, and its pulses are the clockwork of wretchedness:...

صفة

1. Driven by clockwork.

   الاستعمال

   • attributive
   • not-comparable

2. Very smooth and regular.

   الاستعمال

   • attributive
   • not-comparable

   أمثلة

   In their freight, as in their passenger operations, the N.S. present a picture of clockwork efficiency.

اسم

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

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   mechanism