Word Meanings - CLOCKLIKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical. Their services are clocklike, to be set Blackward and vorward at their lord's command. B. Jonson.

Related words: (words related to CLOCKLIKE)

• COMMANDING
  1. Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer. 2. Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence. 3. Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position. Syn.
• CLOCKLIKE
  Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical. Their services are clocklike, to be set Blackward and vorward at their lord's command. B. Jonson.
• COMMANDATORY
  Mandatory; as, commandatory authority.
• COMMANDO
  In South Africa, a military body or command; also, sometimes, an expedition or raid; as, a commando of a hundred Boers. The war bands, called commandos, have played a great part in the . . . military history of the country. James Bryce.
• CLOCKWISE
  Like the motion of the hands of a clock; -- said of that direction of a rotation about an axis, or about a point in a plane, which is ordinarily reckoned negative.
• CLOCKWORK
  The machinery of a clock, or machinary resembling that of a clock; machinery which produced regularity of movement.
• COMMANDEER
  To compel to perform military service; to seize for military purposes; -- orig. used of the Boers. 2. To take arbitrary or forcible possession of.
• COMMANDMENT
  One of the ten laws or precepts given by God to the Israelites at Mount Sinai. 3. The act of commanding; exercise of authority. And therefore put I on the countenance Of stern commandment. Shak. (more info) 1. An order or injunction given
• COMMANDINGLY
  In a commanding manner.
• COMMANDABLE
  Capable of being commanded.
• COMMANDRY
  See COMMANDERY
• COMMANDER
  An officer who ranks next below a captain, -- ranking with a lieutenant colonel in the army. 3. The chief officer of a commandery. 4. A heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, in sail lofts, etc. Commander in chief, the military title of
• MECHANICAL
  1. Pertaining to, governed by, or in accordance with, mechanics, or the laws of motion; pertaining to the quantitative relations of force and matter, as distinguished from mental, vital, chemical, etc.; as, mechanical principles; a mechanical
• MECHANICALLY
  In a mechanical manner.
• COMMANDRESS
  A woman invested with authority to command. Hooker.
• CLOCK
  glocke, Dan. klokke, Sw. klocka, Icel. klukka bell, LL. clocca, cloca ; al perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. & Gael. clog 1. A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works
• MECHANICALIZE
  To cause to become mechanical.
• COMMANDERY
  1. The office or rank of a commander. 2. A district or a manor with lands and tenements appertaining thereto, under the control of a member of an order of knights who was called a commander; -- called also a preceptory. 3. An assembly or lodge
• COMMAND
  commander, fr. L. com- + mandare to commit to, to command. Cf. 1. To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge. We are commanded to forgive our enemies, but you never read that we are commanded to forgive
• COMMANDANT
  A commander; the commanding officer of a place, or of a body of men; as, the commandant of a navy-yard.
• WATER CLOCK
  An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.
• VASE CLOCK
  A clock whose decorative case has the general form of a vase, esp. one in which there is no ordinary dial, but in which a part of a vase revolves while a single stationary indicator serves as a hand.
• STREAM CLOCK
  An instrument for ascertaining the velocity of the blood in a vessel.
• AEROMECHANIC; AEROMECHANICAL
  Of or pert. to aëromechanics.
• TEN-O'CLOCK
  A plant, the star-of-Bethlehem. See under Star.
• LADYCLOCK
  See LADYRIRD