Word Meanings - CLOCKWORK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The machinery of a clock, or machinary resembling that of a clock; machinery which produced regularity of movement.

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• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• REGULARITY
  The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• 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.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• 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.
• PRODUCTIVITY
  The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge.
• PRODUCTUS
  An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• PRODUCTILE
  Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible; ductile.
• PRODUCER
  A furnace for producing combustible gas which is used for fuel. (more info) 1. One who produces, brings forth, or generates. 2. One who grows agricultural products, or manufactures crude materials into articles of use.
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• PRODUCENT
  One who produces, or offers to notice. Ayliffe.
• MOVEMENT
  A system of mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion; as, the wheelwork of a watch. Febrille movement , an elevation of the body temperature; a fever. -- Movement cure. See Kinesiatrics. -- Movement
• PRODUCTRESS
  A female producer.
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• PRODUCER'S SURPLUS; PRODUCER'S RENT
  Any profit above the normal rate of interest and wages accruing to a producer on account of some monopoly of the means or materials of production; -- called also Producer's rent.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• WATER CLOCK
  An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.
• OVERPRODUCTION
  Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.
• REPRODUCTORY
  Reproductive.
• 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.
• REPRODUCER
  One who, or that which, reproduces. Burke.
• STREAM CLOCK
  An instrument for ascertaining the velocity of the blood in a vessel.
• REPRODUCE
  To produce again. Especially: To bring forward again; as, to reproduce a witness; to reproduce charges; to reproduce a play. To cause to exist again. Those colors are unchangeable, and whenever all those rays with those their colors are mixed again