clockwork
pronunciation
How to pronounce clockwork in British English:
UK [ˈklɒkwɜ:k]
How to pronounce clockwork in American English:
US [ˈklɑkwɜrk]
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- Noun:
- any mechanism of geared wheels that is driven by a coiled spring; resembles the works of a mechanical clock
Word Origin
- clockwork (n.)
- also clock-work, 1660s, "mechanism of a clock," from clock (n.1) + work (n.). Figurative sense of "anything of unvarying regularity" is recorded earlier (1620s).
Example
- 1. Indeed , the determinism implied by universal mechanism is even stronger than clockwork .
- 2. I 'm telling you , colombians are like clockwork , right ?
- 3. It 's all going to work out like clockwork .
- 4. Magazines and other periodicals will be delivered to your door like clockwork , whether you read them or not .
- 5. And every year , like some sort of magic clockwork , it does more and more for less and less , bringing the marginal costs of technology in the units that we individuals consume closer to zero .