(n.) The machinery of a clock, or machinery resembling that of a clock; machinery which produces regularity of movement.
Example Sentences:
(1) A Clockwork Orange did well enough at the box office, then suddenly disappeared from British screens.
(2) It was only after a lengthy investigation that they realised their multibillion machine was flexing with the tides of Lake Geneva and picking up stray currents from the TGV train, which came and went like clockwork from Geneva station down the road.
(3) The machinery - the spinning gazebo, the train, the paddle-powered airship - whirrs along at the delicate yet exhilarating pace of clockwork.
(4) If Burma fails to end its systematic persecution of the Rohingya the “sailing season” will begin again like clockwork, one way or another.
(5) Their clockwork cities are ever more immaculate, but Morin admits they fall short on the people front: the sense of a city as a wondrous, unconducted symphony of individual minds.
(6) Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange , David Bowie unveiling Ziggy Stardust or David Hockney's Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy .
(7) The former Thick of It star's first outing as the Time Lord, in an episode set in a Victorian London menaced by a Tyrannosaurus Rex in the Thames and clockwork robots harvesting human organs for spare parts, had an average of 6.8 million viewers, a 32.5% share of the available TV audience.
(8) These happen as regularly as clockwork: universities telling all their rejects that their application has succeeded; data protection conferences accidentally sharing everyone’s details; office lovers broadcasting their intimate affair to the entire organisation.
(9) With his headphones bizarrely perched across his forehead, he looks like he could be undergoing the electric shock treatment in A Clockwork Orange .
(10) Unlike Isaac Newton's clockwork universe, where everything follows clear-cut laws on how to move and prediction is easy if you know the starting conditions, the uncertainty principle enshrines a level of fuzziness into quantum theory.
(11) A Clockwork Jerusalem , the exhibition we have curated for the British pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale , tells the story of this century of planning, starting with the maps of poverty in late-Victorian London, produced by Charles Booth, that graphically communicated the crisis of urban inequality.
(12) Astonishingly, his Super 8 films were returned from the developers at Kodak regular as clockwork.
(13) By looking at the movement of Mars, Kepler had calculated that planets orbited the sun in elliptical paths and, in a kind of celestial clockwork, his three laws of planetary motion allowed astronomers to work out the position of the planets in the future based on data from past records.
(14) Think of a canine terminator with a giant clockwork jaw of steel and razor wire: that's Malcolm's dog.
(15) 3.23pm BST Clockwork Cuckoo (@cuckooclockwork) Timmy Bibble's Friendship Club stand at #radiusfestival !
(16) Believing, incorrectly, that he was terminally ill, Burgess set out to write a rapid succession of short novels to provide for his wife, one of them being A Clockwork Orange, published in 1962.
(17) In a pre-course such as this, the academic authorities could borrow one of the central themes from A Clockwork Orange .
(18) That pre-1789 Versailles imagery – for Kubrick the distilled essence of a corrupt paradise built on bloodshed, poverty and suffering – would reappear in the last shot of A Clockwork Orange ("I was cured all right!
(19) He still makes a film a year, on time, on budget, like clockwork.
(20) But the day the play opened the London Evening Standard 's front page lead about the government's latest reform package was headed 'PUNISHMENT FOR THE 1990s - Jail the dangerous criminals, hard labour for the rest', while inside was a report on gang muggings headed 'Fear that Stalks the Streets' and a story about a 1970s Secret Service disinformation scheme known as 'Operation Clockwork Orange'.
Device
Definition:
(n.) That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
(n.) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
(n.) An emblematic design, generally consisting of one or more figures with a motto, used apart from heraldic bearings to denote the historical situation, the ambition, or the desire of the person adopting it. See Cognizance.
(n.) Improperly, an heraldic bearing.
(n.) Anything fancifully conceived.
(n.) A spectacle or show.
(n.) Opinion; decision.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thirty-two patients (10 male, 22 female; age 37-82 years) undergoing maintenance haemodialysis or haemofiltration were studied by means of Holter device capable of simultaneously analysing rhythm and ST-changes in three leads.
(2) The reason for the rise in Android's market share on both sides of the Atlantic is the increased number of devices that use the software.
(3) Core biopsy with computed tomography (CT) or ultrasound (US) guidance may be such an alternative, particularly when a spring-loaded firing device is used.
(4) Socially acceptable urinary control was achieved in 90 per cent of the 139 patients with active devices in place.
(5) Good fixation was obtained in 4 cases using Steffee's devices.
(6) The image was altered in the expected way, which means that the device is suitable for investigating the possibilities of different filters to improve the diagnostic ability.
(7) Streaming is shown to occur in water in the focused beams produced by a number of medical pulse-echo devices.
(8) A device allowing pressure to be applied to a local skin site where the skin blood flow is followed using laser Doppler flowmetry is described.
(9) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(10) The Nd-Yag-Laser seems to be a useful device in transsphenoidal surgery due to its potent coagulation effect and comfortable handling.
(11) However, localizing a functional region with PET has been severely limited by the poor resolving properties of PET devices.
(12) The devices worked as well on postphlebitic legs as on normal ones.
(13) Ten patients have undergone abdominal proctocolectomy with the formation of an ileal reservoir anastomosed onto the anal canal using a stapling device.
(14) The lack of pedestrian crossing devices, crosswalks, or sidewalks, however, was not associated with an increased risk.
(15) He added that 45% of traffic to Local World's extensive portfolio of websites – 76 newspaper sites, 26 This is … sites and 400 hyper local sites – comes from mobile devices.
(16) The latter animals were raised in an automated feeding device (Autosow) with an artificial diet simulating the nutritional composition of sow milk.
(17) "Android’s gain came mainly at the expense of BlackBerry, which saw its global smartphone share dip from 4 percent to 1 percent in the past year due to a weak line-up of BB10 devices," said Strategy Analytics' senior analyst Scott Bicheno.
(18) The authors consider that this device increases safety during this potentially hazardous procedure by eliminating the flammable polyvinyl chloride endotracheal tube and cottonoid packings most frequently used during this procedure.
(19) A training device is used in conjunction with an exercise program to teach muscle control for retention of a mandibular denture.
(20) We also used an optical device to stabilize images of the real world upon the retina.