(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'.
Power
Definition:
(n.) Same as Poor, the fish.
(n.) Ability to act, regarded as latent or inherent; the faculty of doing or performing something; capacity for action or performance; capability of producing an effect, whether physical or moral: potency; might; as, a man of great power; the power of capillary attraction; money gives power.
(n.) Ability, regarded as put forth or exerted; strength, force, or energy in action; as, the power of steam in moving an engine; the power of truth, or of argument, in producing conviction; the power of enthusiasm.
(n.) Capacity of undergoing or suffering; fitness to be acted upon; susceptibility; -- called also passive power; as, great power of endurance.
(n.) The exercise of a faculty; the employment of strength; the exercise of any kind of control; influence; dominion; sway; command; government.
(n.) The agent exercising an ability to act; an individual invested with authority; an institution, or government, which exercises control; as, the great powers of Europe; hence, often, a superhuman agent; a spirit; a divinity.
(n.) A military or naval force; an army or navy; a great host.
(n.) A large quantity; a great number; as, a power o/ good things.
(n.) The rate at which mechanical energy is exerted or mechanical work performed, as by an engine or other machine, or an animal, working continuously; as, an engine of twenty horse power.
(n.) A mechanical agent; that from which useful mechanical energy is derived; as, water power; steam power; hand power, etc.
(n.) Applied force; force producing motion or pressure; as, the power applied at one and of a lever to lift a weight at the other end.
(n.) A machine acted upon by an animal, and serving as a motor to drive other machinery; as, a dog power.
(n.) The product arising from the multiplication of a number into itself; as, a square is the second power, and a cube is third power, of a number.
(n.) Mental or moral ability to act; one of the faculties which are possessed by the mind or soul; as, the power of thinking, reasoning, judging, willing, fearing, hoping, etc.
(n.) The degree to which a lens, mirror, or any optical instrument, magnifies; in the telescope, and usually in the microscope, the number of times it multiplies, or augments, the apparent diameter of an object; sometimes, in microscopes, the number of times it multiplies the apparent surface.
(n.) An authority enabling a person to dispose of an interest vested either in himself or in another person; ownership by appointment.
(n.) Hence, vested authority to act in a given case; as, the business was referred to a committee with power.
Example Sentences:
(1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
(2) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
(3) The authors have presented in two previous articles the graphic solutions resembling Tscherning ellipses, for spherical as well as for aspherical ophthalmic lenses free of astigmatism or power error.
(4) Power urges the security council to "take the kind of credible, binding action warranted."
(5) Then a handful of organisers took a major bet on the power of people – calling for the largest climate change mobilisation in history to kick-start political momentum.
(6) Therefore, we have developed a powerful new microcomputer-based system which permits detailed investigations and evaluation of 3-D and 4-D (dynamic 3-D) biomedical images.
(7) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
(8) The compressive strength of bone is proportional to the square of the apparent density and to the strain rate raised to the 0.06 power.
(9) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(10) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(11) He spoke words of power and depth and passion – and he spoke with a gesture, too.
(12) This transient paresis was accompanied by a dramatic fall in the MFCV concomitant with a shift of the power spectrum to the lower frequencies.
(13) In Tirana, Francis lauded the mutual respect and trust between Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians in Albania as a "precious gift" and a powerful symbol in today's world.
(14) This week's unconfirmed claims that Kim's uncle Jang Song Thaek had been ousted from power have refocused attention on the country's domestic affairs; some analysts say Jang was associated with reform .
(15) In a separate exclusive interview , Alexis Tsipras, the increasingly powerful 37-year-old Greek politician now regarded by many as holding the future of the euro in his hands, told the Guardian that he was determined "to stop the experiment" with austerity policies imposed by Germany.
(16) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
(17) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
(18) Faisal Abu Shahla, a senior official in Fatah, an organisation responsible for a good deal of repression of its own when it was in power, accuses Hamas of holding 700 political prisoners in Gaza as part of a broad campaign to suppress dissent.
(19) Significant changes have occurred within the profession of pharmacy in the past few decades which have led to loss of function, social power and status.
(20) A neodymium YAG (Nd:YAG) laser was evaluated in a dog ulcer model used in the same manner as is recommended for bleeding patients (power 55 W, divergence angle 4 degrees, with CO2 gas-jet assistance).