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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.

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  • 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 aƫromechanics.
  • TEN-O'CLOCK
    A plant, the star-of-Bethlehem. See under Star.
  • LADYCLOCK
    See LADYRIRD

 

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