clockwork in the PONS Dictionary

clockwork Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

as regular as clockwork
точен като часовник
to go like clockwork
вървя гладко [o. като по часовник]

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In the 1850s their lights were rotated using clockworks, usually powered by falling weights attached to chains.
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The solution is to become one of the clockworks.
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Though the courthouse had a clock tower, there was no clock and the county did not purchase the clockworks needed for a working clock.
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Electric motors convert electrical energy into mechanical motion, pneumatic motors use compressed air and otherssuch as clockwork motors in wind-up toysuse elastic energy.
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Traditional orreries often did move and some used clockworks to make the relative speeds of objects accurate.
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It is topped by an ornate clock tower, but due to a lack of funds, the clockworks was never installed.
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