单词 | watchwork |
释义 | watchworkn. a. That part of the movement of a timepiece which is concerned with the measuring of the hours, as distinguished from the ‘clockwork’ or striking part; also, the ‘works’ or parts composing the movement of a watch. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > watch > [noun] > parts of barrel1591 motion1605 bezel1616 fusee1622 string1638 crown wheel1646 out-case1651 watch-box1656 nuck1664 watchwork1667 balance-wheel1669 box1675 dial wheel1675 counter-potence1678 pendulum-balance1680 watch-case1681 pillar1684 contrate teeth1696 pinion of report1696 watch-hook1698 bob-balance1701 half-cock1701 potence1704 verge1704 pad1705 movable1709 jewel1711 pendant1721 crystal1722 watch-key1723 pendulum spring1728 lock spring1741 watch-glass1742 watch-spring1761 all-or-nothing piece1764 watch hand1764 cylinder1765 cannon?1780 cannon1802 stackfreed1819 pillar plate1821 little hand1829 hair-spring1830 lunette1832 all-or-nothing1843 locking1851 slag1857 staff1860 case spring1866 stem1866 balance-cock1874 watch-dial1875 balance-spring1881 balance-staff1881 Breguet spring1881 overcoil1881 surprise-piece1881 brass edge1884 button turn1884 fourth wheel1884 fusee-sink1884 pair-case1884 silver bar1884 silver piece1884 slang1884 top plate1884 karrusel1893 watch-face1893 watch bracelet1896 bar-movement1903 jewel pivot1907 jewel bearing1954 1667 T. Sprat Hist. Royal-Soc. 247 Three new wayes of Pendulums for Clocks, and several wayes of applying the motion of the Watch-work to them. 1674 R. Hooke Animadversions Machina Cœlestis 68 To effect which motion of the Table and Instrument, a Watch-work is fitted to the Axis, so as to make it move round in the same time, with a diurnal revolution of the Earth. 1675 J. Smith Horol. Dialogues i. vii. 28 Tis always commendable to see Clock or Watch-work, move thus brisk and lively. 1773 Pennsylvania Gaz. 16 June (Suppl.) 2/2 [Advt.] Silver watches..cast watch-work, [etc.]. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 489 Clock-work, properly so called..in contradistinction to that part of the movement of a clock or watch..which is termed watch-work. 1848 Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Lond. 271 Facio, a native of Geneva,..is said to have first invented the application of jewels to watchwork. b. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. I. 181 A shew-woman—like Madam Catharina, with watchwork under her hoop! 1844 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 56 530 The whole machinery and watchwork of pauperism. 1849 A. H. Clough New Sinai in Poems & Prose Rem. (1869) II. 84 Heaven's A Mécanique Céleste! And heart and mind of human kind A watch-work as the rest! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1667 |
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