Crossword-Solution: CHRONOMETER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Chronometer | n. | An instrument for measuring time; a timekeeper. |
| Chronometer | n. | A portable timekeeper, with a heavy compensation balance, and usually beating half seconds; -- intended to keep time with great accuracy for use an astronomical observations, in determining longitude, etc. |
| Chronometer | n. | A metronome. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “CHRONOMETER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| CHRONOGRAPH | 1 answer |
| Instrument measuring time | 1 answer |
| Timekeeping instrument | 1 answer |
| Watch, say | 1 answer |
| Ship's clock | 2 answers |
| Fancy watch | 3 answers |
| Time keeper? | 10 answers |
| Timepiece | 12 answers |
| ___ clock. | 28 answers |
| INSTRUMENT for measuring | 38 answers |
| MEASURING instrument | 56 answers |
| Watch | 56 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERETA
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greedy person
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Sentences with CHRONOMETER (5)
But precisely because chance has led me into these seas on the 21st of March, my bearings will be easy to take, if at twelve we can see the sun.” “Why, Captain?” “Because then the orb of day described such lengthened curves that it is difficult to measure exactly its height above the horizon, and grave errors may be made with instruments.” “What will you do then?” “I shall only use my chronometer,” replied Captain Nemo.
What had I ever had from my chronometer like the quiet thrill of satisfaction when the fellow brought me the pawn ticket and told me that the thirty shillings had been useful? Leslie Duncan got out at Carstairs, and I was left alone with a hale, white-haired, old Roman Catholic priest, who had sat quietly reading his office in the corner.
Over the lounge, however, was the rack of instruments, sextant, barometer, chronometer, glass, and the like, securely screwed down, while against the wall, in front of a swivel leather chair that was ironed to the deck, was the locked secretary.
With an expression of surprise I turned and looked at Perry--it was broad day-light without! "Something seems to have gone wrong either with our calculations or the chronometer," I said.
What a blow awaited me! The sextant and chronometer had both been broken beyond repair, and they had been broken just this very night.
Quotes with CHRONOMETER (3)
Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you — even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition. Religions are places to stand and look and act, vantage points from…
Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you - even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition.
Maybe life involves the pairing of unsuitable people, those who wait and those who keep others waiting, and the key to happiness is finding the one person with whom you share the same internal chronometer.
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Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1980–2006).