单词 | anticlockwise |
释义 | anticlockwise (once / 1313257 pages) advadj WORD FAMILY clockwise: anticlockwise, counterclockwise USAGE EXAMPLESDr Angus Davison, from the university's school of life sciences, made his appeal in October to find another snail with an anticlockwise spiralling shell. BBC(Nov 08, 2016) A rare garden snail with an anticlockwise shell - a "lefty" - has been discovered in London. BBC(Oct 20, 2016) The yacht Northabout left Bristol, UK, in June and traversed the North Pole in an anticlockwise direction. BBC(Sep 13, 2016) 1adv in a direction opposite to the direction in which the hands of a clock move Syn|Ant counterclockwise clockwise in the direction that the hands of a clock move 2adj in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock Syn|Ant contraclockwise, counterclockwise left-handed, levorotary, levorotatory rotating to the left sinistralof or on the left clockwise in the same direction as the rotating hands of a clock dextrorotary, dextrorotatory, right-handedrotating to the right dextralof or on the right |
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