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Backwards (direction of watch movement)
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anticlockwise
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Word definitions for anticlockwise in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock [syn: counterclockwise , contraclockwise ] [ant: clockwise ] adv. in a direction opposite to the direction in which the hands of a clock move; "please move counterclockwise in a circle!" ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES in a clockwise/anticlockwise direction (= like or unlike the movement of the hands of a clock ) ▪ All movement on a roundabout is in a clockwise direciton.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context AU NZ British of movement English) in a circular fashion so as to be moving to the left at the top of the circle and to the right at the bottom (when viewed from the front), in the opposite direction to the way the hands of an analogue clock ...
Usage examples of anticlockwise.
We would patrol in an anticlockwise direction, generally heading north, using the lie of the ground, to see if we hit anything else which resembled the MSR.
We found a suitable marker, a large rock, and started heading west on our anticlockwise loop.
A band of rain would cross the whole British area between lunch and bedtime the next day, starting in the west of Scotland and travelling south and anticlockwise, with veering winds later in the day bringing clouds and drizzle across southern England to mess up the Catherine Wheels of Essex.
We would patrol in an anticlockwise direction, generally heading north, using the lie of the ground, to see if we hit anything else which resembled the MSR.
Kay turned the dial minutely anticlockwise, the sound wowed up and down an octave, the diva evaporated, more gunfire, and then, like stepping into an open space, a rapid, staccato dah-dah-dah-dah-dah of Morse, pulsing clearly and urgently, more than a thousand miles distant, somewhere in German-occupied Ukraine.
The Englishman took the gnarled end of the bolt between forefinger and thumb of the right hand, gave it a sharp turn anticlockwise.
Robert, the driver, pulled the car to the right and drove round the courtyard anticlockwise, to deposit his master at the foot of the six granite steps that lead to the entrance.
At this, Sophie said a word she had learned from Martha, that neither old ladies nor young girls are supposed to know, and stumped uphill and anticlockwise to the castle’s righthand corner.
There was no barrier there—evidently you had to go round the castle anticlockwise—but there, a bit sideways in the next wall, was a third door.
She twisted it anticlockwise and cool, clean, untouched-smelling air spilled in under the opened seal.
We knew Brandi had already seen it, so we loaded it up and brought it back anticlockwise to the same day, trying to trap him.
It can hinge in or outward, slide vertically or laterally, unscrew clockwise or anticlockwise or, if the builders are sufficiently advanced in the field of molecular engineering, an opening could be dilated in an area of solid metal.