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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
clockwise
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.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Turn the dial clockwise.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At a more complex psychological level, motion that spirals clockwise connects us to the Sun.
▪ Dabblers like the mallard seem to demand that the spiral moves clockwise from the eye over the full round forehead.
▪ Does it go clockwise or anti-clockwise? clockwise?
▪ In the other half of the year the apparent spiral stays clockwise but shrinks rather than expands.
▪ Once the first bid has been made, the game moves clockwise in the circle.
▪ The Sun, the Moon, the planets and stars seem to move clockwise across the northern sky.
▪ U/V filters clockwise from top: Uvaq: Cyprio.
▪ We set off clockwise around the nubble to pick our dinner.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
clockwise

clockwise \clock"wise`\, a. & adv. in the same direction as the hands of a clock rotate, as viewed from in front of the clock face; -- said of that direction of a rotation about an axis, or about a point in a plane, which is ordinarily reckoned negative. Also said of the direction of a spiral, in which case the term right-handed is more common. Opposite of counterclockwise, and left-handed.

Syn: right-handed, dextrorotary, dextrorotatory.

clockwise

clockwise \clockwise\ adj. 1. -- of rotatory motion. dextral

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
clockwise

also clock-wise, "in the direction of the hands of a clock," 1879, from clock (n.1) + wise (n.).

Wiktionary
clockwise

a. Moving clockwise; having rotary motion in the manner of a clock. adv. 1 (context of movement English) In a circular fashion so as to be moving to the right at the top of the circle and to the left at the bottom, in the way that the hands of a clock move. 2 (context of movement English) Positioned as such when facing the side of a circular structure or configuration, objects moving within the structure approach from the right-hand side, and depart toward the left-hand side.

WordNet
clockwise
  1. adj. in the same direction as the rotating hands of a clock [ant: counterclockwise]

  2. adv. in the direction that the hands of a clock move; "please move clockwise in a circle" [ant: counterclockwise]

Wikipedia
Clockwise (disambiguation)

Clockwise is a direction that moves with the clock's dials. This may also refer to:

  • Clockwise (film), starring John Cleese
  • Clockwise, a puzzle game for the Amiga CD32 games console
  • Clockwise (band), a Swedish music project
Clockwise (film)

Clockwise is a 1986 British comedy film starring John Cleese, directed by Christopher Morahan, written by Michael Frayn and produced by Michael Codron. The film's music was composed by George Fenton.

For his performance Cleese won the 1987 Peter Sellers Award For Comedy at the Evening Standard British Film Awards. Most urban scenes were shot in the West Midlands, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, while rural scenes were largely shot in Shropshire.

Clockwise (band)

Clockwise is a Swedish music project, formed by Benny Söderberg in 1995

The singer and songwriter Benny Söderberg Fortune (music group from Sweden) asked the musicians John Levén Bass, Ian Haugland Drums from Europe and guitarplayer Jan Granvik (Glory) to play on his coming album. Benny did meet John and Ian when they were playing with Glenn Hughes and Benny's previous band Fortune (music group from Sweden) opened for Glenn Hughes on his Japan tour in 1994, and guitar player Jan Granwick(Glory) have Benny known for years so he was also asked to participate.

Benny felt that he wanted to make an album with all the elements that he thought a good album should have, nice melody and good musician ship. Not just jump onto the next music scene that appears 'cause it has changed. Together with Christer Wedin at Empire Records they set plans for this project. The debut album " Nostalgia " is an album filled with strong melodies, tasteful arrangements, good musician ship and great sound, the later created by Ronny Lahti ( Europe, Talisman, Saigon Kick), is incredible. 1999.

After the successful release of Clockwise debut album "Nostalgia", which received rave reviews all over the world, the second album called "Naïve", was released. And again, Benny Söderberg asked his musician friends, who participated on the first album, to record this follow up album. Therefore, you will again find, John Levén bass and Ian Haugland drums from Europe, as the solid rhythm section. Contractual reason made it impossible for guitar player Jan Granwick to participate on this second record. Therefore, the guitar axe man Fredrik Åkesson ( Talisman, Arch Enemy, Southpaw now with Opeth) was asked to play with Clockwise on this record and so he did.

Songs that catch strong melody and brilliant musical performance are Clockwise trademark, and the second album "Naive" is filled with this. Benny Söderberg has again written all the material, and no one will mistake his feeling for writing songs with his special harmony and feeling.

Benny has also recorded a demo for Clockwise 3rd album, (maybe) to be named "nothing is the greatest thing". On this demo Benny plays all instruments, except bass, which is played by John Levén, and for this demo Jan Granwick plays all guitars. The songs featured on this demo are "Our Roads Never Cross", "If You Change Your Mind" and "Demon In The Dim". You can also expect the ending for the song "the tales of King Solitude" that started with part 1:3 on the first album, continued with "the tales of King Solitude 2:3" on the second album, and now to be ended with "the tales of King Solitude 3:3" on the 3rd album.

Clockwise

Circular motion can occur in two possible directions. A clockwise (typically abbreviated as CW) motion is one that proceeds in the same direction as a clock's hands: from the top to the right, then down and then to the left, and back up to the top. The opposite sense of rotation or revolution is (in Commonwealth English) anticlockwise (ACW), or (in North American English) counterclockwise (CCW). In a mathematical sense, a circle defined parametrically in a positive Cartesian plane by the equations and is traced anticlockwise as t increases in value.

Usage examples of "clockwise".

The balance was spinning like a whirling dervish, widdershins instead of clockwise, so fast it just became a blur.

She would turn Bruja to her left, there to travel clockwise around the central suns.

Estevan walked clockwise, Clio counterclockwise around the perimeter, where the floodlights did a fairly good job of illumination except for the dark patches between the widely spaced lights.

The rosette of dots jumped in its egg-shaped orbit around the moon, moving clockwise.

As long as the tanks stayed jammed together, Balthasar could not rotate clockwise any farther, not the last few crucial degrees toward the shooter across the field.

Goldfarb pondered the whirlwind of high-energy particles, trillions of electron volts sweeping clockwise underneath the bucolic landscape.

Then the sorcerer began to circle them, clockwise, while simultaneously drawing a line in the red dirt with the tip of his staff.

At his word the lightning ball, crackling fiercely, began to follow the circle in a clockwise direction.

Again walking clockwise, he scattered a fine green sand over the line he had drawn and intoned an interminable number of doggerel verses in a singsong voice.

Ponderously he walked clockwise to the dancers, so that they passed in review for him.

Manatees still hapless victims of area boaters January 8, 1986 She floated clockwise in the current.

They had reached the ring road and were travelling round it in a clockwise direction.

A not-a-crab spotted them and burrowed quickly into the sand with a clockwise screwing motion.

Stupas were worshipped by the rite of circumambulation, which always had to be in a clockwise direction, and offerings were made to it.

The pilgrim, still following a clockwise progression, ascended from one terrace to the next, on each of which were chapels containing images and wall-paintings, the whole culminating in a shrine at the top.