Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of one who uses their right hand in preference to, or more skillfully than their left. 2 (context not comparable English) Intended to be worn on, or used by the right hand. 3 (context not comparable English) turning or spiralling from left to right; clockwise. 4 (context physics English) Of a particle for which the direction of its spin is the same as the direction of its motion. alt. 1 Of one who uses their right hand in preference to, or more skillfully than their left. 2 (context not comparable English) Intended to be worn on, or used by the right hand. 3 (context not comparable English) turning or spiralling from left to right; clockwise. 4 (context physics English) Of a particle for which the direction of its spin is the same as the direction of its motion. n. Right-handed people, taken as a whole.
WordNet
adj. using or intended for the right hand; "a right-handed batter"; "right-handed scissors" [ant: left-handed, ambidextrous]
rotating to the right [syn: dextrorotary, dextrorotatory]
Usage examples of "right-handed".
Orthean weapons had largely been a failure, simply because Ortheans fight ambidextrously and I remained obstinately right-handed.
If you take a Moebius band made with a left-handed twist, and another band made with a right-handed twist, they will be enantiomorphs of each other.
The left-handed fork disappeared quickly into the thick forest, but it was the right-handed branch to which Hades drew their attention.
He reached left-handed for the wine, right-handed for the playscript, drawing both to him over the pegged tabletop.
John putts left-handed, though he hits the ball right-handed, a method I follow - if it can be called a method.
Some left-handed hitters fared worse against lefties than righties, and some right-handed hitters fared worse against righties than lefties.
The statistics enabled you to find your way past all sorts of sight-based scouting prejudices: the scouting dislike of short right-handed pitchers, for instance, or the scouting distrust of skinny little guys who get on base.
And so, Jim, the retraining of left-handed children to become right-handed -- in complete contradiction to the orders the poor kids' brains are issuing to their muscles -- badly bollixes up their central nervous systems, and, among other bad outcomes, is the direct and only cause of habitual stuttering.
As long as all amino acids of a given type have the same chirality the protein will fold the same way each time, but if both left and right-handed versions are present, the process becomes akin to driving to a friend's house by flipping a coin at each intersection.
For example, it was widely believed that parity (which is symmetry upon reflection in a mirror) must be a conserved quantity, because the Universe should have no preference for left-handed sub-nuclear processes over right-handed ones.
Right-handed pens increase the crabbedness, but a pencil accommodates itself.
The most violent amateurish drawing in this collection depicts a bosomy woman in a low-cut dress sitting in a chair, her hands bound behind her, her head thrown back as a right-handed man plunges a knife into the center of her chest at the level of her sternum.
The most violent amateurish drawing in this collection depicts a bosomy woman in a low-cut dress sitting in a chair, her hands bound behind her, her head thrown back as a right-handed man plunges a knife into the center of her chest at the level of her sternum.
Some tunics, however, like some regular slave tunics, have a disrobing loop, usually at the left shoulder, where it may easily be reached by both a right-handed master and a right-handed slave.
Tadaos was right-handed, and the arrow rest was on the right side rather than the normal left.