clock-wiseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: klŏk'wīz, IPA: /ˈklɒkwaɪz/
• 韻: -ɒkwaɪz

副詞

clockwise (not comparable)

1. In a curve or twist corresponding to the movement of the hands of a clock.

   Turn the handle clockwise to open it.

   • 2009 May 28, Alan Feuer, “In the Gilded World of Per Se’s Kitchen”, in The New York Times‎:

     The main —— or cooking —— kitchen is an inhumanly immaculate expanse of burner rings and countertops where, according to tradition, the stations move clockwise from canapé to entremetier.

同意語

• CW, dextrorotatory, sunwise, deasil

反意語

• ACW, anticlockwise (UK, Australia, New Zealand)
• CCW, counterclockwise, counter-clockwise (US, Canada)
• withershins, widdershins

形容詞

clockwise (not comparable)

1. Moving clockwise; having rotary motion in the manner of a clock.

   In the southern hemisphere the flow of air around a low-pressure system is clockwise.

   • 2006, Manfred Schliwa, Molecular Motors, page 359:

     The clockwise beating of cilia results in a net flow of extraembryonic fluid leftwards […]

派生語

参考

• Clockwise on Wikipedia.Wikipedia