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Anticlockwise vs Deasil - What's the difference?

anticlockwise | deasil | Antonyms |

Anticlockwise is an antonym of deasil.


As adverbs the difference between anticlockwise and deasil

is that anticlockwise is (au|nz|british) in an anticlockwise fashion while deasil is (especially wicca) clockwise.

As an adjective anticlockwise

is (au|nz|british|of movement) 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 move.

anticlockwise

English

(Clockwise and counterclockwise)

Adjective

(-)
  • (AU, NZ, British, of movement) 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 move.

    • Synonyms

    * counterclockwise (US) / counter-clockwise (US), laevorotatory (qualifier) / levorotatory (qualifier), positive (geometry)

    Antonyms

    * clockwise

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (AU, NZ, British) In an anticlockwise fashion.

    • Synonyms

    * counterclockwise (US) / counter-clockwise (US), widdershins / withershins (particularly on a sundial)

    Antonyms

    * clockwise

    deasil

    English

    Alternative forms

    * deosil * deasill

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (especially Wicca) Clockwise.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1827 , chapter = The Two Drovers , title = (Chronicles of the Canongate) , author = (Walter Scott) , volume = 1 , location = Edinburgh , publisher = Cadell and Co. , passage = It consists, as is well known, in the person who makes the deasil walking three times round the person who is the object of the ceremony, taking care to move according to the course of the sun. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1939 , author = Wilson Dallam Wallis , title = Religion in Primitive Society , location = New York , publisher = F. S. Crofts & Co. , page = 160 , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=AjUiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA160&dq=deasil , passage = In Strathfillan, Perthshire, people are cured of insanity by being made to go three times deasil round a certain pool and then being plunged headlong into it. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1946 , title = The World of Numbers , first = Herbert , last = McKay , publisher = Cambridge University Press , ol = 189640M , page = 42 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=Gh49AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA42&dq=deasil , passage = Our clocks and watches turn deasil', and it would seem odd, almost contrary to nature, to have them turn widdershins. We read '''deasil''', and Macaulay's widdershins writing ‘traced from the right on pages white’ was a conscious oddity of priests. Port was circulated '''deasil'''; to send it round widdershins was extremely unlucky. Playing cards are dealt '''deasil'''; we turn screws '''deasil'''. It is possible to trace our right-handedness to the perception of ' deasil as the normal direction, and widdershins as abnormal, topsy-turvy, unlucky. }}

    Synonyms

    * (clockwise) clockwise, right-handed

    Antonyms

    * (clockwise) anticlockwise, counter-clockwise, left-handed, widdershins

    References

    * World Wide Words

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