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Leftwise vs Weftwise - What's the difference?

leftwise | weftwise |

As adverbs the difference between leftwise and weftwise

is that leftwise is (rare) by a leftward path; leftwards, leftwardly; anticlockwise, counterclockwise while weftwise is in the orientation of the weft in woven yarn.

As adjectives the difference between leftwise and weftwise

is that leftwise is (rare) leftward, on the left side while weftwise is in the orientation of the weft in woven yarn.

leftwise

English

Adverb

(-)
  • (rare) By a leftward path; leftwards, leftwardly; anticlockwise, counterclockwise.
  • * 1890 , G. C. Macaulay, The History of Herodotus, translated into English :
    • and doing so they say that they do it themselves rightwise and the Hellenes leftwise .
  • * 2004 , Christian P. Robert, George Casella, Monte Carlo statistical methods , page 336:
    • Similarly, his "doubling procedure" consists in the same random starting interval whose length is doubled (leftwise or rightwise at random) recursively till both ends are outside the slice.

    Adjective

  • (rare) Leftward, on the left side.
  • * 2006 , Arne Røkkum, Nature, ritual, and society in Japan's Ryukyu Islands , page 151:
    • The leftwise' action aims at what drifts out of the nunka domain of the nefarious. Similarly for mortuary arrangements, what is ' leftwise is more momentous than what is rightwise.

    See also

    * rightwise

    weftwise

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • In the orientation of the weft in woven yarn.
    • a weftwise striped pattern

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In the orientation of the weft in woven yarn.

    • Antonyms

    * warpwise