I mind the broken looking-glass, The mattress like a rock, The servant-girl from County Clare, Whose face would stop a clock. 1890 include break a mirror, kill chickens.) I remember I remember That boarding house forlorn, The little window where the smell Of hash came in the morn. in the direction in which the hands ( thin parts that point) of a clock move: 2. (The opposite direction is called Counterclockwise or Anticlockwise.) Most screws and bolts are tightened, and faucets/taps are closed, by turning clockwise. To have a face that would stop a clock "be very ugly" is from 1886. clockwise ý ngha, nh ngha, clockwise là gì: 1. clockwise adjective, adverb us / klk.waz / uk / klk.waz / in the direction in which the hands ( thin parts that point) of a clock move: Turn the knob clockwise/in a clockwise direction. Moving in the direction of the hands on a clock. Round-the-clock (adj.) is from 1943, originally in reference to air raids. The meaning of COUNTERCLOCKWISE is in a direction opposite to that in which the hands of a clock rotate as viewed from in front. klok-wahyz See synonyms for clockwise on. The image of put (or set) the clock back "return to an earlier state or system" is from 1862. The Latin word was horologium (source of French horologe, Spanish reloj, Italian oriolo, orologio) the Greeks used a water-clock ( klepsydra, literally "water thief " see clepsydra). Replaced Old English dægmæl, from dæg "day" + mæl "measure, mark" (see meal (n.1)). echoic, imitating the rattling made by the early handbells of sheet-iron and quadrilateral shape, rather than the ringing of the cast circular bells of later date. With a bias toward turning right (which is also why we have the same word for right, as for 'correct') this would generally have meant turning left or counter-clockwise, but in a given context could mean the opposite. He told the children to start moving clockwise. The main one is widder meaning 'back against' and sinnen meaning 'way', and so widdershins means in the wrong way. "machine to measure and indicate time mechanically" (since late 1940s also electronically), late 14c., clokke, originally "clock with bells," probably from Middle Dutch clocke (Dutch klok) "a clock," from Old North French cloque (Old French cloke, Modern French cloche "a bell"), from Medieval Latin clocca "bell," which probably is from Celtic (compare Old Irish clocc, Welsh cloch, Manx clagg "a bell") and spread by Irish missionaries (unless the Celtic words are from Latin). When something is moving clockwise, it is moving in a circle in the same direction as the hands on a clock.
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