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What is "left-hand"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
left-hand
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a left-hand/right-hand bend (=going towards the left or the right)
▪ Take the turning just after the left-hand bend in the road.
left-hand drive
left-hand/right-hand glove
▪ A left-hand glove was found at the scene of the crime.
the left-hand margin (=on the left of the page)
▪ All typing begins at the left-hand margin.
the left-hand/right-hand page
▪ The answers are on the right-hand page.
the left-hand/right-hand side of an equation
▪ Add up what you've got on the right-hand side of the equation.
the left-hand/right-hand side
▪ On the left-hand side list the skills and qualifications required for the job.
the left/left-hand corner
▪ We followed the path to the left-hand corner of the field.
the right-hand/left-hand drawer
▪ Have you looked in the left-hand drawer?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
column
▪ The left-hand column is for the pharmacist's notes relating to pricing.
▪ Their left-hand columns would be similar.
▪ At the foot of one of the left-hand columns he read a headline.
▪ As the rite is planned, the London bank clerk adds up correctly the figures in the left-hand column.
corner
▪ Both PageMaker and Ventura select arbitrary reference points for their on-screen rulers, the top left-hand corner of the page.
▪ This position will mark the upper left-hand corner of the rectangle. 3.
▪ Full-back Liley strode into the left-hand corner for a splendid try and there was still a man to spare.
▪ When reading a resume your eye moves from the top left-hand corner to the bottom right.
▪ With 17 minutes remaining the right-back Mario Melchiot was fouled by Ian Taylor near the left-hand corner flag.
▪ The cargo's ultimate destination had been printed neatly in black pen in the bottom left-hand corner of the page.
▪ But then Wilkinson looped twice and Jim Jenner powered over in the left-hand corner four minutes from the finish.
▪ Up on the address side, in the left-hand corner.
margin
▪ The date is typed on the left-hand margin.
▪ It would also be helpful to write in the left-hand margin where you used the skills.
▪ Just as with word processing type can be set flush with the left-hand margin, centred or justified.
▪ The simplest style is to block all headings and text at the left-hand margin.
▪ If you block paragraphs at the left-hand margin, then headings may be either blocked or centred.
▪ The first line only starts at the left-hand margin.
▪ The paragraphs are indented, usually five spaces from the left-hand margin.
side
▪ On the left-hand sides are the well-known expressions for the radial and tangential components of acceleration.
▪ Debits are entries on the left-hand side of an account; credits are entries on the right-hand side of an account.
▪ A flight of steps goes up the left-hand side of the gallery.
▪ The left-hand side represents marginal revenue.
▪ Suppose that initially the molecules are all confined to the left-hand side of the box by a partition.
▪ Open the glass fronted cupboard on the left-hand side and look on the fourth shelf from the top.
▪ Messages from the right-hand field of vision of both eyes are received by the left-hand side of the brain.
▪ What you see on the left-hand side of the centre line, you knit on the left-hand side of the machine.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a left-hand piano concerto
▪ a left-hand turn
▪ Our house is on the left-hand side of the street.
▪ Write your name in the upper left-hand corner of the test.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Left-hand

Left-hand \Left"-hand`\ (l[e^]ft"h[a^]nd`), a. Situated on the left; nearer the left hand than the right; as, the left-hand side; the left-hand road.

Left-hand rope, rope laid up and twisted over from right to left, or against the sun; -- called also water-laid rope.

Wiktionary
left-hand

a. 1 of, relating to, or located on the left 2 designed for use by the left hand 3 in the opposite direction or orientation to the right-hand rule (a left-hand screw thread)

WordNet
left-hand

  1. adj. intended for the left hand; "I rarely lose a left-hand glove" [syn: left(a), left-hand(a)]

  2. located on or directed toward the left; "a car with left-hand drive" [syn: left-hand(a)]

Usage examples of "left-hand".

The Bessarabian bank was deserted, save for two women kneeling on the gangway of the left-hand mill, washing clothes.

He put cartridge into the breechblock, and tucked the gun into the left-hand side his belt.

Doors, slightly ajar on either side of the lounge, showed sleeping accommodations, but there were two doors in front of them that were not open, and one set catercornered on the left-hand side.

Sumo called Strachan back up to the flybridge as they came alongside the left-hand reef.

Six men detached themselves, took up the body by arms and legs, and proceeded through the left-hand doorway into the pink.

I had one more short march as point for the final left-hand turn to Pull-in Point Road above Nauset Beach.

Tied by the necks to the left-hand, rear upright of the sled of Drusus, clad in furs, were the two beauties he had selected and chained in the complex of the Kurii.

All this information, together with much else, such as his date and place of birth, height, color of hair, color of eyes, and other characteristics, was to be found conveniently enough in the blue service paybook which he had put in the top left-hand pocket of his tunic.

They had slowly proceeded up the left-hand side of the large tunnel, come at length to a blank wall of roughhewn granite which Vaskos had opined to be probably the foundation of part of the city walls.

She turned away the necessary few steps and disappeared into the left-hand gate.

Eye to give the lordships to his own creatures, Stonehand and the Red Oarsman and Left-Hand Lucas Codd.

We passed the left-hand doorway into a room whose walls were brightly pink.

I passed through two narrow passages, and going down three steps I found myself in a well-lighted hall, at the end of which, on the left-hand side, was a door leading into another passage two feet broad by about twelve long, and in the corner was my new cell.

July 21, Ewart Biggs seated himself on the left-hand side of the backseat of his chauffeur-driven 4.

Liberator dipped a wing, bucking heavily as it carved through one of the squalls of cloud streaming over the Atlantic towards Cabo Ortegal, at the top left-hand corner of Spain.