Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or located on the left.
- adjective Relating to, designed for, or done with the left hand.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated or located on one's left side; found near the left of: as, one's left-hand man.
- Left-handed; sinister; inauspicious; unlucky; unfavorable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Situated on the left; nearer the left hand than the right
- adjective rope laid up and twisted over from right to left, or against the sun; -- called also
water-laid rope .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, relating to, or located on the left
- adjective designed for use by the left hand
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective located on or directed toward the left
- adjective intended for the left hand
- noun the hand that is on the left side of the body
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Examples
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Label the left-hand column “Pros,” then below it write down how your feelings of unworthiness are helping you or others around you.
The Life You Want Bob Greene 2010
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Label the left-hand column “Pros,” then below it write down how your feelings of unworthiness are helping you or others around you.
The Life You Want Bob Greene 2010
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Label the left-hand column “Pros,” then below it write down how your feelings of unworthiness are helping you or others around you.
The Life You Want Bob Greene 2010
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Label the left-hand column “Things I’m Happy With.”
Knock and the Door Will Open Jeffrey A. Wands 2010
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Label the left-hand column “Things I’m Happy With.”
Knock and the Door Will Open Jeffrey A. Wands 2010
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I think: I'll have bushes on the left-hand side where she's walking because that's more frightening than the open fields, and then on the right I'm going to have some of those distorted trees you get in East Anglia, distorted by the winds – some of them look like witches, waving witches' arms; very sinister.
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He started brightly, too, by becoming one of only two players to make birdie on Saturday on the 1st, where the pin was tucked barely the length of a club handle from the left-hand edge of the green.
Masters 2011: Lee Westwood and Luke Donald in fight to seize the day | Richard Williams 2011
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Maribor had the chance to put their visitors under pressure with a free-kick 25 yards out and, again, Mezga was not too far away with an effort that fizzed past McGregor's left-hand post.
Maribor 2-1 Rangers | Europa League play-off first leg match report 2011
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So, I've been doing some updating of the links down the left-hand side, trying to spruce the place up a bit.
Archive 2010-02-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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In short, MM says that the value of the firm is determined on the left-hand side of the balance sheet, as the expected present value of the cash flows from operations.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Greenspan’s ‘The Crisis’ and Modigliani and Miller 2010
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