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left-handed

/left-han-did/US // ˈlɛftˈhæn dɪd //

左撇子,左手,左旋,左利

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having the left hand more dominant or effective than the right; preferably using the left hand: a left-handed pitcher.
    • : adapted to or performed by the left hand: a left-handed tool; a left-handed tennis serve.
    • : situated on the side of the left hand.
    • : Machinery. rotating counterclockwise.noting a helical or spiral member, as a gear tooth or screw thread, that twists counterclockwise as it recedes from an observer.
    • : Building Trades. left-hand.
    • : ambiguous or doubtful and often unfavorable or derogatory by implication: a left-handed compliment.
    • : clumsy or awkward.
    • : of, relating to, or issuing from a morganatic marriage: so called from the custom, in morganatic marriage ceremonies, of having the bridegroom give his left hand to the bride.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : with the left hand: He writes left-handed.
    • : toward the left hand; in a counterclockwise direction: The strands of the rope are laid left-handed.

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Examples

  • Not to be left behind, progressives in neighboring Wisconsin clamored to join the cutting edge of public health.

  • Gay marriage was the hot-button fight on the left and right.

  • Clad in a blue, striped button-down, a silver watch adorning his left wrist, Huckabee beams on the cover.

  • Meanwhile, almost exactly 30 years after the trial, the judge left his home to board a steamboat and was never heard from again.

  • The clichés about football-obsessed husbands and frustrated wives are pretty heavy-handed.

  • What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?

  • She is quite true, but not wise, and your left hand must not know what your right hand is doing.

  • The vision—it had been an instantaneous flash after all and nothing more—had left his mind completely for the time.

  • She had just left the wharf at Cincinnati for Louisville, with 225 passengers on board, of whom but 124 were saved.

  • Thus was the man left entirely to the devil, not even his life being reserved, as in the case of Job.