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right-handed

/rahyt-han-did/US // ˈraɪtˈhæn dɪd //

右手,右撇子,右手操作,右手的

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adj.形容词 adjective
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    • : having the right hand or arm more serviceable than the left; using the right hand by preference: a right-handed painter.
    • : adapted to or performed by the right hand: a right-handed lever; right-handed penmanship.
    • : Machinery. rotating clockwise.noting a helical, or spiral, member, as a gear tooth or screw thread, that twists clockwise as it recedes from an observer.
    • : Building Trades. right-hand.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1

    Also right-hand·ed·ly.

    • : in a right-handed manner or fashion: The door opens right-handed.
    • : with the right hand: She writes right-handed.
    • : toward the right hand or in a clockwise direction: The strands of the rope are laid right-handed.

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Examples

  • I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

  • Everywhere I go, ‘Hey Cartman, you must like Family Guy, right?’

  • Charlie ridiculed my faith and culture and I died defending his right to do so.

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

  • It is grandstanding for a right rarely protected unless under immediate attack.

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

  • Mrs. Wurzel was quite right; they had been supplied, regardless of cost, from Messrs. Rochet and Stole's well-known establishment.

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

  • In Spain he was regarded as the right arm of the ultra-clericals and a possible supporter of Carlism.

  • The thought seemed to produce the dreaded object, for next moment a large hummock appeared right ahead.