Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or located on the right.
- adjective Relating to, designed for, or done with the right hand.
- adjective Most helpful or reliable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Belonging or adapted to the right hand.
- Situated on the right hand, or in a direction from the right side; leading to the right: as, a right-hand road.
- Serving as a right hand; hence, foremost in usefulness; of greatest service as an assistant.
- Noting an engine in which the shaft that carries the fly-wheel is at the right hand of the observer as he stands at the head end of the cylinder looking toward the shaft: the reverse of left-hand. Also, one in which the observer, looking along the axis of the shaft from the crank end, finds the cylinder and its mechanism on his right.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Situated or being on the right; nearer the right hand than the left.
- adjective Chiefly relied on; almost indispensable.
- adjective a rope which is laid up and twisted with the sun, that is, in the same direction as plain-laid rope. See
Illust. ofCordage .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, relating to, or located on the right
- adjective designed for use by the right hand
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective most helpful and reliable
- adjective located on or directed toward the right
- adjective intended for the right hand
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Examples
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Label the right-hand column “Things I Want to Change or Improve.”
Knock and the Door Will Open Jeffrey A. Wands 2010
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Label the right-hand column “Things I Want to Change or Improve.”
Knock and the Door Will Open Jeffrey A. Wands 2010
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Cerulean Avenue beckoned and I took a right-hand turn, arrived at a crusted single-wide with a picnic table near the front door.
Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011
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Chopin's Scherzo No. 2, which opened the recital by gifted Russian Israeli pianist Victor Goldberg at the National Gallery of Art on Sunday, was a volatile affair of spiky right-hand accents and roiling figures in the left hand that would turn on a dime to quiet introspection.
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Sherlock himself, Robert Downey Jr., channeled a modern-day incarnation of the sleuth in a dapper brown tweed suit and pink tie, while his right-hand man Jude Law opted for an all-black ensemble accented with just a touch of burgundy by his pocket square.
Checking Out The NYC ‘Sherlock Holmes’ Premiere Red Carpet With Hollywood Crush » MTV Movies Blog 2009
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On the right-hand side of the screen was a black border almost two inches wide.
Fatal Error J.A. Jance 2011
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Can you envision a version of House in which Dr. Crankypants doesn't rely on right-hand man Wilson?
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The right-hand column of numbers represents weeks on this list, which premiered in Book World on Jan. 11, 2004.
washington bestsellers Post 2011
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He did hire Emanuel as his right-hand man, not the most bipartisan of guys.
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The right-hand column of numbers represents weeks on this list, which premiered in Book World on Jan. 11, 2004.
BOOK WORLD - January 30, 2011 Christopher Schoppa 2011
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