Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or located on the right.
- adj. Relating to, designed for, or done with the right hand.
- adj. Most helpful or reliable: my right-hand assistant.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
Wiktionary
- adj. of, relating to, or located on the right
- adj. designed for use by the right hand
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Situated or being on the right; nearer the right hand than the left.
- adj. Chiefly relied on; almost indispensable.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. most helpful and reliable
- adj. located on or directed toward the right
- adj. intended for the right hand
Examples
“Label the right-hand column “Things I Want to Change or Improve.””
“He did hire Emanuel as his right-hand man, not the most bipartisan of guys.”
“Can you envision a version of House in which Dr. Crankypants doesn't rely on right-hand man Wilson?”
“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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“The right-hand column of numbers represents weeks on this list, which premiered in Book World on Jan. 11, 2004.”
“On the right-hand side of the screen was a black border almost two inches wide.”
“Cerulean Avenue beckoned and I took a right-hand turn, arrived at a crusted single-wide with a picnic table near the front door.”
“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.”
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“This symbol should appear at the bottom right-hand side of the web page you have accessed, or in the address bar.”
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“Houston attorney Dick DeGuerin, who went inside Mount Carmel during the siege, testified at the trial that protruding metal on the inside of the right-hand entry door made it clear that the bullet holes were made by incoming rounds.”
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Handy Words
List of words and phrases referring to the hand, hands, fist, or derivatives of the Latin manus, beginning with left-handed.
left-handed, double-fisted, fisticuffs, handy, right-handed, two-handed, manual, manumission, manuscript, manually, manustupration, manudiction and 164 more...
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TN5 Lesson 60
reception, soon, dressed, sweetheart, noticed, nightgown, evening gown, lobby, water fountain, left-hand, right-hand, receptionist and 22 more...
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