left | a turn toward the side of the body that is on the north when the person is facing east, take a left at the corner |
left field leftfield | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the left third of the outfield (looking from home plate) |
baggage luggage | cases used to carry belongings when traveling |
baggage car luggage van | a railway car where passengers' bags are carried |
cabinet locker storage locker | a storage compartment for clothes and valuables, usually it has a lock |
carousel carrousel luggage carousel luggage carrousel | a conveyer belt that carries luggage to be claimed by air travelers |
checkroom left-luggage office | a room where baggage or parcels are checked |
footlocker locker | a trunk for storing personal possessions, usually kept at the foot of a bed (as in a barracks) |
hand luggage | luggage that is light enough to be carried by hand |
left field leftfield left | the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's left, the batter flied out to left |
locker | a fastener that locks or closes |
locker room | a room (as at an athletic facility or workplace) where you can change clothes and which contains lockers for the temporary storage of your clothing and personal possessions |
luggage carrier | carrier (as behind a bicycle seat) for luggage |
luggage compartment automobile trunk trunk | compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools, he put his golf bag in the trunk |
luggage rack roof rack | carrier for holding luggage above the seats of a train or on top of a car |
left-handedness sinistrality | preference for using the left hand |
left coronary artery | arises from the left aortic sinus, supplies the left side of the heart |
left gastric artery arteria gastrica sinistra | a branch of the celiac artery that supplies the lesser curvature of the stomach and the abdominal part of the esophagus |
left gastric vein vena gastrica sinistra | arises from a union of veins from the gastric cardia, runs in the lesser omentum, empties into the portal vein |
oblique vein of the left atrium vena obliqua atrii sinistri | a tributary of the coronary sinus, on the posterior wall of the left atrium |
posterior vein of the left ventricle vena posterior ventriculi sinistri | arises near the apex of the heart and empties into the coronary sinus |
left ventricle | the chamber on the left side of the heart that receives arterial blood from the left atrium and pumps it into the aorta |
left atrium left atrium of the heart atrium sinistrum | the left upper chamber of the heart that receives blood from the pulmonary veins |
mitral valve bicuspid valve left atrioventricular valve | valve with two cusps, situated between the left atrium and the left ventricle |
left hemisphere left brain | the cerebral hemisphere to the left of the corpus callosum that controls the right half of the body |
left left hand | the hand that is on the left side of the body, jab with your left |
left left wing | those who support varying degrees of social or political or economic change designed to promote the public welfare |
left | location near or direction toward the left side, i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east, she stood on the left |
stage left left stage | the part of the stage on the actor's left as the actor faces the audience |
Left Bank Latin Quarter | the region of Paris on the southern bank of the Seine, a center of artistic and student life |
ocean floor sea floor ocean bottom seabed sea bottom Davy Jones's locker Davy Jones | the bottom of a sea or ocean |
left-handed pitcher left-hander left hander lefthander lefty southpaw | a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand |
left-hander lefty southpaw | a person who uses the left hand with greater skill than the right, their pitcher was a southpaw |
left fielder | the person who plays left field |
collectivist leftist left-winger | a person who belongs to the political left |
left-handedness | the status of being born of a morganatic marriage |
bumbling bungling butterfingered ham-fisted ham-handed handless heavy-handed left-handed | lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands, a bumbling mechanic, a bungling performance, ham-handed governmental interference, could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature- Mary H. Vorse |
left-handed | ironically ambiguous, a left-handed compliment |
levorotary levorotatory left-handed | rotating to the left |
leftover left over(p) left(p) odd remaining unexpended | not used up, leftover meatloaf, she had a little money left over so she went to a movie, some odd dollars left, saved the remaining sandwiches for supper, unexpended provisions |
left-eyed | having only the left eye |
morganatic left-handed | (of marriages) of a marriage between one of royal or noble birth and one of lower rank, valid but with the understanding that the rank of the inferior remains unchanged and offspring do not succeed to titles or property of the superior |
left-handed | (of marriages) illicit or informal, in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent |
left-handed | using or intended for the left hand, left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs, left-handed scissors |
left(a) left-hand(a) | intended for the left hand, I rarely lose a left-hand glove |
left | of or belonging to the political or intellectual left |
far left | radical or extremely liberal |
leftist left-of-center left-wing | believing in or supporting tenets of the political left |
left | being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north, my left hand, left center field, the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream |
left-hand(a) | located on or directed toward the left, a car with left-hand drive |