| 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) |
checkroom
left-luggage office | a room where baggage or parcels are checked |
left field
leftfield
left | the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's left, the batter flied out to left |
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 |
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 |
backhand
left-slanting | (of handwriting) having the letters slanting backward |
| left | toward or on the left, also used figuratively, he looked right and left, the political party has moved left |