RIGHT-HAND


Meaning of RIGHT-HAND in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a left-hand/right-hand bend (= going towards the left or the right )

Take the turning just after the left-hand bend in the road.

left-hand/right-hand glove

A left-hand glove was found at the scene of the crime.

right-hand drive

right-hand man

John is Bill’s right-hand man and has put a lot of time into the team.

the left-hand/right-hand page

The answers are on the right-hand page.

the left-hand/right-hand side of an equation

Add up what you've got on the right-hand side of the equation.

the left-hand/right-hand side

On the left-hand side list the skills and qualifications required for the job.

the right-hand margin (= on the right of the page )

There were some notes written in the right-hand margin.

the right-hand/left-hand drawer

Have you looked in the left-hand drawer?

the right/right-hand corner

Put your address in the top right-hand corner of the page.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

corner

A speck of grit danced over the time-segment at the lower right-hand corner , smearing the rolling figures.

Six minutes later more water started leaking through the top right-hand corner of another window.

His own likeness appears squeezed in above his initials in the right-hand corner .

Bridges initiated the first, his break being well supported by Andrew Thomas who crossed in the right-hand corner .

With four minutes to go, Stimpson dived over for his second try in the right-hand corner .

He placed it so that it would shine into the right-hand corner of the wall by the fireplace.

The technique is easy, as you can see in the bottom right-hand corner of the picture.

Each one is labelled clearly with the title in large letters in the bottom right-hand corner .

drive

The cost of right-hand drive and extras will also be shown.

man

Flynn was the nearest John had to a right-hand man .

Sammy Williams was my trusted lieutenant, my right-hand man .

Lord Tebbit, former Tory party chairman and right-hand man to Baroness Thatcher, is backing the plan.

His former Sunderland boss has yet to appoint a right-hand man at Bristol City.

Pallid and balding, Vladimiro Montesinos, 56, was Fujimori's intelligence chief and right-hand man .

Though himself the king's cousin, Nithard had another patron too, the king's right-hand man , the seneschal Adalard.

Next door to us lived Geoffrey Hamm, Mosley's right-hand man in the area.

side

Male embryos form in the right-hand side of the womb, females in the left.

The right-hand side of the balance sheet lists the various claims against these assets.

The pulpit, instead of being central, was placed to the right-hand side , looking from the back pews.

If the account is a right-hand side account, such as revenue, the opposite is true.

The right-hand side provides a benchmark against which all portfolios may be assessed.

By adding further words to the right-hand side of rules 4,5 and 6, they could produce hundreds of sentences.

It had been placed on the right-hand side of the green, guarded by two bunkers.

On the right-hand side write how you would begin the meeting; what you would actually say.

turn

He stopped for a red light, prepared to make a right-hand turn as soon as the arrow flicked green.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Washington Avenue will be on your right-hand side.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And the right-hand door was open, that seemed a bit odd.

But the right-hand column was a record of growth, though of a very uneven kind.

From the right-hand group of trees, he went into the front left-hand bunker.

The man turns and trots away from me up the right-hand staircase from the mezzanine to the station platform.

The resulting expression is and multiplying out the right-hand side we obtain the required trigonometrical relations.

The top right-hand drawer of the desk contained the traditional little tin box and a pistol.

The window itself has three buttons on the upper right-hand side of the frame.

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