left hand
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1.0
- noun
- /lɛft hænd/
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mano izquierda
- Uh, may I use your left hand, please?
- fingers of the left hand
- right and left hands
- hold your left hand
The right hip is up so the left hand should be lower.
- The right hip is up so the left hand should be lower.
- By adding a third finger in the left hand, that's a chord.
- The problem is the left hand does not talk to the right hand.
- So you notice the left hand triplets against the duplets.
- I'm going to move my right hand towards my left hand so that they clap.
- The only option here is a switch between left hand and right hand palm detection.
- And it's the, it's the positioning of the the left hand that's problematic, right.
Examples
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With your left hand, touch the tip of your nose.
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Without stopping to think, he laid his left hand on the stack of drawings, palm down.
Fiction book (1991) -
The problem is the left hand does not talk to the right hand.
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You have a green ball in your left hand, a green ball in your right hand.
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Put your left hand behind your head.
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I'll put your left hand on the edge of the table.
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Place your left hand on the Bible.
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You reach behind the keyboard with your left hand and switch the power on.
Academic text (1998) -
You're going to point at the ball with your left hand, just like that.
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With your left hand, touch the tip of your nose.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the hand located on the left side of the body' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'left' (pertaining to the left side) with 'hand' (the grasping extremity). This is a simple adjective+noun composition following common cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Left hand is a simple name for the hand on the left side of the body. The word left points to the side and hand to the body part, so it means 'the hand located on the left side of the body'.