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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A turn toward the side of the body that is on the north when the person is facing east
Example:
take a left at the corner
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("left" is a kind of...):
turn; turning (the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's left
Example:
the batter flied out to left
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("left" is a kind of...):
parcel; parcel of land; piece of ground; piece of land; tract (an extended area of land)
Holonyms ("left" is a part of...):
outfield (the area of a baseball playing field beyond the lines connecting the bases)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The hand that is on the left side of the body
Example:
jab with your left
Synonyms:
left; left hand
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("left" is a kind of...):
hand; manus; mitt; paw (the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Those who support varying degrees of social or political or economic change designed to promote the public welfare
Synonyms:
left; left wing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("left" is a kind of...):
faction; sect (a dissenting clique)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Location near or direction toward the left side; i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east
Example:
she stood on the left
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("left" is a kind of...):
place; position (the particular portion of space occupied by something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "left"):
left stage; stage left (the part of the stage on the actor's left as the actor faces the audience)
Antonym:
right (location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not used up
Example:
unexpended provisions
Synonyms:
left; left over; leftover; odd; remaining; unexpended
Classified under:
Similar:
unexhausted (not used up completely)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Intended for the left hand
Example:
I rarely lose a left-hand glove
Synonyms:
left; left-hand
Classified under:
Similar:
left-handed (using or intended for the left hand)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Of or belonging to the political or intellectual left
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
liberal (having political or social views favoring reform and progress)
left-of-center; left-wing; leftist (believing in or supporting tenets of the political left)
far left (radical or extremely liberal)
leftish (tending toward the political left)
Also:
liberal (tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition)
socialist; socialistic (advocating or following the socialist principles)
Antonym:
center (of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually)
right (of or belonging to the political or intellectual right)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north
Example:
the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
left-hand (located on or directed toward the left)
leftmost (farthest to the left)
near; nigh (being on the left side)
larboard; port (located on the left side of a ship or aircraft)
Also:
left-handed (using or intended for the left hand)
Attribute:
place; position (the particular portion of space occupied by something)
Antonym:
right (being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the east when facing north)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb leave
IV. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Toward or on the left; also used figuratively
Example:
the political party has moved left
Classified under:
Antonym:
right (toward or on the right; also used figuratively)
Context examples:
In the left pocket we saw a huge silver chest, with a cover of the same metal, which we, the searchers, were not able to lift.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Scientists believe there are many more left to be discovered, like the trio found at Atacama.
(Three New Species of Fish Found at Bottom of Pacific Ocean, VOA)
If you are single and feeling left out this month, you will have enormous help from Mars.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Where her lips touched the girl they left a round, shining mark, as Dorothy found out soon after.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
The long, thin cloud to the left of the dark spot is a transient feature that is not part of the storm system.
(Hubble Reveals Dynamic Atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune, NASA)
An electrocardiographic finding of pathologic Q waves with accompanying ST elevation in leads V3 and V4, which is suggestive of acute myocardial infarction of the anterior wall of the left ventricle.
(Acute Anterior Myocardial Infarction by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
An electrocardiographic finding of pathologic Q waves with accompanying ST elevation in leads V3 through V6, which is suggestive of acute myocardial infarction of the anterolateral wall of the left ventricle.
(Acute Anterolateral Myocardial Infarction by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
"I had two years to run, when I left," he answered.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Then I left it, feeling a weight at my heart such as I had never had before.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This procedure is usually used to get a tissue sample from the lymph nodes on the left side of the chest.
(Anterior mediastinotomy, NCI Dictionary)
