RIGHT AND LEFT

Definition: RIGHT AND LEFT

RIGHT AND LEFT

1. In both or all directions. [Colloq.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Circumjacence

Adverb: around, about; without; on every side; on all sides; right and left, all round, round about.

Laterality

Adverb: sideways, sidelong; broadside on; on one side, abreast, alongside, beside, aside; by the side of; side by side; cheek by jowl; (near); to windward, to leeward; laterally; Adjective: right and left; on her beam ends.

Space

Adverb: extensively; Adjective: wherever; everywhere; far and near, far and wide; right and left, all over, all the world over; throughout the world, throughout the length and breadth of the land; under the sun, in every quarter; in all quarters, in all lands; here there and everywhere; from pole to pole, from China to Peru, from Indus to the pole, from Dan to Beersheba, from end to end; on the face of the earth, in the wide world, from all points of the compass; to the four winds, to the uttermost parts of the earth.

Crosswords: RIGHT AND LEFT

All you've got to know is this: right now the government of the United States is sitting on top of the Washington Monument, right on the very point, tilting right and left and ready to fall off and break up on the pavement. (Seven Days in May; writing credit: Fletcher Knebel; Charles W. Bailey II)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Right and Left Hemispheres of the Animal Brain: Cerebral Lateralization of Function (Monographs in Neuroscience) (reference)

• Using the Whole Brain: Integrating the Right and Left Brain With Hemi-Sync Sound Patterns (reference)

• Success, Your Style! Right and Left Brain Techniques for Learning (reference)

• Cardiac Morphology and Dynamics in Swedish Elite Orienteers: Evaluation of the Right and Left Ventricle by Two-Dimensional and Doppler echocardiograp (reference)

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Onychomycosis due to Trychophyton rubrum, right and left great toe. Tinea unguium. Credit: CDC.

Progressive Unilateral Atrophy of the Face, Right and Left Sides Respectively. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The right and left guns of the cruiser's forward 8"/55 triple gun turret fire on North Vietnamese targets, during an Operation "Sea Dragon" bombardment in September 1968. Photographed by PHC Al Smith. Credit: NAVY.

Their inquiries to right and left brought no result. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Two bearers in grey uniform with black trimmings walked on the right and left of the hearse.

He peered in front of him and right and left through the gloom and thought that those must be portraits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

They affect the right and left eyes equally. (references)

With the aid of mouth mirrors, inspect the right and left lateral margins of the tongue. (references)

All LKS children have abnormal electrical brain activity on both the right and left sides of their brains. (references)

Economic History

Hungary

In May 1994, the socialists came back to win a plurality of votes and 54% of the seats after an election campaign focused largely on economic issues and the substantial decline in living standards since 1990. A heavy turnout of voters swept away the right-of-center coalition but soundly rejected extremists on both right and left. (references)

Travel

Vietnam

Other participants are generally arranged in a hierarchy on the right and left. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "RIGHT AND LEFT": right and left coupling ♦ right and left screw. Additional references.

Danish

atrioventrikulærostier (right and left atrioventricular orifices). (various references)

Dutch

ostium venosum (right and left atrioventricular orifices), ostium atrioventriculare (right and left atrioventricular orifices). (various references)

French

orifices auriculo-ventriculaires droit et gauche o.tricuspide (right and left atrioventricular orifices), o.mitral (right and left atrioventricular orifices). (various references)

German

Ostia venosa s.atrioventricularia (right and left atrioventricular orifices), Ostia atrioventricularia (right and left atrioventricular orifices). (various references)

Hungarian

mindenünnen (from all quarters), jobbra-balra, jobbról-balról. (various references)

Italian

ostio tricuspide e ostio mitrale (right and left atrioventricular orifices). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

縦横無尽 (as one pleases, freely), 縦横 (every direction, length and breadth, length and width, vertically and horizontally, warp and woof), 右左 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たてよ�" (every direction, length and breadth, length and width, vertically and horizontally, warp and woof), じゅうおうむじ�" (as one pleases, freely), じゅうおう (every direction, length and breadth, length and width, vertically and horizontally, warp and woof), みぎひ� り. (various references)

Pig Latin

ightray anday eftlay

Russian 

во все стороны (extensively), направо и налево. (various references)

Spanish

abertura auriculoventricular derecha e izquierda (right and left atrioventricular orifices). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: flattering.

-3 letters: defatting, deflating, deratting, earthling, faltering, fathering, filtrated, haltering, heralding, ingrafted, lathering, reflating, threadfin, threading, threating, treadling.

-4 letters: adhering, aglitter, alerting, alighted, altering, antherid, antileft, atheling, dartling, delating, derating, detrital, drafting, dragline, dratting, driftage, earthing, fanlight, farthing, fettling, filtrate, finagled, finagler, flatting, flighted, fretting, frighted, frighten, gilthead, gnathite, gnattier, gradient, hangfire, hardline.