TO THE LEFT

Definition: TO THE LEFT

TO THE LEFT

1. (Mil.), to extend the line to the right or left; to move, as troops, to the right or left.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: TO THE LEFT

Short, shriveled, and always to the left. (Liar Liar; writing credit: Paul Guay; Stephen Mazur)

Drugs to the right, hookers to the left. (Bachelor Party; writing credit: Bob Israel; Neal Israel)

He should never let himself be caught napping, never for a minute let his eye stray to the left, when for all he knows, a judge or somebody like that can be lurking somewhere to the right. (Procès, Le; writing credit: Orson Welles)

Yeah, but look at it this way, an inch or two to the left and he'd have missed me completely. (The Rockford Files; writing credit: Rahel Fabian; Moshé Mizrahi)

And a slant to the left. (Happy Gilmore; writing credit: Tim Herlihy; Adam Sandler)

To the left side of ya head, push ya mind right (Can't Deny It; performing artist: Fabolous)

So you blast to the left and you sail to the right (Rock Your Body; performing artist: JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE)

You move it to the left (HARLEM SHUFFLE; performing artist: Rolling Stones)

I looked over to the left (Oops (Oh My); performing artist: Tweet)

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

Books

• Keep to the Left!: Freewheeling through Ireland (reference)

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Islands in the stream - the cays on the north side of Pillsbury Sound British Virgin Islands to the left - St. Johns to the right Picture taken from the top of Thatch Cay. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The Devil's Thumb in the center with Mount Burkett to the left. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A view of San Pedro to the right and the highlands of Palos Verdes on the left. The Coast Survey Schooner EWING and Steamer ACTIVE are to the left of Dead Man's Island in this image, directly in front of what is now the major port area for Los Angeles. In: Pacific Coast. Coast Pilot of California, Oregon, and Washington Territory. By George Davidson, 1869. P. 15. Call No. VK947.D4 1869. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A large bull fur-seal probably too old to fight for a harem. Main part of rookery down to the left. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Inside the Clean Air Facility. Carbon dioxide monitoring equipment to the left. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

The net is now closing in a nearly perfect circle. The purse seiner is now starting to pull the net back on board. The workboat is seen to the left and is secured to the ship. It is now acting like a tugboat and is pulling the purse seiner away from the net so that it does not become entangled. Credit: Fisheries.

Army Creek upstream to the left, downstream to the right. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Wired coral fragments in a monitoring station are indicated by the fiberglass rebar in the foreground of the photograph. Monitoring stations were established to determine the success of the restoration effort. The disc to the left of the photograph also distinguishes this location as a monitoring station. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

In the bridge laboratory. Left to right: H. Bouree; L. Tinayre; J. Richard. In the rear: the botanist Louis Gain; to the left is Papanicolau, an employee of the oceanographic museum. Plate IV, print 20. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Examining a large piece of driftwood encrusted with barnacles. Prince Albert I to the right while Captain Carr is to the left with a crewman in between. Plate V, print 19. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Montfermeil is a little to the left in coming.

Then, bending to the left, he followed the lane which led up to his house.

Trail and stream swung to the left and then to the right again until they neared the highway.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The spleen is a fist-sized organ found to the left of your stomach. (references)

Language problems usually result from damage to the left temporal and parietal lobes of the brain. (references)

These syndromes may affect the entire colon or may be confined to the left or lower (sigmoid) colon. (references)

Economic History

Nigeria

In October 1989 the government decreed the establishment of two "grassroots" parties: the National Republican Convention (NRC), which was to be "a little to the right," and the Social Democratic (SDP), "a little to the left." Babangida rejected other parties, and they were not allowed to register. (references)

Political Economy

France

Key among these, from the right to the left, are: the extreme right National Front (FN); the neo-Gaullist Rally for the Republic (RPR), from which a rival group, the Rally for France (RPF), broke away in 1999; the moderate Union for French Democracy (UDF); the Socialist Party (PS); the Green party; and the Communists (PCF). Other smaller parties have minimal national political impact, but exert influence on a local and even occasionally on a national level. (references)

Travel

Sweden

The guest of honor usually is seated to the left of the hostess and is responsible for offering the "thanks" or behalf of all the guests in a toast to the host and hostess. (references)

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

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

Expressions using "TO THE LEFT": bear to the left ♦ curve skewed to the left ♦ cut to the left ♦ fall to the left ♦ go to the left ♦ keep to the left ♦ the second turning to the left ♦ To dress to the left ♦ to take ground to the left ♦ turn to the left. Additional references.

Afrikaans

links (left, on the left, to). (various references)

Albanian

në të mëngjër, majtas (left, leftward). (various references)

Arabic 

‏إلي اليسار. (various references)

Basque

ezkerrera. (various references)

Bulgarian 

от лявата страна, наляво (about face, left, left face, leftward). (various references)

Croatian

lijevo. (various references)

Czech

doleva (left, leftward). (various references)

Danish

til venstre (left). (various references)

Dutch

naar links (left), linksom (left), linksaf (left). (various references)

Esperanto

maldekstren (left). (various references)

Finnish

vasemmalle (to left, to the left to port). (various references)

French

courbe � asymétrie négative (curve skewed to the left), aller au côté gauche (go to the left). (various references)

Frisian

lofts (left, on the left). (various references)

German

links (left, nearside, on the left, on the reverse side, on the wrong side, wrong side out, wrong side up), auf der linken seite (on the left). (various references)

Greek 

στα αριστερά. (various references)

Hebrew 

שמאל�". (various references)

Hungarian

balra tolódás (swing to the left). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

左折 (left turn, turning to the left), 左に折れる (to turn to the left), 左に曲がる (to turn to the left), 左向き (turning to the left), 左寄り (tending to the left). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひ� りにおれる (to turn to the left), ひ� りにまがる (to turn to the left), ひ� りむき (turning to the left), ひ� りより (tending to the left), させつ (left turn, turning to the left). (various references)

Malagasy

miankavia (to go to the left). (various references)

Norwegian

til venstre (left). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay ethay eftlay

Portuguese

para a esquerda (leftwards). (various references)

Quechua

lloq'eman. (various references)

Romanian

douã stradã la stânga (the second turning to the left). (various references)

Russian 

влево (leftward, leftwards), налево (to the left the). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nalevo (left, left face, left: to the left). (various references)

Spanish

por la izquierda (left), a la izquierda (left, left hand, on the left). (various references)

Swedish

till vänster (left, leftward, leftwards). (various references)

Turkish

soldan, sol taraftan. (various references)

Ukrainian

наліво (left, leftwards), ліворуч (left, leftwards). (various references)

Yucatec

ts'iika'an (left). (various references)

sinistre. (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

-3 letters: fettle.

-4 letters: fleet, helot, hotel, lethe, lotte, teeth, theft, thole.

-5 letters: feel, feet, felt, fete, flee, floe, heel, heft, helo, hole, holt, leet, left, loft, loth, teel, tele, teth, thee, toft, tole, tote.

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