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Webster 1913 Edition
Right-handed
Right′-handˊed
,Adj.
1.
Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left.
2.
Having the same direction or course as the movement of the hands of a watch seen in front; – said of the motion of a revolving object looked at from a given direction.
3.
(Zool.)
Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; – said of spiral shells. See Illust. of
Scalaria
. Right-handed screw
, a screw, the threads of which, like those of a common wood screw, wind spirally in such a direction that the screw advances away from the observer when turned with a right-handed movement in a fixed nut.
Definition 2024
right-handed
right-handed
See also: righthanded and right handed
English
Alternative forms
Adjective
right-handed (comparative more right-handed, superlative most right-handed)
- Of one who uses their right hand in preference to, or more skillfully than their left.
- (not comparable) Intended to be worn on, or used by the right hand.
- (not comparable) Turning or spiralling from left to right; clockwise.
- (physics) Of a particle for which the direction of its spin is the same as the direction of its motion.
Noun
right-handed (uncountable)
- Right-handed people, taken as a whole.
- 1992, Antonio E. Puente & Robert J. McCaffrey, Handbook of Neuropsychological Assessment, ISBN 0306439409, page 147:
- Evidence contradicting this principle came from a study of epileptic patients by Penfield and Roberts (1959) who found that dysphasia following surgery on the right hemisphere was not significantly more frequent in the left-handed than in the right-handed.
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Translations
of one who uses their right hand in preference to, or more skillfully than their left.
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