right-handed
/rʌɪtˈhandɪd
/adjective
1(Of a person) using the right hand more naturally than the left: a right-handed golfer...
- ‘I do everything opposite from what the defender, after facing so many right-handed players, naturally expects,’ he smiles.
- For the first month I could do nothing, and for a right-handed person life became very difficult.
- Common everyday objects are designed for right-handed people.
1.1(Of a tool or item of equipment) made to be used with the right hand: a right-handed guitar...
- We have to adapt to their right-handed implements and look silly trying to use them.
- Weir never looked back and used his unique ability to his advantage by examining right-handed equipment and player's techniques.
- This particular model has a useful feature in that, since the weights are internal and are able to shift (by simply tipping the thing up) it can be used as either a left-handed or a right-handed planer.
1.2Made or done with the right hand: right-handed batting...
- Island Sand was positioned to the outside of Two Trail Sioux in the stretch, where both Bailey and Day encouraged their mounts with right-handed whip action.
- Peter says his right-handed writing is purely for on-paper work.
- There is no doubt that such children suffered greatly from being forced against their will to change from left-handed to right-handed writing.
2(Of a screw) advanced by turning clockwise.It can be inferred that, by 1700, Moxon treated the right-handed screw as an established norm....
- Even though I am a lefty and do not buy right-handed bolts, there was always hope the manufacturer would make a special run (hope springs eternal).
- The screw arm has right-handed threads on one side of the brass wheel and left-handed threads on the other.
2.1 Biology (Of a spiral shell or helix) dextral: normally the shell and body are coiled in a right-handed spiral...
- In a right-handed shell, the aperture appears on the observer's right when the shell is held with the apex up and the aperture facing the observer.
- Subsequent nuclear magnetic resonance studies established that the helices are right-handed.
- The atoms of natural sugars are all laid out in an asymmetrical manner, having a right-handed spiral twist.
2.2(Of a racecourse) turning clockwise: right-handed tracks like Longchamp...
- Ascot is a right-handed, wide track, 1miles 6furlongs round, with sweeping bends and a short home straight (less than three furlongs).
- The track is a right-handed 1m3f circuit with an uphill run-in.
- A second, two thirds and a fourth from four Festival visits - not bad for a horse who supposedly prefers right-handed tracks.
adverb
With the right hand: Jackson bats right-handed...
- As these bows more closely resemble a longbow, they can be shot either right-handed or left-handed, due to the ‘wrap-around’ type grip.
- He also would bowl the first ball right-handed and challenge himself to pick up the spare left-handed, then starting lefty and finishing righty.
- The son of a Sydney grocer, Rosewall was a natural left-hander but was taught to play right-handed by his father and developed a peerless backhand.
Derivatives
right-handedly
right-handedness
- No-one understands the preponderance of, or reason for, human right-handedness, and it has not been found to be related to any motor or cognitive behaviour, other than measures of fine-finger dexterity.
- This NY Times article describes Dr. Amar J. S. Klar's hypothesis that there is a specific dominant gene that causes right-handedness.
- Living in his mirror image world would be a real pain - after a lifetime of right-handedness, I don't think I could get used to being a southpaw.
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