Left

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Designating the side of the body toward the west when one is facing north; the side of the body on which the heart is located in most humans; the opposite of right. This arrow points to the reader's left: ←

   “The left side.”

2. sıfat Anticlockwise, particularly when describing a change in direction or orientation.

   “The road up ahead contains a left bend.”

3. sıfat Designating the bank of a river (etc.) on one's left when facing downstream (i.e. facing forward while floating with the current); that is, the north bank of a river that flows eastward. If this arrow: ⥲ shows the direction of the current, the tilde is on the left side of the river.

   “The Eiffel Tower is on the left bank of the Seine.”

4. sıfat Left-wing; pertaining to the political left.

   “It should be noted that there is now no intelligentsia that is not in some sense "Left". Perhaps the last right-wing intellectual was T. E. Lawrence. Since about 1930 everyone describable as an “intellectual” has lived in a state of chronic discontent with the existing order.”

5. zarf On the left side.
6. zarf Towards the left side.

   “Turn left at the corner. NO! Your other left.”

7. zarf Towards the political left.

   “The East Coast of the US leans left in elections.”

8. isim The left side or direction.
9. isim The left-wing political parties as a group; citizens holding left-wing views as a group.

   “The Left left workers behind, thinking they had a winning demographic coalition. It hasn't really worked out for them yet.”

10. isim The left hand or fist.
11. isim A punch delivered with the left fist.

    “The world 'as got me snouted jist a treat; Crool Forchin's dirty left 'as smote me soul.”

12. isim A wave breaking from left to right (viewed from the shore).
13. fiil simple past and past participle of leave (“depart, separate from; (cause or allow to) remain”).

    “There's not much food left.”

14. fiil simple past and past participle of leave (“permit”).

    “We were not left go to the beach after school except on a weekend.”

15. özel isim The political left wing seen as a whole, as distinguished from an individual left-wing political party.

    “Maybe it’s true that “the Left can’t meme,” if “the Left” refers to the earnest suburban revolutionary with an undercut and a nose ring who typically stalks your replies on X.”