left ear

collocation in English

meaningsofleftandear

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withear.
left
adjective
adverb
uk
/left/us
/left/
on or towards the side of your body that is to the west when you are ...
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ear
noun[C]
uk
/ɪər/us
/ɪr/
either of the two organs, one on each side of the head, by which people or animals hear sounds, or the piece of skin and tissue outside the head connected to ...
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(Definition ofleftandearfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofleft ear

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Yourleftearis on the opposite side and your left eye is on the opposite side.
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I have a hearing difficulty in myleftear.
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It was like water moving down past myleftear.
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I heard him say something about hisleftear.
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Right ear andleftearresponse rows (each with four numerical tone marks) were counterbalanced across blocks to avoid order bias.
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Participants were simultaneously presented with three words: one in theleftear, another in the right ear and another on the computer screen.
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To investigate lateralization of tone, a dichotic listening task, involving the simultaneous presentation of a pair of different stimuli to the right andleftear, was used.
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An interesting result is highlighted : dyslexic children appear to fail to overcome their right ear advantage when instructed to pay attention to stimuli presented to theleftear.
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She made a miraculous recovery but shortly afterwards lost the hearing ability in herleftear.
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I hope that whoever has been shouting at myleftearwill stop doing it and go away.
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He received two stitches on hisleftear.
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He has a safety pin stuck through hisleftear.
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Theleftearwas one solid mass of cancerous growth, and on the cheek was another growth that had been rubbed raw from a halter.
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We might just as well pick out a person with a pimple on hisleftearand say that he has to pay.
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One was played in the right ear and the other in theleftear.
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Despite losing hearing in herleftear, she played out the 2009 season.
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Acute otitis in hisleftearmade him partially deaf for the rest of his life.
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Gummibr also seems to be bitten with a small portion of the upperleftearmissing.
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His ability control device is the earring he has in hisleftear.
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The incident left him with a permanent loss of hearing in hisleftear.
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He had hisleftearpierced in 1990 and has worn an earring since.
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Theleftearwears a "valika-kundala" (a type of earring).
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His delusion is cured through cold water irrigation in hisleftear.
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Kerrigan is half deaf as he has a severe loss of hearing in hisleftear.
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