Designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north, the side on which theheart is not located in most humans. Thisarrow points to the reader's right: →
there are some dispositions blame-worthy in men, which are yet, in aright sense, holily ascribed unto God; as unchangeableness, and irrepentance.
1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 13, inBarnaby Rudge:
What do you send me into London for, giving me only the right to call for my dinner at the Black Lion, which you’re to pay for next time you go, as if I was not to be trusted with a few shillings? Why do you use me like this? It’s notright of you. You can’t expect me to be quiet under it.
Sam Tyler: Look, look, you know when I said I wasn't wrong? Well, I was. But I wasright about this not being the IRA. I wasright to follow my instincts. Like you said, go with your gut feeling. I'm just taking your lead. Gene Hunt: So I'mright. Sam Tyler: We both are. Gene Hunt: Right. Sam Tyler: Right. Gene Hunt: Justas long as I'm moreright than you.
But when that patient requests access to medical care that violates some religious tenet, is itright that he or she either be denied outright or forced to seek an alternative facility?
2024 January 10, Christian Wolmar, “A time for change? ... just as it was back in issue 262”, inRAIL, number1000, page61:
Of course, I was not alwaysright. I questioned the value of Crossrail (a scheme revived by Prescott after being scrapped by the Conservatives), suggesting wrongly that it may be "doomed to hit the buffers"[…]. A dozen years later, I published my book on it, extolling the line's wonders. We are all allowed to change our minds.
“If I didn’t know the dear old fellow so well by now,” Tennington remarked to Miss Strong, “I should be quite certain that he was—er—not quiteright, don’t you know.”
Real; veritable (used emphatically).
You've made aright mess of the kitchen!
2016, Sarah Harvey,A Laugh-out-loud Modern Love Story:
He's got a wicked sense of fun, he can be aright laugh, he's ever so broadminded – ooh, and he's got a lovely broad chest too.
[…]in this battle and whole business the Britons never more plainly manifested themselves to beright barbarians: no rule, no foresight, no forecast, experience, or estimation
(geometry) Of an angle, measuring 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between twoperpendicular lines.
The kitchen counter formed aright angle with the back wall.
(geometry) Of a geometric figure, incorporating a right angle between edges, faces, axes, etc.
(geography) Designating the bank of a river (etc.) on one's right when facing downstream (i.e. facing forward while floating with the current); that is, the south bank of a river that flows eastward. If this arrow: ⥴ shows the direction of the current, the tilde is on the right side of the river.
Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers,right in the middle of the squiteague season.
That's long enough for any small town." Lyon leaned forward. "Do you like Lawrenceville, Mr. Hill?" The driver cocked his head. "Aeah. Why not? Born here. It's aright nice town
2004, Jon Sharpe,Nebraska nightmare:
Well, that would beright neighborly of you, miss.
2008, Luke Cypher,Red Mesa, page101:
But it would beright neighborly and Christian of you to put your own wants aside for a spell.
2011, Ann Hite,Ghost on Black Mountain:
The fog wasright hard to see through so I was on Tom Pritchard before I saw him.
2015, Jeff Torrington,Swing Hammer Swing!, page255:
Kids nowadays were aright thrillproof bunch. The Armoury Section had, unexpectedly, proved to be a real moodclunker.
(dated, still used in some titles) To a great extent or degree.
Sir, I amright glad to meet you …
Members of the Queen's Privy Council are styled TheRight Honourable for life.
He b'iledright over, and the tongue-lashing he give that boss Right Liver beat anything I ever listened to. There was heap of Scriptur' language in it, and more brimstone than you'd find in a match factory.
In the US, the word "right" is used as an adverb meaning "very, quite" in most of the major dialect areas, including the Southern US, Appalachia, New England, and the Midwest, though the usage is not part of standard US English. In the UK also it is not part of the standard language but is regarded as stereotypical of the dialects of northern England, though it occurs in other dialects also.
Sam Tyler: Look, look, you know when I said I wasn't wrong? Well, I was. But I was right about this not being the IRA. I was right to follow my instincts. Like you said, go with your gut feeling. I'm just taking your lead. Gene Hunt: So I'm right. Sam Tyler: We both are. Gene Hunt: Right. Sam Tyler:Right. Gene Hunt: Justas long as I'm more right than you.
— United's the best team in the country. —Right. And they'll go all the way for sure. — Damnright they will.
I have listened to what you just said and I acknowledge your assertion or opinion, regardless of whether I agree with it (opinion) or can verify it (assertion).
Sam Tyler: Look, look, you know when I said I wasn't wrong? Well, I was. But I was right about this not being the IRA. I was right to follow my instincts. Like you said, go with your gut feeling. I'm just taking your lead. Gene Hunt: So I'm right. Sam Tyler: We both are. Gene Hunt:Right. Sam Tyler: Right. Gene Hunt: Justas long as I'm more right than you.
— United's the best team in the country, so they'll come up with something. —Right. And do you think they'll go all the way?
Thepolysemic ambiguity, regarding the senses of (1) affirming agreement and (2) acknowledging an utterance independently of agreement, sometimes functionspolitely as asocial lubricant, avoiding anysarcastic connotation thatOK might easily imply; the degree of clarity is sufficient in contexts where getting to the bottom of who agrees or disagrees is superfluous to the purpose of the conversation.
1973 July 22 [1973 July 17],Chiang Kai-shek, “President Chiang Kai-shek's message to the mass rally supporting Captive Nations Week”, inFree China Weekly[2], volume XIV, number28,Taipei,→ISSN,→OCLC,page 1:
Throughout our history, whenever evil forces prevailed, the altruistic and upright people have always shown their great wisdom by adhering to theright against the wrong, renouncing wrongful gain for justice, displaying their great benevolence in national salvation and summoning their great courage to surmount the crisis and turn back the perverse tide.
There are norights whatever, without corresponding duties.
1850,T. S. Arthur, “Seed Time and Harvest”, inSketches of Life and Character[3], Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley,→OCLC,page130:
"I do not know that you have anyright to inquire into reasons for my conduct. I am at least sure that I never gave you any suchright," replied Wiley. "I claim noright but the commonright of humanity," said the old gentleman. "If you do not acknowledge that, my interference in this matter can only be viewed as impertinent."
Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishingrights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have everyright to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.
The right side or direction.
The pharmacy is just on theright past the bookshop.
2023 May 31, Nigel Harris, “Comment: GBR now! We have no Plan B”, inRAIL, number984, page 3:
Sunak seems so scared of his party's swivel-eyed right wing that he has been panicked into focusing all new legislation on perceived 'red meat' issues which he hopes the Toryright will support.
The outward or most finished surface, as of a coin, piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
Simple cross-stitch, with a space between each stitch, may be worked in two rows, in which case the completed stitch on the wrong sides alternates with that on theright.
1913,Woman's Home Companion - Volume 40, page40:
For the large size, two pieces of silk, eighteen inches wide and twenty-seven inches long, are sewed together at three sides,rights together, leaving one end open.
1918,Pacific Rural Press - Volume 95, page392:
In case there is a right and wrong side to the tops, put tworights together.
(surfing) Awave breaking from right to left (viewed from the shore).
All experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than toright themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
According toRoyal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
