Meaning of right | Babel Free

Definitions

1. That which complies with justice, law or reason.
2. The political right wing seen as a whole, as distinguished from an individual right-wing political party.
3. A legal, just or moral entitlement.
4. To regain an upright or proper position.
5. The right side or direction.
6. In a just or proper manner; justly.
7. The right hand or fist.
8. Through the force of one's own skills or qualifications.
9. The authority to perform, publish, film, or televise a particular work, event, etc.; a copyright.
10. From all directions or on every side: criticism coming right and left; questions raised from right and left.
11. The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.
12. Immediately; at once; without delay.
13. The outward or most finished surface, as of a coin, piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
14. Slang Used as an exclamation of encouragement, support, or enthusiastic agreement.
    Slang
15. A wave breaking from right to left (viewed from the shore).
16. In a satisfactory or orderly condition: set the place to rights.
17. dextrorotation. — dextrogyric, adj.
18. movement or rotation to the right, or clockwise. Also called dextrogyration.
19. the state or process of turning to the right.

Equivalents

Examples

“We're on the side of right in this contest.”

“Throughout our history, whenever evil forces prevailed, the altruistic and upright people have always shown their great wisdom by adhering to the right 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.”

“You have no right to go through my personal diary.”

“There are no rights whatever, without corresponding duties.”

“"I do not know that you have any right to inquire into reasons for my conduct. I am at least sure that I never gave you any such right," replied Wiley. "I claim no right but the common right 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 fishing rights 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 every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.”

“The pharmacy is just on the right past the bookshop.”

“"Before he could strike again, however, I got in my right, and he was sprawling on his back on the floor."”

“The political right holds too much power.”

“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 Tory right will support.”

“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 the right.”

“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.”

“In case there is a right and wrong side to the tops, put two rights together.”

“Many earnest consumers on the Right feel so legitimately embattled by the nonstop streaming feed of hate speech and psyoppery directed at them that they think they have no choice but to reconfigure their artistic sensibilities accordingly.”

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