right
- adjective
- /raɪt/
- Specialized
- Sit-ups were performed with knees bent at right angles and hands behind the head, touching the ears.
- a right angle
All right, let's put them next to each other and see if the angle is right.
- All right, let's put them next to each other and see if the angle is right.
- And yet what we are seeing are our aircraft, something that's going much, much faster than that and somehow can do a right hand, a right angle turn instantly.
Examples
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Here if we imagine that we have a rectangle like this right formed with our triangle.
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Pull over to the right so we can make a right-hand turn.
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A typical result is shown on the right side of Figure 4.
Academic text (2012) -
In geometry class, we learned that a right angle measures exactly 90 degrees.
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The architect designed the building with right angles to ensure stability and symmetry.
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For our project, we need to create a frame with right edges to hold the artwork properly.
Synonyms
Having a corner that forms 90 degrees, like a square corner
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
A punishment that someone deserves because of their own wrong actions
- Jargon
A place to the right of the stage where actors wait out of view of the audience
Compounds
- Formal
A right that a country's most important law gives and protects, for example free speech
People who support conservative political, social, and economic ideas and little change
- Formal
Freedom from other people entering your personal life without permission
- Formal
A right for someone accused of a crime to have a lawyer, including a free one if they cannot pay
- Literature
A political group in the United States that wants laws to follow conservative religious beliefs
A player who plays on the right side of the outfield and catches balls hit there
- Specialized
Part of the brain that controls the left side of the body and helps with creativity and understanding space
An understanding of what is right and wrong that guides a person's actions
- Formal
A right under the law to be left alone and not have personal matters made public
A very large whale with baleen that lives in cold coastal waters and is endangered
- Specialized
An object's eastward angle along the sky's equator used to find its position, shown in hours
- Specialized
The half of the brain on the right that controls the left side and helps with visual and creative thinking
- Specialized
The top right part of the heart that receives blood without oxygen from the body
- Specialized
The lower part of the heart on the right that pumps blood to the lungs
- Specialized
A legal right that lets an inventor stop others from making, using, or selling an invention for a set time
A baseball player who throws the ball to the batter with their right hand
- Formal
A legal and moral claim to be free from unfair arrest and official control
A political idea that kings get their power from God and are not controlled by their people
- Specialized
A blood vessel that carries blood to the right side of the heart
- Formal
A married person's legal claim to live with and be close to their partner
A person with very strict traditional political views who strongly opposes social change
Permission for a prisoner to have private visits with their spouse for sex
- Literature
A country or organization that strongly supports democracy and freedom worldwide
- Specialized
A valve with three flaps between the right upper and lower chambers of the heart that stops blood flowing backward
- Formal
A choice a surviving spouse makes to take either what the will gives or the legal share of the estate
- Formal
The only right to be the first to make a work public and sell it
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Right in geometry comes from the old English riht meaning 'straight' or 'correct', so a 'right' angle is the exact straight angle of ninety degrees.