right
- adjective
- /raɪt/
- Specialized
- Then I have a moment of insight: to do this requires the right balance of imagination and nerve.
- the right side
Examples
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When sewing a garment, make sure the right side is facing outwards for the best appearance.
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If I don't get the right kind, my wife'll kill me.
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Let's have the label Right side up, shall we?
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However, they needed support in choosing the right tools for their current writing task.
Academic text (2012) -
Clothes, fabrics, and fashion have to be right, and can be a lot of fun.
Academic text (2008) -
The dress had a beautiful pattern, but I accidentally sewed it inside out, showing the right side now.
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Always check that the right side of the fabric is on the outside before you start wearing it.
Synonyms
The outside of clothing or fabric faces outward
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
How Visible
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Etymology
Right side of cloth comes from the idea of the 'correct' or intended side (from old English riht), so the 'right' side is the side meant to be seen.