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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Right \Right\ (r[imac]t), a. [OE. right, riht, AS. riht; akin to
   D. regt, OS. & OHG. reht, G. recht, Dan. ret, Sw. r["a]tt,
   Icel. r["e]ttr, Goth. ra['i]hts, L. rectus, p. p. of regere
   to guide, rule; cf. Skr. [.r]ju straight, right. [root]115.
   Cf. {Adroit},{Alert}, {Correct}, {Dress}, {Regular},
   {Rector}, {Recto}, {Rectum}, {Regent}, {Region}, {Realm},
   {Rich}, {Royal}, {Rule}.]
   1. Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line. ``Right
      as any line.'' --Chaucer

   2. Upright; erect from a base; having an upright axis; not
      oblique; as, right ascension; a right pyramid or cone.

   3. Conformed to the constitution of man and the will of God,
      or to justice and equity; not deviating from the true and
      just; according with truth and duty; just; true.

            That which is conformable to the Supreme Rule is
            absolutely right, and is called right simply without
            relation to a special end.            --Whately.

   2. Fit; suitable; proper; correct; becoming; as, the right
      man in the right place; the right way from London to
      Oxford.

   5. Characterized by reality or genuineness; real; actual; not
      spurious. ``His right wife.'' --Chaucer.

            In this battle, . . . the Britons never more plainly
            manifested themselves to be right barbarians.
                                                  --Milton.

   6. According with truth; passing a true judgment; conforming
      to fact or intent; not mistaken or wrong; not erroneous;
      correct; as, this is the right faith.

            You are right, Justice, and you weigh this well.
                                                  --Shak.

            If there be no prospect beyond the grave, the
            inference is . . . right, ``Let us eat and drink,
            for to-morrow we die.''               --Locke.

   7. Most favorable or convenient; fortunate.

            The lady has been disappointed on the right side.
                                                  --Spectator.

   8. Of or pertaining to that side of the body in man on which
      the muscular action is usually stronger than on the other
      side; -- opposed to left when used in reference to a part
      of the body; as, the right side, hand, arm. Also applied
      to the corresponding side of the lower animals.

            Became the sovereign's favorite, his right hand.
                                                  --Longfellow.

   Note: In designating the banks of a river, right and left are
         used always with reference to the position of one who
         is facing in the direction of the current's flow.

   9. Well placed, disposed, or adjusted; orderly; well
      regulated; correctly done.

   10. Designed to be placed or worn outward; as, the right side
       of a piece of cloth.

   {At right angles}, so as to form a right angle or right
      angles, as when one line crosses another perpendicularly.
      

   {Right and left}, in both or all directions. [Colloq.]

   {Right and left coupling} (Pipe fitting), a coupling the
      opposite ends of which are tapped for a right-handed screw
      and a left-handed screw, respectivelly.

   {Right angle}.
       (a) The angle formed by one line meeting another
           perpendicularly, as the angles ABD, DBC.
       (b) (Spherics) A spherical angle included between the
           axes of two great circles whose planes are
           perpendicular to each other.

   {Right ascension}. See under {Ascension}.

   {Right Center} (Politics), those members belonging to the
      Center in a legislative assembly who have sympathies with
      the Right on political questions. See {Center}, n., 5.

   {Right cone}, {Right cylinder}, {Right prism}, {Right
   pyramid} (Geom.), a cone, cylinder, prism, or pyramid, the
      axis of which is perpendicular to the base.

   {Right line}. See under {Line}.

   {Right sailing} (Naut.), sailing on one of the four cardinal
      points, so as to alter a ship's latitude or its longitude,
      but not both. --Ham. Nav. Encyc.

   {Right sphere} (Astron. & Geol.), a sphere in such a position
      that the equator cuts the horizon at right angles; in
      spherical projections, that position of the sphere in
      which the primitive plane coincides with the plane of the
      equator.

   Note: Right is used elliptically for it is right, what you
         say is right, true.

               ``Right,'' cries his lordship.     --Pope.

   Syn: Straight; direct; perpendicular; upright; lawful;
        rightful; true; correct; just; equitable; proper;
        suitable; becoming.

Right \Right\, adv.
   1. In a right manner.

   2. In a right or straight line; directly; hence; straightway;
      immediately; next; as, he stood right before me; it went
      right to the mark; he came right out; he followed right
      after the guide.

            Unto Dian's temple goeth she right.   --Chaucer.

            Let thine eyes look right on.         --Prov. iv.
                                                  25.

            Right across its track there lay, Down in the water,
            a long reef of gold.                  --Tennyson.

   3. Exactly; just. [Obs. or Colloq.]

            Came he right now to sing a raven's note? --Shak.

   4. According to the law or will of God; conforming to the
      standard of truth and justice; righteously; as, to live
      right; to judge right.

   5. According to any rule of art; correctly.

            You with strict discipline instructed right.
                                                  --Roscommon.

   6. According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really;
      correctly; exactly; as, to tell a story right. ``Right at
      mine own cost.'' --Chaucer.

            Right as it were a steed of Lumbardye. --Chaucer.

            His wounds so smarted that he slept right naught.
                                                  --Fairfax.

   7. In a great degree; very; wholly; unqualifiedly; extremely;
      highly; as, right humble; right noble; right valiant. ``He
      was not right fat''. --Chaucer.

            For which I should be right sorry.    --Tyndale.

            [I] return those duties back as are right fit.
                                                  --Shak.

   Note: In this sense now chiefly prefixed to titles; as, right
         honorable; right reverend.

   {Right honorable}, a title given in England to peers and
      peeresses, to the eldest sons and all daughters of such
      peers as have rank above viscounts, and to all privy
      councilors; also, to certain civic officers, as the lord
      mayor of London, of York, and of Dublin.

Right \Right\, n. [AS. right. See {Right}, a.]
   1. That which is right or correct. Specifically:
      (a) The straight course; adherence to duty; obedience to
          lawful authority, divine or human; freedom from guilt,
          -- the opposite of moral wrong.
      (b) A true statement; freedom from error of falsehood;
          adherence to truth or fact.

                Seldom your opinions err; Your eyes are always
                in the right.                     --Prior.
      (c) A just judgment or action; that which is true or
          proper; justice; uprightness; integrity.

                Long love to her has borne the faithful knight,
                And well deserved, had fortune done him right.
                                                  --Dryden.

   2. That to which one has a just claim. Specifically:
      (a) That which one has a natural claim to exact.

                There are no rights whatever, without
                corresponding duties.             --Coleridge.
      (b) That which one has a legal or social claim to do or to
          exact; legal power; authority; as, a sheriff has a
          right to arrest a criminal.
      (c) That which justly belongs to one; that which one has a
          claim to possess or own; the interest or share which
          anyone has in a piece of property; title; claim;
          interest; ownership.

                Born free, he sought his right.   --Dryden.

                Hast thou not right to all created things?
                                                  --Milton.

                Men have no right to what is not reasonable.
                                                  --Burke.
      (d) Privilege or immunity granted by authority.

   3. The right side; the side opposite to the left.

            Led her to the Souldan's right.       --Spenser.

   4. In some legislative bodies of Europe (as in France), those
      members collectively who are conservatives or monarchists.
      See {Center}, 5.

   5. The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of
      cloth, a carpet, etc.

   {At all right}, at all points; in all respects. [Obs.]
      --Chaucer.

   {Bill of rights}, a list of rights; a paper containing a
      declaration of rights, or the declaration itself. See
      under {Bill}.

   {By right}, {By rights}, or {By good rights}, rightly;
      properly; correctly.

            He should himself use it by right.    --Chaucer.

            I should have been a woman by right.  --Shak.

   {Divine right}, or

   {Divine right of kings}, a name given to the patriarchal
      theory of government, especially to the doctrine that no
      misconduct and no dispossession can forfeit the right of a
      monarch or his heirs to the throne, and to the obedience
      of the people.

   {To rights}.
      (a) In a direct line; straight. [R.] --Woodward.
      (b) At once; directly. [Obs. or Colloq.] --Swift.

   {To set to rights}, {To put to rights}, to put in good order;
      to adjust; to regulate, as what is out of order.

   {Writ of right} (Law), a writ which lay to recover lands in
      fee simple, unjustly withheld from the true owner.
      --Blackstone.

Right \Right\, v. i.
   1. To recover the proper or natural condition or position; to
      become upright.

   2. (Naut.) Hence, to regain an upright position, as a ship or
      boat, after careening.

Right \Right\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Righted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Righting}.] [AS. rihtan. See {Right}, a.]
   1. To bring or restore to the proper or natural position; to
      set upright; to make right or straight (that which has
      been wrong or crooked); to correct.

   2. To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights
      to; to assert or regain the rights of; as, to right the
      oppressed; to right one's self; also, to vindicate.

            So just is God, to right the innocent. --Shak.

            All experience hath shown that mankind are more
            disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than
            to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which
            they are accustomed.                  --Jefferson.

   {To right a vessel} (Naut.), to restore her to an upright
      position after careening.

   {To right the helm} (Naut.), to place it in line with the
      keel.

資料來源 : WordNet®

right
     adj 1: free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth;
            "the correct answer"; "the correct version"; "the
            right answer"; "took the right road"; "the right
            decision" [syn: {correct}] [ant: {incorrect}, {incorrect}]
     2: being or located on or directed toward the side of the body
        to the east when facing north; "my right hand"; "right
        center field"; "a right-hand turn"; "the right bank of a
        river is the bank on your right side when you are facing
        downstream" [ant: {left}]
     3: socially right or correct; "it isn't right to leave the
        party without saying goodbye"; "correct behavior" [syn: {correct}]
     4: in conformance with justice or law or morality; "do the
        right thing and confess" [ant: {wrong}]
     5: correct in opinion or judgment; "time proved him right"
        [syn: {correct}] [ant: {wrong}]
     6: appropriate for a condition or occasion; "everything in its
        proper place"; "the right man for the job"; "she is not
        suitable for the position" [syn: {proper}, {suitable}]
     7: of or belonging to the political or intellectual right [ant:
         {left}, {center}]
     8: in or into a satisfactory condition; "things are right again
        now"; "put things right"
     9: intended for the right hand; "a right-hand glove" [syn: {right(a)},
         {right-hand(a)}]
     10: in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure;
         "what's the right word for this?"; "the right way to open
         oysters" [syn: {correct}]
     11: having the axis perpendicular to the base; "a right angle"
     12: of the side of cloth or clothing intended to face outward;
         "the right side of the cloth showed the pattern"; "be
         sure your shirt is right side out" [syn: {right(a)}]
     13: most suitable or right for a particular purpose; "a good
         time to plant tomatoes"; "the right time to act"; "the
         time is ripe for great sociological changes" [syn: {good},
          {ripe}]

right
     n 1: an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or
          governmental body by law or tradition or nature; "they
          are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
          Rights"; "Certain rights can never be granted to the
          government but must be kept in the hands of the people"-
          Eleanor Roosevelt; "a right is not something that
          somebody gives you; it is something that nobody can take
          away"
     2: (frequently plural) the interest possessed by law or custom
        in some intangible thing; "mineral rights"; "film rights"
     3: location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the
        side to the south when a person or object faces east; "he
        stood on the right" [ant: {left}]
     4: a turn to the right; "take a right at the corner"
     5: those who support political or social or economic
        conservatism; those who believe that things are better
        left unchanged [syn: {right wing}]
     6: anything in accord with principles of justice; "he feels he
        is in the right"; "the rightfulness of his claim" [syn: {rightfulness}]
        [ant: {wrong}, {wrong}]
     7: the hand that is on the right side of the body; "he writes
        with his right hand but pitches with his left"; "hit him
        with quick rights to the body" [syn: {right hand}]
     8: the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right
        [syn: {right field}]

right
     adv 1: precisely, exactly; "stand right here!"
     2: immediately; "she called right after dinner"
     3: exactly; "he fell flop on his face" [syn: {flop}]
     4: toward or on the right; also used figuratively; "he looked
        right and left"; "the party has moved right" [ant: {left}]
     5: in the right manner; "please do your job properly!"; "can't
        you carry me decent?" [syn: {properly}, {decently}, {decent},
         {in good order}, {the right way}] [ant: {improperly}]
     6: an interjection expressing agreement [syn: {right on}]
     7: completely; "she felt right at home"; "he fell right into
        the trap"
     8: (Southern regional intensive) very; "the baby is mighty
        cute"; "he's mighty tired"; "it is powerful humid"; "that
        boy is powerful big now"; "they have a right nice place"
        [syn: {mighty}, {powerful}]
     9: in accordance with moral or social standards; "that serves
        him right"; "do right by him" [syn: {justly}]
     10: in a correct manner; "he guessed right" [syn: {correctly}, {aright}]
         [ant: {incorrectly}, {incorrectly}]

right
     v 1: make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the
          victims of the Holocaust" [syn: {compensate}, {redress},
           {correct}] [ant: {wrong}]
     2: put in or restore to an upright position; "They righted the
        sailboat that had capsized"
     3: regain an upright or proper position; "The capsized boat
        righted again"
     4: make right or correct; "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the
        calculation" [syn: {correct}, {rectify}] [ant: {falsify}]
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