Word Meanings - RIGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line.

• Directer
  One who directs; a director.
• Righting
  of Right
• Rightless
  Destitute of right.
• Straightener
  One who, or that which, straightens.
• DIRECTACTING
  Acting directly, as one part upon another, without the intervention of other working parts. Direct-acting steam engine, one in which motion is transmitted to the crank without the intervention of a beam or lever; -- also called direct-action steam engin
• STRAIGHTOUT
  Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing. [Colloq. U.S.] Straight-out and generous indignation. Mrs. Stowe.
• Direction
  The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public affairs or of a bank.
• Right-about
  A turning directly about by the right, so as to face in the opposite direction; also, the quarter directly opposite; as, to turn to the right-about.
• Right-lined
  Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle.
• Straightforth
  Straightway.
• DIRECTACTION
  See Syndicalism, below.
• STRAIGHTPIGHT
  Straight in form or upright in position; erect. [Obs.] Shak.
• Directive
  Having power to direct; tending to direct, guide, or govern; showing the way.
• Right-angled
  Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
• Straightforward
  Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating; honest; frank.
• DIRECTCOUPLED
  Coupled without intermediate connections, as an engine and a dynamo. Direct-coupled antenna (Wireless Teleg.), an antenna connected electrically with one point of a closed oscillation circuit in syntony with it and earthed.
• STRAIGHTSPOKEN
  Speaking with directness; plain-spoken. [Colloq. U.S.] Lowell.

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