| conservative |
| 1. n. A person who favors maintenance of the status quo. | |
| 2. n. (politics) One who opposes changes to the traditional institutions of their country. | |
| 3. n. (US, politics) A political conservative. | |
| 4. n. (US, economics) A fiscal conservative. | |
| 5. n. (US, social sciences) A social conservative. | |
| 6. adj. Cautious. | |
| 7. adj. Tending to resist change or innovation. | |
| The curriculum committee at this university is extremely conservative. | |
| 8. adj. Based on pessimistic assumptions. | |
| At a conservative estimate, growth may even be negative next year. | |
| 9. adj. (US, economics politics social sciences) Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism. | |
| 10. adj. (UK, politics) Relating to the Conservative Party. | |
| 11. adj. (physics, not comparable) Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity. | |
| 12. adj. Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative. | |
| 13. adj. (Judaism) Relating to Conservative Judaism. | |
| 14. adj. (clothing) Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense. | |
| 15. adj. (medicine) Not including any operation or intervention (said of a treatment, see conservative treatment) | |
| right |
| 1. adj. (archaic) Straight, not bent. | |
| a right line | |
| 2. adj. (geometry) Of an angle, having a size of 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between two perpendicular lines. | |
| The kitchen counter formed a right angle with the back wall. | |
| 3. adj. (geometry) Of a geometric figure, incorporating a right angle between edges, faces, axes, etc. | |
| a right triangle, a right prism, a right cone | |
| 4. adj. Complying with justice, correctness or reason; correct, just, true. | |
| I thought you'd made a mistake, but it seems you were right all along. | |
| It's not right that one person gets all the credit for the group's work. | |
| 5. adj. Appropriate, perfectly suitable; fit for purpose. | |
| Is this the right software for my computer? | |
| 6. adj. Healthy, sane, competent. | |
| I'm afraid my father is no longer in his right mind. | |
| 7. adj. Real; veritable (used emphatically). | |
| You've made a right mess of the kitchen! | |
| 8. adj. (Australia) All right; not requiring assistance. | |
| 9. adj. (dated) Most favourable or convenient; fortunate. | |
| 10. adj. Designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north. This arrow points to the right: → | |
| After the accident, her right leg was slightly shorter than her left. | |
| 11. adj. Designed to be placed or worn outward. | |
| the right side of a piece of cloth | |
| 12. adj. (politics) Pertaining to the political right; conservative. | |
| 13. adv. On the right side. | |
| 14. adv. Towards the right side. | |
| 15. adv. Exactly, precisely. | |
| The arrow landed right in the middle of the target. | |
| Luckily we arrived right at the start of the film. | |
| 16. adv. Immediately, directly. | |
| Can't you see it? It's right beside you! | |
| Tom was standing right in front of the TV, blocking everyone's view. | |
| 17. adv. (UK, US, dialect) Very, extremely, quite. | |
| I made a right stupid mistake there, didn't I? | |
| I stubbed my toe a week ago and it still hurts right much. | |
| 18. adv. According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really. | |
| 19. adv. In a correct manner. | |
| Do it right or don't do it at all. | |
| 20. adv. (dated, still used in some titles) To a great extent or degree. | |
| Sir, I am right glad to meet you … | |
| Members of the Queen's Privy Council are styled The Right Honourable for life. | |
| The Right Reverend Monsignor Guido Sarducci. | |
| 21. interj. Yes, that is correct; I agree. | |
| 22. interj. I agree with whatever you say; I have no opinion. | |
| 23. interj. Signpost word to change the subject in a discussion or discourse. | |
| - After that interview, I don't think we should hire her.- Right — who wants lunch? | |
| 24. interj. Used to check agreement at the end of an utterance. | |
| You're going, right? | |
| 25. interj. Used to add seriousness or decisiveness before a statement. | |
| 26. n. That which complies with justice, law or reason. | |
| We're on the side of right in this contest. | |
| 27. n. A legal, just or moral entitlement. | |
| You have no right to go through my personal diary. | |
| see also in right of | |
| 28. n. The right side or direction. | |
| The pharmacy is just on the right past the bookshop. | |
| 29. n. The right hand. | |
| 30. n. (politics) The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group. | |
| The political right holds too much power. | |
| 31. n. The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of cloth, a carpet, etc. | |
| 32. v. To correct. | |
| Righting all the wrongs of the war immediately will be impossible. | |
| 33. v. To set upright. | |
| The tow-truck righted what was left of the automobile. | |
| 34. v. (intransitive) To return to normal upright position. | |
| When the wind died down, the ship righted. | |
| 35. v. To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of. | |
| to right the oppressed | |
| wing |
| 1. n. An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly; a similar fin at the side of a ray or similar fish | |
| 2. n. (slang) Human arm. | |
| 3. n. (aviation) Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air. | |
| 4. n. One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish. | |
| 5. n. One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming. | |
| 6. n. (botany) Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara. | |
| 7. n. (botany) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower. | |
| 8. n. A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another. | |
| 9. n. Passage by flying; flight. | |
| to take wing | |
| 10. n. Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion. | |
| 11. n. A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building. | |
| the west wing of the hospital | |
| the wings of a corkscrew | |
| 12. n. Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc. | |
| 13. n. An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot. | |
| 14. n. A fraction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position. | |
| 15. n. An organizational grouping in a military aviation service: | |
| 16. n. (British) A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station. | |
| 17. n. (US) A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons. | |
| 18. n. (British) A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels. | |
| 19. n. (nautical) A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs. | |
| 20. n. (nautical) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle. | |
| 21. n. (sports) A position in several field games on either side of the field. | |
| 22. n. (sports) A player occupying such a position, also called a winger | |
| 23. n. (typography, informal, rare) A háček. | |
| 24. n. (theater) One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre. | |
| 25. n. (in the plural) The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member. | |
| 26. n. A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides. | |
| 27. n. On the Enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype | |
| Tom's a 4 on the Enneagram, with a 3 wing. | |
| 28. v. To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm. | |
| 29. v. (intransitive) To fly. | |
| 30. v. (transitive, of a building) To add a wing (extra part) to. | |
| 31. v. To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it. | |
| 32. v. To throw. | |
