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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
squarely
1. adv. in the shape of a square; at right angles
2. adv. firmly and solidly
3. adv. in a direct, straightforward and honest manner
flat
1. adj. Having no variations in height.
The land around here is flat.
2. adj. (music, voice) Without variations in pitch.
3. adj. (slang) Describing certain features, usually the breasts and/or buttocks, that are extremely small or not visible at all.
That girl is completely flat on both sides.
4. adj. (music, note) Lowered by one semitone.
5. adj. (music) Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
Your A string is too flat.
6. adj. (of a tire or other inflated object) Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
7. adj. Uninteresting.
The party was a bit flat.
8. adj. Of a carbonated drink, with all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
9. adj. (wine) Lacking acidity without being sweet.
10. adj. (of a battery) Unable to emit power; dead.
11. adj. (juggling, of a throw) Without spin; spinless.
12. adj. (figurative) Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; dull and boring.
The market is flat.
The dialogue in your screenplay is flat -- you need to make it more exciting.
13. adj. Absolute; downright; peremptory.
His claim was in flat contradiction to experimental results.
I'm not going to the party and that's flat.
14. adj. (phonetics, dated, of a consonant) sonant; vocal, as distinguished from a sharp (non-sonant) consonant
15. adj. (grammar) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix; or an infinitive without the sign "t
Many flat adverbs, as in 'run fast', 'buy cheap', etc. are from Old English.
16. adj. (golf, of a golf club) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
17. adj. (horticulture, of certain fruits) Flattening at the ends.
18. adj. (authorship figuratively, esp. of a character) Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional.
The author created the site to flesh out the books' flatter characters, who were actually quite well developed in her own mind.
19. adv. So as to be flat.
Spread the tablecloth flat over the table.
20. adv. Bluntly.
I asked him if he wanted to marry me and he turned me down flat.
21. adv. (with units of time, distance, etc) Not exceeding.
He can run a mile in four minutes flat.
22. adv. Completely.
I am flat broke this month.
23. adv. Directly; flatly.
24. adv. (finance, slang) Without allowance for accrued interest.
25. n. An area of level ground.
26. n. (music) A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ sign placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪).
27. n. (informal, automotive) A flat tyre/tire.
28. n. (in the plural) A type of ladies' shoes with very low heels.
She liked to walk in her flats more than in her high heels.
29. n. (in the plural) A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.
30. n. (painting) A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolor/watercolour painting.
31. n. The flat part of something:
32. n. (swordfighting) The flat side of a blade, as opposed to the sharp edge.
33. n. The palm of the hand, with the adjacent part of the fingers.
34. n. A wide, shallow container.
a flat of strawberries
35. n. (mail) A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes.
36. n. (geometry) A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
37. n. A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
38. n. A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
39. n. (rail, US) A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
40. n. A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
41. n. (mining) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
42. n. (obsolete) A dull fellow; a simpleton.
43. n. (technical, theatre) A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin that depicts a building or other part of a scene, also called backcloth and backdrop.
44. v. (poker slang) To make a flat call; to call without raising.
45. v. (intransitive) To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
46. v. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To fall from the pitch.
47. v. (transitive, music) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
48. v. (transitive, dated) To make flat; to flatten; to level.
49. v. (transitive, dated) To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
50. n. (chiefly British, New England, New Zealand, and Australian, archaic elsewhere) An apartment, usually on one level and usually consisting of more than one room.
out
See also individual phrasal verbs such as come out, go out, put out, take out, pull out, and so on.
1. adv. Away from the inside or the centre.
The magician pulled the rabbit out of the hat.
2. adv. Away from home or one's usual place.
Let's eat out tonight
3. adv. Outside; not indoors.
Last night we slept out under the stars.
4. adv. Away from; at a distance.
Keep out!
5. adv. Into a state of non-operation; into non-existence.
Switch the lights out.
Put the fire out.
6. adv. To the end; completely.
I hadn't finished. Hear me out.
7. adv. Used to intensify or emphasize.
The place was all decked out for the holidays.
8. adv. (of the sun, moon, stars, etc.) So as to be visible in the sky, and not covered by clouds, fog, etc.
The sun came out after the rain, and we saw a rainbow.
9. adv. (cricket, baseball) Of a player, so as to be disqualified from playing further by some action of a member of the opposing team (such as being stumped in cricket).
Wilson was bowled out for five runs.
10. prep. (nonstandard, contraction of out of) Away from the inside.
He threw it out the door.
11. prep. (colloquial) Outside.
It's raining out.
It's cold out.
12. n. A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc.
They wrote the law to give those organizations an out.
13. n. (baseball) A state in which a member of the batting team is removed from play due to the application of various rules of the game such as striking out, hitting a fly ball which is caught by the fieldi
14. n. (cricket) A dismissal; a state in which a member of the batting team finishes his turn at bat, due to the application of various rules of the game, such as the bowler knocking over the batsman's wicke
15. n. (poker) A card which can make a hand a winner.
16. n. (dated) A trip out; an outing.
17. n. (mostly, in plural) One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office.
18. n. A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space.
19. n. (printing, dated) A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission.
20. v. To eject; to expel.
21. v. To reveal (a person) to be gay, bisexual, or transgender.
22. v. To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective.
23. v. To reveal (a secret).
A Brazilian company outed the new mobile phone design.
24. v. (intransitive, archaic) To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public.
25. v. To become apparent.
26. adj. Not at home; not at one's office or place of employment.
I'm sorry, Mr Smith is out at the moment.
27. adj. Released, available for purchase, download or other use.
Did you hear? Their newest CD is out!
28. adj. (in various games; used especially of a batsman or batter in cricket or baseball) Dismissed from play under the rules of the game.
He bowls, Johnson pokes at it ... and ... Johnson is out! Caught behind by Ponsonby!
29. adj. Openly acknowledging that one is gay or transgender.
It's no big deal to be out in the entertainment business.
30. adj. (of flowers) In bloom.
The garden looks beautiful now that the roses are out.
31. adj. (of the sun, moon or stars) Visible in the sky; not obscured by clouds.
The sun is out, and it's a lovely day.
32. adj. (of lamps, fires etc.) Not shining or burning.
I called round to the house but all the lights were out and no one was home.
33. adj. (of ideas, plans, etc.) Discarded; no longer a possibility.
Right, so that idea's out. Let's move on to the next one.
34. adj. No longer popular or in fashion.
Black is out this season. The new black is white.
35. adj. Without; no longer in possession of; not having more
Do you have any bread? Sorry, we're out.
36. adj. (of calculations or measurements) Containing errors or discrepancies; in error by a stated amount.
Nothing adds up in this report. All these figures are out.
The measurement was out by three millimetres.
37. adj. (obsolete) Of a young lady: having entered society and available to be courted.
38. interj. (procedure word, especially, military) A radio procedure word meaning that the station is finished with its transmission and does not expect a response.
Destruction. Two T-72s destroyed. Three foot mobiles down. Out.

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