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right

1. of, designating, supporting, belonging to, or relating to the political or intellectual right (see sense 39)

2. conservative or reactionary

3. Geometry

a. formed by or containing a line or plane perpendicular to another line or plane

b. having the axis perpendicular to the base

c. straight

4. the supporters or advocates of social, political, or economic conservatism or reaction, based generally on a belief that things are better left unchanged (opposed to radical or left)

5. Boxing

a. a punch with the right hand

b. the right hand

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What does it mean when you dream about being on the right?

In addition to its directional meaning, being on the right can also mean being correct (e.g., to be on the right side of a situation). Being at the right hand of God also says one is in the righteous place of good instead of evil. The right in a dream can also mean to stand up for one’s “rights” or “to right” (rectify) a wrong.

Right

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The right side of the brain is associated with fluid intelligence, nonverbal reasoning, and creativity. In your dream you may be concerned with direction or being right. Either way right usually has positive connotations. You may be sending messages to yourself that you are on a right path or doing the right thing.

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The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

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In fact, there isn't anything that can right the matter but practice.

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MENO: I certainly thought just now that we were right.

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We entered the gallery to the right. A narrow carpet, laid on the waxed oaken floor, which shone like glass, deadened the sound of our footsteps.

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And when shall I want it?--He that hath a goal and an heir, wanteth death at the right time for the goal and the heir.

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"One might dispute your right to ask such questions," observed Lebedeff's nephew.

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"Knock off my head with little apples if the girl ain't right," he communed aloud at the end of the session.

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"If vanity was a thing fit," says Square, "I might indulge some on the same occasion; for whence only he can have learnt his notions of right or wrong, I think is pretty apparent.

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"Tell me, has right anything to do with the law?" I asked.

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Tom said we was right behind Jim's bed now, and we'd dig in under it, and when we got through there couldn't nobody in the cabin ever know there was any hole there, because Jim's counter- pin hung down most to the ground, and you'd have to raise it up and look under to see the hole.

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Just before I came into your kingdom, I saw you dancing from left to right, and then from right to left, with Seven Men and a Woman in your immediate proximity on the left, and eight Men and two Women on your right.