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Noun right has 8 senses

right - 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"
--₁ is a kind of abstraction, abstract
--₁ has particulars:

Derived form: verb right₁

right - (frequently plural) the interest possessed by law or custom in some intangible thing; "mineral rights"; "film rights"
--₂ is a kind of interest, stake

Derived form: verb right₁
right - 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"
--₃ is a kind of position, place
Antonyms: left
--₃ has particulars: stage right, right stage
right - a turn to the right; "take a right at the corner"
--₄ is a kind of turn, turning
right, right wing - those who support political or social or economic conservatism; those who believe that things are better left unchanged
--₅ is a kind of faction, sect
--₅ has particulars: religious right; hard right
right, rightfulness - anything in accord with principles of justice; "he feels he is in the right"; "the rightfulness of his claim"
--₆ is a kind of justice, justness
Antonyms: wrong, wrongfulness
right, right hand - 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"
--₇ is a kind of hand, manus, mitt, paw
right field, right - the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right
--₈ is a kind of tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel
--₈ is a part of outfield

Verb right has 4 senses

right, compensate, redress, correct - make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"
--₁ is one way to change, alter, modify
Antonyms: wrong

Derived forms: noun right₂, noun right₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
right - put in or restore to an upright position; "They righted the sailboat that had capsized"
--₂ is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
right - regain an upright or proper position; "The capsized boat righted again"
--₃ is one way to change posture
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
correct, rectify, right - make right or correct; "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation"
--₄ is one way to change by reversal, turn, reverse
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something