WRIGHT

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• WRIGHT (noun)
  The noun WRIGHT has 7 senses:

1. United States writer of detective novels (1888-1939)

2. United States writer whose work is concerned with the oppression of African Americans (1908-1960)

3. United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Orville Wright) invented the airplane (1867-1912)

4. United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Wilbur Wright) invented the airplane (1871-1948)

5. influential United States architect (1869-1959)

6. United States early feminist (born in Scotland) (1795-1852)

7. someone who makes or repairs something (usually used in combination)

  Familiarity information: WRIGHT used as a noun is common.

• WRIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States writer of detective novels (1888-1939)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

S. S. Van Dine; Willard Huntington Wright; Wright

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States writer whose work is concerned with the oppression of African Americans (1908-1960)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Richard Wright; Wright

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 3

Meaning:

United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Orville Wright) invented the airplane (1867-1912)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Wilbur Wright; Wright

Instance hypernyms:

artificer; discoverer; inventor (someone who is the first to think of or make something)

Sense 4

Meaning:

United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Wilbur Wright) invented the airplane (1871-1948)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Orville Wright; Wright

Instance hypernyms:

artificer; discoverer; inventor (someone who is the first to think of or make something)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Influential United States architect (1869-1959)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Frank Lloyd Wright; Wright

Instance hypernyms:

architect; designer (someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings))

Sense 6

Meaning:

United States early feminist (born in Scotland) (1795-1852)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Fanny Wright; Frances Wright; Wright

Instance hypernyms:

feminist; libber; women's liberationist; women's rightist (a supporter of feminism)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Someone who makes or repairs something (usually used in combination)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("wright" is a kind of...):

artificer; artisan; craftsman; journeyman (a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wright"):

cartwright (a workman who makes and repairs carts and wagons)

millwright (a workman who designs or erects mills and milling machinery)

ploughwright; plowwright (a workman who makes and repairs plows)

ship builder; shipbuilder; shipwright (a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels)

waggonwright; wagonwright; wainwright (a wagon maker)

wheeler; wheelwright (someone who makes and repairs wooden wheels)

 Context examples 

And as for Mrs. Hodges, Wright holds her very cheap indeed.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Homer Wright rosettes may be present.

(Classic Medulloblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It often produces Flexner-Wintersteiner rosettes or Homer-Wright rosettes.

(Differentiated Retinoblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Then he threw a decanter at that maid, Theresa Wright—there was trouble about that.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Invasive embryonal neoplasm of the pineal gland showing neuronal differentiation histologically (Homer-Wright and/or Flexner-Wintersteiner rosette formation) by immunohistochemistry (synaptophysin, chromogranin, or NSE expression), or by electron microscopy (dense core vesicles and microtubules).

(Mouse Pineoblastoma, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

Invasive embryonal neoplasm of the cerebellum showing neuronal differentiation histologically (Homer-Wright and/or Flexner-Wintersteiner rosette formation) by immunohistochemistry (synaptophysin, chromogranin, or NSE expression), or by electron microscopy (dense core vesicles and microtubules).

(Mouse Medulloblastoma, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

I should be extremely displeased if Wright were to send us up such a dinner, as could make me regret having asked more than Jane Fairfax to partake of it.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

One day out in a country lane I met Theresa Wright, her old maid.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How do you like my trimming? How has Wright done my hair? —with many other relative questions, all answered with patient politeness.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Theresa Wright is her name, and the kind of maid you don’t pick up nowadays.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)