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wright

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for wright.

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Quick take

A British surname originating as an occupation from a maker of machinery; found in many combinations such as Cartwright.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of wright gathered in one view.

noun

A British surname originating as an occupation from a maker of machinery; found in many combinations such as Cartwright.

noun

An American surname from French; also a confused anglicization of the French le droit.

noun

A number of places in the United States:

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for wright.

noun

A British surname originating as an occupation from a maker of machinery; found in many combinations such as Cartwright.

noun

An American surname from French; also a confused anglicization of the French le droit.

noun

A number of places in the United States:

noun

A census-designated place in Okaloosa County, Florida.

Example sentences

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Isn't it a bit like North Carolina putting the Wright brothers' flier on its quarter?

3

They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers.

4

Maybe they aren't the Wright brothers or Chuck Yeager, but there are still frontiers out there and these guys are pushing them back.

5

It is said that Wright built to his own size, which is to say a trifle shorter than the average American adult male.

6

By placing the house above the falls, Wright furthers this juxtaposition.

7

Do we think Wright brothers were guilty of hubris and arrogance too?

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The same negativity could be said of the Wright brothers when they told people they were going to fly, or Henry Ford when he set out to mass-produce the automobile, or the people that said we'd have a global computer network and a computer in every home.

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> The same negativity could be said of the Wright brothers when they told people they were going to fly It could also have been said of the generations of idiots that jumped off cliffs to their deaths in flying machines that had no hope of working.

Quote examples

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And the county doesn't need the liability associated with this type of contract," Wright says.

2

One day I even played a number of "speed" games (3 minute games, those were fun!) against Trey Wright, the winner of the National Scrabble Championship in 2004.

3

> In 2011 Levine published an essay titled “The Temporal Dimension of Fallingwater,” where he argues that time—and not just nature—is crucial to Wright’s design.

4

Will Wright wrote those two and built the robots at the Stupid Fun Club, and I developed the robot control software and helped run the robots from an "undisclosed location" (the back of an FMC motorcoach).

Proper noun examples

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The Marin County Civic Center is Wright's last building, although very good definitely not the most grandiose.

2

Wright ended up personally knocking out the last temporary support because no one else dared.

3

Wright designed beautiful buildings, but the structural designs on some of them had problems.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use wright in a sentence?

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What does wright mean?

A British surname originating as an occupation from a maker of machinery; found in many combinations such as Cartwright.

What part of speech is wright?

wright is commonly used as noun.