Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter W - Page 44
Wright (n.) （主要用以構成複合詞）……製作者；……建造者；……修理者 One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc.
He was a well good wright, a carpenter. -- Chaucer.
Wright (n.) United States writer of detective novels (1888-1939) [syn: Wright, Willard Huntington Wright, S. S. Van Dine].
Wright (n.) United States writer whose work is concerned with the oppression of African Americans (1908-1960) [syn: Wright, Richard Wright].
Wright (n.) United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Orville Wright) invented the airplane (1867-1912) [syn: Wright, Wilbur Wright].
Wright (n.) United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Wilbur Wright) invented the airplane (1871-1948) [syn: Wright, Orville Wright].
Wright (n.) Influential United States architect (1869-1959) [syn: Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright].
Wright (n.) United States early feminist (born in Scotland) (1795-1852) [syn: Wright, Frances Wright, Fanny Wright]
Wright (n.) Someone who makes or repairs something (usually used in combination).
Wrightine (n.) A rare alkaloid found in the bark of an East Indian apocynaceous tree (Wrightia antidysenterica), and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance. It was formerly used as a remedy for diarrh/a. Called also conessine, and neriine.
Wright -- U.S. County in Iowa
Population (2000): 14334
Housing Units (2000): 6559
Land area (2000): 580.722878 sq. miles (1504.065286 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.816264 sq. miles (4.704103 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 582.539142 sq. miles (1508.769389 sq. km)
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 42.729717 N, 93.750180 W
Headwords:
Wright
Wright, IA
Wright County
Wright County, IA
Wright -- U.S. County in Missouri
Population (2000): 17955
Housing Units (2000): 7957
Land area (2000): 682.125963 sq. miles (1766.698058 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.054945 sq. miles (2.732295 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 683.180908 sq. miles (1769.430353 sq. km)
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 37.227226 N, 92.468021 W
Headwords:
Wright
Wright, MO
Wright County
Wright County, MO
Wright -- U.S. County in Minnesota
Population (2000): 89986
Housing Units (2000): 34355
Land area (2000): 660.754275 sq. miles (1711.345644 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 53.634782 sq. miles (138.913443 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 714.389057 sq. miles (1850.259087 sq. km)
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 45.188927 N, 93.915814 W
Headwords:
Wright
Wright, MN
Wright County
Wright County, MN
Wright, WY -- U.S. town in Wyoming
Population (2000): 1347
Housing Units (2000): 544
Land area (2000): 2.748952 sq. miles (7.119752 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.748952 sq. miles (7.119752 sq. km)
FIPS code: 85015
Located within: Wyoming (WY), FIPS 56
Location: 43.754988 N, 105.490691 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 82732
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Wright, WY
Wright
Wright, FL -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Florida
Population (2000): 21697
Housing Units (2000): 10004
Land area (2000): 5.469406 sq. miles (14.165696 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.068969 sq. miles (0.178630 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.538375 sq. miles (14.344326 sq. km)
FIPS code: 78800
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 30.446373 N, 86.635420 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Wright, FL
Wright
Wright-Patterson AFB, OH -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Ohio
Population (2000): 6656
Housing Units (2000): 2096
Land area (2000): 11.693277 sq. miles (30.285447 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.087239 sq. miles (0.225949 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 11.780516 sq. miles (30.511396 sq. km)
FIPS code: 86660
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 39.798708 N, 84.083988 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Wright-Patterson AFB, OH
Wright-Patterson AFB
Wright, OH
Wright
Wright, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
Population (2000): 93
Housing Units (2000): 44
Land area (2000): 1.548659 sq. miles (4.011009 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.548659 sq. miles (4.011009 sq. km)
FIPS code: 71824
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 46.672033 N, 93.006866 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 55798
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Wright, MN
Wright
Wrung (imp. & p. p.) of Wring.
Wringed () of Wring.
Wringing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wring.
Wring (v. t.) To twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch; as, to wring clothes in washing.
Wring (v. t.) Hence, to pain; to distress; to torment; to torture.
Wring (v. t.) To distort; to pervert; to wrest.
Wring (v. t.) To extract or obtain by twisting and compressing; to squeeze or press (out); hence, to extort; to draw forth by violence, or against resistance or repugnance; -- usually with out or form.
Wring (v. t.) To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order to enforce compliance.
Wring (v. t.) To bend or strain out of its position; as, to wring a mast.
Wring (v. i.) To writhe; to twist, as with anguish.
Wring (n.) A writhing, as in anguish; a twisting; a griping.
Wringbolt (n.) A bolt used by shipwrights, to bend and secure the planks against the timbers till they are fastened by bolts, spikes, or treenails; -- not to be confounded with ringbolt.
Wringer (n.) One who, or that which, wrings; hence, an extortioner.
Wringer (n.) A machine for pressing water out of anything, particularly from clothes after they have been washed.
Wringing () a. & n. from Wring, v.
Wringstaves (n. pl. ) of Wringstaff
Wringstaff (n.) A strong piece of plank used in applying wringbolts.
Wrinkle (v. t.) To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow. "Sport that wrinkled Care derides." -- Milton.
Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed. -- Pope.
Wrinkle (v. t.) Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.
A keen north wind that, blowing dry, Wrinkled the face of deluge, as decayed. -- Milton.
Then danced we on the wrinkled sand. -- Bryant.
To wrinkle at, To sneer at. [Obs.] -- Marston.
Wrinkle (n.) A winkle. [Local, U. S.]
Wrinkle (n.) [C] 皺；皺紋；困難；難題 A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold; as, wrinkle in the skin; a wrinkle in cloth. "The wrinkles in my brows." -- Shak.
Within I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth. -- Emerson.
Wrinkle (n.) Hence, any roughness; unevenness.
Not the least wrinkle to deform the sky. -- Dryden.
Wrinkle (n.) [Perhaps a different word, and a dim. AS. wrenc a twisting, deceit. Cf. Wrench, n.] A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle. [Colloq.]
Wrinkled (imp. & p. p.) of Wrinkle.
Wrinkling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wrinkle.
Wrinkle (v. i.) To shrink into furrows and ridges.
Wrinkle (n.) A slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles" [syn: wrinkle, furrow, crease, crinkle, seam, line].
Wrinkle (n.) A minor difficulty; "they finally have the wrinkles pretty well ironed out".
Wrinkle (n.) A clever method of doing something (especially something new and different).
Wrinkle (v. t.) 使起皺紋 [（+up）] Gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker; "purse ones's lips" [syn: purse, wrinkle].
Wrinkle (v.) Make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; "The dress got wrinkled"; "crease the paper like this to make a crane" [syn: wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up, crisp].
Wrinkle (v.) Make wrinkled or creased; "furrow one's brow" [syn: furrow, wrinkle, crease].
Wrinkle (v.) Become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle" [syn: rumple, crumple, wrinkle, crease, crinkle].
Wrinkly (a.) Full of wrinkles; having a tendency to be wrinkled; corrugated; puckered.
Wrist (n.) The joint, or the region of the joint, between the hand and the arm; the carpus. See Carpus.
Wrist (n.) A stud or pin which forms a journal; -- also called wrist pin.
Wristband (n.) The band of the sleeve of a shirt, or other garment, which covers the wrist.
Wrister (n.) A covering for the wrist.
Wristlet (n.) An elastic band worn around the wrist, as for the purpose of securing the upper part of a glove.
Writ (obs.) 3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth.
Writ () imp. & p. p. of Write.
Writ (n.) That which is written; writing; scripture; -- applied especially to the Scriptures, or the books of the Old and New testaments; as, sacred writ.
Writ (n.) An instrument in writing, under seal, in an epistolary form, issued from the proper authority, commanding the performance or nonperformance of some act by the person to whom it is directed; as, a writ of entry, of error, of execution, of injunction, of mandamus, of return, of summons, and the like.
Writability (n.) Ability or capacity to write.
Writable (a.) Capable of, or suitable for, being written down.
Writative (a.) Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative.
Wrote (imp.) of Write.
Written (p. p.) of Write.
Writ (Archaic imp. & p. p.) of Write.
Writing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Write.
Write (v. t.) To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the characters called letters; to write figures.
Write (v. t.) To set down for reading; to express in legible or intelligible characters; to inscribe; as, to write a deed; to write a bill of divorcement; hence, specifically, to set down in an epistle; to communicate by letter.
Last night she enjoined me to write some lines to one she loves. -- Shak.
I chose to write the thing I durst not speak To her I loved. -- Prior.
Write (v. t.) Hence, to compose or produce, as an author.
I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time within the memory of men still living. -- Macaulay.
Write (v. t.) To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth written on the heart.
Write (v. t.) To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; -- often used reflexively.
He who writes himself by his own inscription is like an ill painter, who, by writing on a shapeless picture which he hath drawn, is fain to tell passengers what shape it is, which else no man could imagine. -- Milton.
To write to, To communicate by a written document to.
Written laws, Laws deriving their force from express legislative enactment, as contradistinguished from unwritten, or common, law. See the Note under Law, and Common law, under Common, a.
Write (v. i.) To form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs. -- Chaucer.
So it stead you, I will write, Please you command. -- Shak.
Write (v. i.) To be regularly employed or occupied in writing, copying, or accounting; to act as clerk or amanuensis; as, he writes in one of the public offices.
Write (v. i.) To frame or combine ideas, and express them in written words; to play the author; to recite or relate in books; to compose.
They can write up to the dignity and character of the authors. -- Felton.
Write (v. i.) To compose or send letters.
He wrote for all the Jews that went out of his realm up into Jewry concerning their freedom. -- 1 Esdras iv. 49.
Write (v.) Produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels" [syn: write, compose, pen, indite].
Write (v.) Communicate or express by writing; "Please write to me every week."
Write (v.) Have (one's written work) issued for publication; "How many books did Georges Simenon write?"; "She published 25 books during her long career" [syn: publish, write]
Write (v.) Communicate (with) in writing; "Write her soon, please!" [syn: write, drop a line].
Write (v.) Communicate by letter; "He wrote that he would be coming soon."
Write (v.) Write music; "Beethoven composed nine symphonies" [syn: compose, write].
Write (v.) Mark or trace on a surface; "The artist wrote Chinese characters on a big piece of white paper"; "Russian is written with the Cyrillic alphabet."
Write (v.) Record data on a computer; "boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk" [syn: write, save].
Write (v.) Write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word); "He spelled the word wrong in this letter" [syn: spell, write].
Write (v.) Create code, write a computer program; "She writes code faster than anybody else."
Write, () Unix's simple talk command and protocol.
write has been largely superseded by talk and then irc.
An enhancement, RWP, has been proposed.
Write, () A simple text editor for Windows.
(1998-04-28)
Writer (n.) One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk.
They [came] that handle the pen of the writer. -- Judg. v. 14.
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. -- Ps. xlv. 1.
Writer (n.) One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer of novels.
This pitch, as ancient writers do report, doth defile. -- Shak.
Writer (n.) A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the late East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.
Writer of the tallies (Eng. Law), An officer of the exchequer of England, who acted as clerk to the auditor of the receipt, and wrote the accounts upon the tallies from the tellers' bills. The use of tallies in the exchequer has been abolished. --Wharton (Law. Dict.)
Writer's cramp, Writer's palsy or Writer's spasm (Med.), A painful spasmodic affection of the muscles of the fingers, brought on by excessive use, as in writing, violin playing, telegraphing, etc. Called also scrivener's palsy.
Writer to the signet. See under Signet.
Writer (n.) Writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) [syn: writer, author].
Writer (n.) A person who is able to write and has written something.
Writership (n.) The office of a writer.
Writhed (imp.) of Writhe.
Writhed (p. p.) of Writhe.
Writhen () of Writhe.
Writhing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Writhe.
Writhe (v. t.) To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to distort; to wring.
Writhe (v. t.) To wrest; to distort; to pervert.
Writhe (v. t.) To extort; to wring; to wrest.
Writhe (v. i.) To twist or contort the body; to be distorted; as, to writhe with agony. Also used figuratively.
Writhen (a.) Having a twisted distorted from.
Writhle (v. t.) To wrinkle.
Writing (n.) The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs.
Writing (n.) Anything written or printed; anything expressed in characters or letters
Writing (n.) Any legal instrument, as a deed, a receipt, a bond, an agreement, or the like.
Writing (n.) Any written composition; a pamphlet; a work; a literary production; a book; as, the writings of Addison.
Writing (n.) An inscription.
Writing (n.) Handwriting; chirography.
Written () p. p. of Write, v.
Wrizzle (v. t.) To wrinkle.
Wroken () p. p. of Wreak.
Wrong () imp. of Wring. Wrung.
Wrong (a.) Twisted; wry; as, a wrong nose.
Wrong (a.) Not according to the laws of good morals, whether divine or human; not suitable to the highest and best end; not morally right; deviating from rectitude or duty; not just or equitable; not true; not legal; as, a wrong practice; wrong ideas; wrong inclinations and desires.
Wrong (a.) Not fit or suitable to an end or object; not appropriate for an intended use; not according to rule; unsuitable; improper; incorrect; as, to hold a book with the wrong end uppermost; to take the wrong way.
Wrong (a.) Not according to truth; not conforming to fact or intent; not right; mistaken; erroneous; as, a wrong statement.
Wrong (a.) Designed to be worn or placed inward; as, the wrong side of a garment or of a piece of cloth.
Wrong (adv.) In a wrong manner; not rightly; amiss; morally ill; erroneously; wrongly.
Wrong (a.) That which is not right.
Wrong (a.) Nonconformity or disobedience to lawful authority, divine or human; deviation from duty; -- the opposite of moral right.
Wrong (a.) Deviation or departure from truth or fact; state of falsity; error; as, to be in the wrong.
Wrong (a.) Whatever deviates from moral rectitude; usually, an act that involves evil consequences, as one which inflicts injury on a person; any injury done to, or received from; another; a trespass; a violation of right.
Wronged (imp. & p. p.) of Wrong.
Wronging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wrong.
Wrong (v. t.) To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure.
Wrong (v. t.) To impute evil to unjustly; as, if you suppose me capable of a base act, you wrong me.
Wrongdoer (n.) One who injures another, or who does wrong.
Wrongdoer (n.) One who commits a tort or trespass; a trespasser; a tort feasor.
Wrongdoing (n.) Evil or wicked behavior or action.
Wronger (n.) One who wrongs or injures another.
Wrongful (a.) 不正當的；不講道理的；壞的；非法的；違法的 Full of wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair; as, a wrongful taking of property; wrongful dealing. -- {Wrong"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Wrong"ful*ness}, n.
Wrongful (a.) Having no legally established claim; "the wrongful heir to the throne" [syn: {unlawful}, {wrongful}].
Wrongful (a.) Unlawfully violating the rights of others; "wrongful death"; "a wrongful diversion of trust income".
Wrongful (a.) Not just or fair; "a wrongful act"; "a wrongful charge".
Wrongfully (adv.) 不正當地；不妥地；錯誤地；不公正地 In an unjust or unfair manner; "the employee claimed that she was wrongfully dismissed"; "people who were wrongfully imprisoned should be released".
Wronghead (n.) 堅持錯誤見解者 A person of a perverse understanding or obstinate character. [R.]
Wronghead (a.) Wrongheaded. [R.] -- Pope.
Wrongheaded (a.) 乖僻的；頑固的；固執的 Wrong in opinion or principle; having a perverse understanding; perverse. -- {Wrong"head`ed*ly}, adv. -- {Wrong"head`ed*ness}, n. -- Macaulay.
Wrongheaded (a.) Obstinately perverse in judgment or opinion; "a wrongheaded policy".