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wright

one who constructs something: a wheelwright; a playwright

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write – pen, author, draft, create, compose: I write at least three pages every day.

wright

(rīt)

One that constructs or repairs something. Often used in combination: a playwright; a shipwright.

[Middle English, from Old English wryhta; see werg- in Indo-European roots.]

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wright

(raɪt)

(Professions) (now chiefly in combination) a person who creates, builds, or repairs something specified: a playwright; a shipwright.

[Old English wryhta, wyrhta; related to Old Frisian wrichta, Old Saxon, Old High German wurhtio. See work]

Wright

(raɪt)

1. (Biography) Frank Lloyd. 1869–1959, US architect, whose designs include the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo (1916), the Guggenheim Museum, New York (1943), and many private houses. His "organic architecture" sought a close relationship between buildings and their natural surroundings

2. (Biography) Joseph, known as Wright of Derby. 1734–97, British painter, noted for his paintings of industrial and scientific subjects, esp The Orrery (?1765) and The Air Pump (1768)

3. (Biography) Joseph. 1855–1930, British philologist; editor of The English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905)

4. (Biography) Judith (Arundel). 1915–2000, Australian poet, critic, and conservationist. Her collections of poetry include The Moving Image (1946), Woman to Man (1949), and A Human Pattern (1990)

5. (Biography) Richard. 1908–60, US Black novelist and short-story writer, best known for the novel Native Son (1940)

6. (Biography) Wilbur (1867–1912) and his brother, Orville (1871–1948), US aviation pioneers, who designed and flew the first powered aircraft (1903)

7. (Biography) William, known as Billy. 1924–94, English footballer: winner of 105 caps

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wright

(raɪt)

n.

a worker, esp. a constructive worker (used chiefly in combination): a wheelwright; a playwright.

[before 900; Middle English; Old English wryhta, metathetic variant of wyrhta worker; akin to work]

Wright

(raɪt)

n.

1. Frank Lloyd, 1867–1959, U.S. architect.

2. Orville, 1871–1948, and his brother Wilbur, 1867–1912, U.S. aeronautical inventors.

3. Richard, 1908–60, U.S. novelist.

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Noun	1.	Wright - United States writer of detective novels (1888-1939) S. S. Van Dine, Willard Huntington Wright
	2.	Wright - United States writer whose work is concerned with the oppression of African Americans (1908-1960) Richard Wright
	3.	Wright - United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Orville Wright) invented the airplane (1867-1912) Wilbur Wright
	4.	Wright - United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Wilbur Wright) invented the airplane (1871-1948) Orville Wright
	5.	Wright - influential United States architect (1869-1959) Frank Lloyd Wright
	6.	Wright - United States early feminist (born in Scotland) (1795-1852) Fanny Wright, Frances Wright
	7.	wright - someone who makes or repairs something (usually used in combination) cartwright - a workman who makes and repairs carts and wagons artisan, journeyman, artificer, craftsman - a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft 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 wheelwright, wheeler - someone who makes and repairs wooden wheels

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

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We have carriages to fetch and convey her home, and we live in a style which could not make the addition of Jane Fairfax, at any time, the least inconvenient.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.

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it's an old story now--there was those Wright Brothers out in America.

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