The Right

Definition

right 1 /raÇt/ adj ၁။ မွန္ကန္[ေသာ]။ တရား[ေသာ]။ လမ္းက်[ေသာ]။ ေကာင္း[ေသာ]။ Is it ever right to kill? ❍ You were quite right to refuse/in refusing his offer. ❍ It seems only right to warn you of the risk. ၂။ မွန္ေသာ။ အတိအက်။ Actually, that's not quite right. ❍ Did you get the answer right? ❍ Have you got the right money (ie exact amount) for the bus fare? ❍ What's the right time? ❍ ‘Mr Stewart, isn't it?’ ‘Yes, that's right. ’ ၃။ မွန္ [ေသာ]။ They were right about her being lazy. ❍ You're right to be cautious. ❍ Am I right in thinking we've met before? ၄။ ~ (for sth/sb) သင့္ေသာ။ ေတာ္ေသာ။ မွန္ေသာ။ ပိုင္ေသာ။ He's the right man for the job. ❍ That coat's just right for you. ❍ Is this the right way to the zoo? ❍ She has all the right contacts (ie knows the people in a position to help her career, etc). ၅။ (also all right ) ေနေကာင္းေသာ။ အဆင္ေျပေသာ။ ‘Do you feel all right?’ ‘No, I don't feel (quite) right today. ’ ❍ Things aren't right between her parents. ၆။ (အဝတ္အထည္၏) အလွ(ဘက္)။ Place the pattern pieces on the right side of the material. ၇။ ( Brit infml ) (esp in derogatory phrases) တကယ့္။ ေကာင္းေကာင္းႀကီး။ You made a right mess of that! ❍ She's in a right (old) temper! Compare WRONG adv ၁။ တည့္တည့္မတ္မတ္။ တန္းတန္း။ တည့္တည့္။ sitting right beside you ❍ The wind was right in our faces. ၂။ အဆံုးအထိ။ အဆံုးတိုင္။ လံုးလံုး။ a fence right around the garden ❍ Go right to the end of the road. ❍ I fell right to the bottom of the stairs. ❍ The pear was rotten right through. ❍ The handle came right off in my hand. ၃။ မွန္မွန္ကန္ကန္။ Have I guessed right or wrong? ၄။ အဆင္ေျပေျပ။ ေက်နပ္ဖြယ္ရာ။ Nothing seems to be going right for me today. ၅။ ခ်က္ခ်င္း။ I must answer that phone, but I'll be right back. n ၁။ [U] အမွန္။ know the difference between right and wrong ❍ You did right to tell me the truth. ၂။ [U, C] ~ (to sth/to do sth) လုပ္ပိုင္ခြင့္။ အခြင့္။ အခြင့္အေရး။ What right have you/What gives you the right to do that? ❍ You have no right to stop me from going in there. ❍ exercise one's legal rights ❍ have no rights as a US citizen ❍ animal rights campaigners ❍ the right to remain silent ❍ Everyone has a right to a fair trial. ❍ Do the police have the right of arrest in this situation? ❍ He's quite within his rights to demand an enquiry. ❍ I know my rights. See also CIVIL RIGHTS, HUMAN RIGHTS ၃။ rights [pl] ပိုင္ခြင့္။ buy/own the movie/translation/foreign rights (of a book) (ie the authority to make a film of it, translate it, sell it abroad, etc) ❍ all rights reserved (ie protected or kept for the owners of the book, film. etc). See also COPYRIGHT v ၁။ ျပန္တည့္မတ္သည္။ ျပန္မတ္သည္။ ျပန္တည့္သည္။ I righted some chairs and we sat down amongst the debris. ❍ The horse stumbled, then miraculously righted itself. ၂။ လမ္းမွန္ျပန္ေရာက္ေစသည္။ အမွားျပင္သည္။ right a wrong ❍ The fault will probably right itself if you give it time. ❏ be in the right [ IDM ] တရားနည္းလမ္းက်သည္။ ❏ by right of sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) အေၾကာင္းျပဳ၍။ The Normans ruled England by right of conquest. ❏ by rights [ IDM ] တရားသျဖင့္ဆိုလွ်င္။ By rights, half the reward should be mine. ❏ do right by sb [ IDM ] မွ်တစြာဆက္ဆံသည္။ ❏ get sth right /straight [ IDM ] နားလည္ေစလိုသည္။ နားလည္ထားစမ္းပါ။ Let's get this right once and for all. ❍ Let's get one thing straight—I give the orders round here, OK? ❏ in one's own right [ IDM ] ကိုယ္တိုင္က။ Her husband's a poet, and she's also an author in her own right. ❏ (not) in one's right mind [ IDM ] မူ (မ)မွန္။ ❏ not (quite) right in the head [ IDM ] ( infml ) က်ပ္မျပည့္။ ❏ (as) of right/by right [ IDM ] ( fml ) ရပိုင္ခြင့္အေနျဖင့္။ The property belongs to her as of right. ❏ put/set sb/sth right [ IDM ] (အခ်ိန္)တိုက္သည္။ (မွားေနသည္ကို၊ ခြၽတ္ေခ်ာ္ေနသည္ကို) ျပင္ေပးသည္။ put one's watch right (ie to the correct time) ❍ I want to set/put you right on one or two matters. ❏ put/set sb/sth to rights [ IDM ] ေနသားတက် စီစဥ္သည္။ It took me ages to put things to rights after the workmen had finished. ❏ right (you are)! ( Brit also right-oh! ) [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဟုတ္ပ (သို႔) ဟုတ္ကဲ့။ ❏ right angle n ေထာင့္မွန္။ Place the table at right angles/at a right angle to the wall. ❍ ANGLE, TRIANGLE ❏ right-angled adj ေထာင့္မွန္။ a right-angled triangle/corner. ❏ (as) right as rain [ IDM ] ( infml ) အေကာင္းပကတိ။ ❏ right/straight away/off [ IDM ] ခ်က္ခ်င္း။ မဆိုင္းမတြ။ I want it typed right away, please. ❍ I told her right/straight off what I thought of her. ❏ Right Honourable adj ( Brit ) (EARL မႉးမတ္အဆင့္ ရိွသူႏွင့္ အစိုးရအဖြဲ႕ဝင္ ဝန္ႀကီးမ်ားႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ သံုးေသာ အာလုပ္ပုဒ္)။ my Right Honourable friend, the Secretary of State for the Environment. Compare HONOURABLE ၂ ❏ rightly adv ၁။ တရားသျဖင့္။ မွန္မွန္ကန္ကန္။ ေကာင္းေကာင္း မြန္မြန္။ act rightly. ၂။ ထိုက္သင့္ အားေလ်ာ္စြာ။ တရားနည္းလမ္း က်စြာ။ သဘာဝက်စြာ။ She's been sacked, and rightly so. ❍ Quite rightly, the press has given extensive coverage to the debate. ❍ He was rightly furious at the decision. ၃။ မွန္မွန္ကန္ကန္။ အမွန္အတိုင္း။ ေကာင္းေကာင္း။ If I remember rightly… ❍ As you rightly point out, we can't afford a new car. ❏ right-minded adj ေတာ္မွန္ေသာ။ တရားမွ်တေသာ။ ေျဖာင့္မတ္ေသာ။ All right-minded people will surely be shocked by this outrage. ❏ rightness n [U] တရားမွ်တျခင္း။ မွန္ကန္ျခင္း။ the rightness (ie justice) of their cause ❍ the rightness of his decision. ❏ right now [ IDM ] အခု။ ခ်က္ခ်င္း။ ❏ right of abode n [U] တရားဝင္ေနထိုင္ပိုင္ခြင့္။ ❏ right of way n ( pl rights of way ) ၁။ [C] (က) ျဖတ္သန္းသြားလာခြင့္။ No public right of way. (ခ) ျဖတ္လမ္း။ Is there a right of way across these fields? ၂။ [U] (လမ္းေပၚတြင္) ဦးစားေပး။ I have the right of way/It's my right of way at this junction. ❏ Right Reverend adj (အဂၤလန္ ခရစ္ယာန္အသင္းေတာ္ ဂိုဏ္းအုပ္ဘုန္းေတာ္ႀကီးမ်ားႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ သံုးေသာ အာလုပ္ပုဒ္)။ the Right Reverend Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford. ❏ the rights and wrongs of sth [ IDM ] ျဖစ္ရပ္ အမွန္။ ❏ rights issue n ( commerce ) အစုရွယ္ယာသစ္ ထပ္ေခၚသည့္ အခါ ရိွရင္းစြဲအစုရွင္မ်ားအတြက္ ေလွ်ာ့ေဈးျဖင့္ ေရာင္းေပးေသာ အစုရွယ္ယာမ်ား။ ❏ see sb right ( US also do sb right ) [ IDM ] လိုေလေသး မရိွေစရ။ You needn't worry about running out of money—I'll see you right. ❏ too right! [ IDM ] ( infml ) သိပ္ဟုတ္။ right 2 /raÇt/ adj ညာ။ လက္ယာဘက္။ my right eye ❍ In Britain we drive on the left side of the road, not the right side. Compare LEFT 2 adj adv ညာသို႔။ He looked neither right nor left. ❍ Turn right at the end of the street. n ၁။ (က) [U] ညာ။ လက္ယာ။ ယာ။ the first turning to/on the right. (ခ) [sing] ညာ (ခ်ဳိး စသည္)။ take the first right and then second left. ၂။ the Right [Gp] ( politics ) လက္ယာ (အုပ္စု)။ The Right in British politics is represented by the Conservative Party. Compare LEFT 2 n ❏ give one's right arm for sth/to do sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) တကယ့္ကို သိပ္(ေရာက္၊ လိုက္၊ ျဖစ္ စသည္) ခ်င္လိုက္ တာ။ I'd have given my right arm to be there with them. ❏ right and left [ IDM ] ေနရာတကာ။ She owes money right and left. ❏ right bank n [sing] (ျမစ္စီးဆင္းသည့္အတိုင္း) ညာဘက္ ကမ္း။ ❏ right-hand adj ၁။ ညာလက္အတြက္။ a right-hand glove. ၂။ ညာဘက္။ make a right-hand turn ❍ the top right-hand corner. Compare LEFT-HAND ❏ right-hand drive adj [sing] လက္ယာေမာင္း၊ ညာေမာင္း (ယာဥ္)။ Compare LEFT-HAND DRIVE ❏ right-handed adj (က) ညာသန္။ (ခ) ညာသန္ သံုး (လက္နက္ကိရိယာ) (သို႔) လက္ယာရစ္။ adv ညာဘက္လက္ႏွင့္ (ကစားသည္)။ play tennis right-handed. ❏ right-hander n (က) ညာသန္။ (ခ) ညာလက္ျဖင့္ ႐ိုက္ခ်က္ (သို႔) ထိုးခ်က္။ Compare LEFT-HANDER ❏ right-hand man n [sing] ညာလက္႐ံုး။ He was the governor's right-hand man. ❏ rightist n , adj လက္ယာ (ဝါဒီ)။ ❏ right-of-centre adj လက္ယာဆန္ဆန္။ a right-of-centre party/candidate. ❏ right turn n ညာခ်ဳိး။ ညာေကြ႕။ ❏ right wing n ၁။ [Gp] ( politics ) လက္ယာ ယိမ္းသည့္ အပိုင္း။ She's on the right wing of the Labour Party. ၂။ [C, U] (ေဘာလံုးစသည္တြင္) ညာေတာင္ပံ။ playing (on the) right wing. Compare LEFT WING ❏ right-wing adj လက္ယာဆန္ေသာ။ right-wing opinions ❍ This newspaper's views are very right-wing. ❏ right-winger n ၁။ လက္ယာဝါဒီ။ He was barracked by Tory right-wingers. ၂။ ညာေတာင္ပံ။ Compare WING ၆, WINGER

Examples

1. Their office is right in the middle of town.
2. The keys were right here a minute ago.
3. ‘Am I late?’ ‘No
4. you’re right on time.’
5. [right behind/in front of] : Don’t worry – I’m right behind you.
6. I knew right from the start we were going to have problems.
7. [right after/before] : He arrived right after me.
8. [right up/down] : The water came right up to our knees.
9. [right through] : My foot went right through the floorboards.
10. [right into/out of] : The car swerved and went right into a wall.
11. It’d gone right out of my mind until just now.
12. Turn right at the corner.
13. You did it right the first time.
14. [go right] : Everything went just right and the party was a big success.
15. [do right (to do something)] : ‘You did right to call me
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