law
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lawe, and gesetnes. More at (l).
Noun
(lb) The body of rules and standards issued by a government, or to be applied by courts and similar authorities.
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A particular such rule.
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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
(lb) A written or understood rule that concerns behaviours and their consequences. Laws are usually associated with mores.
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A well-established, observed physical characteristic or behavior of nature. The word is used to simply identify “what happens,” without implying any explanatory mechanism or causation. Compare to theory.
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(lb) A statement that is true under specified conditions.
A category of English “common law” petitions that request monetary relief, as opposed to relief in forms other than a monetary judgment; compare to “equity”.
(lb) One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the MCC.
The police.
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(lb) One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to chaos.
An oath, as in the presence of a court. See wager of law.
Derived terms
* above the law
* against the law
* a law unto oneself
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* Avogadro’s law
* Beer-Lambert law
* Boyle’s law
* bylaw
* canon law
* Charles’ law
* civil law
* common law
* contract law
* corn laws
* Coulomb’s law
* criminal law
* de Morgan’s laws
* employment law
* family law
* Faraday’s laws
* federal law
* feudal law
* Fourier’s law
* Gauss’s law
* Graham’s law
* Gresham’s law
* Henry’s law
* Hooke’s law
* Hubble’s law
* international law
* into law
* Kepler’s laws of planetary motion
* Kerchoff’s laws
* law and order
* lawful
* lawgiver
* lawlike
* law lord
* lawmaker, law-maker
* law of cosines
* law of large numbers
* law of sines
* law of small numbers
* law of tangents
* law of the land
* law of the tongue
* lay down the law
* long arm of the law
* lynch law
* martial law
* Moore’s law
* Murphy’s law
* natural law
* Newton’s law of cooling
* Newton’s law of gravitation
* Newton’s laws of motion
* Ohm’s law
* physical law
* power law
* Poiseuille’s law
* possession is nine points of the law
* property law
* Roman law
* statuate (statute)+law=statuate law (US)
* state law
* statute law (Commonwealth English)
* Stefan-Boltzmann law
* Stokes’ law
* sus law
* take the law into one’s own hands
* the law is an ass
* three laws of robotics
* unwritten law
* Zipf’s law
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . Also spelled low.
Noun
(en noun)
(obsolete) a tumulus of stones
a hill
* 1892 , Robert Louis Stevenson, Across the Plains
- You might climb the Law […] and behold the face of many counties.
Etymology 3
Compare (la).
Interjection
(en interjection)
(dated) An exclamation of mild surprise; lawks.
References
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English
(re-split by etym)
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .
Adjective
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(archaic) Straight, not bent.
- a right line
Of an angle, having a size of 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between two perpendicular lines.
- The kitchen counter formed a right angle with the back wall.
Complying with justice, correctness or reason; correct, just, true.
- I thought you’d made a mistake, but it seems you were right all along.
- It’s not right that one person gets all the credit for the group’s work.
* (John Locke)
- If there be no prospect beyond the grave, the inference is right , “Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.”
* Bishop Joseph Hall
- there are some dispositions blame-worthy in men, which are yet, in a right sense, holily ascribed unto God; as unchangeableness, and irrepentance.
Appropriate, perfectly suitable; fit for purpose.
- Is this the right software for my computer?
Healthy, sane, competent.
- I’m afraid my father is no longer in his right mind.
Real; veritable.
- You’ve made a right mess of the kitchen!
* Milton
- In this battle, the Britons never more plainly manifested themselves to be right barbarians.
(Australia) All right; not requiring assistance.
* 1986 David Williamson, “What If You Died Tomorrow,” Collected plays , Volume 1, Currency Press, p310
- KIRSTY: I suppose you’re hungry. Would you like something to eat? / KEN: No. I’m right , thanks.
* 2001 Catherine Menagé, Access to English, National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research, NSW: Sydney, p25
- When the sales assistant sees the customer, she asks Are you right , sir?” This means ”Are you all right? She wants to know if he needs any help.
* 2001 Morris Gleitzman, Two weeks with the Queen, Pan Macmillan Australia, p75
- ‘You lost?’ / Colin spun round. Looking at him was a nurse, her eyebrows raised. / ‘No, I’m right , thanks,’ said Colin.’
(dated) Most favourable or convenient; fortunate.
* Spectator
- The lady has been disappointed on the right side.
Designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north. This arrow points to the right: ?
- After the accident, her right leg was slighly shorter than her left.
Designed to be placed or worn outward.
- the right side of a piece of cloth
(politics) Pertaining to the political right; conservative.
Synonyms
* (correctness) correct, just
* dexter, dextral, right-hand
* (politics) conservative, right-wing
* (as a tag question) see
Antonyms
* (straightness) bowed, crooked, curved
* (correctness) wrong
* left
Derived terms
* a broken clock is right twice a day
* alright, all right
* do right by
* in one’s right mind
* it’s all right
* right angle
* right as a trivet
* right as rain
* right away
* rightdom
* righteous
* right hand
* right handed, right-handed
* right-hand man
* righthood
* rightly
* right-minded
* rightness
* right off
* right off the bat
* right of way
* Right Reverend
* right triangle
* she’ll be right
Adverb
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On the right side.
Towards the right side.
Interjection
(en interjection)
Yes, that is correct; I agree.
I agree with whatever you say; I have no opinion.
(non-gloss definition).
- – After that interview, I don’t think we should hire her.
– Right — who wants lunch?
(Used to check agreement at the end of an utterance).
- You’re going, right ?
* 1987 , :
- Withnail: Right … I’m gonna do the washing up.
Derived terms
* yeah right
Noun
(wikipedia right)
(en noun)
That which complies with justice, law or reason.
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A legal or moral entitlement.
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* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
- There are no rights whatever, without corresponding duties.
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The right side or direction.
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(politics) The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.
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The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
Synonyms
* (right side) starboard,
Antonyms
* (legal or moral entitlement) duty, obligation
Derived terms
* bragging rights
* human rights
* Miranda rights
* rightful
* right of first refusal
* shop right
* to the right
* two wrongs don’t make a right
* two wrongs make a right
Etymology 2
(etyl) , from riht, from the same ultimate source as Etymology 1, above.
Verb
(en verb)
To correct.
- Righting all the wrongs of the war will be impossible.
To set upright.
- The tow-truck righted what was left of the automobile.
To return to normal upright position.
- When the wind died down, the ship righted .
To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.
- to right the oppressed
* Shakespeare
- So just is God, to right the innocent.
* Jefferson
- All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Derived terms
* (l)
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Adverb
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Exactly, precisely.
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Very, extremely, quite.
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- The fog was right hard to see through so I was on Tom Pritchard before I saw him.
According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really.
In a correct manner.
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To a great extent or degree.
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Usage notes
In the US, the word “right” is used as an adverb meaning “very, quite” in most of the major dialect areas, including the Southern US, Appalachia, New England and the Midwest, though the usage is not part of standard US English.
Synonyms
* exactly, just, precisely, smack dab
Derived terms
* right smart
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