Right vs Near - What's the difference?
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(archaic) Straight, not bent.
Of an angle, having a size of 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between two perpendicular lines.
Complying with justice, correctness or reason; correct, just, true.
* (John Locke)
* Bishop Joseph Hall
Appropriate, perfectly suitable; fit for purpose.
Healthy, sane, competent.
Real; veritable.
* Milton
(Australia) All right; not requiring assistance.
* 1986 David Williamson, "What If You Died Tomorrow," Collected plays , Volume 1, Currency Press, p310
* 2001 Catherine Menagé, Access to English, National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research, NSW: Sydney, p25
* 2001 Morris Gleitzman, Two weeks with the Queen, Pan Macmillan Australia, p75
(dated) Most favourable or convenient; fortunate.
* Spectator
Designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north. This arrow points to the right: ?
Designed to be placed or worn outward.
(politics) Pertaining to the political right; conservative.
On the right side.
Towards the right side.
Yes, that is correct; I agree.
I agree with whatever you say; I have no opinion.
(non-gloss definition).
(Used to check agreement at the end of an utterance).
* 1987 , :
That which complies with justice, law or reason.
A legal or moral entitlement.
* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
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, passage=Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house?; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something?; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.}}
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Schumpeter
, title= The right side or direction.
(politics) The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.
The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
To correct.
To set upright.
To return to normal upright position.
To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.
* Shakespeare
* Jefferson
Exactly, precisely.
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According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really.
In a correct manner.
To a great extent or degree.
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, title= Physically close.
* Dryden
Closely connected or related.
* Bible, Leviticus xviii. 12
Close to one's interests, affection, etc.; intimate; dear.
Close to anything followed or imitated; not free, loose, or rambling.
So as barely to avoid or pass injury or loss; close; narrow.
(of an event) Approaching.
Approximate, almost.
(dated) Next to the driver, when he is on foot; (US) on the left of an animal or a team.
(obsolete) Immediate; direct; close; short.
* Milton
(obsolete, slang) Stingy; parsimonious.
Having a small intervening distance with regard to something.
(colloquial) nearly
* 1666 Samuel Pepys Diary and Correspondence (1867)
* 1825 David Hume, Tobias George Smollett The History of England p. 263
* 2003 Owen Parry Honor's Kingdom p. 365
* 2004 Jimmy Buffett A Salty Piece of Land p. 315, p. 35
* 2006 Juliet Marillier The Dark Mirror p. 377
Close to, in close proximity to.
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In lang=en terms the difference between right and near
is that right is most favourable or convenient; fortunate while near is next to the driver, when he is on foot; on the left of an animal or a team.As adjectives the difference between right and near
is that right is straight, not bent while near is physically close.As adverbs the difference between right and near
is that right is on the right side while near is having a small intervening distance with regard to something.As nouns the difference between right and near
is that right is that which complies with justice, law or reason while near is the left side of a horse or of a team of horses pulling a carriage etc.As verbs the difference between right and near
is that right is to correct while near is to come closer to; to approach.As an interjection right
is yes, that is correct; I agree.As a preposition near is
close to, in close proximity to.right
English
(re-split by etym)Alternative forms
* (informal)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- a right line
- The kitchen counter formed a right angle with the back wall.
- 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.
- If there be no prospect beyond the grave, the inference is right , "Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die."
- there are some dispositions blame-worthy in men, which are yet, in a right sense, holily ascribed unto God; as unchangeableness, and irrepentance.
- Is this the right software for my computer?
- I'm afraid my father is no longer in his right mind.
- You've made a right mess of the kitchen!
- In this battle, the Britons never more plainly manifested themselves to be right barbarians.
- KIRSTY: I suppose you're hungry. Would you like something to eat? / KEN: No. I'm right , thanks.
- 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.
- 'You lost?' / Colin spun round. Looking at him was a nurse, her eyebrows raised. / 'No, I'm right , thanks,' said Colin.'
- The lady has been disappointed on the right side.
- After the accident, her right leg was slighly shorter than her left.
- the right side of a piece of cloth
Synonyms
* (correctness) correct, just * dexter, dextral, right-hand * (politics) conservative, right-wing * (as a tag question) seeAntonyms
* (straightness) bowed, crooked, curved * (correctness) wrong * leftDerived 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 rightAdverb
(-)Interjection
(en interjection)- - After that interview, I don't think we should hire her.
- Right — who wants lunch?
- You're going, right ?
- Withnail: Right ... I'm gonna do the washing up.
Derived terms
* yeah rightNoun
(wikipedia right) (en noun)- There are no rights whatever, without corresponding duties.
“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/19/2
Cronies and capitols, passage=Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.}}
Synonyms
* (right side) starboard,Antonyms
* (legal or moral entitlement) duty, obligationDerived 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 rightEtymology 2
(etyl) , from riht, from the same ultimate source as Etymology 1, above.Verb
(en verb)- Righting all the wrongs of the war will be impossible.
- The tow-truck righted what was left of the automobile.
- When the wind died down, the ship righted .
- to right the oppressed
- So just is God, to right the innocent.
- 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) * (l) * (l) * (l)Adverb
(-)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.}}
- The fog was right hard to see through so I was on Tom Pritchard before I saw him.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=He b'iled right over, and the tongue-lashing he give that boss Right Liver beat anything I ever listened to. There was heap of Scriptur' language in it, and more brimstone than you'd find in a match factory.}}
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.Quotations
* (English Citations of "right")Synonyms
* exactly, just, precisely, smack dabDerived terms
* right smartStatistics
*near
English
Synonyms
* near sideAntonyms
* off sideSee also
* nearsideAdjective
(er)- He served great Hector, and was ever near , / Not with his trumpet only, but his spear.
- She is thy father's near kinswoman.
- a near friend
- a version near to the original
- a near escape
- The end is near .
- The two words are near synonyms.
- the near''' ox; the '''near leg
- the nearest way
Antonyms
* remoteDerived terms
* near abroad * near-death experience * near-Earth object * Near East * near infrared * near-minimal pair * near miss * near the knuckle * nearly * nearnessAdverb
(er)- I'm near -sighted.
- ...he hears for certain that the Queen-Mother is about and hath near finished a peace with France....
- Sir John Friend had very near completed a regiment of horse.
- Thinking about those pounds and pence, I near forgot my wound.
- "I damn near forgot." He pulled an envelope from his jacket.
- The fire was almost dead, the chamber near dark.
Derived terms
* nearsightedPreposition
(English prepositions)- He entered the inn, and asking for dinner, unbuckled his wallet, and sat down to rest himself near the door.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.}}
- It shied, balked, and whinnied, and in the end he could do nothing but drive it into the yard while the men used their own strength to get the heavy wagon near enough the hayloft for convenient pitching.
John Vidal
Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas, passage=Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.}}
Usage notes
Joan Maling (1983) shows that near'' is best analysed as an adjective with which the use of ''to'' is optional, rather than a preposition. It has the comparative and the superlative, and it can be followed by ''enough''. The use of ''to however is usually British.Antonyms
* far fromSee also
* (wikipedia) * para- * nighReferences
* Joan Maling (1983),Transitive Adjectives: A Case of Categorial Reanalysis'', in F. Henry and B. Richards (eds.), ''Linguistic Categories: Auxiliaries and Related Puzzles , vol.1, pp. 253-289.