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Wright

noun
1.
United States writer of detective novels (1888-1939).  Synonyms: S. S. Van Dine, Willard Huntington Wright.
2.
United States writer whose work is concerned with the oppression of African Americans (1908-1960).  Synonym: Richard Wright.
3.
United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Orville Wright) invented the airplane (1867-1912).  Synonym: Wilbur Wright.
4.
United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Wilbur Wright) invented the airplane (1871-1948).  Synonym: Orville Wright.
5.
Influential United States architect (1869-1959).  Synonym: Frank Lloyd Wright.
6.
United States early feminist (born in Scotland) (1795-1852).  Synonyms: Fanny Wright, Frances Wright.
7.
Someone who makes or repairs something (usually used in combination).



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"Wright" Quotes from Famous Books



... fables are from Fables of La Fontaine, translated by Elizur Wright, Jr. (Worthington Company, New York, 1889). The French writer's fables, though usually not original in content, are clever and keen and shrewd, and this translation represents faithfully their thought ...
— Types of Children's Literature • Edited by Walter Barnes
... A Handbook of Froebel's Method of Education, Gifts, and Occupations. With Introduction, etc., by Baroness B. von Marenholtz-Buelow. Translated by William Wright. ...
— Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel • Friedrich Froebel
... {display hack} dating back to the PDP-1 (ca. 1962, reportedly discovered by Jackson Wright), which employs a trivial computation (repeatedly plotting the graph Y X XOR T for successive values of T — see {HAKMEM} items 146—148) to produce an impressive display of moving and growing squares that devour the screen. The initial value of T is treated ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0
... run fifteen blocks and attacked Samuel J. Harnden, a deputy county collector, before T. W. Wright, a policeman, ended the chase by sending a bullet ...
— Owen Clancy's Happy Trail - or, The Motor Wizard in California • Burt L. Standish
... tenth volume of "Archives" are now before me to show) the same derided scribe was seriously announced as "about to be raised to the peerage" all over England and America: see two available and respectable proofs in the British Controversialist (Houlston & Wright) for July 1863, p. 79,—and Bryant's Evening Post for September 17, 1863. I name these, as the reverse of comic papers,—and publishing what they supposed true, as in fact was told me by the editors when inquired of. At the time I repudiated the false rumour openly;—with all the greater ...
— My Life as an Author • Martin Farquhar Tupper


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