rightwardadv.n.adj.

Brit.

/ˈrʌɪtwəd/, U.S.

/ˈraɪtwərd/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: right adj., -ward suffix.

Etymology: < right adj. + -ward suffix. Compare earlier leftward adv., and also leftward adj., rightwards adv., rightwards adj.

A. adv.

a. In the direction of the right-hand, towards the right.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > direction > specific directions > [adverb] > in sideways direction > to right and left > towards the right

righta1500

rightward1555

rightwards?1597

right-handed1841

dextrally1881

1555 L. Digges Prognostication Right Good Effect sig. Eiii^v So, orderly, rightward: in this circle for ever.

1733 J. Millner Compend. Jrnl. 300 Both Armies march'd from their several Decampments Rightward.

1886 W. R. Evans Rustic Walking Routes 1st Ser. 20 Where the lane bends rightward, you see before you a park-gate.

1889 Cornhill Mag. May 552 The face..looks rightward.

1922 Times 23 Jan. 14/4 They then bore rightward to Ruddybrook.

1949 S. Weintraub Price Theory ii. v. 120 If factor prices altered, all short period supply curves would move rightward.

2006 R. S. Gantner Branching Annihilating Random Walks ii. 35 The position of the dry frontier has moved rightward.

b. Towards the political right; in a conservative direction.

ΚΠ

1892 Horsham (Austral.) Times 15 Nov. The opportunity is given by the strong flow rightward of American public opinion.

1920 E. Paul & C. Paul Creative Revol. viii. 137 The bolshevik revolution occurred in November, 1917, and it has altered many outlooks, sending some rightward and some leftward.

1930 T. Frank Life & Lit. Rom. Republic vii. 207 It is probable that most of the property-owning knights had drifted rightward before the year was over... These men had been willing to support the Gracchan theory of popular sovereignty;..but when the more radical democrats began to talk [etc.].

1976 M. Kramer & S. Roberts I never wanted to be Vice-president of Anything! Epil. 376 Ford was dragging in the polls, Ronald Reagan was forcing the president ever rightward, and Nelson Rockefeller was trying desperately to hang on.

1992 New Republic 11 May 28/1 The party began to shift rightward and to break with the shibboleths of the left.

2011 Independent 17 Aug. (Viewspaper section) 5/4 Republicans have been driven ever rightward and Democrats leftward.

2. In the region to the right of a person or thing; on the right-hand side. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [adverb] > on the right

aright-half1340

righta1500

dexter1726

aright1796

rightward1801

the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > alongside [phrase] > on the right or left

leftward?c1475

on (also to) the (also my, your, etc.) left1594

rightward1801

1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. vi. 18 Rightward and leftward rise the rocks.

1912 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. (1913) 5 39 L and R indicate whether the standard was leftward or rightward of the variable.

1992 J. H. Flavell in H. Beilin & P. Pufall Piaget's Theory v. 110 Predicting the details of the observer's view, for example, correctly identifying which mountain would appear behind or rightward of another from the observer's perspective.

2004 E. Macaluso & J. Driver in C. Spence & J. Driver Crossmodal Space & Crossmodal Attention x. 258 In different blocks, participants fixated either leftward or rightward of the centrally placed right hand.

B. n.

The direction or region to the right (of something). Frequently to (the) rightward (of). Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > direction > specific directions > [phrase] > from the side > in direction of right side

to (the) rightward (of)1814

rightwards1902

1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision II. xi. 49 Along the bank to rightward come with us.

1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles vi. xxiv. 255 To rightward of the wild affray, The field shew'd fair and level way.

1872 S. Ferguson Congal ii. 25 All the seats were full, save two alone, The Monarch's, and the vacant chair to rightward of the throne.

1897 S. Ferguson Lays of Red Branch 103 To rightward of the great door in the midst A bench I saw.

1954 A. A. Roback Destiny & Motivation in Lang. ix. 204 After Ethiopia was forced to accept Christianity, the Semitic aspect was probably reduced, eg, by reversing the direction of writing from leftward to rightward.

2001 A. M. Smith Alhacen's Theory Visual Perception II. 633 From B the peg at L will be seen to the right of Q along a ray that lies to the rightward of visual axisBC.

C. adj.

1. Directed, tending, or moving towards the right. Also occasionally: situated on the right-hand side.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > direction > specific directions > [adjective] > having sideways direction > directed towards the right

right-handed1767

rightward1825

rightwards1917

1825 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 75/1 We relieved a section of the light division, which immediately took a rightward course.

1877 R. D. Joyce Deirdre 116 Young Ainli took the left: the rightward wing with hearts of fire heard Ardan's harness ring.

1885 F. W. H. Myers in Proc. Psychical Res. Jan. 59 A hypnotic subject who..has been accustomed to write with her left-hand in ordinary rightward script.

1921 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. 11 291 A downward vertical position ‘6 o'clock’, a rightward horizontal position ‘3 o'clock’, etc.

1937 Mech. World & Engin. Rec. 14 May 488/1 To show the effect of adopting the rightward technique a series of comparative experiments was carried out.

1972 Sci. Amer. July 86/3 Usually a reader sees a page of text and moves his eyes over it, ordinarily in a rightward and downward direction.

1997 H. van Riemsdijk in D. Beerman et al. Rightward Movement 4 He tries to show that the apparent rightward movement of arguments is derived by short movement of the direct object to agro and long movement of the verb and its other arguments around it.

2007 J. D. Wallis in S. Funahashi Representation & Brain xii. 296 They taught monkeys that two objects (A and B) instructed whether to make a leftward or rightward eye movement.

2. That tends or moves towards the political right.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [adjective] > right

illiberal1649

white?1740

right1794

conservative1802

centre-right1822

agricolous1825

hunkerish1857

right wing1857

rightward1887

rightist1894

rightwards1931

right-of-centre1937

establishmentarian1962

righty1970

neo-con1979

New Rightist1981

1887 Otago Daily Times (N.Z.) 25 Nov. 2/3 The result of this Rightward tendency of the President..has been that for some time past M. Grévy has abandoned the strictly constitutional position and fought hard to patch up difficulties between the different sections of the Left.

1920 New Statesman 30 Oct. 99/1 The Unions are at present busy making their machinery more thoroughly democratic, and the result is likely to be seen, not in a rightward but in a leftward shift.

1933 Week-end Rev. 29 July 106/1 The new Rightward swing of Hitlerism.

1941 ‘G. Orwell’ in Partisan Rev. July 319 The recent rightward swing means that we are being regimented by wealthy men and aristocrats rather than by representatives of the common people.

1954 V. R. Lorwin French Labor Movement viii. 138 The rightward trend of politics since 1947 further alarmed the unions.

1970 R. J. Lieber Brit. Politics & European Unity 167 Substantial pro-European feeling had existed within the [Labour] Party, but this sentiment waned with the rightward drift of those countries.

1993 Sat. Night (Toronto) July 16/3 His programme's appeal is limited by its radicalism and rightward slant.

2004 Politics Oct. 45/1 Any successful Tory leader today would be well advised to drop any trace of centrism in favour of a rightward shift.

Compounds

rightward welding n. welding that proceeds from left to right, if the blowpipe is held in the right hand and the welding rod horizontally in the left.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > welding > types of

butt welding1878

lead burning1886

arc welding1890

thermite process1905

thermite welding1906

resistance welding1908

spot welding1908

seam welding1917

fusion welding1918

projection welding1918

stud welding1918

metal arc welding1926

pressure welding1926

metallic arc welding1927

flash-butt welding1933

flash welding1933

stitch welding1934

rightward welding1936

block welding1943

submerged-arc welding1945

friction welding1946

T.I.G.1960

microwelding1962

1936 Proc. 12th Internat. Congr. Acetylene, Oxy-Acetylene Welding & Allied Industries 167/1 In rightward welding not only the welding pool itself, but also the brightly glowing parts of the weld seam in its immediate neighbourhood are protected by the reducing zone against the effects of the oxygen in the air.

1941 A. C. Davies Sci. & Pract. Welding iii. 146 Rightward welding..was introduced some years ago to compete with electric arc welding in the welding of plate over ³/ ₁₆ in. thick... In this method the weld progresses along the seam from left to right, the rod following the blowpipe.

2002 R. D. Treloar Plumbing: Heating & Gas Installations (ed. 2) i. 50 With the rightward welding technique, the welding progresses in the opposite direction, i.e. from left to right.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	rightward
释义	rightwardadv.n.adj. Brit. /ˈrʌɪtwəd/, U.S. /ˈraɪtwərd/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: right adj., -ward suffix. Etymology: < right adj. + -ward suffix. Compare earlier leftward adv., and also leftward adj., rightwards adv., rightwards adj. A. adv. 1. a. In the direction of the right-hand, towards the right. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > specific directions > [adverb] > in sideways direction > to right and left > towards the right righta1500 rightward1555 rightwards?1597 right-handed1841 dextrally1881 1555 L. Digges Prognostication Right Good Effect sig. Eiii^v So, orderly, rightward: in this circle for ever. 1733 J. Millner Compend. Jrnl. 300 Both Armies march'd from their several Decampments Rightward. 1886 W. R. Evans Rustic Walking Routes 1st Ser. 20 Where the lane bends rightward, you see before you a park-gate. 1889 Cornhill Mag. May 552 The face..looks rightward. 1922 Times 23 Jan. 14/4 They then bore rightward to Ruddybrook. 1949 S. Weintraub Price Theory ii. v. 120 If factor prices altered, all short period supply curves would move rightward. 2006 R. S. Gantner Branching Annihilating Random Walks ii. 35 The position of the dry frontier has moved rightward. b. Towards the political right; in a conservative direction. ΚΠ 1892 Horsham (Austral.) Times 15 Nov. The opportunity is given by the strong flow rightward of American public opinion. 1920 E. Paul & C. Paul Creative Revol. viii. 137 The bolshevik revolution occurred in November, 1917, and it has altered many outlooks, sending some rightward and some leftward. 1930 T. Frank Life & Lit. Rom. Republic vii. 207 It is probable that most of the property-owning knights had drifted rightward before the year was over... These men had been willing to support the Gracchan theory of popular sovereignty;..but when the more radical democrats began to talk [etc.]. 1976 M. Kramer & S. Roberts I never wanted to be Vice-president of Anything! Epil. 376 Ford was dragging in the polls, Ronald Reagan was forcing the president ever rightward, and Nelson Rockefeller was trying desperately to hang on. 1992 New Republic 11 May 28/1 The party began to shift rightward and to break with the shibboleths of the left. 2011 Independent 17 Aug. (Viewspaper section) 5/4 Republicans have been driven ever rightward and Democrats leftward. 2. In the region to the right of a person or thing; on the right-hand side. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [adverb] > on the right aright-half1340 righta1500 dexter1726 aright1796 rightward1801 the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > alongside [phrase] > on the right or left leftward?c1475 on (also to) the (also my, your, etc.) left1594 rightward1801 1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. vi. 18 Rightward and leftward rise the rocks. 1912 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. (1913) 5 39 L and R indicate whether the standard was leftward or rightward of the variable. 1992 J. H. Flavell in H. Beilin & P. Pufall Piaget's Theory v. 110 Predicting the details of the observer's view, for example, correctly identifying which mountain would appear behind or rightward of another from the observer's perspective. 2004 E. Macaluso & J. Driver in C. Spence & J. Driver Crossmodal Space & Crossmodal Attention x. 258 In different blocks, participants fixated either leftward or rightward of the centrally placed right hand. B. n. The direction or region to the right (of something). Frequently to (the) rightward (of). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > specific directions > [phrase] > from the side > in direction of right side to (the) rightward (of)1814 rightwards1902 1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision II. xi. 49 Along the bank to rightward come with us. 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles vi. xxiv. 255 To rightward of the wild affray, The field shew'd fair and level way. 1872 S. Ferguson Congal ii. 25 All the seats were full, save two alone, The Monarch's, and the vacant chair to rightward of the throne. 1897 S. Ferguson Lays of Red Branch 103 To rightward of the great door in the midst A bench I saw. 1954 A. A. Roback Destiny & Motivation in Lang. ix. 204 After Ethiopia was forced to accept Christianity, the Semitic aspect was probably reduced, eg, by reversing the direction of writing from leftward to rightward. 2001 A. M. Smith Alhacen's Theory Visual Perception II. 633 From B the peg at L will be seen to the right of Q along a ray that lies to the rightward of visual axisBC. C. adj. 1. Directed, tending, or moving towards the right. Also occasionally: situated on the right-hand side. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > specific directions > [adjective] > having sideways direction > directed towards the right right-handed1767 rightward1825 rightwards1917 1825 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 75/1 We relieved a section of the light division, which immediately took a rightward course. 1877 R. D. Joyce Deirdre 116 Young Ainli took the left: the rightward wing with hearts of fire heard Ardan's harness ring. 1885 F. W. H. Myers in Proc. Psychical Res. Jan. 59 A hypnotic subject who..has been accustomed to write with her left-hand in ordinary rightward script. 1921 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. 11 291 A downward vertical position ‘6 o'clock’, a rightward horizontal position ‘3 o'clock’, etc. 1937 Mech. World & Engin. Rec. 14 May 488/1 To show the effect of adopting the rightward technique a series of comparative experiments was carried out. 1972 Sci. Amer. July 86/3 Usually a reader sees a page of text and moves his eyes over it, ordinarily in a rightward and downward direction. 1997 H. van Riemsdijk in D. Beerman et al. Rightward Movement 4 He tries to show that the apparent rightward movement of arguments is derived by short movement of the direct object to agro and long movement of the verb and its other arguments around it. 2007 J. D. Wallis in S. Funahashi Representation & Brain xii. 296 They taught monkeys that two objects (A and B) instructed whether to make a leftward or rightward eye movement. 2. That tends or moves towards the political right. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [adjective] > right illiberal1649 white?1740 right1794 conservative1802 centre-right1822 agricolous1825 hunkerish1857 right wing1857 rightward1887 rightist1894 rightwards1931 right-of-centre1937 establishmentarian1962 righty1970 neo-con1979 New Rightist1981 1887 Otago Daily Times (N.Z.) 25 Nov. 2/3 The result of this Rightward tendency of the President..has been that for some time past M. Grévy has abandoned the strictly constitutional position and fought hard to patch up difficulties between the different sections of the Left. 1920 New Statesman 30 Oct. 99/1 The Unions are at present busy making their machinery more thoroughly democratic, and the result is likely to be seen, not in a rightward but in a leftward shift. 1933 Week-end Rev. 29 July 106/1 The new Rightward swing of Hitlerism. 1941 ‘G. Orwell’ in Partisan Rev. July 319 The recent rightward swing means that we are being regimented by wealthy men and aristocrats rather than by representatives of the common people. 1954 V. R. Lorwin French Labor Movement viii. 138 The rightward trend of politics since 1947 further alarmed the unions. 1970 R. J. Lieber Brit. Politics & European Unity 167 Substantial pro-European feeling had existed within the [Labour] Party, but this sentiment waned with the rightward drift of those countries. 1993 Sat. Night (Toronto) July 16/3 His programme's appeal is limited by its radicalism and rightward slant. 2004 Politics Oct. 45/1 Any successful Tory leader today would be well advised to drop any trace of centrism in favour of a rightward shift. Compounds rightward welding n. welding that proceeds from left to right, if the blowpipe is held in the right hand and the welding rod horizontally in the left. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > welding > types of butt welding1878 lead burning1886 arc welding1890 thermite process1905 thermite welding1906 resistance welding1908 spot welding1908 seam welding1917 fusion welding1918 projection welding1918 stud welding1918 metal arc welding1926 pressure welding1926 metallic arc welding1927 flash-butt welding1933 flash welding1933 stitch welding1934 rightward welding1936 block welding1943 submerged-arc welding1945 friction welding1946 T.I.G.1960 microwelding1962 1936 Proc. 12th Internat. Congr. Acetylene, Oxy-Acetylene Welding & Allied Industries 167/1 In rightward welding not only the welding pool itself, but also the brightly glowing parts of the weld seam in its immediate neighbourhood are protected by the reducing zone against the effects of the oxygen in the air. 1941 A. C. Davies Sci. & Pract. Welding iii. 146 Rightward welding..was introduced some years ago to compete with electric arc welding in the welding of plate over ³/ ₁₆ in. thick... In this method the weld progresses along the seam from left to right, the rod following the blowpipe. 2002 R. D. Treloar Plumbing: Heating & Gas Installations (ed. 2) i. 50 With the rightward welding technique, the welding progresses in the opposite direction, i.e. from left to right. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adv.n.adj.1555
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