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单词 bill of rights
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bill1 /bil/

noun
  1. A written account of money owed
  2. A draft of a proposed law
  3. A bill of exchange, a promissory note
  4. A banknote (N American)
  5. A poster advertising an event, product, etc (often as a combining form, as in playbill, handbill)
  6. A slip of paper serving as an advertisement
  7. A list of performers, etc in order of importance
  8. A programme of entertainment
  9. Any written statement of particulars
  10. A written accusation of serious crime (Eng law)
transitive verb
  1. To give or send a request for payment to
  2. To announce or advertise
  3. To enter (items) on a statement (obsolete)
ORIGIN: LL billa, from L bulla a knob, a seal, hence a document bearing a seal, etc; cf bull3

billed /bild/ adjective

Named in a list or advertisement

billˈing noun

  1. The making out or sending of bills or invoices
  2. The (total amount of) money received from customers or clients
  3. Advertising by poster
  4. Precedence of naming in an announcement or poster, eg top billing, second billing, etc

billˈboard noun (chiefly N American)

A board on which large advertising posters are stuck, a hoarding

billˈbook noun

A book used in commerce in which an entry is made of all bills accepted and received

billˈ-broker noun

A person who deals in bills of exchange and promissory notes

billˈ-chamber noun

(until 1933) a department of the Scottish Court of Session dealing with summary business

billˈ-discounter noun

A person who discounts or advances the amount of bills of exchange and notes which have some time to run

billˈfold noun (N American)

A soft case or wallet for paper money

billˈhead noun

A form used for business accounts, with name and address printed at the top

billˈposter or billˈsticker noun

A person who sticks up bills or posters

bill of adventure

A document produced by a merchant stating that goods shipped by him or her, and in his or her name, are the property of another, whose adventure or chance the transaction is

bill of costs

An account of a solicitor's charges and outgoings in the conduct of the client's business

bill of exceptions

A statement of objections by way of appeal against the ruling or direction of a judge

bill of exchange

  1. A document promising payment of a certain sum on a certain date by one party or another
  2. A document employed by the parties to a business transaction whereby payment is made through a mutually convenient third party, thereby avoiding the cost and complications of foreign exchange

bill of fare

A list of dishes or articles of food, a menu

bill of health

An official certificate of the state of health on board ship before sailing

bill of indictment

A statement of a charge made against a person

bill of lading

A document signed by a ship's owner, master or the owner's agent, stating that specified goods have been shipped or received for shipment, and specifying the terms and conditions under which they are being transported

bill of mortality (historical)

An official return of births and deaths in the London area (hence within the bills of mortality within the London district for which such returns were made)

bill of quantities (building, civil eng)

A list of items giving the quantities of material and brief descriptions of work comprised in an engineering or building works contract

bill of rights see under right1

bill of sale (Eng law)

A formal deed transferring the ownership (but not the possession) of goods

bill of sight

Permission to land imported goods of which the merchant does not know the quantity or the quality

bill of store

A licence from the customs authorities to reimport British goods formerly exported

bill of victualling

A victualling-bill (qv under victual)

clean bill of health

  1. A certificate stating that there is no illness on board a ship
  2. A statement that a person is healthy
  3. A statement that an organization, etc is in a good condition

double (or triple) bill

A programme of entertainment consisting of two (or three) main items, esp films

fill (or fit) the bill

To be adequate

top the bill

To head the list of performers, be the star attraction

right1 /rīt/

adjective
  1. Straight
  2. Direct
  3. Perpendicular
  4. Forming one-fourth of a revolution
  5. With axis perpendicular to base
  6. True
  7. Genuine
  8. Veritable
  9. Characteristic
  10. Truly judged or judging
  11. Appropriate
  12. In accordance, or identical, with what is true and fitting
  13. Not mistaken
  14. Accurate
  15. Fit
  16. Sound
  17. Intended to be exposed (such as a side, eg of cloth)
  18. Morally justifiable or incumbent
  19. Just
  20. In accordance with what should be
  21. Equitable
  22. Justly to be preferred or commended
  23. On, for, or belonging to that side or part of the body, etc which in man has normally the stronger and more skilful hand, opp to left
  24. On that side from the point of view of a person looking downstream, a soldier looking at the enemy, a president looking at an assembly, an actor looking at the audience
  25. On the east side from the point of view of a person looking north
  26. Sitting at the president's right hand (in Continental assemblies)
  27. Hence, conservative or inclined towards conservatism, right-wing
adverb
  1. Straight
  2. Straightway
  3. Quite
  4. Completely, absolutely
  5. Just, exactly
  6. In a right manner
  7. Justly
  8. Correctly
  9. Very (archaic and dialect or in special phrases)
  10. On or towards the right side
noun
  1. That which is right or correct
  2. Rightness
  3. Fair treatment
  4. Equity
  5. Truth
  6. Justice
  7. Just or legal claim
  8. What one has a just claim to
  9. Due
  10. (in pl) a stag's brow, bez and trez antlers (archaic)
  11. Territory (Spenser)
  12. The right hand
  13. The right side
  14. A glove, shoe, etc for the right hand, foot, etc
  15. A punch with the right hand
  16. The region on the right side
  17. A right turn
  18. The right wing
  19. The conservatives
transitive verb
  1. To set right
  2. To set in order
  3. To rectify
  4. To redress
  5. To vindicate
  6. To do justice to
  7. To avenge
  8. To set right side up or erect
intransitive verb

To recover an erect position

interjection

Expressing agreement, acquiescence or readiness

ORIGIN: OE riht (noun and adj), rihte (adv), rihten (verb); cf Ger recht and L rēctus straight, right

rightˈable adjective

Capable of being righted

rightˈen transitive verb (archaic)

To set right

rightˈer noun

A person who sets right or redresses wrong

rightˈful adjective

  1. Having a just claim
  2. According to justice
  3. Belonging by right

rightˈfully adverb

rightˈfulness noun

  1. Righteousness
  2. Justice

rightˈing noun

rightˈish adjective

rightˈism noun

rightˈist adjective and noun

(an adherent) of the political right

rightˈless adjective (Scot)

Without rights

rightˈly adverb

rightˈness noun

rightoˈ or right-ohˈ interjection (informal)

Expressing acquiescence

rightˈward adjective and adverb

  1. Towards the right
  2. On the right side
  3. More right-wing
noun (rare)

The region on the right side

rightˈwardly or rightˈwards adverb

right about noun

The directly opposite quarter (in drill or dismissal; also right about face)

adverb

In the opposite direction

intransitive verb

To turn to face the opposite direction

rightˈ-and-leftˈ adjective

  1. Having a right and a left side, part, etc
  2. Bilaterally symmetrical
  3. On both sides
  4. From both barrels

noun

A shot or a blow from each barrel or hand

adverb

  1. On both sides
  2. On all hands
  3. Towards one side, then the other
  4. In all directions

right-angˈled adjective

Having a right angle, one equal to a fourth of a revolution

right ascension see under ascend

rightˈ-bank adjective

On the right bank

rightˈ-click intransitive verb

To press and release the right-hand button on a computer mouse

noun

An act of doing this

right-downˈ adjective and adverb

Out-and-out

rightˈ-drawn adjective (Shakespeare)

Drawn in a just cause

rightˈ-field noun

In baseball, the area in the outfield to the right facing from the plate

rightˈ-footˈed adjective

  1. Performed with the right foot
  2. Having more skill or strength in the right foot

rightˈ-hand adjective

  1. On the right side
  2. Towards the right
  3. Performed with the right hand
  4. With thread or strands turning to the right
  5. Chiefly relied on (as one's right-hand man)

right-hand drive noun

  1. A driving mechanism on the right side of a vehicle which is intended to be driven on the left-hand side of the road
  2. A vehicle with a driving mechanism of this type

right-handˈed adjective

  1. Using the right hand more easily than the left
  2. With or for the right hand
  3. With rotation towards the right, or clockwise

adverb

In the manner of a right-handed person

right-handˈedly adverb

right-handˈedness noun

right-handˈer noun

  1. A blow with the right hand
  2. A right-handed person

right-hand man see right-hand above.

Right Honourable noun and adjective

A title of distinction given to peers below the rank of marquis, to privy councillors, to present and past cabinet ministers, to certain Lord Mayors and Lord Provosts, etc

rightˈ-lined adjective

Rectilinear

right-mindˈed adjective

  1. Having a mind disposed towards what is right, just or according to good sense
  2. Sane

right-mindˈedness noun

rightˈ-of-cenˈtre adjective

Inclining slightly towards the more conservative policies of a group, party or political system

right of search see under search1

right-of-wayˈ noun (pl rightˈ-of-waysˈ or rightsˈ-of-wayˈ)

  1. A track over which there is a right of way (see below)
  2. The strip of land occupied by a railway track, a road, etc (US)

right-onˈ adjective

  1. Absolutely correct
  2. Trendy, belonging to or in keeping with the latest social, moral, political, etc ideas or fashions

Right Reverend noun and adjective see under revere

rights issue noun (commerce)

An issue of new shares which shareholders of a company may buy, usu below the market price, in proportion to their current holdings

rightˈsize transitive verb (euphemistic)

To adapt (an organization, etc) to an appropriate size, esp by means of redundancies

rightˈ-thinking adjective

  1. Of approved opinions
  2. Right-minded

right-to-lifeˈ adjective (esp N American)

Same as pro-life (see under pro-1)

right-to-lifˈer noun (esp N American)

Same as pro-lifer (see under pro-1)

right triangle noun (N American)

A right-angled triangle

right whale noun

A whale of the genus Balaena or Eubalaena, esp the Greenland whale

right wing noun

  1. The political right
  2. The wing on the right side of an army, football pitch, etc

rightˈ-wing adjective

  1. Of or on the right wing
  2. Relating to the political right
  3. (having opinions which are) conservative, opposed to socialism, etc

rightˈ-wingˈer noun

  1. A player on the right wing
  2. A person with right-wing views or who supports the right wing of a party, etc

all right see under all

a right one (informal)

A foolish or eccentric person

at right angles

Forming or in such a way as to form a right angle

bill of rights

(often with caps) an accepted statement of the rights and privileges of the people or of individuals, which the government or state must not infringe (eg that embodied in the Bill of Rights, 1689, or in the US Constitution)

by rights or (formerly right)

  1. Rightfully
  2. If all were right

civil rights see under civil

do someone right or do right by someone

  1. To do someone justice
  2. To keep pace with someone in drinking
  3. To drink someone's health

have a right (or no right)

  1. To be entitled (or not entitled)
  2. To be under a moral obligation (or no obligation) (non-standard or dialect)

have right (archaic)

To be right

in one's own right

  1. By absolute and personal right, not through another
  2. By one's own abilities, etc, not through connection with another

in one's right mind

Quite sane

in right of

  1. By virtue of
  2. By title vested in

in the right

  1. Right
  2. Maintaining a justifiable position

put or set to rights

  1. To set in order
  2. To correct

right as a trivet see under trivet

right as rain see under rain1

right away

  1. Straightaway, immediately
  2. Without delay

right down or right enough

Plainly

right, left and centre same as left, right and centre (see under left1).

right of common (law)

A right to take something from, or pasture animals on, the land of another

right of entry

A legal right to enter a place

right off

Without delay

right of way

The right of the public to pass over a piece of ground (see also right-of-way above)

right on (US)

An exclamation expressing enthusiastic agreement or approval (see also right-on above)

right out (Shakespeare)

Outright

right the helm

To put it amidships, in a line with the keel

send, etc to the right about (informal)

To dismiss summarily, or force to retreat

she'll be right (Aust)

An expression of assurance or confidence
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