wright

«wright» in Mova's school dictionary: an old word for a person who makes or builds things, used… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a wright — old, mostly in compound words); proper name (Wright)

meaning for a pupil

1) A wright is an old word for a person who makes or builds things, used now mostly at the end of words: playwright, shipwright, wheelwright. tree →

2) Wright is a common family name; the Wright brothers flew the first powered aeroplane. tree →

sense in the lessons

In English lessons a playwright is a person who writes plays (not «playwrite»). In history a wheelwright made wheels and a shipwright built ships. In history and science lessons the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, are famous for the first powered flight.

examples

• Shakespeare was a famous playwright. tree →
• The wheelwright made a new wheel for the cart. tree →
• A shipwright builds and repairs ships. tree →
• The Wright brothers built the first powered aeroplane. tree →
• Mrs Wright is our new teacher. tree →
• The playwright watched her play from the back row. tree →

note

Homophones: write, right, rite — all sound the same. In «playwright» the spelling is -wright, because it means a maker of plays, not a writer of them. As a family name it has a capital W.

In the corpora

• On 17 December 1903 the Wright brothers made the first powered, controlled flight in an aeroplane; it lasted 12 seconds.
• The Wright brothers made the first powered, controlled aeroplane flight on 17 December 1903.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «wright» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.