Word Meanings - WRIGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc. He was a well good wright, a carpenter.

Additional info about word: WRIGHT

One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc. He was a well good wright, a carpenter. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to WRIGHT)

• MECHANICS
  That science, or branch of applied mathematics, which treats of the action of forces on bodies. Note: That part of mechanics which considers the action of forces in producing rest or equilibrium is called statics; that which relates to such action
• MECHANICIAN
  One skilled in the theory or construction of machines; a machinist. Boyle.
• ARTIFICER
  A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• WORKMANSHIP
  1. The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of making anything. Due reward For her praiseworthy workmanship to yield. Spenser. Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown . . . Where most may wonder at the workmanship. Milton. 2. That
• WRIGHT
  One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc. He was a well good wright, a carpenter.
• CARPENTER
  An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc. Syn. -- Carpenter, Joiner. The carpenter frames and puts together roofs, partitions, floors, and other structural parts of a building. The joiner Supplies stairs, doors
• MILLWRIGHT
  A mechanic whose occupation is to build mills, or to set up their machinery.
• WHEELWRIGHT
  A man whose occupation is to make or repair wheels and wheeled vehicles, as carts, wagons, and the like.
• ENGAGING
  Tending to draw the attention or affections; attractive; as, engaging manners or address. -- En*ga"ging*ly, adv. -- En*ga"ging*ness, n. Engaging and disengaging gear or machinery, that in which, or by means of which, one part is alternately brought
• ENGAGEDNESS
  The state of being deeply interested; earnestness; zeal.
• BUSINESSLIKE
  In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
• MECHANICAL
  1. Pertaining to, governed by, or in accordance with, mechanics, or the laws of motion; pertaining to the quantitative relations of force and matter, as distinguished from mental, vital, chemical, etc.; as, mechanical principles; a mechanical
• MANUFACTURE
  1. The operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery, or by other agency. 2. Anything made from raw materials by the hand, by machinery, or by art, as cloths, iron utensils, shoes, machinery, saddlery, etc.
• WORKMAN
  1. A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures; a worker. 2. Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer.
• MANUFACTURER
  One who manufactures.
• WORKMANLY
  Becoming a skillful workman; skillful; well performed; workmanlike.
• ENGAGER
  One who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety. Several sufficient citizens were engagers. Wood.
• MECHANICALLY
  In a mechanical manner.
• WORKMANLIKE
  Becoming a workman, especially a skillful one; skillful; well performed.
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
• TELEMECHANIC
  Designating, or pert. to, any device for operating mechanisms at a distance. --Tel`e*mech"a*nism , n.
• GREENGAGE
  A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage.
• WAINWRIGHT
  See WAGONWRIGHT
• DISENGAGING
  Loosing; setting free; detaching. Disengaging machinery. See under Engaging.
• PREENGAGEMENT
  Prior engagement, obligation, or attachment, as by contract, promise, or affection. My preëngagements to other themes were not unknown to those for whom I was to write. Boyle.
• PLOWWRIGHT; PLOUGHWRIGHT
  One who makes or repairs plows.
• HOUSEWRIGHT
  A builder of houses.
• AEROMECHANIC
  A mechanic or mechanician expert in the art and practice of aëronautics.