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An American surname; also a confused anglicization of the French le droit
A British occupational surname from a maker of machinery; found in many combinations such as Cartwright
A builder or creator of something
{n} a workman, an artificer in wood
{i} family name; male first name; city in Minnesota (USA); county in Iowa (USA); town in Wyoming (USA)
Scottish-born American reformer who lectured nationwide on women's rights, birth control, and public education and wrote Views of Society and Manners in America (1823). American architect whose distinctive style, based on natural forms, had a great influence on the modern movement in architecture. His designs include private homes, the Johnson Wax Company Building in Racine, Wisconsin (1939), and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City (1943-1959). American poet who won a Pulitzer Prize for his Collected Poems (1971). British lexicographer and philologist who is best known for The English Dialect Dictionary (1905). American golfer who had 82 career wins, including four U.S. Women's Open titles (1958, 1959, 1961, and 1964) and four Ladies Professional Golf Association Championship titles (1958, 1960, 1961, and 1963). American aviation pioneer who with his brother Wilbur (1867-1912) invented the airplane. On December 17, 1903, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, they made the first controlled, sustained flights in a powered heavier-than-air vehicle. American author whose writing explores the oppression suffered by African Americans. His works include the novel Native Son (1940) and the autobiography Black Boy (1945). One that constructs or repairs something. Often used in combination: a playwright; a shipwright. Forrester Jay Wright Mills Charles Wright Archibald Lee Wright Thomas Wright Waller Wright Frances Fanny Wright Wright Frank Lloyd Wright Mickey Mary Kathryn Wright Wright Richard Wright Sewall Wright Sir Almroth Edward Wright Wilbur and Wright Orville
an American surname; a confused anglicization of the French le droit
United States writer whose work is concerned with the oppression of African Americans (1908-1960)
United States writer of detective novels (1888-1939)
someone who makes or repairs something (usually used in combination) United States early feminist (born in Scotland) (1795-1852) influential United States architect (1869-1959) United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Wilbur Wright) invented the airplane (1871-1948) United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Orville Wright) invented the airplane (1867-1912) United States writer whose work is concerned with the oppression of African Americans (1908-1960) United States writer of detective novels (1888-1939)
"To give spell-binder Wright a job just on sightWas asking for trouble from the word go "
United States early feminist (born in Scotland) (1795-1852)
influential United States architect (1869-1959)
United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Wilbur Wright) invented the airplane (1871-1948)
{i} artisan, artist; one who does; one who creates
'supervision is a meeting between two or more people who have and declared interest in examining a piece of work'
One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp
someone who makes or repairs something, usually in combinations, as in: My grandfather was a shipwright and my grandson is a playwright
someone who makes or repairs something (usually used in combination)
a worker in wood; now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc
United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Orville Wright) invented the airplane (1867-1912)
Wright Brothers
two US brothers, Orville Wright (1871-1948) and Wilbur Wright (1867-1912), who built and flew the world's first plane in 1903, at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina
Wright Morris
{i} (1910-1998) American author and photographer
Wright brothers
American aeronautical engineers who built the first successful powered heavier-than-air aircraft in 1903
C Wright Mills
born Aug. 28, 1916, Waco, Texas, U.S. died March 20, 1962, Nyack, N.Y. U.S. sociologist. After studying at the University of Texas (B.A., M.A., 1939) and the University of Wisconsin (Ph.D., 1941), Mills joined the faculty of Columbia University; there he became associated with the theories of Max Weber and with issues regarding the role of intellectuals in modern life, and he contributed to the development of a critical sociology in the U.S. and abroad. Mills believed social scientists should shun "abstracted empiricism" and become activists on behalf of social change. His radical analysis of U.S. business and society appeared in White Collar (1951) and The Power Elite (1956); other works include The Causes of World War Three (1958) and The Sociological Imagination (1959). A colourful public figure, he wore black leather and rode a motorcycle. His death at 45 resulted from heart disease
Charles Wright Mills
born Aug. 28, 1916, Waco, Texas, U.S. died March 20, 1962, Nyack, N.Y. U.S. sociologist. After studying at the University of Texas (B.A., M.A., 1939) and the University of Wisconsin (Ph.D., 1941), Mills joined the faculty of Columbia University; there he became associated with the theories of Max Weber and with issues regarding the role of intellectuals in modern life, and he contributed to the development of a critical sociology in the U.S. and abroad. Mills believed social scientists should shun "abstracted empiricism" and become activists on behalf of social change. His radical analysis of U.S. business and society appeared in White Collar (1951) and The Power Elite (1956); other works include The Causes of World War Three (1958) and The Sociological Imagination (1959). A colourful public figure, he wore black leather and rode a motorcycle. His death at 45 resulted from heart disease
Frances Wright
known as Fanny Wright born Sept. 6, 1795, Dundee, Angus, Scot. died Dec. 13, 1852, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. Scottish-born American social reformer. After travels in the U.S., she published Views of Society and Manners in America (1821), which was widely read and praised. Returning to the U.S. in 1824, she bought and freed slaves and settled them at Nashoba, a socialist, interracial community she established in Tennessee (1825-28). She worked with Robert Dale Owen in New York (1829) and defied convention by lecturing widely, attacking slavery, religion, traditional marriage, and the unequal treatment of women. She was a co-leader of the Workingmen's Party. After marrying and living in France (1831-35), she returned to the U.S. and became a supporter of Andrew Jackson and the Democratic Party
Frank Lloyd Wright
{i} (1869-1959) major figure in architecture in the United States during the 20th century
Frank Lloyd Wright
a US architect who most people regard as the most important US architect of the 20th century. He is famous for his use of modern materials and methods, in buildings such as the Guggenheim Museum in New York (1869-1959). born June 8, 1867, Richland Center, Wis., U.S. died April 9, 1959, Phoenix, Ariz. U.S. architect. After studying engineering briefly at the University of Wisconsin, he worked for the firm of Dankmar Adler (1844-1900) and Louis Sullivan in Chicago before opening his own practice there in 1893. Wright became the chief practitioner of the Prairie school, building about 50 Prairie houses from 1900 to 1910. Early nonresidential buildings include the forward-looking Larkin Building in Buffalo, N.Y. (1904; destroyed 1950), and Unity Temple in Oak Park, Ill. (1906). In 1911 he began work on his own house, Taliesin, near Spring Green, Wis. The lavish Imperial Hotel in Tokyo (1915-22, dismantled 1967) was significant for its revolutionary floating cantilever construction, which made it one of the only large buildings to withstand the earthquake of 1923. In the 1930s he designed his low-cost Usonian houses, but his most admired house, Fallingwater, in Bear Run, Pa. (1936), is an extravagant country retreat cantilevered over a waterfall. His Johnson Wax Building (1936-39), an example of humane workplace design, touched off an avalanche of major commissions. Of particular note is the Guggenheim Museum (1956-59), which has no separate floor levels but instead uses a spiral ramp, realizing Wright's ideal of a continuous space. Throughout his career he retained the use of ornamental detail, earthy colours, and rich textural effects. His sensitive use of materials helped to control and perfect his dynamic expression of space, which opened a new era in American architecture. Often considered the greatest U.S. architect of all time, his greatest legacy is "organic architecture," or the idea that buildings harmonize both with their inhabitants and with their environment
Jay Wright Forrester
born July 14, 1918, Anselmo, Neb., U.S. U.S. electrical engineer and management expert. He taught and conducted research at MIT, where in 1945 he founded the Digital Computer Laboratory. There he invented the magnetic core random-access memory (RAM) used in digital computers for information storage. At MIT's Sloan School of Management (from 1956), he applied computer simulation to real-world relationships, such as the flow of materials in a factory, by feeding a series of interconnected equations to a computer
Mickey Wright
orig. Mary Kathryn Wright born Feb. 14, 1935, San Diego, Calif., U.S. U.S. golfer. Noted for her classic swing, her long drives, and her superior iron play, she won a record number of LPGA tournaments (82), including an unmatched 13 in one season (1963), and remains the only four-time winner of the LPGA Championship (1958, 1960, 1961, 1963). Twice named Woman Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press (1963, 1964), she has been called the greatest woman golfer of all time
Richard Wright
a black US writer of novels and a critic of American society and its treatment of black people. He is best known for Black Boy and Native Son (1908-1960). born Sept. 4, 1908, near Natchez, Miss., U.S. died Nov. 28, 1960, Paris, France U.S. novelist and short-story writer. Wright, whose grandparents had been slaves, grew up in poverty. After migrating north he joined the Federal Writers' Project in Chicago, then moved to New York City in 1937. He was a member of the Communist Party in the years 1932-44. He first came to wide attention with a volume of novellas, Uncle Tom's Children (1938). His novel Native Son (1940), though considered shocking and violent, became a best-seller. The fictionalized autobiography Black Boy (1945) vividly describes his often harsh childhood and youth. After World War II he settled in Paris. He is remembered as one of the first African American writers to protest white treatment of blacks
Sewall Wright
born Dec. 21, 1889, Melrose, Mass., U.S. died March 3, 1988, Madison, Wis. U.S. geneticist. He earned his doctorate at Harvard University. His earliest studies included investigation of the effects of inbreeding and crossbreeding on guinea pigs, animals he later used in studying the effects of gene action on coat and eye colour. With J.B.S. Haldane and R.A. Fisher, he developed a mathematical basis for modern evolutionary theory using statistical techniques. He originated a theory that could guide the use of inbreeding and crossbreeding in livestock improvement. He is perhaps best known for his concept of genetic drift
Sir Almroth Edward Wright
born Aug. 10, 1861, Middleton Tyas, Yorkshire, Eng. died April 30, 1947, Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire British bacteriologist and immunologist. While teaching at the Army Medical School in Netley (from 1892), he developed a typhoid immunization that used killed typhoid bacilli. It made Britain the only country with troops immunized against typhoid at the start of World War I, the first war in which fewer British soldiers died of infection than from trauma. He also developed vaccines against enteric tuberculosis and pneumonia. He was well known for advancing autogenous vaccines (vaccines prepared from a patient's own bacteria)
Wilbur; and Wright Orville Wright
born April 16, 1867, near Millville, Ind., U.S. died May 30, 1912, Dayton, Ohio born Aug. 19, 1871, Dayton, Ohio, U.S. died Jan. 30, 1948, Dayton U.S. inventors who achieved the first powered, sustained, and controlled airplane flight. The brothers first worked in printing-machinery design and later in bicycle manufacturing, which financed their early experiments in airplane design. To test flight control, essential to successful powered flight, they built and flew three biplane gliders (1900-02). Propeller and engine innovations led to their first powered airplane, which Orville flew successfully for 12 seconds and Wilbur later flew for 59 seconds at Kill Devil Hills, N.C. (near the village of Kitty Hawk), on Dec. 17, 1903. Their flyer of 1905 could turn, bank, circle, and remain airborne for over 35 minutes. They demonstrated their planes in Europe and the U.S.; in 1908 Wilbur gave over 100 exhibition flights in France, setting a duration record of 2 hours and 20 minutes. They established an aircraft company and produced planes for the U.S. Army. After Wilbur's death from typhoid, Orville sold his interest in the company, which later merged with the company of Glenn H. Curtiss
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plural of wright
wright

    Hyphenation

    Wright

    Turkish pronunciation

    rayt

    Pronunciation

    /ˈrīt/ /ˈraɪt/

    Etymology

    () Old English wyrhta. Cognate with English wrought.

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