What's the difference between playwright and wright?

Playwright


Definition:

  • (n.) A maker or adapter of plays.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Limits are a relief, because they concentrate the drama and free the writer from the torture of choice, as Aristotle knew when he advised playwrights to preserve "the unities" by telling one story in one place over a single day.
  • (2) But it was also a portrait of an England charged with secrets - and, as Michael Billington put it, the work of an accomplished playwright who understood the English curse of 'emotional evasion.'
  • (3) In his articles, he took on the theatre establishment, blaming it for siding with the actors and not the playwright.
  • (4) Numbness sets in.” Philip Hope-Wallace on Look Back in Anger “I must be the only playwright this century to have been pursued up a London street by an angry mob … There was an inescapable tension in the house.
  • (5) Fine, Miranda (the playwright-lyricist-composer also sings, acts and dances the lead role of Alexander Hamilton, making him a ... let’s see, carry the one ... sextuple threat) will give you George Washington.
  • (6) Although such allegations have been made before in numerous news outlets, and in a controversial one-man show by playwright Mike Daisey, this time they have struck a chord.
  • (7) The barrister, playwright and author Sir John Mortimer , who has died aged 85, was a man for all the seasons that touched his Chilterns garden, where he lived as profusely as he wrote, in a spirit of unjudgmental generosity.
  • (8) He is joined by Jack Driscoll, the playwright who journeyed with Denham 25 years previously and was played by Adrien Brody in Jackson's film.
  • (9) A playwright and actor has launched legal action against British Airways and London City airport, alleging that they irreparably damaged her £25,000 wheelchair, made her daily life more difficult and caused problems for her business.
  • (10) (2) The central theme of "passion" in Equus would seem to relate to the vicissitudes of infantile omnipotence, as noted in both the content of the play and the process of playwrighting.
  • (11) Havel was a renowned playwright and essayist who, after the crushing of the Prague spring in 1968, was drawn increasingly into the political struggle against the Czechoslovakian communist dictatorship, which he called Absurdistan.
  • (12) When he died, [playwright] Patrick Marber said to me: we've got to use everything we learned."
  • (13) One man, a playwright, came in and gave a lesson on Harold Pinter.
  • (14) Indeed, then-leftwing writers such as John Dos Passos , John Howard Lawson and Mike Gold , who had their plays produced in Greenwich Village, were dubbed by the critic Alexander Woollcott “the revolting playwrights”.
  • (15) One rainy day last autumn the playwright and actor Patrick Marber went home to his wife and said: "I have some bad news."
  • (16) If you say, ‘This is Kate Tempest and she’s a poet-rapper-playwright,’ it sounds confusing and ridiculous and a bit naff.
  • (17) He was a keen visual artist, a storyteller, playwright, novelist, news reporter, radio DJ, a verse and prose writer and an enthusiastic walker.
  • (18) He has suggested that the Nobel laureate Dario Fo take Napolitano's place as head of state, a suggestion the playwright was quoted on Wednesday as dismissing as "an absurd but lovely" idea.
  • (19) · George Furth, playwright and actor; born December 14 1932; died August 11 2008
  • (20) But Havel, the playwright and the dissident, could not be silenced.

Wright


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Wright said he had recently shown a family moving from London around a four-bedroom house with a paddock, on sale for £375,000.
  • (2) Wright said that he was told the other two pages of documents were not provided because of freedom of information subsections concerning privacy, "sources and methods," and that can "put someone's life in danger."
  • (3) The publicity surrounding the Rotherham child exploitation scandal, which triggered the resignation of Shaun Wright, the previous PCC, did not translate into a high turnout, with only 14.65% of the electorate casting a vote.
  • (4) In Colchester, David Sherwood of Fenn Wright reported: "High tenant demand but increasingly tenants in rent arrears as the recession bites."
  • (5) The procedure for using the batch stainer with Wright's stain is outlined.
  • (6) The four members of the committee are all masters of wine, and the chairman is a retired diplomat, Sir David Wright.
  • (7) Previous experiments have shown that heparin inhibits induction of c-fos and c-myc protooncogene mRNA in rat VSMC stimulated by phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) but not when stimulated by epidermal growth factor (EGF) (Pukac, L. A., Castellot, J. J., Wright, T. C., Caleb, B. L., and Karnovsky, M. J.
  • (8) ‘It’s hard to understand why we have all had to go through this’ – Angelene Wright, 66, from Lincolnshire I’m a carer for my 64-year-old husband who is in the final stages of multiple sclerosis.
  • (9) We must open our hearts to one another and listen,” Wright, 31, said after the service.
  • (10) Wright, two new flavonoids (I, II) and six known flavonoids (III-VIII) were isolated.
  • (11) This is the scrubber that Comer paid for, Lackner conceived and Wright built.
  • (12) After spending a good five minutes sketching out the vast scale of the economic and social challenge facing the town, Wright is careful to stress that Hartlepool still has plenty to fuel its inherent optimism.
  • (13) The sugar tax was greeted with hostility by the industry and Wright argues that the levy, introduced by the chancellor in the budget , will be undermined by flawed analysis of its impact.
  • (14) We have previously shown that this defect is localized to the expression of terminal N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) glycoproteins in the plasma membrane (Elmer and Wright, '83).
  • (15) He said Watts was a “pleasant lady” but described Wright as a “cold fish Craig”.
  • (16) 34 min: England turn the screw, with Wright-Phillips and Ashley Cole combining beautifully down the left flank, before the full-back brings a crucial interception out of Ricardo Clark when he pulls the ball back into the penalty area from the touchline.
  • (17) Entopolypoides macaci (Babesiidae) was diagnosed on the basis of morphology from peripheral blood smears stained with Wright's stain.
  • (18) One of Inside Out's presenters, Matthew Wright, last week described the programme's proposed budget cut as "a joke" .
  • (19) A simple device for measuring ventilatory function, the airflowmeter, was found to be at least as sensitive as the Wright peak-flow meter in detecting histamine-induced bronchoconstriction in asthmatic patients.
  • (20) In that speech, Wright suggested that Manning was “overwhelmed” that the Sean MacBride award had recognized “her actions as actions for peace.” Yet the former soldier insists that she has never perceived her actions in transmitting more than 700,000 classified US classified documents to WikiLeaks in 2010-11 as an act for peace.