What's the difference between right and truth?

Right


Definition:

  • (a.) Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line.
  • (a.) Upright; erect from a base; having an upright axis; not oblique; as, right ascension; a right pyramid or cone.
  • (a.) Conformed to the constitution of man and the will of God, or to justice and equity; not deviating from the true and just; according with truth and duty; just; true.
  • (a.) Fit; suitable; proper; correct; becoming; as, the right man in the right place; the right way from London to Oxford.
  • (a.) Characterized by reality or genuineness; real; actual; not spurious.
  • (a.) According with truth; passing a true judgment; conforming to fact or intent; not mistaken or wrong; not erroneous; correct; as, this is the right faith.
  • (a.) Most favorable or convenient; fortunate.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to that side of the body in man on which the muscular action is usually stronger than on the other side; -- opposed to left when used in reference to a part of the body; as, the right side, hand, arm. Also applied to the corresponding side of the lower animals.
  • (a.) Well placed, disposed, or adjusted; orderly; well regulated; correctly done.
  • (a.) Designed to be placed or worn outward; as, the right side of a piece of cloth.
  • (adv.) In a right manner.
  • (adv.) In a right or straight line; directly; hence; straightway; immediately; next; as, he stood right before me; it went right to the mark; he came right out; he followed right after the guide.
  • (adv.) Exactly; just.
  • (adv.) According to the law or will of God; conforming to the standard of truth and justice; righteously; as, to live right; to judge right.
  • (adv.) According to any rule of art; correctly.
  • (adv.) According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really; correctly; exactly; as, to tell a story right.
  • (adv.) In a great degree; very; wholly; unqualifiedly; extremely; highly; as, right humble; right noble; right valiant.
  • (a.) That which is right or correct.
  • (a.) The straight course; adherence to duty; obedience to lawful authority, divine or human; freedom from guilt, -- the opposite of moral wrong.
  • (a.) A true statement; freedom from error of falsehood; adherence to truth or fact.
  • (a.) A just judgment or action; that which is true or proper; justice; uprightness; integrity.
  • (a.) That to which one has a just claim.
  • (a.) That which one has a natural claim to exact.
  • (a.) That which one has a legal or social claim to do or to exact; legal power; authority; as, a sheriff has a right to arrest a criminal.
  • (a.) That which justly belongs to one; that which one has a claim to possess or own; the interest or share which anyone has in a piece of property; title; claim; interest; ownership.
  • (a.) Privilege or immunity granted by authority.
  • (a.) The right side; the side opposite to the left.
  • (a.) In some legislative bodies of Europe (as in France), those members collectively who are conservatives or monarchists. See Center, 5.
  • (a.) The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
  • (a.) To bring or restore to the proper or natural position; to set upright; to make right or straight (that which has been wrong or crooked); to correct.
  • (a.) To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of; as, to right the oppressed; to right one's self; also, to vindicate.
  • (v. i.) To recover the proper or natural condition or position; to become upright.
  • (v. i.) Hence, to regain an upright position, as a ship or boat, after careening.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The origin of the aorta and pulmonary artery from the right ventricle is a complicated and little studied congenital cardiac malformation.
  • (2) But everyone in a nation should have the equal right to sing or not sing.
  • (3) As players, we want what's right, and we feel like no one in his family should be able to own the team.” The NBA has also said that Shelly Sterling should not remain as owner.
  • (4) CT scan revealed a small calcified mass in the right maxillary sinus.
  • (5) low molecular weight dextran in the course of right heart catheterization.
  • (6) The article describes an unusual case with development of a right anterior mediastinal mass after bypass surgery with internal mammary artery grafts.
  • (7) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
  • (8) Joe, meanwhile, defends her right to say "negro" whenever she wants.
  • (9) Evaluation revealed tricuspid insufficiency, a massively dilated right internal jugular vein, and obstruction of the left internal jugular vein.
  • (10) He voiced support for refugees, trade unions, council housing, peace, international law and human rights.
  • (11) We report on a patient, with a CT-verified low density lesion in the right parietal area, who exhibited not only deficits in left conceptual space, but also in reading, writing, and the production of speech.
  • (12) Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography failed to demonstrate any bile ducts in the right postero-lateral segments of the liver, the "naked segment sign".
  • (13) The criticism over the downgrading of the leader of the Lords was led by Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, a former Scotland secretary, who is a respected figure on the right.
  • (14) In this paper, we report the cases of 4 male patients (mean age 32.7 yr) with right-ventricular dysplasia, that occurred in familial form.
  • (15) Whittingdale also defended the right of MPs to use privilege to speak out on public interest matters.
  • (16) An axillo-axillary bypass procedure was performed in a high-risk patient with innominate arterial stenosis who had repeated episodes of transient cerebral ischemia due to decreased blood flow through the right carotid artery and reversal of blood flow through the right vertebral artery.
  • (17) After 1 year, anesthesia was induced with chloralose and an electrode catheter placed at the right ventricular apex.
  • (18) Right orchiectomy and retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for embryonal carcinoma had been performed 5 years earlier.
  • (19) Our findings indicate that Turner girls have a functional brain disorder more often than the controls, particularly at the occipital and parietal areas and in those with hemispheric differences most often in the right hemisphere.
  • (20) The first patient, an 82-year-old woman, developed a WPW syndrome suggesting posterior right ventricular preexcitation, a pattern which persisted for four months until her death.

Truth


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or being true; as: -- (a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be.
  • (n.) Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like.
  • (n.) Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness.
  • (n.) The practice of speaking what is true; freedom from falsehood; veracity.
  • (n.) That which is true or certain concerning any matter or subject, or generally on all subjects; real state of things; fact; verity; reality.
  • (n.) A true thing; a verified fact; a true statement or proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the like; as, the great truths of morals.
  • (n.) Righteousness; true religion.
  • (v. t.) To assert as true; to declare.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unlike Milo, he appears to be – to some extent – convinced of the truth of what he’s saying.
  • (2) I believe that truth sets man free.” It was a curious stance for someone who spent many years undercover as a counter-espionage informant, a government propagandist, and unofficial asset of the Central Intelligence Agency.
  • (3) It is important for this commission to get to the truth of what happened and it's able to carry on without interference and disruption.
  • (4) Solzhenitsyn was acknowledged as a "truth-teller" and a witness to the cruelties of Stalinism of unusual power and eloquence.
  • (5) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
  • (6) The truth is that it doesn’t depend on me.” £17.5m is the amount it will take to prise him away from the Stadio Olimpico.
  • (7) It is a truth universally acknowledged that it takes fewer votes to elect a Labour than a Conservative government.
  • (8) The truth is, some of these attacks would be leveled against any Republican presidential contender.
  • (9) As Aesop reminds us at the end of the fable: “Nobody believes a liar, even when he’s telling the truth.” When leaders choose only the facts that suit them, people don’t stop believing in facts – they stop believing in leaders This distrust is both mutual and longstanding, prompting two clear trends in British electoral politics.
  • (10) Diego Garcia guards its secrets even as the truth on CIA torture emerges Read more The long-awaited decision – expected to cause enormous disappointment – follows more than 40 years of campaigning, court cases and calls for the UK to right a wrong committed by Harold Wilson’s Labour government.
  • (11) We demand to know the truth.” Earlier, a small group of relatives were removed by police after protesting outside the Malaysian embassy in Beijing.
  • (12) He is an academy product and truthfully we are, and me above all, happy to have him with us.
  • (13) But the truth is that too often, it’s nearly impossible to get the most basic facts about the food we buy for our families.” If the alterations are adopted, drinks companies, for example, would no longer be able to treat a 20oz bottle of soda as containing 2.5 servings of 8oz each for the purpose of labelling estimated calorie levels.
  • (14) I still think that it’s good we’re conducting air strikes – the truth is that we probably need more” in Iraq, Rubio said Wednesday.
  • (15) But, truth be told, Putin is also at a loss when he gets jeered.
  • (16) 9.11pm GMT Sen Barbara Mikulski of Maryland asks Brennan if she can count on him to "speak truth to power."
  • (17) And I believe that America holds within her the truth that regardless of race, religion, or station in life, all of us share common aspirations – to live in peace and security; to get an education and to work with dignity; to love our families, our communities, and our God.
  • (18) It’s impossible to automate fully the process of separating truth from falsehood, and it’s dubious to cede such control to for-profit media giants.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Our political leaders can’t bear to face the truth’: Camila Batmanghelidjh spoke to the Guardian’s Patrick Butler in July “So you can understand that I am taken aback by allegations which now present themselves, about which I knew nothing.” Kids Company, set up by the charismatic Batmanghelidjh in 1996, was known to have the firm support of David Cameron for its work on gang violence and disadvantaged children.
  • (20) Long before anyone had heard of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, she planned to make a low-budget documentary about oil and climate change.