right-branching
右支线,右支管,右支路,右旋
Definitions
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Linguistics.
- : characterized by greater structural complexity in the position following the head, as the phrase the house of the friend of my brother; having most of the constituents on the right in a tree diagram.
Examples
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Everywhere I go, ‘Hey Cartman, you must like Family Guy, right?’
Charlie ridiculed my faith and culture and I died defending his right to do so.
Gay marriage was the hot-button fight on the left and right.
It is grandstanding for a right rarely protected unless under immediate attack.
What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?
Mrs. Wurzel was quite right; they had been supplied, regardless of cost, from Messrs. Rochet and Stole's well-known establishment.
She is quite true, but not wise, and your left hand must not know what your right hand is doing.
In Spain he was regarded as the right arm of the ultra-clericals and a possible supporter of Carlism.
The thought seemed to produce the dreaded object, for next moment a large hummock appeared right ahead.