"right-face" meaning in English

See right-face in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: right-faces [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} right-face (plural right-faces)
  1. Alternative form of right face Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: right face
    Sense id: en-right-face-en-noun-dizy5s73 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "right-faces",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "right-face (plural right-faces)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "right face"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Kent Anderson, Night Dogs, Random House, →ISBN:",
          "text": "He turned off the smile, did a right-face, and stepped away.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Annual Pictorial Magazine of the Flying Tigers of the 14th Air Force Association:",
          "text": "On inspection, fourteen pilots on the Tientsin race course executed a right-face and stepped off in file.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Penn State Teacher Two:",
          "text": "If, for example, we do an about-face (A) followed by a right-face (R), we end up where we would be if we just did a left-face (L), ...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Len Levinson, The Rat Bastards Book 10: Kill Crazy, PREMIER DIGITAL PUBLISHING, →ISBN:",
          "text": "His rifle was slung over his shoulder and he made a right-face at the corner, heading toward Shaw and Longtree.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico, My American Journey, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 70:",
          "text": "... Ronnie and I marched in smartly from a side entrance, came to a halt as we hit our mark, did a right-face, clicked our heels, and stood at attention as if we were in drill competition.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of right face"
      ],
      "id": "en-right-face-en-noun-dizy5s73",
      "links": [
        [
          "right face",
          "right face#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "right-face"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "right-faces",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "right-face (plural right-faces)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "right face"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Kent Anderson, Night Dogs, Random House, →ISBN:",
          "text": "He turned off the smile, did a right-face, and stepped away.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Annual Pictorial Magazine of the Flying Tigers of the 14th Air Force Association:",
          "text": "On inspection, fourteen pilots on the Tientsin race course executed a right-face and stepped off in file.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Penn State Teacher Two:",
          "text": "If, for example, we do an about-face (A) followed by a right-face (R), we end up where we would be if we just did a left-face (L), ...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Len Levinson, The Rat Bastards Book 10: Kill Crazy, PREMIER DIGITAL PUBLISHING, →ISBN:",
          "text": "His rifle was slung over his shoulder and he made a right-face at the corner, heading toward Shaw and Longtree.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico, My American Journey, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 70:",
          "text": "... Ronnie and I marched in smartly from a side entrance, came to a halt as we hit our mark, did a right-face, clicked our heels, and stood at attention as if we were in drill competition.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of right face"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "right face",
          "right face#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "right-face"
}

Download raw JSONL data for right-face meaning in English (1.8kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-09-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-09-20 using wiktextract (af5c55c and 66545a6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.