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Right Along

Definition: Right Along

Right Along

Adverb

1. All the time or over a period of time; "She had known all along"; "the hope had been there all along".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonym: Right Along

Synonym: all along (adv). (additional references)

Crosswords: Right Along

Specialty definitions using "right along": FLY. (references)

Modern Usage: Right Along

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You know, while you were playing that just now, I had the craziest fantasy that I could rise up and float right down the end of this coronet, right through here, through these vales, right along this tube, and right up against your lips and give you a kiss (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.)
Lyrics	There's one theme that we find right along. (Oedipus Rex; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)
Movie/TV Titles	Moving Right Along (1983)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Photo Album: Right Along

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Military and civilian personnel of the Supplies and Accounts office in the Main Navy or Munitions Buildings, circa 1918. According to Mrs. Elizabeth Wilkins, who was assigned to this office and examined this photograph circa the early 1980s, the location is the middle part of the 3rd Floor, 7th Wing. She identified the following people in the photo: Yeoman 1st Class (F) Martha Whitcomb (seated, lower right); Yeoman (F) Margaret Flambeau (standing by pillar, 5th from right along the windows, wearing white blouse & bow tie); and Yeoman (F) Alta Moore (seated, about halfway back in room, with dark hair, wearing blue coat with a dark collar). Credit: NAVY.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Non-Fiction Usage: Right Along

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	FLY-:SPECK:, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the systems of punctuation in use by the various literary nations depended originally upon the social habits and general diet of the flies infesting the several countries. These creatures, which have always been distinguished for a neighborly and companionable familiarity with authors, liberally or niggardly embellish the manuscripts in process of growth under the pen, according to their bodily habit, bringing out the sense of the work by a species of interpretation superior to, and independent of, the writer's powers. The "old masters" of literature -- that is to say, the early writers whose work is so esteemed by later scribes and critics in the same language -- never punctuated at all, but worked right along free-handed, without that abruption of the thought which comes from the use of points. (We observe the same thing in children to-day, whose usage in this particular is a striking and beautiful instance of the law that the infancy of individuals reproduces the methods and stages of development characterizing the infancy of races.) In the work of these primitive scribes all the punctuation is found, by the modern investigator with his optical instruments and chemical tests, to have been inserted by the writers' ingenious and serviceable collaborator, the common house-fly -- Musca maledicta. In transcribing these ancient MSS, for the purpose of either making the work their own or preserving what they naturally regard as divine revelations, later writers reverently and accurately copy whatever marks they find upon the papyrus or parchment, to the unspeakable enhancement of the lucidity of the thought and value of the work. Writers contemporary with the copyists naturally avail themselves of the obvious advantages of these marks in their own work, and with such assistance as the flies of their own household may be willing to grant, frequently rival and sometimes surpass the older compositions, in respect at least of punctuation, which is no small glory. Fully to understand the important services that flies perform to literature it is only necessary to lay a page of some popular novelist alongside a saucer of cream-and-molasses in a sunny room and observe "how the wit brightens and the style refines" in accurate proportion to the duration of exposure.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Modern Translation: Right Along

Language		Translations for "right along"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Romanian		tot timpul (all along, all the time), necontenit (all along, ceaseless, continual, never ending, permanent, unceasing, unchecked), mereu (again and again, all along, always, ceaselessly, constantly, continually, continuously, eternally, ever, ever after, invariably, permanently, still). (various references)

Russian		всегда (all along, always, ever, ever [], night and day, perennially), непрерывно (continuously, permanently, unceasingly, uninterruptedly). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Right Along

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-g-h-i-l-n-o-r-t"
	-2 letters: garoting, gloating, horntail, loathing, longhair, trigonal.
	-3 letters: alright, althorn, antilog, argling, gaoling, gigaton, glaring, goaling, grating, haloing, halting, inthral, lathing, orating, tholing.
	-4 letters: alight, aright, aroint, galiot, gating, giglot, gingal, gitano, gloria, goring, gratin, gringo, haling, haring, harlot, hating, holing, latigo, latino, liroth, loggia, oaring, ogling, onagri, origan, raging, rating, ration, ratlin, rhinal.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-g-h-i-l-n-o-r-t"
	+3 letters: lithographing, woolgathering.
	+4 letters: woolgatherings.
	+5 letters: orthogonalizing.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern

5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams

9. Bibliography

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