Talk:right angle

What is a bisect? We define it as an envelope with half a stamp on it. Widsith 17:52, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

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right angle

• Keep; set phrase, where right has several possible meanings. --EncycloPetey 03:11, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Maybe a set phrase, but let's not get into the other thing. If we include every phrase where components have more than one meaning, then we'll be defining black dog, just plain ornery, and justice hailed for years of service. —Michael Z. 2010-04-10 06:01 z

I didn't mean to imply cause; I simply noted two things about the term proposed for deletion. We've used this pair of rationales before, so I'm surprised you weren't familiar with them. In any case "black dog" is not a set phrase, so I don't see why you're tossing it into traffic. --EncycloPetey 06:33, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

• Keep. --Dan Polansky 10:05, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
  • Keep. Mglovesfun (talk) 10:10, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

• Weak keep. In current usage, a sentence like "that angle is right" is scarcely intelligible as meaning "that angle is a right angle". Indeed, google books:"angle is a right angle" gets many more hits, especially recent hits, than google books:"angle is right", . —Ruakh_TALK 14:42, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

• Weak keep per Ruakh. Note that prime number, which I nominated for deletion a while back and still think should be deleted (but it was kept) is not like this: "n is prime" is common. But "N is right" is not, in my experience.​—msh210℠ 22:27, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

See citations:right#Of an angle. —Michael Z. 2010-04-13 17:13 z

Since that definition of right has failed RFV, and also the consensus here, kept. Mglovesfun (talk) 09:21, 7 October 2010 (UTC)