Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A right-hand page of a book or the front side of a leaf, on the other side of the verso.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In composition, rectal; of the rectum.
- noun In law, a writ of right, now abolished.
- noun In printing, the right-hand page of an open book: opposed to the left-hand, reverso or verso.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) A writ of right.
- noun (Print.) The right-hand page; -- opposed to
verso .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The front side of a flat object which is to be examined visually, as for reading, such as a sheet or a leaf or a
coin or amedal . - noun Therefore, (
printing ) theright-hand page of abook of a script which reads from left to right, usually having an odd page number.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun right-hand page
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The recto is the "front" side, that is the side that is on the right side of the book when it is opened.
Archive 2008-07-01 Dafydd 2008
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The recto is the "front" side, that is the side that is on the right side of the book when it is opened.
Durham Cathedral Library, MS A II 10 Dafydd 2008
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For those not familiar with the terms "recto" and "verso", some confusion might arise.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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For those not familiar with the terms "recto" and "verso", some confusion might arise.
Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: Pages from the Past 2008
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Althouse: You know your favourite comment--It was Palladian riffing on Verso saying something about his 'recto' being covered.
A vlog for the day after New Year's, the day before the Iowa caucuses. Ann Althouse 2008
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While I am happy to see the more Americans seeing the light, I want to know id the remaining 41% need some kind of recto-cranial operation.
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You think that your ex recto pronouncements mean something but data and evidence are irrelevant.
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The fact that it is somehow controversial that the world would be better if people made decisions based on facts and statistics rather than just ex recto “feelings” says a lot about the Right.
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Indeed, starting every chapter on a right-hand page (recto), thus leaving some of the facing left-hand pages (versos) blank, is one way to pad out a short manuscript.
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After finalizing the thirty frames I placed the flying book into the layout 170 times — once for each page — but only on the recto.
The Book of Heroes: How To Make a Flipbook « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science. 2010
reesetee commented on the word recto
The front side of a leaf in a bound book
February 22, 2007