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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
straight
adv 1: without deviation; "the path leads directly to the lake";
"went direct to the office" [syn: directly, straight,
direct]
2: in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly; "he didn't
answer directly"; "told me straight out"; "came out flat for
less work and more pay" [syn: directly, flat, straight]
[ant: indirectly]
3: in a straight line; in a direct course; "the road runs
straight"
adj 1: successive (without a break); "sick for five straight
days" [syn: straight, consecutive]
2: having no deviations; "straight lines"; "straight roads
across the desert"; "straight teeth"; "straight shoulders"
[ant: crooked]
3: (of hair) having no waves or curls; "her naturally straight
hair hung long and silky" [ant: curly]
4: erect in posture; "sit straight"; "stood defiantly with
unbowed back" [syn: straight, unbent, unbowed]
5: in keeping with the facts; "set the record straight"; "made
sure the facts were straight in the report"
6: characterized by honesty and fairness; "straight dealing"; "a
square deal" [syn: straight, square] [ant: corrupt,
crooked]
7: no longer coiled [syn: uncoiled, straight] [ant:
coiled]
8: free from curves or angles; "a straight line" [ant: curved,
curving]
9: neatly arranged; not disorderly; "the room is straight now"
10: not homosexual
11: accurately fitted; level; "the window frame isn't quite
true" [syn: true, straight]
12: without evasion or compromise; "a square contradiction"; "he
is not being as straightforward as it appears" [syn:
square(a), straightforward, straight]
13: without water; "took his whiskey neat" [syn: neat,
straight, full-strength]
14: following a correct or logical method; "straight reasoning"
15: rigidly conventional or old-fashioned [syn: square,
straight]
n 1: a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation
to persons of the opposite sex [syn: heterosexual,
heterosexual person, straight person, straight]
2: a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit)
3: a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse [syn:
straightaway, straight]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Straight \Straight\, a. [Compar. Straighter; superl.
Straightest.] [OE. strei?t, properly p. p. of strecchen to
stretch, AS. streht, p. p. of streccan to stretch, to extend.
See Stretch.]
1. Right, in a mathematical sense; passing from one point to
another by the nearest course; direct; not deviating or
crooked; as, a straight line or course; a straight piece
of timber.
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And the crooked shall be made straight. --Isa. xl.
4.
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There are many several sorts of crooked lines, but
there is only one which is straight. --Dryden.
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2. (Bot.) Approximately straight; not much curved; as,
straight ribs are such as pass from the base of a leaf to
the apex, with a small curve.
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3. (Card Playing) Composed of cards which constitute a
regular sequence, as the ace, king, queen, jack, and
ten-spot; as, a straight hand; a straight flush.
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4. Conforming to justice and rectitude; not deviating from
truth or fairness; upright; as, straight dealing.
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5. Unmixed; undiluted; as, to take liquor straight. [Slang]
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6. Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the
organization and candidates of a political party; as, a
straight Republican; a straight Democrat; also, containing
the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a
party and no others; as, a straight ballot. [Political
Cant, U.S.]
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Straight arch (Arch.), a form of arch in which the intrados
is straight, but with its joints drawn radially, as in a
common arch.
A straight face, one giving no evidence of merriment or
other emotion.
A straight line. "That which lies evenly between its
extreme points." --Euclid. "The shortest line between two
points." --Chauvenet. "A line which has the same direction
through its whole length." --Newcomb.
Straight-way valve, a valve which, when opened widely,
affords a straight passageway, as for water.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Straight \Straight\, a.
A variant of Strait, a. [Obs. or R.]
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Egypt is a long country, but it is straight, that is to
say, narrow. --Sir J.
Mandeville.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Straight \Straight\, adv.
In a straight manner; directly; rightly; forthwith;
immediately; as, the arrow went straight to the mark.
"Floating straight." --Shak.
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I know thy generous temper well;
Fling but the appearance of dishonor on it,
It straight takes fire, and mounts into a blaze.
--Addison.
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Everything was going on straight. --W. Black.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Straight \Straight\, n. (Poker)
A hand of five cards in consecutive order as to value; a
sequence. When they are of one suit, it is calles straight
flush.
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6. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Straight \Straight\, v. t.
To straighten. [R.] --A Smith.
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Thesaurus Results for straight:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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rectilinear, recurrent, regular, reliable, repetitive, respectable, responsible, right, right away, right line, right off, right-minded, righteous, rightly, rigidly, rigorously, round, round-the-clock, royal flush, rubber, ruff, ruler-straight, running, saintlike, saintly, seamless, secant, sedate, segment, sensual, seraphic, serious, serried, settled, sex, sexed, sexlike, sexual, sexy, sheer, shipshape, shortcut, sic, side, simple, simply, sincere, single-hearted, singleton, smack, smack-dab, smooth, so, sober, spades, spang, spruce, square, square-dealing, square-shooting, squarely, stable, staid, steady, straight across, straight ahead, straight course, straight line, straight stretch, straight up, straight-cut, straight-front, straight-out, straight-shooting, straight-side, straight-up-and-down, straightaway, straightforward, straightforwardly, straightforwards, straightly, straightway, streamline, streamlined, strictly, strong, stuffy, summarily, sure, sweeping, taciturn, tangent, tested, thorough, thoroughgoing, through, through-and-through, tidy, to be trusted, to the letter, total, traditionalist, transparent, transversal, trey, trick, tried, tried and true, true, trump, trustable, trustworthy, trusty, twenty-four-hour, ubiquitous, unadulterated, unalloyed, unaltered, unambiguous, unambiguously, unbending, unbent, unblended, unbowed, unbroken, unceasing, unchecked, uncircumscribed, uncombined, uncompounded, unconditional, unconstrained, uncorrupted, uncurved, uncut, undeflected, undersexed, undeviating, undeviatingly, undifferentiated, undiluted, undistorted, undoubting, unembellished, unemotional, unending, unequivocal, unequivocally, unerringly, unfalse, unfortified, unguarded, unhampered, unhesitating, unidirectional, uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, universal, unleavened, unlimited, unmingled, unmistakable, unmitigated, unmixed, unmodified, unperfidious, unqualified, unquestioning, unrelieved, unremitting, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted, unsmiling, unsophisticated, unstopped, unswerving, unswervingly, untinged, untreacherous, unturned, unveeringly, unwaivable, up-and-up, upright, upstanding, uptight, utter, vector, venereal, verbally, verbatim, verbatim et litteratim, veritable, vertical, virtuous, voluptuous, whole, wholesale, without delay, without exception, without reserve, word by word, word for word |
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