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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] | ||
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. [1913 Webster] And the crooked shall be made straight. --Isa. xl. 4. [1913 Webster] There are many several sorts of crooked lines, but there is only one which is straight. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 4. Conforming to justice and rectitude; not deviating from truth or fairness; upright; as, straight dealing. [1913 Webster] 5. Unmixed; undiluted; as, to take liquor straight. [Slang] [1913 Webster] 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.] [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] | ||
3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 | ||
Straight \Straight\, a. A variant of Strait, a. [Obs. or R.] [1913 Webster] Egypt is a long country, but it is straight, that is to say, narrow. --Sir J. Mandeville. [1913 Webster] | ||
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. [1913 Webster] I know thy generous temper well; Fling but the appearance of dishonor on it, It straight takes fire, and mounts into a blaze. --Addison. [1913 Webster] Everything was going on straight. --W. Black. [1913 Webster] | ||
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. [1913 Webster] | ||
6. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 | ||
Straight \Straight\, v. t. To straighten. [R.] --A Smith. [1913 Webster] | ||
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