STRAIGHT
\stɹˈe͡ɪt], \stɹˈeɪt], \s_t_ɹ_ˈeɪ_t]\
Definitions of STRAIGHT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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successive (without a break); "sick for five straight days"
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without water; "took his whiskey neat"
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a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
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a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit)
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erect in posture; "behind him sat old man Arthur; he was straight with something angry in his attitude"; "stood defiantly with unbowed back"
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in a straight line; in a direct course; "the road runs straight"
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right; in keeping with the facts; "set the record straight"; "made sure the facts were straight in the report"
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following a correct or logical method; "straight reasoning"
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accurately fitted; level; "the window frame isn't quite true"
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no longer coiled
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rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
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reliable in matters of fact; "he was always straight with me"
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not homosexual
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having no deviations; "straight lines"; "straight roads across the desert"; "straight teeth"; "straight shoulders"
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without curves
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honest and morally upright; "I just want a straight answer to the question"; "straight dealing"
By Princeton University
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successive (without a break); "sick for five straight days"
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without water; "took his whiskey neat"
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a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
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a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit)
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erect in posture; "behind him sat old man Arthur; he was straight with something angry in his attitude"; "stood defiantly with unbowed back"
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in a straight line; in a direct course; "the road runs straight"
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right; in keeping with the facts; "set the record straight"; "made sure the facts were straight in the report"
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following a correct or logical method; "straight reasoning"
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accurately fitted; level; "the window frame isn't quite true"
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no longer coiled
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Straightness.
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A variant of Strait, a.
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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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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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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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Conforming to justice and rectitude; not deviating from truth or fairness; upright; as, straight dealing.
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Unmixed; undiluted; as, to take liquor straight.
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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.
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In a straight manner; directly; rightly; forthwith; immediately; as, the arrow went straight to the mark.
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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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To straighten.
By Oddity Software
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Straightness.
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Not crooked or curved; extending throughout in the same direction; as, a straight road; upright; as, a straight life; direct; not confused; as, straight reasoning.
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In a direct course; at once.
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Straightly.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Straightness.
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Straightly.
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Direct: being in a right line: not crooked: nearest: upright.
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Immediately: in the shortest time.
By Daniel Lyons
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Straightness.
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Extending uniformly in the same direction.
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Erect; upright; accurate; true.
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In a straight line. straightly.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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adv. Immediately ; directly ; in the shortest time.
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