straight
IPA: strˈeɪt
noun
- Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.
- (poker) Five cards in sequence.
- (colloquial) A heterosexual.
- (slang) A normal person; someone in mainstream society.
- (slang) A cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana.
- A chiropractor who relies solely on spinal adjustment, with no other treatments.
- A cat that has straight ears despite belonging to a breed that often has folded ears.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To straighten.
adjective
- Not crooked or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
- (of a path, trajectory, etc.) Direct, undeviating.
- Perfectly horizontal or vertical; not diagonal or oblique.
- (cricket) Describing the bat as held so as not to incline to either side; on, or near a line running between the two wickets.
- (engineering, of an internal-combustion engine) Having all cylinders in a single straight line; in-line.
- Direct in communication; unevasive, straightforward.
- Free from dishonesty; honest, law-abiding.
- Serious rather than comedic.
- In proper order; as it should be.
- In a row, in unbroken sequence; consecutive.
- (tennis) Describing the sets in a match of which the winner did not lose a single set.
- (US, politics) Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party.
- (US, politics) Containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a single party and no others.
- (colloquial) Conventional; mainstream; socially acceptable.
- (colloquial) Heterosexual.
- (colloquial, of a romantic or sexual relation) Occurring between people of opposite sex (sometimes, but not always, specifically between heterosexual people).
- (slang, sex work) Related to conventional sexual intercourse.
- (colloquial) Not using alcohol, drugs, etc.
- (fashion) Not plus size; thin.
- (rare, now chiefly religion) Strait; narrow.
- (obsolete) Stretched out; fully extended.
- (slang) Thorough; utter; unqualified.
- Of spirits: undiluted, unmixed; neat.
- (telegraphy, historical, of a telegram) Sent at a full rate for immediate delivery; being a fast telegram.
- (sciences, mathematics) Concerning the property allowing the parallel transport of vectors along a course that keeps tangent vectors remain as such throughout that course (a course which is straight, a straight curve, is a geodesic).
- (informal, of a person) OK, all right, fine; in a good state or situation.
- (informal, of people, reciprocal) On good terms.
adverb
- Of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line.
- Directly; without pause, delay or detour.
- Continuously; without interruption or pause.
- Of speech or information, without prevarication or holding back; directly; straightforwardly; plainly.
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Examples of "straight" in Sentences
- The term straight is a reference to heterosexual preference.
- I would like to point out one additional usage, the term straight edge.
- The reinvigorated series continues with a villain straight from the pages of DYNAMO 5!
- I get very cross about things, and when you can't find a word straight away, it ferments in your brain, and then what bursts out is just so wrong.
- Haley Barbour on Monday issued his strongest language yet on … Video: Jesse Jackson rallies with Ohio Teamsters … Report Abuse Union "collective bargaining" is a term straight out of Communist philosophy.
- "Better have lied straight out," more than one hard old man said to him, but Ted Hardy could not lie _straight out_, and so he staid out and waited around disconsolately for Daisy, whom fortune sometimes favored and sometimes deserted.
- "Go?" she cried, with a defiance that was blood-curdling in one so small and hitherto so silent, "I will first go to that young gentleman who speaks my language and I will tell him all, and then, with his assistance, I will go straight -- but _straight_, do you hear?"
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