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 noodles are thin and straight.
  • The article is straight to the point.
  • The feathers are crimped and straight.
  • It's pithy, piercing, and straight to the point.
  • Roman construction took a directional straightness.
  • The term straight is a reference to heterosexual preference.
  • The new town is all straight lines, fresh paint and smooth paving.
  • The trough is parabolic in one direction and straight in the other.
  • There is straightness within diagonal and diagonalness within straight.
  • I would like to point out one additional usage, the term straight edge.
  • The slope of the fitted straight line is also the estimation of formula_109.
  • The point of the leaf base to the first serration is almost a straight line.
  • 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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