straight
Meanings
adj
- Not crooked, curly, or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
- Direct, undeviating.
- Perfectly horizontal or vertical; not diagonal or oblique.
- Describing the bat as held so as not to incline to either side; on, or near a line running between the two wickets.
- 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.
- Describing the sets in a match of which the winner did not lose a single set.
- Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party.
adv
- 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.
noun
- Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.
- Five cards in sequence.
- A heterosexual.
- A normal person; someone in mainstream society.
- 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.
verb
- To straighten.
name
- A surname.
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From Middle English streight, streght, streiȝt, the past participle of strecchen (“to stretch”), from Old English streċċan (past participle ġestreaht, ġestreht), from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan (“to stretch”). Cognate with Scots straicht (“straight”), Dutch gestrekt (“stretched”), German gestreckt (“stretched”), Danish strakt (“stretched”), Faroese and Norn strekti (“stretched”), Icelandic strekkti (“stretched”), Norwegian strekte (“stretched”), Swedish sträckte (“stretched”). Doublet of straught. Equivalent to stretch + -ed. In some senses, conflated with strait (“narrow, constricted”), which is from Latin strictus via Old French estreit.
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