Arrows, sides of a rectangle, well organized lines of people waiting to get into the theater or the ladies' room, and anything else free from curves can be described as straight. The word can also mean honest, uninterrupted, undiluted, or heterosexual.
A variant of
Noun
a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse
Noun
a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit)
Noun
a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
Adjective S.
right; in keeping with the facts; "set the record straight"; "made sure the facts were straight in the report"
Adjective S.
successive (without a break); "sick for five straight days"
Adjective S.
rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
Adjective S.
following a correct or logical method; "straight reasoning"
Adjective S.
reliable in matters of fact; "he was always straight with me"
Adjective S.
without water; "took his whiskey neat"
Adjective S.
accurately fitted; level; "the window frame isn''t quite true"
Adjective
(of hair) having no waves or curls; "her naturally straight hair hung long and silky"
Adjective S.
not homosexual
Adjective S.
characterized by honesty and fairness; "a square deal"; "wanted to do the square thing"
Adjective S.
erect in posture; "behind him sat old man Arthur; he was straight with something angry in his attitude"; "stood defiantly with unbowed back"
Adjective
having no deviations; "straight lines"; "straight roads across the desert"; "straight teeth"; "straight shoulders"
Adjective
without curves
Adjective
no longer coiled
Adjective
honest and morally upright; "I just want a straight answer to the question"; "straight dealing"
Adjective S.
neatly arranged; not disorderly; "the room is straight now"
Adverb
without deviation; "the path leads directly to the lake"; "went direct to the office"
Adverb
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"
Adverb
in a straight line; in a direct course; "the road runs straight"
a.
A variant of Strait, a.
superl.
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.
superl.
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.
superl.
Composed of cards which constitute a regular
sequence, as the ace, king, queen, jack, and ten-spot; as, a straight
hand; a straight flush.
superl.
Conforming to justice and rectitude; not deviating
from truth or fairness; upright; as, straight dealing.
superl.
Unmixed; undiluted; as, to take liquor straight.
superl.
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.
adv.
In a straight manner; directly; rightly; forthwith;
immediately; as, the arrow went straight to the mark.
n.
A hand of five cards in consecutive order as to value; a
sequence. When they are of one suit, it is calles straight flush.
v. t.
To straighten.
Straight
Egypt is a long country, but it is straight, that is to say, narrow.
Straight
And the crooked shall be made straight.
There are many several sorts of crooked lines, but there is only one which is straight.2.
Straight
I know thy generous temper well; Fling but the appearance of dishonor on it, It straight takes fire, and mounts into a blaze.
Everything was going on straight.
Straight
Straight
A variant of
Right, in a mathematical sense; passing from one point to another by the nearest course; direct; not deviating or crooked;
In a straight manner; directly; rightly; forthwith; immediately;
A hand of five cards in consecutive order as to value; a sequence. When they are of one suit, it is calles straight flush.
To straighten.
Usage Examples
Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.
Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.
Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.
Barack Obama doesn't believe in free enterprise. He's never going to admit it. For instance, he's never going to come straight out and say, 'If you own a business you didn't build it.' Alright, maybe he will.
Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.
Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland, I'd do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled.
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Other Usage ExamplesAnd that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students.
'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
A man can be drawn across the room with the simplicity of a smile. That's why your pearly whites should always be straight and shiny. I think most of my clients are drawn to a fun, flirty nature in a woman. The problem is, most women do not often feel fun and flirty.
But the development of human society does not go straight forward and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
Because I'm always away, coming home to a clean house means a lot to me. Trust me, I've lived with a lot of roommates, and straight guys are just kids who don't pick up after themselves.
For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former solider, I'm here to set that record straight.
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