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straight meaning

EN[stɹeɪt] [-eɪt]
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  • Straight may refer to:
  • Straight (poker), a poker hand containing five cards in sequential ranked order
  • Straight, or straights, used to describe individuals with mainstream points of view and appearance.
  • Straight, or straights, used to describe animal feedstuffs fed "straight" without further processing.
  • Straight, slang for heterosexual
  • Straight, an alternative name for the cross punch
  • Straight, the second autobiography by British artist Boy George
  • Straight, a member of the straight edge subculture
  • Straight Records, a record label formed in 1969

    Definition of straight in English Dictionary

  • NounPLstraights
    1. Something that is not crooked or bent.
      1. After four grueling laps, the race had come down to a sprint. Into the straight, although my legs were burning, I called on them for more, and they responded. On my inside the maroon singlet came with me, until it was just the two of us heading for the line.
    2. (poker) Five cards in sequence.
      1. Colloquial uses.
        1. My friends call straights "heteros".
        2. Boys! Boys! You're scaring the straights, okay? Is there any way that we could do this tomorrow?
        3. A straight = a straighter = a straight cut, une cigarette en tabac de Virginie.]
    3. VerbSGstraightsPRstraightingPT, PPstraighted
      1. (transitive) To straighten.
      2. AdjectiveCOMstraighterCOMmore straightSUPstraightestSUPmost straight
        1. Not crooked or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
          1. Now, as the world knows, the straightest way to the heart of the honest voter is through the women of the land, and the straightest way to the heart of the women is through the children of the land; and one method of winning both, with rural politicians, is to kiss the babies wide and far.
          2. There's nothing more annoying than taking a great picture, only to find that the horizon isn't straight.
        2. (obsolete, rare) Strait; narrow.
          1. Figurative uses.
            1. ‘It wasn't the proper thing, squoire. It wasn't straight.’
            2. Tony Blair issued a direct challenge to the IRA yesterday when he demanded they give straight answers to three simple questions  [ …] .
            3. It moves them from 17th to 12th on seven points, while Bolton are now bottom of the table with five straight defeats.
            4. Oh, music, how he loved it; it seemed to set everything straight all at once in his head.
            5. Real cowboys know how to rope, ride a horse and drink whisky straight.
            6. Steyn continues and it's all a bit more orderly down his end as O'Brien defends the first three balls with a straight bat and a respectful dip of the head.
            7. Murray started well against Marcos Baghdatis before slumping to defeat in straight sets and the British No1 admitted he may not have been mentally prepared for the rigours of the ATP Tour after a gruelling start to 2011.
            8. a straight Republican;  a straight Democrat ‎
            9. a straight ballot ‎
          2. Colloquial uses.
            1. You say you've got to go home. Well at least there's someone there that you can talk to. And you never have to face up to the night on your own. Jesus, it must be great to be straight.
            2. For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.
            3. We only appear straight for the first five seconds. Just walking down the street, in the diner, or at the boardwalk, we hear, "Is she a man? Is she a woman? If she is a straight woman, what is she doing with this gay man?" We check in with each other. "What do you think, is it okay? I think we should go. I think we should cross over to the other side. Danger."
        3. AdverbCOMstraighterCOMmore straightSUPstraightestSUPmost straight
          1. Of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line.
            1. The door will be straight ahead of you.
            2. Go straight back.
          2. Directly; without pause, delay or detour.
            1. On arriving at work, he went straight to his office.
          3. Continuously; without interruption or pause.
            1. He claims he can hold his breath for three minutes straight.
        4. More Examples
          1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
            • Machining a straight spline with a lathe. Sometimes the task of splining a shaft comes up during a repair. Instead of sending out the job, use this setup to mill the splines on a lathe.
            • Mame Diouf missed a chance to put the game to bed when he fired straight at Carson.
            • Their names all sounded the same to me at first, and I had trouble keeping straight who was who.
        • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
          1. Adjectives
            • Adverbs
              • Nouns
                • Countable nouns
                • Verbs
                  • Transitive verbs
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                4. en straightener
                5. en straightedge
                Source: Wiktionary

                Meaning of straight for the defined word.

                Grammatically, this word "straight" is an adjective. It's also an adverb. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.
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