straight : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: straight	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for straight
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
straight adv without deviation; "the path leads directly to the lake"; "went direct to the office" Synonym(s): directly, straight, direct 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" Synonym(s): directly, flat, straight Antonym(s): indirectly in a straight line; in a direct course; "the road runs straight" adj successive (without a break); "sick for five straight days" Synonym(s): straight, consecutive having no deviations; "straight lines"; "straight roads across the desert"; "straight teeth"; "straight shoulders" Antonym(s): crooked (of hair) having no waves or curls; "her naturally straight hair hung long and silky" Antonym(s): curly erect in posture; "sit straight"; "stood defiantly with unbowed back" Synonym(s): straight, unbent, unbowed in keeping with the facts; "set the record straight"; "made sure the facts were straight in the report" characterized by honesty and fairness; "straight dealing"; "a square deal" Synonym(s): straight, square Antonym(s): corrupt, crooked no longer coiled Synonym(s): uncoiled, straight Antonym(s): coiled free from curves or angles; "a straight line" Antonym(s): curved, curving neatly arranged; not disorderly; "the room is straight now" not homosexual accurately fitted; level; "the window frame isn't quite true" Synonym(s): true, straight without evasion or compromise; "a square contradiction"; "he is not being as straightforward as it appears" Synonym(s): square(a), straightforward, straight without water; "took his whiskey neat" Synonym(s): neat, straight, full-strength following a correct or logical method; "straight reasoning" rigidly conventional or old-fashioned Synonym(s): square, straight n a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex Synonym(s): heterosexual, heterosexual person, straight person, straight a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit) a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse Synonym(s): straightaway, straight
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Straight \Straight\, a. A variant of {Strait}, a. [Obs. or R.] Egypt is a long country, but it is straight, that is to say, narrow. --Sir J. Mandeville.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Straight \Straight\, a. [Compar. {Straighter}; superl. {Straightest}.] [OE. strei[?]t, properly p. p. of strecchen to stretch, AS. streht, p. p. of streccan to stretch, to extend. See {Stretch}.] 1. 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. And the crooked shall be made straight. --Isa. xl. 4. There are many several sorts of crooked lines, but there is only one which is straight. --Dryden. 2. (Bot.) 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. 3. (Card Playing) Composed of cards which constitute a regular sequence, as the ace, king, queen, jack, and ten-spot; as, a straight hand; a straight flush.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Straight \Straight\, adv. In a straight manner; directly; rightly; forthwith; immediately; as, the arrow went straight to the mark. [bd]Floating straight.[b8] --Shak. I know thy generous temper well; Fling but the appearance of dishonor on it, It straight takes fire, and mounts into a blaze. --Addison. Everything was going on straight. --W. Black.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Straight \Straight\, n. (Poker) A hand of five cards in consecutive order as to value; a sequence. When they are of one suit, it is calles straight flush.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Straight \Straight\, v. t. To straighten. [R.] --A Smith.