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Found 7 hits - Term: straight, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
straight \straight\, a.
   a variant of strait, a. obs. or r.
   1913 webster

         egypt is a long country, but it is straight, that is to
         say, narrow.                             --sir j.
                                                  mandeville.
   1913 webster
see also:
strait 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
      1913 webster

            and the crooked shall be made straight. --isa. xl.
                                                  4.
      1913 webster

            there are many several sorts of crooked lines, but
            there is only one which is straight.  --dryden.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   4. conforming to justice and rectitude; not deviating from
      truth or fairness; upright; as, straight dealing.
      1913 webster

   5. unmixed; undiluted; as, to take liquor straight. slang
      1913 webster

   6. 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. political
      cant, u.s.
      1913 webster

   straight arch arch., a form of arch in which the intrados
      is straight, but with its joints drawn radially, as in a
      common arch.

   a straight face, one giving no evidence of merriment or
      other emotion.

   a straight line. "that which lies evenly between its
      extreme points." --euclid. "the shortest line between two
      points." --chauvenet. "a line which has the same direction
      through its whole length." --newcomb.

   straight-way valve, a valve which, when opened widely,
      affords a straight passageway, as for water.
      1913 webster
see also:
straighter straightest stretch straight arch a straight face a straight line 
straight-way valve 
[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
straight \straight\, adv.
   in a straight manner; directly; rightly; forthwith;
   immediately; as, the arrow went straight to the mark.
   "floating straight." --shak.
   1913 webster

         i know thy generous temper well;
         fling but the appearance of dishonor on it,
         it straight takes fire, and mounts into a blaze.
                                                  --addison.
   1913 webster

         everything was going on straight.        --w. black.
   1913 webster

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
   1913 webster

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
straight \straight\, v. t.
   to straighten. r. --a smith.
   1913 webster

[6] : WordNet (r) 2.0
straight
     adj 1: successive without a break; "sick for five straight days"
            syn: consecutive
     2: having no deviations; "straight lines"; "straight roads
        across the desert"; "straight teeth"; "straight shoulders"
        ant: crooked
     3: of hair having no waves or curls; "her naturally straight
        hair hung long and silky" ant: curly
     4: erect in posture; "behind him sat old man arthur; he was
        straight with something angry in his attitude"; "stood
        defiantly with unbowed back" syn: unbent, unbowed, upright
     5: right; in keeping with the facts; "set the record straight";
        "made sure the facts were straight in the report"
     6: honest and morally upright; "i just want a straight answer
        to the question"; "straight dealing" ant: crooked
     7: no longer coiled syn: uncoiled ant: coiled
     8: without curves ant: curved
     9: neatly arranged; not disorderly; "the room is straight now"
     10: characterized by honesty and fairness; "a square deal";
         "wanted to do the square thing" syn: square
     11: not homosexual
     12: accurately fitted; level; "the window frame isn't quite
         true" syn: true
     13: without water; "took his whiskey neat" syn: neat, full-strength
     14: reliable in matters of fact; "he was always straight with
         me"
     15: following a correct or logical method; "straight reasoning"
     16: rigidly conventional or old-fashioned syn: square
     n 1: a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation
          to persons of the opposite sex syn: heterosexual, heterosexual
          person, straight person
     2: a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards regardless of suit
     3: a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse syn: straightaway
     adv 1: without deviation; "the path leads directly to the lake";
            "went direct to the office" syn: directly, direct
     2: 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" syn: directly, flat
        ant: indirectly
     3: in a straight line; in a direct course; "the road runs
        straight"
see also:
consecutive crooked curly unbent unbowed upright 
uncoiled coiled curved square true 
neat full-strength heterosexual heterosexual person straight person 
straightaway directly direct flat indirectly 

[7] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
490 moby thesaurus words for "straight":
   ok, aboveboard, absolute, absolutely, accordant, accurate,
   accurately, ace, admitting no exception, agreed, air line,
   all right, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading,
   amorous, anal, angelic, arranged, arrowlike, articulated, artless,
   at once, authentic, away, axis, bare, beeline, best bower, bluff,
   blunt, bona fide, born, bourgeois, bower, broad, broad-based,
   brusque, button-down, candid, candidly, cards, carnal, categorical,
   catenated, ceaseless, chord, clarified, clean, clear, clubs,
   complete, composed, comprehensive, compulsive, concatenated,
   concentrated, conclusive, concordant, conformist, congenital,
   connected, constant, consummate, continual, continued, continuing,
   continuous, conventional, correct, correctly, corresponding,
   cyclical, dead, dead ahead, dead right, dead straight, decent,
   decided, decisive, deck, deep-dyed, definite, definitely,
   definitive, dependable, determinate, deuce, diagonal, diameter,
   diamonds, direct, direct line, directly, directrix, distilled,
   down the alley, downright, due, due north, dummy, dyed-in-the-wool,
   edge, egregious, emotionless, endless, entire, equitable, erect,
   erogenic, erogenous, erotic, erotogenic, even, exactly, exhaustive,
   explicit, explicitly, express, expressly, face cards, fair,
   fair and square, faithfully, faithworthy, faultless, faultlessly,
   featureless, final, fixed, flat, flat-out, flawless, flawlessly,
   fleshly, flush, formalistic, forthright, forthwith, foursquare,
   frank, frankhearted, free, free-speaking, free-spoken,
   free-tongued, full, full house, gamic, gapless, genuine, global,
   godly, good, good-faith, great-circle course, hand, harmonious,
   heart-to-heart, hearts, heterosexual, honest, honestly, honorable,
   horizontal, immediate, immediately, impassive, implicit,
   in a beeline, in a line, in accord, in all respects,
   in every respect, in keeping, in line, in line with, in order,
   in step, inappealable, incessant, incorruptible, indisputable,
   ingenuous, instanter, instantly, intensive, interminable,
   inviolable, ipsissimis verbis, irreversible, jack, joined,
   jointless, joker, just, just right, just so, kerplunk, king, knave,
   kosher, left bower, legitimate, letter-perfect, level, libidinal,
   lineal, linear, linked, literally, literatim, meticulous,
   monotonous, moral, naked, neat, never-ending, no-nonsense, nonstop,
   normal, now, nuptial, okay, omnibus, omnipresent, on the beam,
   on the level, on the square, on the straight, on the up-and-up,
   one-way, open, open and aboveboard, openhearted, orderly,
   organized, orthodox, out-and-out, outright, outspoken, oversexed,
   pack, pair, pedantic, peremptory, perennial, perfect, perfectly,
   periodic, perpendicular, pervasive, picture cards, plain,
   plain dealing, plain-spoken, plainly, plastic, playing cards, plop,
   plumb, plump, plunk, point-blank, positive, positively, potent,
   precisely, precisianistic, procreative, promptly, proper, properly,
   proven, pure, purified, queen, radical, radius, radius vector,
   rectified, rectilineal, rectilinear, recurrent, regular, reliable,
   repetitive, respectable, responsible, right, right away,
   right line, right off, right-minded, righteous, rightly, rigidly,
   rigorously, round, round-the-clock, royal flush, rubber, ruff,
   ruler-straight, running, saintlike, saintly, seamless, secant,
   sedate, segment, sensual, seraphic, serious, serried, settled, sex,
   sexed, sexlike, sexual, sexy, sheer, shipshape, shortcut, sic,
   side, simple, simply, sincere, single-hearted, singleton, smack,
   smack-dab, smooth, so, sober, spades, spang, spruce, square,
   square-dealing, square-shooting, squarely, stable, staid, steady,
   straight across, straight ahead, straight course, straight line,
   straight stretch, straight up, straight-cut, straight-front,
   straight-out, straight-shooting, straight-side,
   straight-up-and-down, straightaway, straightforward,
   straightforwardly, straightforwards, straightly, straightway,
   streamline, streamlined, strictly, strong, stuffy, summarily, sure,
   sweeping, taciturn, tangent, tested, thorough, thoroughgoing,
   through, through-and-through, tidy, to be trusted, to the letter,
   total, traditionalist, transparent, transversal, trey, trick,
   tried, tried and true, true, trump, trustable, trustworthy, trusty,
   twenty-four-hour, ubiquitous, unadulterated, unalloyed, unaltered,
   unambiguous, unambiguously, unbending, unbent, unblended, unbowed,
   unbroken, unceasing, unchecked, uncircumscribed, uncombined,
   uncompounded, unconditional, unconstrained, uncorrupted, uncurved,
   uncut, undeflected, undersexed, undeviating, undeviatingly,
   undifferentiated, undiluted, undistorted, undoubting,
   unembellished, unemotional, unending, unequivocal, unequivocally,
   unerringly, unfalse, unfortified, unguarded, unhampered,
   unhesitating, unidirectional, uniform, unintermitted,
   unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, universal,
   unleavened, unlimited, unmingled, unmistakable, unmitigated,
   unmixed, unmodified, unperfidious, unqualified, unquestioning,
   unrelieved, unremitting, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted,
   unsmiling, unsophisticated, unstopped, unswerving, unswervingly,
   untinged, untreacherous, unturned, unveeringly, unwaivable,
   up-and-up, upright, upstanding, uptight, utter, vector, venereal,
   verbally, verbatim, verbatim et litteratim, veritable, vertical,
   virtuous, voluptuous, whole, wholesale, without delay,
   without exception, without reserve, word by word, word for word





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