From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Straight \Straight\, adverb In a straight manner; directly; rightly; forthwith; immediately; as, the arrow went straight to the mark. ''Floating straight.'' --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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Straight \Straight\, adjective A variant of {Strait}, adjective [Obs. or R.]
Egypt is a long country, but it is straight, that is to say, narrow. --Sir J. Mandeville.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Straight \Straight\, adjective [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.
4. Conforming to justice and rectitude; not deviating from truth or fairness; upright; as, straight dealing.
5. Unmixed; undiluted; as, to take liquor straight. [Slang]
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.]
{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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Straight \Straight\, noun (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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Straight \Straight\, verb (used with an object) To straighten. [R.] --A Smith.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
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}]
noun
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}]
adverb
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"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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