straight
Pronunciation: /stɹeɪt/
The English word “straight” has 20 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Not crooked, curly, or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
- Direct, undeviating.
- Perfectly horizontal or vertical; not diagonal or oblique.
- Describing the bat as held so as not to incline to either side; on, or near a line running between the two wickets.
- Having all cylinders in a single straight line; in-line.
- Direct in communication; unevasive, straightforward.
- Free from dishonesty; honest, law-abiding.
- Serious rather than comedic.
- In proper order; as it should be.
- In a row, in unbroken sequence; consecutive.
- Describing the sets in a match of which the winner did not lose a single set.
- Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party.
- Containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a single party and no others.
- Conventional; mainstream; socially acceptable.
- Heterosexual.
- Occurring between people of the opposite sex (sometimes, but not always, specifically between heterosexual people).
- Related to conventional sexual intercourse.
- Not using alcohol, drugs, etc.
- Not plus size; thin.
- Strait; narrow.
Etymology
From Middle English streight, streght, streiȝt, the past participle of strecchen (“to stretch”), from Old English streċċan (past participle ġestreaht, ġestreht), from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan (“to stretch”). Cognate with Scots straicht (“straight”), Dutch gestrekt (“stretched”), German gestreckt (“stretched”), Danish strakt (“stretched”), Faroese and Norn strekti (“stretched”), Icelandic…
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