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straight
[streyt]
,adjective -er, -est, adverb, noun –adjective
| 1. | without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path. |
| 2. | exactly vertical or horizontal; in a perfectly vertical or horizontal plane: a straight table. |
| 3. | (of a line) generated by a point moving at a constant velocity with respect to another point. |
| 4. | evenly or uprightly formed or set: straight shoulders. |
| 5. | without circumlocution; frank; candid: straight speaking. |
| 6. | honest, honorable, or upright, as conduct, dealings, methods, or persons. |
| 7. | Informal. reliable, as a report or information. |
| 8. | right or correct, as reasoning, thinking, or a thinker. |
| 9. | in the proper order or condition: Things are straight now. |
| 10. | continuous or unbroken: in straight succession. |
| 11. | thoroughgoing or unreserved: a straight Republican. |
| 12. | supporting or cast for all candidates of one political party: to vote a straight ticket. |
| 13. | unmodified or unaltered: a straight comedy. |
| 14. | without change in the original melody or tempo: She does straight songs, with just the piano backing her. |
| 15. | Informal.
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| 16. | undiluted, as whiskey. |
| 17. | Theater. (of acting) straightforward; not striving for effect. |
| 18. | Journalism. written or to be written in a direct and objective manner, with no attempt at individual styling, comment, etc.: She gave me a straight story. Treat it as straight news. |
| 19. | Cards. containing cards in consecutive denominations, as a two, three, four, five, and six, in various suits. |
–adverb
| 20. | in a straight line: to walk straight. |
| 21. | in an even form or position: pictures hung straight. |
| 22. | in an erect posture: to stand up straight. |
| 23. | directly: to go straight to a place. |
| 24. | without circumlocution; frankly; candidly (often fol. by out). |
| 25. | honestly, honorably, or virtuously: to live straight. |
| 26. | without intricate involvement; not in a roundabout way; to the point. |
| 27. | in a steady course (often fol. by on): to keep straight on after the second traffic light. |
| 28. | into the proper form or condition; in order: to put a room straight. |
| 29. | in possession of the truth or of true ideas: I want to set you straight before you make mistakes. |
| 30. | sold without discount regardless of the quantity bought: Candy bars are twenty cents straight. |
| 31. | Journalism. directly and objectively: Write the circus story straight. |
| 32. | without personal embellishments, additions, etc.: Tell the story straight. Sing the song straight. |
| 33. | (of liquor) served or drunk without ice, a mixer, or water; neat: He drank his whiskey straight. |
–noun
—Idioms| 34. | the condition of being straight. |
| 35. | a straight form or position. |
| 36. | a straight line. |
| 37. | a straight part, as of a racecourse. |
| 38. | Informal.
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| 39. | Chiefly Games. a succession of strokes, plays, etc., which gives a perfect score. |
| 40. | go straight, Informal. to live a law-abiding life; no longer engage in crime. |
| 41. | play it straight, Informal. to do something without jokes, tricks, subterfuge, distortions, or the like: a comedian who plays it straight when he crusades against drug abuse. |
| 42. | straight off, without delay; immediately: I told him straight off what I thought about the matter. Also, straight away. |
| 43. | straight up, (of a cocktail) served without ice: a gin martini straight up. |
Origin:
1250–1300; (adj.) ME; orig. ptp. of strecchen to stretch; (adv. and n.) ME, deriv. of the adj.
1250–1300; (adj.) ME; orig. ptp. of strecchen to stretch; (adv. and n.) ME, deriv. of the adj.

Related forms:
straightly, adverb
straightness, noun
Synonyms:
5. open, direct. 6. virtuous, just, fair, equitable.
5. open, direct. 6. virtuous, just, fair, equitable.
Antonyms:
1. crooked. 5. devious.
1. crooked. 5. devious.
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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.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. 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.Straight
Straight\, adv. 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.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.Straight
Straight\, v. t. To straighten. [R.] --A Smith.
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Language Translation for : straight
Spanish:
recto, liso,
German:
gerade, glatt,
Japanese:
まっすぐな
straight (adj.1)
c.1350, "direct, undeviating, not crooked," prop. "that which is stretched," adj. use of O.E. streht (altered, by analogy with streccan, from earlier streaht), pp. of streccan "to stretch" (see stretch). Meaning "true, direct, honest" is from 1530. Of communication, "clear, unambiguous," from 1862. Sense of "undiluted, uncompromising" (e.g. straight whiskey, 1874) is Amer.Eng., first recorded 1856. Theatrical sense of "serious" (as opposed to popular or comic) is attested from 1895; vaudeville slang straight man first attested 1923. Go straight in the underworld slang sense is from 1919; straighten up "become respectable" is from 1907. Straight arrow "decent, conventional person" is 1969, from archetypal Native American brave name. To keep a straight face first recorded 1897; straight shooter is from 1928; straight-edge as a punk subculture is attested by 1987.
straight (adj.2)
"conventional," especially "heterosexual," 1941, probably in part from straight and narrow path "course of conventional morality and law-abiding behavior," which is based on a misreading of Matt. vii.14 (where the gate is actually strait), and the other influence seems to be from strait-laced.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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straight
In addition to the idioms beginning with straight, also see (straight) from the horse's mouth; get something straight; give it to (someone straight); go straight; keep a straight face; right (straight) out; set straight; shoot straight.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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