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straight-line

[ streyt-lahyn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

Machinery.
1. noting a machine or mechanism the working parts of which act or are arranged in a straight line.
2. noting a mechanism for causing one part to move along a straight line.
Accounting. denoting uniform allocation, as in calculating the total depreciation over the life of a depreciable asset, dividing that into equal parts, and depreciating each segment at regular intervals.

straight-line

(of a machine) having components that are arranged in a row or that move in a straight line when in operation
of or relating to a method of depreciation whereby equal charges are made against gross profit for each year of an asset's expected life

First recorded in 1835–45

Justin Bieber This wonky first pitch offers further proof that Justin Bieber struggles with the definition of a straight line.

By the end of his relatively lengthy address, Pierre had drawn a straight line between supporting the NRA and loving freedom.

It demonstrates the greatness of ink-painting as a genre if it had evolved in a straight line from the past.

You can draw a fairly straight line from Helms to Karl Rove, who tamed and adapted the approach for a national audience.

So can you draw a straight line from Jobs to Zuckerberg—or are they Apples and oranges?

The primal rigidity of the straight line yields later on to the freedom of an organ.

His smooth brow wrinkled and his mouth tightened to a thin straight line beneath the fair "regulation" moustache.

The ryot, of course, familiar with each yard of the route, practically followed a straight line.

He rushed forward in a straight line, as usual, breaking and tearing everything.

It is seldom either more or less than a straight line ruled from one end of the kingdom to the other.

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