Definition of straight

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Straight (superl.) 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..

Lern More About Straight

Dress :: Dress (v. t.) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align; as, to dress the ranks..
Perpendicle :: Perpendicle (n.) Something hanging straight down; a plumb line.
Stress :: Streptothrix (n.) A genus of bacilli occurring of the form of long, smooth and apparently branched threads, either straight or twisted..
Directly :: Directly (adv.) Straightway; next in order; without delay; immediately.
Bolthead :: Bolthead (n.) A long, straight-necked, glass vessel for chemical distillations; -- called also a matrass or receiver..
Bluff-headed :: Bluff-headed (a.) Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.
Straight :: Straight (n.) A hand of five cards in consecutive order as to value; a sequence. When they are of one suit, it is calles straight flush..
Peele :: Peele (n.) A graceful and swift South African antelope (Pelea capreola). The hair is woolly, and ash-gray on the back and sides. The horns are black, long, slender, straight, nearly smooth, and very sharp. Called also rheeboc, and rehboc..
Straight-joint :: Straight-joint (a.) Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves.
Gemsbok :: Gemsbok (n.) A South African antelope (Oryx Capensis), having long, sharp, nearly straight horns..
Cycloid :: Cycloid (n.) A curve generated by a point in the plane of a circle when the circle is rolled along a straight line, keeping always in the same plane..
Ramline :: Ramline (n.) A line used to get a straight middle line, as on a spar, or from stem to stern in building a vessel..
Estramacon :: Estramacon (n.) A straight, heavy sword with two edges, used in the 16th and 17th centuries..
Indirect :: Indirect (a.) Not direct; not straight or rectilinear; deviating from a direct line or course; circuitous; as, an indirect road..
Lagenian :: Lagenian (a.) Like, or pertaining to, Lagena, a genus of Foraminifera having a straight, chambered shell..
Irregular :: Irregular (a.) Not regular; not conforming to a law, method, or usage recognized as the general rule; not according to common form; not conformable to nature, to the rules of moral rectitude, or to established principles; not normal; unnatural; immethodical; unsymmetrical; erratic; no straight; not uniform; as, an irregular line; an irregular figure; an irregular verse; an irregular physician; an irregular proceeding; irregular motion; irregular conduct, etc. Cf. Regular..
Straightly :: Straight-lined (a.) Having straight lines.
Vertilinear :: Vertilinear (a.) Straight; rectilinear.
Liner :: Liner (n.) A ball which, when struck, flies through the air in a nearly straight line not far from the ground..
Line :: Line (n.) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
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