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Rule :: Rule (a.) A straight strip of wood, metal, or the like, which serves as a guide in drawing a straight line; a ruler..

Helicoid :: Helicoid (n.) A warped surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner that every point of the line shall have a uniform motion in the direction of another fixed straight line, and at the same time a uniform angular motion about it..

Downright :: Downright (adv.) Straight down; perpendicularly.

Directness :: Directness (n.) The quality of being direct; straightness; straightforwardness; immediateness.

Bluff-headed :: Bluff-headed (a.) Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.

Straighting :: Straighted (imp. & p. p.) of Straighte.

Right :: Right (a.) Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line..

Indefinite :: Indefinite (a.) Having no determined or certain limits; large and unmeasured, though not infinite; unlimited; as indefinite space; the indefinite extension of a straight line..

Indirectness :: Indirectness (n.) Deviation from an upright or straightforward course; unfairness; dishonesty.

Diameter :: Diameter (n.) Any right line passing through the center of a figure or body, as a circle, conic section, sphere, cube, etc., and terminated by the opposite boundaries; a straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords drawn in a curve..

Straightedge :: Straight (v. t.) To straighten.

Ney :: Ney (n.) A figure made up of a large number of straight lines or curves, which are connected at certain points and related to each other by some specified law..

Extension :: Extension (v. t.) The straightening of a limb, in distinction from flexion..

Cue :: Cue (n.) A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in playing billiards.

Peen :: Peen (v. t.) To draw, bend, or straighten, as metal, by blows with the peen of a hammer or sledge..

Ortho- :: Ortho- () A combining form signifying straight, right, upright, correct, regular; as, orthodromy, orthodiagonal, orthodox, orthographic..

Straightness :: Straightness (n.) The quality, condition, or state, of being straight; as, the straightness of a path..

Orthotropous :: Orthotropous (a.) Having the axis of an ovule or seed straight from the hilum and chalaza to the orifice or the micropyle; atropous.

Straighten :: Straighten (v. t.) To make right or correct; to reduce to order; as, to straighten one's affairs; to straighten an account..

Bent :: Bent (a. & p. p.) Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever..

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