Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 167
Straight (a.) 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.
Straight (a.) (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.
Straight (a.) (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.
Straight (a.) Conforming to justice and rectitude; not deviating from truth or fairness; upright; as, straight dealing.
Straight (a.) Unmixed; undiluted; as, to take liquor straight. [Slang]
Straight (a.) 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 (adv.) 直，挺直地；直接地，一直地；正直地，坦率地 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 (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 (v. t.) To straighten. [R.] -- A Smith.
Straight (adv.) Without deviation; "the path leads directly to the lake"; "went direct to the office" [syn: directly, straight, direct].
Straight (adv.) In a forthright manner; candidly or frankly; "he didn't answer directly"; "told me straight out"; "came out flat for less work and more pay" [syn: directly, flat, straight] [ant: indirectly].
Straight (adv.) In a straight line; in a direct course; "the road runs straight".
Straight (a.) Successive (without a break); "sick for five straight days" [syn: straight, consecutive].
Straight (a.) Having no deviations; "straight lines"; "straight roads across the desert"; "straight teeth"; "straight shoulders" [ant: crooked].
Straight (a.) (Of hair) Having no waves or curls; "her naturally straight hair hung long and silky" [ant: curly].
Straight (a.) Erect in posture; "sit straight"; "stood defiantly with unbowed back" [syn: straight, unbent, unbowed].
Straight (a.) In keeping with the facts; "set the record straight"; "made sure the facts were straight in the report".
Straight (a.) Characterized by honesty and fairness; "straight dealing"; "a square deal" [syn: straight, square] [ant: corrupt, crooked].
Straight (a.) No longer coiled [syn: uncoiled, straight] [ant: coiled].
Straight (a.) Free from curves or angles; "a straight line" [ant: curved, curving].
Straight (a.) Neatly arranged; not disorderly; "the room is straight now".
Straight (a.) Not homosexual.
Straight (a.) Accurately fitted; level; "the window frame isn't quite true" [syn: true, straight].
Straight (a.) Without evasion or compromise; "a square contradiction"; "he is not being as straightforward as it appears" [syn: square(a), straightforward, straight].
Straight (a.) Without water; "took his whiskey neat" [syn: neat, straight, full-strength].
Straight (a.) Following a correct or logical method; "straight reasoning".
Straight (a.) Rigidly conventional or old-fashioned [syn: square, straight].
Straight (n.) A heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex [syn: heterosexual, heterosexual person, straight person, straight].
Straight (n.) A poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit).
Straight (n.) A straight segment of a roadway or racecourse [syn: straightaway, straight].
Straightedge (n.) A board, or piece of wood or metal, having one edge perfectly straight, -- used to ascertain whether a line is straight or a surface even, and for drawing straight lines.
Straightedge (n.) Hand tool consisting of a flat rigid rectangular bar (metal or wood) that can be used to draw straight lines (or test their straightness).
Straighted (imp. & p. p.) of Straighten.
Straighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Straighten.
Straighten (v. t.) 把……弄直；使挺直；整頓，清理；澄清 [（+out/ up）] To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.
Straighten (v. t.) To make right or correct; to reduce to order; as, to straighten one's affairs; to straighten an account.
To straighten one's face, To cease laughing or smiling, etc., and compose one's features.
Straighten (v. t.) A variant of Straiten. [Obs. or R.]
Straighten (v.) Straighten up or out; make straight [syn: straighten, unbend] [ant: bend, flex].
Straighten (v.) Make straight [syn: straighten, straighten out].
Straighten (v.) Get up from a sitting or slouching position; "The students straightened when the teacher entered".
Straighten (v.) Put (things or places) in order; "Tidy up your room!" [syn: tidy, tidy up, clean up, neaten, straighten, straighten out, square away].
Straighten (v.) Straighten by unrolling; "roll out the big map" [syn: roll out, straighten].
Straighten (v.) Make straight or straighter; "Straighten this post"; "straighten hair".
Straightener (n.) One who, or that which, straightens.
Straightener (n.) A device for straightening; "a hair straightener".
Straightforth (adv.) Straightway. [Obs.]
Straightforward (a.) 一直向前的；徑直的；正直的；老實的；坦率的； 簡單的；易懂的；易做的 (adv.) 一直向前地；徑直地；坦率地，直截了當地 Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating; honest; frank. -- adv. In a straightforward manner. -- {Straight`for"ward*ly}, adv. -- {Straight`for"ward*ness}, n.
Straightforward (a.) Free from ambiguity; "a straightforward set of instructions".
Straightforward (a.) Without evasion or compromise; "a square contradiction"; "he is not being as straightforward as it appears" [syn: {square(a)}, {straightforward}, {straight}].
Straightforward (a.) Without concealment or deception; honest; "their business was open and aboveboard"; "straightforward in all his business affairs" [syn: {aboveboard}, {straightforward}].
Straightforward (a.) Pointed directly ahead; "a straightforward gaze".
Straightforwardness (n.) 坦率；直率 The quality of being direct and straightforward; "what some people take for rudeness is really straightforwardness" [syn: downrightness, straightforwardness].
Straightforwardness (n.) Without hypocrisy; "the singleness of his motives could not be questioned" [syn: singleness, straightforwardness].
Straighthorn (n.) (Paleon.) An orthoceras.
Straight-joint (a.) (Arch.) Having straight joints. Specifically:
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. -- Brandle & C.
Straight-joint (a.) In the
Straight-lined (a.) Having straight lines.
Straightly (adv.) In a right line; not crookedly.
Straightly (adv.) A variant of Straitly. See 1st Straight.
Straightness (n.) The quality, condition, or state, of being straight; as, the straightness of a path.
Straightness (n.) A variant of Straitness.
Straightness (n.) (Of hair) Lack of a tendency to curl [ant: curliness, waviness].
Straightness (n.) Freedom from crooks or curves or bends or angles [ant: crookedness].
Straightness (n.) Trueness of course toward a goal; "rivaling a hawk in directness of aim" [syn: directness, straightness] [ant: indirectness].
Straightness (n.) Having honest intentions; "he acted in good faith"; "doubt was expressed as to the good faith of the immigrants" [syn: good faith, straightness].
Straightness (n.) A sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the opposite sex [syn: heterosexuality, heterosexualism, straightness].
Straight-out (a.) Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing. [Colloq. U.S.]
Straight-out and generous indignation. -- Mrs. Stowe.
Straight-out (a.) Without reservation or exception [syn: outright, straight-out, unlimited].
Straight-pight (a.) Straight in form or upright in position; erect. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Straight-spoken (a.) Speaking with directness; plain-spoken. [Colloq. U.S.] -- Lowell.
Straightway (adv.) Immediately; without loss of time; without delay.
He took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi. . . . And straightway the damsel arose. -- Mark v. 41,42.
Straightway (adv.) At once; "straightway the clouds began to scatter".
Straightway (adv.) In a direct course; "plunged straightway to the rocks below".
Straightways (adv.) Straightway. [Obs.]
Straik (n.) A strake.
Strain (n.) Race; stock; generation; descent; family.
Strain (n.) Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
Strain (n.) Rank; a sort.
Strained (imp. & p. p.) of Strain.
Straining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strain.
Strain (v. t.) To draw with force; to extend with great effort; to stretch; as, to strain a rope; to strain the shrouds of a ship; to strain the cords of a musical instrument. "To strain his fetters with a stricter care." -- Dryden.
Strain (v. t.) (Mech.) To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as forces on a beam to bend it.
Strain (v. t.) To exert to the utmost; to ply vigorously.
He sweats, Strains his young nerves. -- Shak.
They strain their warbling throats To welcome in the spring. -- Dryden.
Strain (v. t.) To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in the matter of intent or meaning; as, to strain the law in order to convict an accused person.
There can be no other meaning in this expression, however some may pretend to strain it. -- Swift.
Strain (v. t.) To injure by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force; as, the gale strained the timbers of the ship.
Strain (v. t.) To injure in the muscles or joints by causing to make too strong an effort; to harm by overexertion; to sprain; as, to strain a horse by overloading; to strain the wrist; to strain a muscle.
Prudes decayed about may track, Strain their necks with looking back. -- Swift.
Strain (v. t.) To squeeze; to press closely.
Evander with a close embrace Strained his departing friend. -- Dryden.
Strain (v. t.) To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
He talks and plays with Fatima, but his mirth Is forced and strained. -- Denham.
The quality of mercy is not strained. -- Shak.
Strain (v. t.) To urge with importunity; to press; as, to strain a petition or invitation.
Note, if your lady strain his entertainment. -- Shak.
Strain (v. t.) To press, or cause to pass, through a strainer, as through a screen, a cloth, or some porous substance; to purify, or separate from extraneous or solid matter, by filtration; to filter; as, to strain milk through cloth.
To strain a point, To make a special effort; especially, to do a degree of violence to some principle or to one's own feelings.
To strain courtesy, To go beyond what courtesy requires; to insist somewhat too much upon the precedence of others; -- often used ironically. -- Shak.
Strain (v. i.) To make violent efforts. "Straining with too weak a wing." -- Pope.
To build his fortune I will strain a little. -- Shak.
Strain (v. i.) To percolate; to be filtered; as, water straining through a sandy soil.
Strain (n.) The act of straining, or the state of being strained. Specifically:
Strain (n.) A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles; as, he lifted the weight with a strain; the strain upon a ship's rigging in a gale; also, the hurt or injury resulting; a sprain.
Whether any poet of our country since Shakespeare has exerted a greater variety of powers with less strain and less ostentation. -- Landor.
Credit is gained by custom, and seldom recovers a strain. -- Sir W. Temple.
Strain (n.) (Mech. Physics) A change of form or dimensions of a solid or liquid mass, produced by a stress. -- Rankine.
Strain (n.) (Mus.) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement.
Their heavenly harps a lower strain began. -- Dryden.
Strain (n.) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style; also, a course of action or conduct; as, he spoke in a noble strain; there was a strain of woe in his story; a strain of trickery appears in his career. "A strain of gallantry." -- Sir W. Scott.
Such take too high a strain at first. -- Bacon.
The genius and strain of the book of Proverbs. -- Tillotson.
It [Pilgrim's Progress] seems a novelty, and yet contains
Nothing but sound and honest gospel strains. -- Bunyan.
Strain (n.) Turn; tendency; inborn disposition. Cf. 1st Strain.
Because heretics have a strain of madness, he applied her with some corporal chastisements. -- Hayward.
Strain (n.) (Physics) Deformation of a physical body under the action of applied forces.
Strain (n.) Difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension; "she endured the stresses and strains of life"; "he presided over the economy during the period of the greatest stress and danger" -- R.J.Samuelson [syn: stress, strain].
Strain (n.) A succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence; "she was humming an air from Beethoven" [syn: tune, melody, air, strain, melodic line, line, melodic phrase].
Strain (n.) (Psychology) Nervousness resulting from mental stress; "his responsibilities were a constant strain"; "the mental strain of staying alert hour after hour was too much for him" [syn: strain, mental strain, nervous strain].
Strain (n.) A special variety of domesticated animals within a species; "he experimented on a particular breed of white rats"; "he created a new strain of sheep" [syn: breed, strain, stock].
Strain (n.) (Biology) A group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups; "a new strain of microorganisms" [syn: form, variant, strain, var.].
Strain (n.) Injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse); results in swelling and pain.
Strain (n.) The general meaning or substance of an utterance; "although I disagreed with him I could follow the tenor of his argument" [syn: tenor, strain].
Strain (n.) An effortful attempt to attain a goal [syn: striving, nisus, pains, strain].
Strain (n.) An intense or violent exertion [syn: strain, straining].
Strain (n.) The act of singing; "with a shout and a song they marched up to the gates" [syn: song, strain].
Strain (v.) To exert much effort or energy; "straining our ears to hear" [syn: strive, reach, strain].
Strain (v.) Test the limits of; "You are trying my patience!" [syn: try, strain, stress].
Strain (v.) Use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity; "He really extended himself when he climbed Kilimanjaro"; "Don't strain your mind too much" [syn: strain, extend].
Strain (v.) Separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements; "sift the flour" [syn: sift, sieve, strain].
Strain (v.) Cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious; "he got a phone call from his lawyer that tensed him up" [syn: tense, strain, tense up] [ant: loosen up, make relaxed, relax, unlax, unstrain, unwind].
Strain (v.) Become stretched or tense or taut; "the bodybuilder's neck muscles tensed;" "the rope strained when the weight was attached" [syn: strain, tense].
Strain (v.) Remove by passing through a filter; "filter out the impurities" [syn: filter, filtrate, strain, separate out, filter out].
Strain (v.) Rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender; "puree the vegetables for the baby" [syn: puree, strain].
Strain (v.) Alter the shape of (something) by stress; "His body was deformed by leprosy" [syn: deform, distort, strain].
Strainable (a.) Capable of being strained.
Strainable (a.) Violent in action. -- Holinshed.
Strainably (adv.) Violently. -- Holinshed.
Strained (a.) Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends.
Strained (a.) Done or produced with straining or excessive effort; as, his wit was strained.
Strained (a.) Lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating" [syn: labored, laboured, strained].
Strained (a.) Showing signs of mental and emotional tension; "her voice was strained as she asked the question".
Strained (a.) Lacking spontaneity; not natural; "a constrained smile"; "forced heartiness"; "a strained smile" [syn: constrained, forced, strained].
Strained (a.) Struggling for effect; "agonistic poses" [syn: agonistic, strained].
Strainer (n.) One who strains.
Strainer (n.) That through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an openwork or perforated screen, as for the end of the suction pipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid.
Strainer (n.) A filter to retain larger pieces while smaller pieces and liquids pass through.
Straining () a. & n. from Strain.
Straint (n.) Overexertion; excessive tension; strain.
Strait (adv.) Strictly; rigorously. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Straits (n. pl. ) of Strait.
Strait (n.) A narrow pass or passage.
He brought him through a darksome narrow strait To a broad gate all built of beaten gold. -- Spenser.
Honor travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast. -- Shak.
Strait (n.) Specifically: (Geog.) A (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water; -- often in the plural; as, the strait, or straits, of Gibraltar; the straits of Magellan; the strait, or straits, of Mackinaw.
We steered directly through a large outlet which they call a strait, though it be fifteen miles broad. -- De Foe.
Strait (n.) A neck of land; an isthmus. [R.]
A dark strait of barren land. -- Tennyson.
Strait (n.) Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits.
For I am in a strait betwixt two. -- Phil. i. 23.
Let no man, who owns a Providence, grow desperate under any calamity or strait whatsoever. -- South.
Ulysses made use of the pretense of natural infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that time in his thoughts. -- Broome.
Strait (a.) A variant of Straight. [Obs.]
Strait (a.) Narrow; not broad.
Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. -- Matt. vii. 14.
Too strait and low our cottage doors. -- Emerson.
Strait (a.) Tight; close; closely fitting. -- Shak.
Strait (a.) Close; intimate; near; familiar. [Obs.] "A strait degree of favor." -- Sir P. Sidney.
Strait (a.) Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.
Some certain edicts and some strait decrees. -- Shak.
The straitest sect of our religion. -- Acts xxvi. 5 (Rev. Ver.).
Strait (a.) Difficult; distressful; straited.
To make your strait circumstances yet straiter. -- Secker.
Strait (a.) Parsimonious; niggargly; mean. [Obs.]
I beg cold comfort, and you are so strait, And so ingrateful, you deny me that. -- Shak.
Strait (v. t.) To put to difficulties. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Strait (a.) Narrow; "strait is the gate".
Strait (n.) A narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water [syn: strait, sound].
Strait (n.) A bad or difficult situation or state of affairs [syn: pass, strait, straits].
Straitened (imp. & p. p.) of Straiten.
Straitening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Straiten.
Straiten (v. t.) To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine.
Straiten (v. t.) To make tense, or tight; to tighten.
Straiten (v. t.) To restrict; to distress or embarrass in respect of means or conditions of life; -- used chiefly in the past participle; -- as, a man straitened in his circumstances.
Strait-handed (a.) Parsimonious; sparing; niggardly.
Strait-jacket (n.) A dress of strong materials for restraining maniacs or those who are violently delirious. It has long sleeves, which are closed at the ends, confining the hands, and may be tied behind the back.
Strait-laced (a.) Bound with stays.
Strait-laced (a.) Restricted; stiff; constrained.
Strait-laced (a.) Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals.
Straitly (adv.) In a strait manner; narrowly; strictly; rigorously.
Straitly (adv.) Closely; intimately.
Straitness (n.) The quality or condition of being strait; especially, a pinched condition or situation caused by poverty; as, the straitnessof their circumstances.
Strait-waistcoat (n.) Same as Strait-jacket.
Strake () imp. of Strike.
Strake (n.) A streak.
Strake (n.) An iron band by which the fellies of a wheel are secured to each other, being not continuous, as the tire is, but made up of separate pieces.
Strake (n.) One breadth of planks or plates forming a continuous range on the bottom or sides of a vessel, reaching from the stem to the stern; a streak.
Strake (n.) A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder.
Strale (n.) Pupil of the eye.