straight
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Not crooked, curly, or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
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(usually)(of a path, trajectory, etc.) Direct, undeviating.
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Perfectly horizontal or vertical; not diagonal or oblique.
Mr. Coniff: He did not have his hat on straight; that is the one thing, is it?
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(cricket) Describing the bat as held so as not to incline to either side; on, or near a line running between the two wickets.
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(engineering, of an internal-combustion engine) Having all cylinders in a single straight line; in-line.
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Direct in communication; unevasive, straightforward.
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Free from dishonesty; honest, law-abiding.
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Serious rather than comedic.
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In proper order; as it should be.
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In a row, in unbroken sequence; consecutive.
After four straight wins, Mudchester United are top of the league.
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(tennis) Describing the sets in a match of which the winner did not lose a single set.
Murray started well against Marcos Baghdatis before slumping to defeat in straight sets and the British No1 admitted he may not have been mentally prepared for the rigours of the ATP Tour after a gruelling start to 2011.
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(US)(US, politics) Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party.
a straight Republican
a straight Democrat
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(US)(US, politics) Containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a single party and no others.
a straight ballot
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(colloquial)Conventional; mainstream; socially acceptable.
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(colloquial)Heterosexual.
Reuben, David R. (1969), chapter 8, in Everything you always wanted to know about sex but were too afraid to ask, New York: David McKay Company, Inc., published 1970, →LCCN, Homosexuals have their own language?, page 146: “STRAIGHT: a heterosexual”
Đồng nghĩa: hetero
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(colloquial)(colloquial, of a romantic or sexual relation) Occurring between people of opposite sex (sometimes, but not always, specifically between heterosexual people).
straight marriage, sex, relationships
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(slang)(slang, sex work) Related to conventional sexual intercourse.
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(colloquial)Not using alcohol, drugs, etc.
Đồng nghĩa: straightedge
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(fashion) Not plus size; thin.
The shirts only come in straight sizes, not in plus sizes.
shopping at a straight-sized store
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(rare)(rare, now chiefly religion) Strait; narrow.
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(obsolete)Stretched out; fully extended.
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(slang)Thorough; utter; unqualified.
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Of spirits: undiluted, unmixed; neat.
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(historical)(telegraphy, historical, of a telegram) Sent at a full rate for immediate delivery; being a fast telegram.
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(sciences, mathematics) Concerning the property allowing the parallel transport of vectors along a course that keeps tangent vectors remain as such throughout that course (a course which is straight, a straight curve, is a geodesic).
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(informal)(informal, of a person) OK, all right, fine; in a good state or situation.
"Is something on your mind?" "Nah, I'm straight".
Just making sure you're straight
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(informal, reciprocal)(informal, of people, reciprocal) On good terms.
We had a bit of a disagreement, but we're straight now.
Trạng từ
adverb- 1.
Of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line.
The door will be straight ahead of you.
Go straight back.
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Directly; without pause, delay or detour.
On arriving at work, he went straight to his office.
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Continuously; without interruption or pause.
He claims he can hold his breath for three minutes straight.
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Of speech or information, without prevarication or holding back; directly; straightforwardly; plainly.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.
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(poker) Five cards in sequence.
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(colloquial)A heterosexual.
My friends call straights "heteros".
Đồng nghĩa: hetero, breeder
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(slang)A normal person; someone in mainstream society.
Đồng nghĩa: basic bitch, bourgeois, L7, mainstreamer, mainstreamist, muggle, mundane, normal, normalfag, normaloid, normie, square, straight
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(slang)A cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana.
A straight = a straighter = a straight cut, une cigarette en tabac de Virginie.]
Đồng nghĩa: straighter
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A chiropractor who relies solely on spinal adjustment, with no other treatments.
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A cat that has straight ears despite belonging to a breed that often has folded ears.
2021, B. J. Deming, 25 More Facts About House Cats A hopeful sign of compromise is the growing popularity of Scottish Fold "straights" (cats like Maru, without droopy ears).
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To straighten.
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From Middle English streight, streght, streiȝt, the past participle of strecchen (to stretch), from Old English streċċan (past participle ġestreaht, ġestreht), from *strakkjan (to stretch). Cognate with straicht straight, gestrekt stretched, gestreckt stretched, strakt stretched, and strekti stretched, strekkti stretched, strekte stretched, sträckte stretched. Doublet of straught.