straight
English
/stɹeɪt/
adj
Definitions
- Not crooked or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
- (of a path, trajectory, etc.) Direct, undeviating.
- Perfectly horizontal or vertical; not diagonal or oblique.
- (cricket) Describing the bat as held so as not to incline to either side; on, or near a line running between the two wickets.
- Direct in communication; unevasive, straightforward.
- Free from dishonesty; honest, law-abiding.
- Serious rather than comedic.
- In proper order; as it should be.
- In a row, in unbroken sequence; consecutive.
- (tennis) Describing the sets in a match of which the winner did not lose a single set.
- (US) Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party.
- (US) Containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a party and no others.
- (colloquial) Conventional, mainstream, socially acceptable.
- (colloquial) Heterosexual, attracted to people of the opposite sex.
- (colloquial) Occurring between people of opposite sex.
- (colloquial) Not using alcohol, drugs, etc.
- (fashion) Not plus size; thin.
- (rare) Strait; narrow.
- (obsolete) Stretched out; fully extended.
- (slang) Thorough; utter; unqualified.
- Of spirits: undiluted, unmixed; neat.
- (science) Concerning the property allowing the parallel-transport of vectors along a course that keeps tangent vectors remain tangent vectors throughout that course a course which is straight, a straight curve, is a geodesic.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English streight derived from Old English streċċan (stretch, spread out, prostrate, extend, hold out) derived from *strakkjan (stretch, make taut tight).
Origin
*strakkjan
Gloss
stretch, make taut tight
Concept
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antistraight English
- back English
- backstraight English
- face English
- folk English
- forth English
- forward English
- horn English
- nonstraight English
- quasistraight English
- restraighten English
- straightdar English
- straighten English
- straightenable English
- straightener English
- straightenest English
- straighteneth English
- straightface English
- straightfolk English
- straightforth English
- straightforward English
- straightforwardly English
- straightforwardness English
- straighthood English
- straighthorn English
- straightish English
- straightly English
- straightness English
- straightsplain English
- straightwash English
- straightway English
- straightwise English
- straighty English
- unstraight English
- unstraighten English
- unstraightforward English
- wash English
- way English
- стрейт Russian
- стрит Russian
- *(s)treg- Proto-Indo-European
- ストレート Japanese
- strit Polish
- streccan Old English
- streċċan Old English
- ġestreaht Old English
- strecchen Middle English
- streight Middle English
- streightly Middle English
- streightnes Middle English
- estrikier Old French
- strejtaš Serbo-Croatian
- strecken Old High German
- *strakkjan gmw-pro
- סטרייט Hebrew (modern)
- strecken Middle Low German
- 스트레이트 Korean
- stret Papiamentu
- stret Tok Pisin
- stretim Tok Pisin
- way
- face
- back
- horn
- folk
- wash
- forth
- forward
- straighty
- unstraight
- straighten
- straightly
- straightdar
- straightish
- nonstraight
- straightway
- straightwash
- straightwise
- straighthorn
- straightfolk
- antistraight
- straightface
- straighthood
- straightener
- unstraighten
- backstraight
- straightness
- restraighten
- straighteneth
- straightenest
- straightforth
- quasistraight
- straightsplain
- straightenable
- straightforward
- unstraightforward
- straightforwardly
- straightforwardness