English Dictionary

straight

adj

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.

She has straight hair.

意味（1）

Not crooked or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.

I do not like crooked, twisted, blasted trees. I admire them much more if they are tall, straight and flourishing.

意味（2）

(of a path, trajectory, etc.) Direct, undeviating.

Now, as the world knows, the straightest way to the heart of the honest voter is through the women of the land, and the straightest way to the heart of the women is through the children of the land; and one method of winning both, with rural politicians, is to kiss the babies wide and far.

意味（3）

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?

意味（4）

(cricket) Describing the bat as held so as not to incline to either side; on, or near a line running between the two wickets.

Steyn continues and it's all a bit more orderly down his end as O'Brien defends the first three balls with a straight bat and a respectful dip of the head.

意味（5）

Direct in communication; unevasive, straightforward.

Tony Blair issued a direct challenge to the IRA yesterday when he demanded they give straight answers to three simple questions […].

意味（6）

Free from dishonesty; honest, law-abiding.

‘It wasn't the proper thing, squoire. It wasn't straight.’

意味（7）

Serious rather than comedic.

Allan Blye, a CBC-TV mainstay in the early Sixties, worked as a singer, writer and straight and comedic actor.

意味（8）

In proper order; as it should be.

Oh, music, how he loved it; it seemed to set everything straight all at once in his head.

意味（9）

In a row, in unbroken sequence; consecutive.

After four straight wins, Mudchester United are top of the league.

意味（10）

(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.

意味（11）

(US, politics) Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party.

a straight Republican

意味（12）

(US, politics) Containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a party and no others.

a straight ballot

意味（13）

(colloquial) Conventional, mainstream, socially acceptable.

Although Eyles, the minor celebrity, is respected by his co-workers, he looks out of place among the dozens of short-haired, short-sleeved technocrats who man the Lab. “No doubt about it,” he says, “there are an awful lot of people around here you’d have to call straight.”

意味（14）

(colloquial) Heterosexual.

We only appear straight for the first five seconds. Just walking down the street, in the diner, or at the boardwalk, we hear, Is she a man? Is she a woman? If she is a straight woman, what is she doing with this gay man? We check in with each other. What do you think, is it okay? I think we should go. I think we should cross over to the other side. Danger.

意味（15）

(colloquial, of a romantic or sexual relation) Occurring between people of opposite sex (sometimes, but only sometimes, specifically between heterosexual ones).

straight marriage, sex, relationships

意味（16）

(slang, sex work) Related to conventional sexual intercourse.

Coordinate term: French

意味（17）

(colloquial) Not using alcohol, drugs, etc.

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

意味（18）

(fashion) Not plus size; thin.

The shirts only come in straight sizes, not in plus sizes.

意味（19）

(rare, now chiefly religion) Strait; narrow.

Egypt is a long country, but it is straight, that is to say, narrow.

意味（20）

(obsolete) Stretched out; fully extended.

意味（21）

(slang) Thorough; utter; unqualified.

A real pimp is a gentleman, but these are pimps in gorilla suits. They hang around pimps, they have hoes on the track working for them, they may even look like pimps, but they are straight simps.

意味（22）

Of spirits: undiluted, unmixed; neat.

Real cowboys know how to rope, ride a horse and drink whisky straight.

意味（23）

(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).