straight
Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or trackSomething that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.
» Let's go straight to the beach.
Lass uns gleich an den Strand gehen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Пойдём прямо на пляж. — odexed
Пойдёмте прямо на пляж. — odexed
Ходімо просто на пляж. — deniko
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7 sensesSomething that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.
пряма́яprjamája
Five cards in sequence.
Straße
стрейтstrejt, стритstrit
(colloquial)A heterosexual.
My friends call straights "heteros".
(slang)A normal person; someone in mainstream society.
(slang)A cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana.
A chiropractor who relies solely on spinal adjustment, with no other treatments.
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).
- a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit)
- a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse
- a person having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
Examples
1233 sentencesLet's go straight to the beach.
Ходімо просто на пляж. — deniko
ruПойдём прямо на пляж. — odexed
deLass uns gleich an den Strand gehen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
He drew a straight line on the wall.
Він намалював на стіні пряму лінію. — deniko
ruОн начертил на стене прямую линию. — odexed
Go straight down this street and turn right at the third light.
Їдьте прямо цією вулицею і поверніть праворуч на третьому світлофорі. — aandrusiak
ruИдите по этой улице прямо и на третьем светофоре сверните направо. — sharptoothed
deGehen Sie diese Straße entlang geradeaus und biegen Sie an der dritten Ampel rechts ab. — Zaghawa
Tom came straight up to me.
Том пішов відразу до мене. — deniko
I have straight hair.
У мене пряме волосся. — deniko
ruУ меня прямые волосы. — marafon
Translations
7 languagesBy meaning 2
By meaning 1
Origin
From Middle English streight, streght, streiȝt, the past participle of strecchen (“to streFrom Middle English streight, streght, streiȝt, the past participle of strecchen (“to stretch”), from Old English streċċan (past participle ġestreaht, ġestreht), from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan (“to stretch”). Cognate with Scots straicht (“straight”), Dutch gestrekt (“stretched”), German gestreckt (“stretched”), Danish strakt (“stretched”), Faroese and Norn strekti (“stretched”), Icelandic strekkti (“stretched”), Norwegian strekte (“stretched”), Swedish sträckte (“stretched”). Doublet of straught. Equivalent to stretch + -ed.
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Forms
plural: straightsSynonyms
17 synonyms- a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse:straightaway
- a person having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex:heterosexualheterosexual personstraight person
Antonyms
1 antonymsWord family
5 related wordsCollocations
12 patterns- go straight
- went straight home
- straight home
- straight home after
- straight a student
- went straight to
- a straight face
- the record straight
- facts facts straight
- got straight a's
- a straight a
- keep a straight