Meaning

7 senses
  1. Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.

    пряма́яprjamája

  2. Five cards in sequence.

    Straße

    стрейтstrejt, стритstrit

  3. (colloquial)A heterosexual.

    My friends call straights "heteros".

  4. (slang)A normal person; someone in mainstream society.

  5. (slang)A cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana.

  6. A chiropractor who relies solely on spinal adjustment, with no other treatments.

  7. 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).

More definitions
  • 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 sentences
  1. Let's go straight to the beach.

    Ходімо просто на пляж. — deniko

    ruПойдём прямо на пляж. — odexed

    deLass uns gleich an den Strand gehen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. He drew a straight line on the wall.

    Він намалював на стіні пряму лінію. — deniko

    ruОн начертил на стене прямую линию. — odexed

  3. 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

  4. Tom came straight up to me.

    Том пішов відразу до мене. — deniko

  5. I have straight hair.

    У мене пряме волосся. — deniko

    ruУ меня прямые волосы. — marafon

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
something that is not crooked or bent:
five cards in sequence:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
five cards in sequence:

Origin

From Middle English streight, streght, streiȝt, the past participle of strecchen (“to stre

From 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: straights
Singularstraight
Pluralstraights

regular

Synonyms

17 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

5 related words

Collocations

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

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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