straight
suomi-englanti sanakirjastraight englannista suomeksi
suoraan
suora
järjestyksessä, siisti
hetero
rehellinen, vilpitön, rehti
kalkkis
kunnossa, oikein
peräkkäinen
heteroseksuaali, hetero-
johdonmukainen
kuiva
Substantiivi
Verbi
straight englanniksi
Not crooked, curly, or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length. (defdate)
(RQ:Austen Sense and Sensibility)
(RQ:Chambers Younger Set)”
{{quote-journal|en|date=March 22 2011|author=Adharanand Finn|journal=The Guardian
(cap), undeviating. (defdate)
{{quote-text|en|year=1913|author=John Fox, Jr.|title=The Kentuckians|page=185
(quote-book)
{{quote-journal|en|date=2013-06-29|volume=407|issue=8842|page=55|magazine=The Economist
Perfectly horizontal or vertical; not diagonal or oblique. (defdate)
1925, United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 1, ''Charges Against William E. Baker, U.S. District Judge'':
- Mr. Coniff: He did not have his hat on straight; that is the one thing, is it?
Describing the bat as held so as not to incline to either side; on, or near a line running between the two wickets. (defdate)
{{quote-journal|en|date=March 15 2011|author=Alan Gardner; Barney Ronay|journal=The Guardian
Having all cylinders in a single straight line; in-line.
(cap) in communication; unevasive, straightforward. (defdate)
{{quote-journal|en|date=24 April 2003|author=Rosie Cowan|journal=The Guardian
(quote-journal)
(cap) from dishonesty; honest, law-abiding. (defdate)
{{quote-text|en|year=1879|author=Anthony Trollope|title=John Caldigate
{{quote-journal|en|date=August 4 2010|author=The Guardian|journal=Out of prison and trying to go straight|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/aug/04/prisoner-going-straight-drugs-crime
(cap) rather than comedic.
{{quote-book|en|year=1988|author=Ed Gould|title=Entertaining Canadians: Canada's international stars, 1900-1988|publisher=Cappis Pr Pub Ltd|isbn=9780919763180
{{quote-book|en|year=2004|author=Tammy Ravas|title=Peter Schickele: A Bio-bibliography|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=9780313320705
{{quote-book|en|year=2005|author=Bob McCabe|title=The Rough Guide to Comedy Movies|publisher=Rough Guides Limited
{{quote-journal|en|date=15 August 2010|author=Paul Gallagher|journal=The Observer
In a row, in unbroken sequence; consecutive. (defdate)
(ux)
{{quote-journal|en|date=September 24, 2011|author=David Ornstein|work=BBC Sport
{{quote-journal|en|date=30 October 2008|title=Bad vibrations|journal=The Economist
Describing the sets in a match of which the winner did not lose a single set. (defdate)
2011 February 10, Press Association:
- 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.
Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a party.
Containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a single party and no others.
(senseid) (cap); mainstream; socially acceptable. (defdate)
(quote-web)
(quote-song)
(quote-journal)|date=17 October 1998
(quote-book)|year=2007|isbn=978-0-307-42056-5|passage="When you say he's a straight guy, you mean(nb..)?" I held up my left hand as if it were a shield and spun my ring around. I told her: "He works on Wall Street.(..)He wouldn't understand my business. He's always had a straight job. His entire life he's been so – so normal that he doesn't even know how normal he is.(..)He doesn't know I'm a hooker. I'm pretending to be a straight chick. And it's working! And that makes him a straight guy. It's ... I feel like Dr. Frankenhooker."
(senseid) (cap).(cite-book)
(syn)
(quote-song)|year=1975|passage=Ain't nobody straight in L.A. / It seems that everybody is gay
(quote-book)|year=2003|page=187|isbn=978-1-56025-515-4|passage=
{{quote-journal|en|date=17 September 2007|author=Layla Kumari|journal=The Guardian
(quote-book)| year=2013| page=233| isbn=978-1-84605-959-9| passage=Why did he have to be straight? It's my tragedy. When we went camping with the school, we shared a tent. I was hoping for a ''(w)'' moment. I mean, I know he's straight, but there's always hope.
Occurring between people of opposite sex (sometimes, but not always, specifically between heterosexual people).
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(seemoreCites)
Related to conventional intercourse.
(cot)
(RQ:Mezzrow Blues)
{{quote-text|en|year=1989|author=Gus Van Sant|title=Drugstore Cowboy
Thorough; utter; unqualified.
{{quote-text|en|year=2012|author=Pimpin' Ken|title=PIMPOLOGY: The 48 Laws of the Game|page=11
Sent at a full rate for immediate delivery; being a telegram.
Concerning the property allowing the transport of vectors along a course that keeps tangent vectors remain as such throughout that course (gloss).
On good terms.
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.''
''On arriving at work, he went straight to his office.''
(RQ:Marlowe Tamburlaine)
(RQ:Addison Cato)
Continuously; without interruption or pause.
''He claims he can hold his breath for three minutes straight.''
Of speech or information, without prevarication or holding back; directly; straightforwardly; plainly.
(RQ:Lindsay Age of Consent)
Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.
Five cards in sequence.
A heterosexual.
A normal person; someone in mainstream society.
(quote-av)
(quote-book) more than any other work revealed the split vision towards space exploration among many in the counter-culture: a romantic vision of the freedom offered by space that had been fostered by a lifetime of science fiction consumption, immersion in a technological society, the countercultural yearning for speed and “the road,” and, thanks to LSD and other hallucinogens, a unique preappreciation of space traveling not available to straights, versus the bland, oppressive vision of exploration offered by NASA, itself just one part of a larger destructive system that was devastating Earth and that could only offer further oppression in space, not liberation.
A cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana. (defdate)
(synonyms)
Joseph Manchon, ''Le slang : lexique de l'anglais familier et vulgaire : précédé d'une étude sur la pronunciation et la grammaire populaires'', p. 296:
- A straight = a straighter = a straight cut, une cigarette en tabac de Virginie.
A chiropractor who relies solely on spinal adjustment, with no other treatments.
(ant)
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).
To straighten.
{{quote-text|en|year=1776|author=Adam Smith|title=An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Of a work of art: it straight|played straight, not daring to break conventions.
(l), heterosexual
(l), directly
(l) (gloss)