Straw

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
2. isim Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions.
3. isim A drinking straw.
4. isim A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
5. isim Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.

   “to not care a straw”

6. isim A straw owner.

   “The Bromfield Street offices were housed in a dilapidated but heavily-insured building, owned by a straw for a wealthy downtown real estate developer, surrounded by expensive new commercial developments, and in a city renowned for arson-for-profit.”

7. sıfat Made of straw.

   “straw hat”

8. sıfat Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
9. sıfat Imaginary, but presented as real.

   “A straw enemy built up in the media to seem like a real threat, which then collapses like a balloon.”

10. fiil To scatter or to spread loosely.
11. fiil To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost.
12. fiil To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.

    “It was the custom for the disaffected of those days to make known their grievances by distributing papers on doors of public buildings, and even strawing them in the high way, for the benefit of the chance passenger.”

13. özel isim A surname transferred from the nickname.