Straight

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Not crooked, curly, 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.”

2. sıfat 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.”

3. sıfat 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?”

4. sıfat 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.”

5. sıfat Having all cylinders in a single straight line; in-line.
6. sıfat 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[…].”

7. sıfat Free from dishonesty; honest, law-abiding.

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

8. sıfat Serious rather than comedic.

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

9. sıfat 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.”

10. sıfat In a row, in unbroken sequence; consecutive.

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

11. sıfat 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.”

12. sıfat Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party.

    “a straight Republican”

13. sıfat Containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a single party and no others.

    “a straight ballot”

14. sıfat 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.””

15. sıfat Heterosexual.

    “Reuben, David R. (1969), chapter 8, in Everything you always wanted to know about sex but were too afraid to ask, New York: David McKay Company, Inc., published 1970, →LCCN, Homosexuals have their own language?, page 146: “STRAIGHT: a heterosexual””

16. sıfat Occurring between people of opposite sex (sometimes, but not always, specifically between heterosexual people).

    “straight marriage, sex, relationships”

17. sıfat Related to conventional sexual intercourse.

    ““That coffee-an’ mac you got,” a French girl would crack to a straight one, and then it was on—hair came out by the handful, some bleached and some unbleached.”

18. sıfat Not using alcohol, drugs, etc.

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

19. sıfat Not plus size; thin.

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

20. sıfat Strait; narrow.

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

21. zarf Of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line.

    “The door will be straight ahead of you.”

22. zarf Directly; without pause, delay or detour.

    “On arriving at work, he went straight to his office.”

23. zarf Continuously; without interruption or pause.

    “He claims he can hold his breath for three minutes straight.”

24. zarf Of speech or information, without prevarication or holding back; directly; straightforwardly; plainly.

    “"By ginger, Mudgy, you do go off the handle over nothing. I tell you straight, I was damned annoyed with you this afternoon, going pop like that at a man over nothing."”

25. isim Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.

    “After four grueling laps, the race had come down to a sprint. Into the straight, although my legs were burning, I called on them for more, and they responded. On my inside the maroon singlet came with me, until it was just the two of us heading for the line.”

26. isim Five cards in sequence.
27. isim A heterosexual.

    “My friends call straights "heteros".”

28. isim A normal person; someone in mainstream society.

    “You live with straights who tell you you was king / Jump when your momma tell you anything”

29. isim A cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana.

    “A straight = a straighter = a straight cut, une cigarette en tabac de Virginie.]”

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