Found 4 items, similar to Straighter.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: straight lurus
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: straight lempang, lurus
English → English (WordNet) Definition: straight straight adj 1: successive (without a break); “sick for five straight days” [syn: consecutive] 2: having no deviations; “straight lines”; “straight roads across the desert”; “straight teeth”; “straight shoulders” [ant: crooked] 3: (of hair) having no waves or curls; “her naturally straight hair hung long and silky” [ant: curly] 4: erect in posture; “behind him sat old man Arthur; he was straight with something angry in his attitude”; “stood defiantly with unbowed back” [syn: unbent, unbowed, upright] 5: right; in keeping with the facts; “set the record straight”; “made sure the facts were straight in the report” 6: honest and morally upright; “I just want a straight answer to the question”; “straight dealing” [ant: crooked] 7: no longer coiled [syn: uncoiled] [ant: coiled] 8: without curves [ant: curved] 9: neatly arranged; not disorderly; “the room is straight now” 10: characterized by honesty and fairness; “a square deal”; “wanted to do the square thing” [syn: square] 11: not homosexual 12: accurately fitted; level; “the window frame isn't quite true” [syn: true] 13: without water; “took his whiskey neat” [syn: neat, full-strength] 14: reliable in matters of fact; “he was always straight with me” 15: following a correct or logical method; “straight reasoning” 16: rigidly conventional or old-fashioned [syn: square] straight n 1: a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex [syn: heterosexual, heterosexual person , straight person] 2: a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit) 3: a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse [syn: straightaway] straight adv 1: without deviation; “the path leads directly to the lake”; “went direct to the office” [syn: directly, direct] 2: in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly; “he didn't answer directly”; “told me straight out”; “came out flat for less work and more pay” [syn: directly, flat] [ant: indirectly] 3: in a straight line; in a direct course; “the road runs straight”
English → English (gcide) Definition: Straighter Straight \Straight\, a. [Compar. Straighter; superl. Straightest.] [OE. strei?t, properly p. p. of strecchen to stretch, AS. streht, p. p. of streccan to stretch, to extend. See Stretch.] 1. Right, in a mathematical sense; passing from one point to another by the nearest course; direct; not deviating or crooked; as, a straight line or course; a straight piece of timber. [1913 Webster] And the crooked shall be made straight. --Isa. xl. 4. [1913 Webster] There are many several sorts of crooked lines, but there is only one which is straight. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. (Bot.) Approximately straight; not much curved; as, straight ribs are such as pass from the base of a leaf to the apex, with a small curve. [1913 Webster] 3. (Card Playing) Composed of cards which constitute a regular sequence, as the ace, king, queen, jack, and ten-spot; as, a straight hand; a straight flush. [1913 Webster] 4. Conforming to justice and rectitude; not deviating from truth or fairness; upright; as, straight dealing. [1913 Webster] 5. Unmixed; undiluted; as, to take liquor straight. [Slang] [1913 Webster] 6. Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party; as, a straight Republican; a straight Democrat; also, containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a party and no others; as, a straight ballot. [Political Cant, U.S.] [1913 Webster] Straight arch (Arch.), a form of arch in which the intrados is straight, but with its joints drawn radially, as in a common arch. A straight face, one giving no evidence of merriment or other emotion. A straight line. “That which lies evenly between its extreme points.” --Euclid. “The shortest line between two points.” --Chauvenet. “A line which has the same direction through its whole length.” --Newcomb. Straight-way valve, a valve which, when opened widely, affords a straight passageway, as for water. [1913 Webster]