The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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.
And the crooked shall be made straight.
--Isa. xl. 4.There are many several sorts of crooked lines, but there is only one which is straight.
--Dryden. (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.
(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.
Conforming to justice and rectitude; not deviating from truth or fairness; upright; as, straight dealing.
Unmixed; undiluted; as, to take liquor straight. [Slang]
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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.]
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.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlative of: straight)
Usage examples of "straightest".
JUDGMENT that the Cauldron-Born would march directly to Annuvin, following the straightest and shortest path.
Silently I cursed the low ceilings, the corners I must squeeze past and the labyrinthine wandering of the burrows when I wished to run as fast as I could in the straightest possible line.
They followed the straightest of these across the center of the chamber, moving as silently as possible.
No other girl had such a perfect line of back, concavity of slim waist, with the straightest of lines dropping from the armpits down to the in-curve of waist, then flaring, descending in a slanted curve to the pinched-in place of the knee, then sleekly curving again down the calf to the delicacy of ankle bone and the princess-narrow foot.
Jerry has been in the business a long, long time, knew Thomas Jefferson personally, and is one of the straightest shooters around.
Our hut, if it deserved to be called one, consisted of six or eight of the straightest branches we could find laid obliquely against the steep wall of rock, with their lower ends within a foot of the stream.
Its interior presented the appearance of an immense lounging place, the entire floor being strewn with successive layers of mats, lying between parallel trunks of cocoanut trees, selected for the purpose from the straightest and most symmetrical the vale afforded.
It is dearer to me than the antique town: I love it more than the rounded hills: Straightest, sublimest of rivers is the long Canal.
Once all were away from the methane, Dondragmer ordered them to clamber horizontally upstream to the point where the eddy current went straightest into the maze.
Finally maintaining some kind of balance with her padds, Kathryn looked around and took the straightest route-right through a patch of bright, colorful flowers.
You there, Jonil, see to the cutting of some branches, the straightest you can find, and Karis, you tear up some blankets for bindings.