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storybook — Everyday, meaning 1: A storybook is a book of stories for children, often with pictures.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Storybook describes something perfect or magical, like in a fairy tale: a storybook ending.↗ Example: Mum read me a storybook before bed.↗ · The library has a shelf of storybooks for little ones.↗ · The village looked like a storybook picture.↗ · Their friendship had a storybook ending.↗ · I drew my own storybook about a dragon.↗ · The storybook was full of bright pictures.↗

storyteller — Everyday, meaning 1: A storyteller is a person who tells stories, often out loud to an audience.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A storyteller can also be a writer or someone who is very good at telling stories in an interesting way.↗ Example: The storyteller held the children spellbound.↗ · Grandpa is a wonderful storyteller.↗ · A storyteller visited our library this week.↗ · Long ago, storytellers passed on stories by heart.↗ · Be a good storyteller: use expression and pauses.↗ · The storyteller used puppets to act out the tale.↗ · Who is the storyteller in this book?↗ · [208] "Some storytellers," says Afanasief, "substitute the word snake (zmei) in the Skazka for that of witch (vyed'ma)."↗

stout — Everyday, meaning 1: Rather fat or heavy in body (a polite word).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Strong and thick: stout boots, a stout stick.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Brave and firm: a stout defender.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (noun) A strong, very dark beer.↗ Example: I'm a little teapot, short and stout.↗ · Wear stout shoes for the hike.↗ · He leaned on a stout wooden stick.↗ · The stout old man puffed up the hill.↗ · They put up a stout defence and won the match.↗ · In Ireland, stout is a popular drink for adults.↗ · A great stout man was Palle Dyre.↗ · Hearken unto Me, ye stout-hearted, that are far from righteousness: (Prophets ISA.46.12, JPS 1917)↗ · The stout-hearted are bereft of sense, they sleep their sleep; and none of the men of might have found their hands.↗ (Writings PSA.76.6, JPS 1917)↗

stoutly — Everyday, meaning 1: Stoutly means bravely, firmly and strongly, without giving in.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Stoutly built means made strong and thick.↗ Example: Toad stoutly denied that he had taken the car.↗ · The soldiers stoutly defended the castle.↗ · The gate was stoutly made of oak.↗ · She stoutly refused to give up.↗ · He stoutly believed his team would win.↗ · The little dog barked stoutly at the fox.↗ · But still they kept trudging stoutly forward, and talking as they went.↗

stove — Everyday, meaning 1: A piece of kitchen equipment for cooking, with hot rings or burners on top and often an oven.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A closed metal box that burns wood, coal or gas to heat a room.↗ Example: The soup is heating on the stove.↗ · Turn pan handles inward on the stove.↗ · Don't touch the stove — it's hot!↗ · We cooked sausages on a camping stove.↗ · A wood stove keeps the cabin warm.↗ · Ask an adult before using the stove.↗ · The devils flung themselves on the stove.↗

stow — Everyday, meaning 1: To stow is to pack things away neatly in a safe place, often on a ship or in a bag.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To stow away is to hide on a ship or train so you can travel without paying or being seen.↗ Example: Stow your bag under the seat.↗ · He stowed the gold in a box.↗ · A boy stowed away on the ship to see the sea.↗ · The sailors stowed the barrels below deck.↗

stowaway — Everyday, meaning 1: A stowaway is a person who hides on a ship, plane, train or lorry to travel without paying or without being allowed.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To stow away (verb, two words) is to hide on a vehicle like that in order to travel secretly.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (playful) A stowaway can be an animal or thing that travelled by accident, like a spider in a box of bananas.↗ Example: The sailors found a stowaway hiding among the barrels.↗ · In the story, the boy stowed away on a pirate ship.↗ · A tiny frog was a stowaway in our bag of salad.↗ · Stowing away on a plane is extremely dangerous.↗ · The cat had stowed away in the removal van.↗ · The captain made the stowaway work in the kitchen.↗ · A spider was a stowaway in the box of bananas.↗ · Some stowaways were found inside a lorry at the port.↗

strabismus — Everyday, meaning 1: Strabismus is the medical name for a squint: when a person's two eyes do not point in the same direction at the same time, so one eye may turn in, out, up or down.↗ Example: The eye doctor said my little brother has strabismus.↗ · Strabismus means the eyes point in different directions.↗ · She wears an eye patch to help treat her strabismus.↗ · Strabismus is often noticed when a child is a baby or toddler.↗ · Glasses can help some children with strabismus.↗ · Our class learned that strabismus can be treated.↗

straddle — Everyday, meaning 1: To straddle is to stand or sit with one leg on each side of something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To straddle is to stretch across both sides of something, like a bridge across a river.↗ Example: She straddled the bench to climb over it.↗ · The bridge straddles the river.↗ · He straddled the log and rode it across the stream.↗ · The giant straddled the valley.↗

straggler — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A straggler is a person or animal that falls behind the others on a march, walk or journey.↗ Example: Howl, O gate; cry, O city; melt away, O Philistia, all of thee; for there cometh a smoke out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.↗ (Prophets ISA.14.31, JPS 1917)↗ · The teacher waited at the gate for the stragglers.↗ · A straggler was still in the woods when the others went home.↗ · The stragglers caught up after an hour.↗

straight — Everyday, meaning 1: Straight means not bent or curved; going in one direction.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Straight means at once, without stopping: «go straight home».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Straight hair has no curls.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Straight can mean honest: «a straight answer».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: In a row with no break: «three days straight».↗ Example: Draw a straight line 8 cm long.↗ · The road goes straight for 3 miles.↗ · A triangle has 3 straight sides.↗ · He walks straight home.↗ · Use a ruler to draw straight lines.↗ · A straight angle is 180 degrees.↗ · Sit up straight at your desk.↗ · Go straight ahead and turn left at the shop.↗ · It rained for five days straight.↗ · She has long straight hair.↗ · They went straight into the courtyard.↗ · The God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way straight; (Writings PSA.18.33, JPS 1917)↗ · He restoreth my soul; He guideth me in straight paths for His name's sake.↗ (Writings PSA.23.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.↗ (Writings PRO.4.25, JPS 1917)↗

straighten — Everyday, meaning 1: To make something straight, or to become straight.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (straighten up) To stand up straight, or to make a place tidy.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (straighten out) To fix a problem or misunderstanding.↗ Example: Straighten your back when you sit at your desk.↗ · Please straighten the books on the shelf.↗ · Braces will straighten your teeth.↗ · The picture is crooked — can you straighten it?↗ · Let's straighten out this misunderstanding.↗ · He straightened up and smiled.↗ · Straighten the wire before you use it.↗ · Mum told us to straighten up the playroom.↗

straightener — Everyday, meaning 1: A straightener is a thing that makes something straight.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Hair straighteners are a hot electric tool with two flat plates used to make curly or wavy hair straight.↗ Example: My sister uses straighteners on her hair.↗ · Hair straighteners get very hot, so don't touch the plates.↗ · Unplug the straighteners when you finish.↗ · Put the straighteners on a heat-proof mat.↗ · The straightener left her hair smooth and flat.↗ · Mum keeps the straighteners out of reach of the baby.↗

straightforward — Everyday, meaning 1: Straightforward means easy to understand or do, with no hidden difficulties: a straightforward question.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A straightforward person is honest and open and says what they mean.↗ Example: The first question on the test was straightforward.↗ · Building the shelf was more straightforward than we expected.↗ · The recipe is straightforward: mix, pour and bake.↗ · Gran is very straightforward; she always tells you the truth.↗ · Finding the area of a rectangle is straightforward: multiply length by width.↗ · It is not as straightforward as it looks.↗ · The directions to the park were straightforward.↗ · He gave a straightforward answer to a tricky question.↗ · "I am a straightforward girl," she said, "and I will tell you myself how it is.↗ · Folly is joy to him that lacketh understanding; but a man of discernment walketh straightforwards.↗ (Writings PRO.15.21, JPS 1917)↗

straightway — Everyday, meaning 1: Straightway means at once, without any delay; it is the same as «straight away».↗ Example: They ate the apples and straightway became young.↗ · The king gave the order and straightway the guards came.↗ · Go home straightway.↗ · He begged them to sell him the incense straightway.↗ · They saw, straightway they were amazed; they were affrighted, they hasted away.↗ (Writings PSA.48.6, JPS 1917)↗ · He goeth after her straightway, as an ox that goeth to the slaughter, or as one in fetters to the correction of the fool; (Writings PRO.7.22, JPS 1917)↗ · For how can this servant of my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither was there breath left in me.'↗ (Writings DAN.10.17, JPS 1917)↗

strain — Everyday, meaning 1: To strain is to try very hard or push your body or mind to its limit.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To strain a muscle is to hurt it by stretching or using it too much.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To strain food or liquid is to pour it through a sieve to separate the solid bits.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Strain is worry or pressure that makes someone tired or tense.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A strain is a type of a plant, animal or germ, like a strain of flu.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: A strain is a tune or melody of music.↗ Example: He strained to lift the heavy box.↗ · I strained a muscle in my leg playing football.↗ · Strain the pasta in a colander.↗ · Don't strain your eyes reading in the dark.↗ · We strained to hear the whisper.↗ · Mum is under a lot of strain at work.↗ · This is a new strain of flu.↗ · The rope began to strain under the weight.↗ · A glorious strain of music sounded--now distant, now near.↗ · And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained, as he wrestled with him.↗ (Torah GEN.32.25, JPS 1917)↗ · Therefore said I: 'Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; strain not to comfort me, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.'↗ (Prophets ISA.22.4, JPS 1917)↗

strait — Everyday, meaning 1: A strait is a narrow passage of sea between two pieces of land that joins two larger seas.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «In dire straits» means in a very difficult or dangerous situation, often with money.↗ Example: The Strait of Gibraltar separates Spain and Morocco.↗ · The ferry crosses Cook Strait from Wellington.↗ · Bass Strait lies between Victoria and Tasmania.↗ · Long ago people walked across the Bering Strait when sea levels were low.↗ · Ships sail through the narrow strait.↗ · After the flood, the family were in dire straits.↗ · Find the strait on the map and colour it blue.↗ · The black horse leaped the strait.↗ · Out of my straits I called upon the LORD; He answered me with great enlargement.↗ (Writings PSA.118.5, JPS 1917)↗ · The cords of death compassed me, and the straits of the nether-world got hold upon me; I found trouble and sorrow.↗ (Writings PSA.116.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha: 'Behold now, the place where we dwell before thee is too strait for us.↗ (Prophets 2KI.6.1, JPS 1917)↗

straiten — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To straiten is to make someone poorer or to limit what they have.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old) To straiten is to make something narrow or tight.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «In straitened circumstances» (formal) means having very little money.↗ Example: After the factory closed, the family lived in straitened circumstances.↗ · The village was straitened by the long winter.↗ · In straitened times, people mend their clothes instead of buying new ones.↗ · The war straitened the whole country.↗ · The old story tells of a widow in straitened circumstances who shared her last loaf.↗ · The school's straitened budget meant fewer trips.↗ · And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters whom the LORD thy God hath given thee; in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall straiten thee.↗ (Torah DEU.28.53, JPS 1917)↗ · Is the spirit of the LORD straitened?↗ (Prophets MIC.2.7, JPS 1917)↗ · The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.↗ (Writings JOB.18.7, JPS 1917)↗ · By the breath of God ice is given, and the breadth of the waters is straitened.↗ (Writings JOB.37.10, JPS 1917)↗

straitly — Early Modern English, meaning 1: Strictly, firmly, or solemnly, so that something must be done.↗ Example: And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him; for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying: 'God will surely remember you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.'↗ (Torah EXO.13.19, JPS 1917)