straight
part of speech
adjective (straight, straighter, straightest); adverb (straight); noun (a straight)
meaning for a pupil
1) Straight means not bent or curved; going in one direction. tree →
2) Straight means at once, without stopping: «go straight home». tree →
3) Straight hair has no curls. tree →
4) Straight can mean honest: «a straight answer». tree →
5) In a row with no break: «three days straight». tree →
sense in the lessons
a straight line or road; a straight line is the shortest way between two points; in maths: a straight angle is 180 degrees, polygons have straight sides; in everyday life: «go straight on», «sit up straight», «straight away»; phrases: «straight line», «straight ahead», «get it straight» (understand it clearly)
examples
- Draw a straight line 8 cm long. tree →
- The road goes straight for 3 miles. tree →
- A triangle has 3 straight sides. tree →
- He walks straight home. tree →
- Use a ruler to draw straight lines. tree →
- A straight angle is 180 degrees. tree →
- Sit up straight at your desk. tree →
- Go straight ahead and turn left at the shop. tree →
- It rained for five days straight. tree →
- She has long straight hair. tree →
- They went straight into the courtyard. tree →
note
Shape word: straight sides are measured and added for a perimeter. A circle has no straight sides. Homophone: strait (a narrow sea channel). «Straight away» means immediately. A straight line is the shortest way between two points.
In the corpora
- Heating a room with the window open sends the warm air, and the money that paid for it, straight outside.
- Separating means parents stop living together as a couple; it may lead to a divorce, but not always straight away.
- His teacher knew straight away, because she knows how Connor writes and where he went.
- Never send photos to people you know only online; tell a grown-up straight away.
- In an emergency, call the emergency number straight away instead of asking a bot.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «straight» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.