(superl.) 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.
(superl.) 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.
(superl.) Composed of cards which constitute a regular sequence, as the ace, king, queen, jack, and ten-spot; as, a straight hand; a straight flush.
(superl.) Conforming to justice and rectitude; not deviating from truth or fairness; upright; as, straight dealing.
(superl.) Unmixed; undiluted; as, to take liquor straight.
(superl.) 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.
(adv.) In a straight manner; directly; rightly; forthwith; immediately; as, the arrow went straight to the mark.
(n.) A hand of five cards in consecutive order as to value; a sequence. When they are of one suit, it is calles straight flush.
(v. t.) To straighten.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast to L2 and L3 in L1 the mid gut runs down in a straight line without any looping.
(2) It was so difficult to keep a straight face when I was filming a sauna scene with Roy Barraclough, who played the mayor of Blackpool.
(3) The region of the tentorium and straight sinus can occasionally give rise to a vermiform appearance (the "AVM artifact").
(4) In testing the contribution of the long, curved stem to the torsional stability of uncemented prostheses by comparing it with other stems, the long, curved stem was the most stable, followed by a shorter straight stem, and a short, proximally curved stem.
(5) Every time I have seen him since – you stand up straight and it’s: ‘Hi, boss.
(6) Both sets of experiments revealed a straight linear relationship between the dose of VC and the % foci area induced.
(7) Despite a few initial concerns about the technology and how it would fit into their daily routines, staff really see the benefit and find it rewarding to see the messages and be able to respond straight away.
(8) The results may be due to stronger social reinstatement tendencies in females than in males: Higher levels of social motivation facilitate behavioral performance when the task is easy (straight runway) and inhibit it when the task is difficult (V-shaped runway).
(9) The contrast threshold for line orientation was studied using two lines with the same orientation under three different experimental conditions (series): (1) the two lines were presented in the same part of the receptive field; (2) they were along the same straight line and separated by 14' visual angle; (3) they were parallel and displaced at 4' of visual angle.
(10) Only eye position proved statistically significant; straight-ahead eye position induced more bias than did fixation of the visual stimulus.
(11) Ultrastructural examination of a tumor with a typical cribriform pattern showed spaces of two types; the more frequent type was bounded by cells with straight plasma membranes and contained filamentous and basement-membrane-like material, and the less frequent type was surrounded by cells with numerous microvilli and contained nonfilamentous homogeneous material.
(12) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
(13) Atlético Madrid maintained their faint hopes of catching Barcelona by recording a fourth straight league win, comfortably beating Deportivo la Coruña 3-0 with goals by the midfielder Saúl Ñíguez, top scorer Antoine Griezmann and Argentinian forward Ángel Correa.
(14) The chemotactic receptor-transducer proteins of Escherichia coli are responsible for directing the swimming behavior of cells by signaling for either straight swimming or tumbling in response to chemostimuli.
(15) These observations suggest that the inner dynein arms in Chlamydomonas axonemes are aligned not in a single straight row, but in a staggered row or two discrete rows.
(16) Following a run which included eight straight draws in the Premier League and a 3-0 defeat at Tottenham last Wednesday, Mubarak had reached the conclusion that Hughes and his coaching staff were not realising the potential of the players City had assembled.
(17) When plotted against [Ca]o on a double log scale, the above relation yielded a straight line with a slope of 1.0.
(18) The torque versus rotation curves can be divided into two straight regions and two transition zones.
(19) Its middle, straight portion (between 2.30 and 3.30 microns sarcomere spacings) extrapolated to zero tension at 3.49 microns sarcomere length.
(20) New observations include: (1) In 15 nm cross sections that show single 14.5 nm levels: (a) The flared X structure characteristic of rigor is replaced by a straight-X figure in which the crossbridge density is aligned along the myosin-actin plane, rather than skewed across it as in rigor.
Stripe
Definition:
(n.) A line, or long, narrow division of anything of a different color or structure from the ground; hence, any linear variation of color or structure; as, a stripe, or streak, of red on a green ground; a raised stripe.
(n.) A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colors, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
(n.) A strip, or long, narrow piece attached to something of a different color; as, a red or blue stripe sewed upon a garment.
(n.) A stroke or blow made with a whip, rod, scourge, or the like, such as usually leaves a mark.
(n.) A long, narrow discoloration of the skin made by the blow of a lash, rod, or the like.
(n.) Color indicating a party or faction; hence, distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort; as, persons of the same political stripe.
(n.) The chevron on the coat of a noncommissioned officer.
(v. t.) To make stripes upon; to form with lines of different colors or textures; to variegate with stripes.
(v. t.) To strike; to lash.
Example Sentences:
(1) Platinum deer mice are conspicuously pale, with light ears and tail stripe.
(2) And of course, as the articles are shared far and wide across the apparently much-hated web, they become gospel to those who read them and unfortunately become quasi-religious texts to musicians of all stripes who blame the internet for everything that is wrong with their careers.
(3) The striped expression of the Drosophila segmentation gene fushi tarazu in alternate parasegments of the early embryo is controlled by the 740 bp zebra element.
(4) Mutant plants are characterized by reduced height, defective yellow striping on leaves, and aborted kernels on ears.
(5) Tiny, tiny... rodents – some soft and grey, some brown with black stripes, in paintings, posters, wallcharts, thumb-tacked magazine clippings and poorly executed crayon drawings, hurling themselves fatally in their thousands over the cliff of their island home; or crudely taxidermied and mounted, eyes glazed and little paws frozen stiff – on every available surface.
(6) Although the drugs did not cause a desegregation of the eye-specific stripes, treated retinal axon arbors covered about half the area covered by untreated arbors or arbors treated with inactive analogs of the drugs.
(7) In the outer stripe only those proximal straight tubules (P3 segments) farthest from the vascular bundles were damaged.
(8) Many of Long’s pieces are fragile and fleeting: a stripe of un-mown grass in an otherwise close cropped lawn at the Henry Moore foundation , a misty circle in Scotland that lasted only until the day warmed up, a stripe of green grass left by plucking daisies, or paintings in wet mud that dry out and crumble.
(9) The two major proteins found in plants infected with rice stripe virus (RSV), coat protein and a major nonstructural protein (major NS), were purified and their partial amino acid sequences were determined.
(10) Urea production from arginine was studied in vitro in the kidney of normal rats in tubule suspensions of the four different renal zones (cortex, outer and inner stripe of outer medulla, and inner medulla), and in individual microdissected nephron segments.
(11) In monocularly enucleated monkeys, patches are larger and darker above and below the ocular dominance stripes of the remaining eye than in the alternate stripes.
(12) (2) The interstitium of the cortex and of the outer stripe of the outer medulla is significantly widened in most cases of ARF.
(13) With it sank my suitcase of clothes and my striped prisoner uniform, including my hat, coat, shirt and a knife.
(14) Linkage crosses and X-autosome translocations were used to assign short antenna to the right arm of chromosome 3 about 45 map units proximal to stripe (st+), and melanotic was located on chromosome 2 near the centromere.
(15) We have mapped the entire system of OD stripes in the New World monkey Cebus, by means of cytochrome oxidase histochemistry after monocular enucleation.
(16) These are localized in the outer stripe of the renal medulla and are functionally coupled to adenylyl cyclase inhibitor (Gi) G-proteins.
(17) The level of COXII protein is also specifically reduced in the striped plants relative to that of control plants.
(18) Potentiation of heart muscle stripes of the right ventricle was investigated in normal rats (NT-group) and in rats stressed by swimming (HT-group).
(19) The data of 29 subjects totaling more than 21,000 stripe detection events showed that coated photochromic prescription lenses performed better by day and poorer by night compared to uncoated white crown prescription lenses, and that a multiple-layer coated, tinted lens (Neo Multicoat) performed at least as well, day or night, as did the uncoated white crown lens.
(20) With an ambient potassium concentration of 2.5 mM, collecting tubules obtained from the inner stripe of the outer medulla of KD animals absorbed significantly less total CO2 than control tubules.