What's the difference between straight and unbowed?
Straight
Definition:
(a.) A variant of Strait, a.
(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.
Unbowed
Definition:
(a.) Not bent or arched; not bowed down.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unbowed, Allen launched himself into merger talks with Carlton to create ITV and found himself in the top spot when Carlton shareholders ousted chairman Michael Green, who was ITV's chairman designate, in a revolt lead by Anthony Bolton, a fund manager at investment house Fidelity, subsequently dubbed the "quiet assassin".
(2) A claim that the UK economy has "relative strength" to survive the crisis stirs the Conservatives into fresh rage, but Darling is unbowed: "We did fix the roof in the fair weather - we fixed the roofs of schools and hospitals around the United Kingdom."
(3) Inside the mind of Bernie Sanders: unbowed, unchanged, and unafraid of a good fight Read more This marks the first time Sanders has taken a lead in any poll.
(4) Chen believes the case is retaliatory , but remains unbowed.
(5) Unbowed, the Mail used a story last month about the College of Paramedics raising concerns about separated bike lanes (a story that, it is worth noting, misquoted the college’s views ) in an editorial column : Segregated cycle lanes have increased congestion and worsened pollution ... Isn’t it time to abandon this cycle ‘superhighway’ experiment and admit that it was a stupid mistake?
(6) "Both women dealt with their release in a brilliant and charming way, I think: they were unbowed, but not arrogant," said Lerner.
(7) François Ruffin, the journalist and film-maker behind an award-winning blockbuster documentary on textile workers , tweeted that he had won a seat for France Unbowed in the northern area of the Sommes, confounding the predictions in favour of his opponent from Macron’s party.
(8) Le Pen said: “The abstention rate considerably weakens the legitimacy of the new parliament … Even if Macron has won a strong majority, he should know that his ideas are in a minority in this country.” Jean-Luc Mélenchon ’s new hard-left movement, France Unbowed, was projected to win around 19 seats.
(9) Daniel Tosh continues to broadcast in the States, unbowed by the row that greeted his unpleasant response to a female heckler (“Wouldn’t it be funny if that girl got raped by, like, five guys right now?”).
(10) Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the left-wing party France Unbowed, said last month that Trump was “not at all welcome” on Bastille day.
(11) Former Lib Dem leader Lord Ashdown went further: "We are bloody but unbowed.
(12) Two months ago any suggestion that Mélenchon, head of La France Insoumise (Unbowed France), could be a serious contender for the Elysée would have been thought laughable.
(13) But staff on the island have told Guardian Australia the mood remains tense, and the protesters apparently unbowed.
(14) And the path to success for Hillary Clinton is to be bold and populist in her campaign platform.” Big crowds – but bigger dollars Inside the mind of Bernie Sanders: unbowed, unchanged, and unafraid of a good fight Read more Sanders’ campaign has evolved from a longshot ideological crusade to a legitimate operation in a very short period of time.
(15) Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of the leftwing party France Unbowed, said last month that Trump was “not at all welcome” on Bastille Day.
(16) Bloodied but largely unbowed , Thompson and the 88-year-old broadcaster he oversees have endured to fight another day.
(17) It is not clear whether Parker and Stone will feel the need to show they are unbowed by returning to the Muhammad theme next week.
(18) "Clearly the judges are likely to mark him down for artistic interpretation and, unlike Team GB, he won't be bagging any gold medals today but he remains unbowed," said the spokesperson.
(19) Unbowed, and aided by Djokovic's first serve emphatically deserting him, Nadal wins himself another break point and takes it, with his third point-winning crosscourt forehand of the game.
(20) Zarakolu is unbowed by his conviction, which was reduced from five months in prison to a fine, and says he'd publish again if he needed to.