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Straight can be an adjective, an adverb or a noun.
straight used as an adjective:
- Not crooked or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
"a straight line." - Strictly along political lines.
"He always votes a straight ticket." - Direct, truthful, frank.
"a straight answer." - As it should be.
"Everything is straight now." - Undiluted.
"straight whiskey." - Having all cylinders in a single row. (referring to an internal combustion engine)
"a straight six." - Conventional.
- Heterosexual.
- Satisfied.
- Boring, unappealing, bad or of low quality.
- On, or near a line running between the two wickets.
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
straight used as an adverb:
- Of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line.
"The door will be straight ahead of you." - Of movement or travel, directly; without pause, delay or detour.
"On arriving at work, he went straight to his office." - Continuously; without interruption or pause.
"He claims he can hold his breath for three minutes straight."
An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →
straight used as a noun:
- A part of a racecourse, running track or other road etc that is not curved.
- A heterosexual.
- In poker, five cards in sequence.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is straight?
- Adjective usage: a straight line.
- Adjective usage: He always votes a straight ticket.
- Adjective usage: a straight answer.
- Adjective usage: Everything is straight now.
- Adjective usage: straight whiskey.
- Adjective usage: a straight six.
- Adverb usage: The door will be straight ahead of you.
- Adverb usage: Go straight back.
- Adverb usage: On arriving at work, he went straight to his office.
- Adverb usage: He claims he can hold his breath for three minutes straight.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of straight are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of straight, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
