Meanings (ES + gloss)
kashato • lacio • liso • recto
Not crooked, curly, or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
I do not like crooked, twisted, blasted trees. I admire them much more if they are tall, straight and flourishing.
“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mér…
derecho
In proper order; as it should be.
"If you wonder why folks can't take the news seriously, here's Exhibit A," said one blogger. "Lord Jesus, how can the reporter file this story with a straight face?"
Oh, music, how he loved it; it seemed to set everything straight all at once in his head.
convencional
Conventional; mainstream; socially acceptable.
Although Eyles, the minor celebrity, is respected by his co-workers, he looks out of place among the dozens of short-haired, short-sleeved technocrats who man the Lab. “No doubt ab…
I've learned that there are two types of gays—straight gays and kinky gays.
hetero • heterosexual • hétero
Heterosexual.
Ain't nobody straight in L.A. / It seems that everybody is gay
Reuben, David R. (1969), chapter 8, in Everything you always wanted to know about sex but were too afraid to ask, New York: David McKay Company, Inc., published 1970, →LCCN, Homose…
puro
Of spirits: undiluted, unmixed; neat.
Real cowboys know how to rope, ride a horse and drink whisky straight.
The Martini is still in belief, if not in fact, the centerpiece of a rite, and people who would not drink straight gin on the rocks will drink straight gin on the rocks if it is ca…
Phrases
I'm straightarrow-straightbone-straightdamn straightdraw a straight furrowgay-straight allianceget one's head straightget one's story straightget straightgo straighthave one's head screwed on straightinside straight drawkeep straightnot see straightopen ended straight drawplay it straightput straightput the record straightramrod straightreal and straightright out straightscare straightset straightset the record straightstraight Astraight A'sstraight Asstraight and narrowstraight anglestraight apostrophestraight archstraight armstraight arrowstraight as a diestraight as a soldierstraight as an arrowstraight awaystraight batstraight bridgestraight chain
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
derecho • todo derecho
Of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line.
Go straight back.
The door will be straight ahead of you.
Phrases
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
derecho
Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.
After four grueling laps, the race had come down to a sprint. Into the straight, although my legs were burning, I called on them for more, and they responded. On my inside the maro…
Seppi started the engine, then shifted first gear and sped away into second, then third and fourth gear. Frank heard the roar of the Porsche's engine further down the straight and…
escalera
Five cards in sequence.
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estrecho • paso
A narrow channel of water connecting two larger bodies of water.
[…] we steered directly through a large Out-let, which they call a Streight, tho’ it be fifteen Miles broad […]
the Strait of Gibraltar
aprieto
A difficult position.
1684, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at Westminster-Abbey” in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, London: Thomas Bennett, 1692, p. 420, […] let no man, who owns the B…
to be in dire straits
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