| straight-arm | (American football) the act of warding off a tackler by holding the arm fully extended with the hand against the opponent |
| straight ticket | a ballot cast by a voter who votes for all the candidates of one party |
straight and narrow
strait and narrow | the way of proper and honest behavior, he taught his children to keep strictly to the straight and narrow |
| straight hang | a hang performed on the rings or parallel bars with the body erect and the arms at the sides |
| straight poker | poker in which each player gets cards face down and bets are made without drawing any further cards |
lunge straight thrust
passado | (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward |
flat arch
straight arch | an arch with mutually supporting voussoirs that has a straight horizontal extrados and intrados |
| n-type semiconductor | a semiconductor in which electrical conduction is due chiefly to the movement of electrons |
| p-type semiconductor | a semiconductor in which electrical conduction is due chiefly to the movement of positive holes |
| pump-type pliers | a type of pliers |
straightaway
straight | a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse |
straight chair
side chair | a straight-backed chair without arms |
straight flute
straight-fluted drill | a rock drill with flutes that are straight |
| straight pin | pin consisting of a short straight stiff piece of wire with a pointed end, used to fasten pieces of cloth or paper together |
| straight razor | a razor with a straight cutting edge enclosed in a case that forms a handle when the razor is opened for use |
| type | a small metal block bearing a raised character on one end, produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper, he dropped a case of type, so they made him pick them up |
type slug
slug | a strip of type metal used for spacing |
body type
somatotype | a category of physique |
asthenic type
ectomorphy | slender, weak, and lightweight |
endomorphy
pyknic type | round, fat, and heavy |
athletic type
mesomorphy | muscular and big-boned |
straight sinus
tentorial sinus
sinus rectus | an unpaired sinus of the dura mater |
blood group
blood type | human blood cells (usually just the red blood cells) that have the same antigens |
A
type A
group A | the blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen |
B
type B
group B | the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen |
AB
type AB
group AB | the blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens |
O
type O
group O | the blood group whose red cells carry neither the A nor B antigens, people with type O blood are universal donors |
Rh-positive blood type
Rh positive | the blood group (approximately % of people) whose red cells have the Rh factor (Rh antigen) |
Rh-negative blood type
Rh-negative blood
Rh negative | the blood group whose red cells lack the Rh factor (Rh antigen) |
| type | a subdivision of a particular kind of thing, what type of sculpture do you prefer? |
architectural style
style of architecture
type of architecture | architecture as a kind of art form |
type specimen
holotype | the original specimen from which the description of a new species is made |
| type | all of the tokens of the same symbol, the word `element' contains five different types of character |
| type | printed characters, small type is hard to read |
| type family | a complete set of type suitable for printing text |
roman roman type
roman letters
roman print | a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions |
| straight face | a serious facial expression giving no evidence of interest or amusement |
| straight flush | a poker hand with consecutive cards in the same suit |
| straight | a poker hand with consecutive cards (regardless of suit) |
| type genus | (biology) genus from which the name of a family or subfamily is formed, it is not necessarily the most representative genus but often the largest or best known or earliest described |
| type | (biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon |
| type species | (biology) the species that best exemplifies the essential characteristics of the genus to which it belongs |
Alpine glacier
Alpine type of glacier | a glacier that moves down from a high valley |
Piedmont glacier
Piedmont type of glacier | a type of glaciation characteristic of Alaska, large valley glaciers meet to form an almost stagnant sheet of ice |
| straight chain | an open chain of atoms with no side chains |
character
eccentric type
case | a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities), a real character, a strange character, a friendly eccentric, the capable type, a mental case |
heterosexual
heterosexual person
straight person
straight | a heterosexual person, someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex |
square shooter
straight shooter
straight arrow | a frank and honest person |
straight man
second banana | a performer who acts as stooge to a comedian |
straight-line method
straight-line method of depreciation | (accounting) a method of calculating depreciation by taking an equal amount of the asset's cost as an expense for each year of the asset's useful life |