Word Meanings - STRAIGHT-PIGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Straight in form or upright in position; erect. Shak.
Related words: (words related to STRAIGHT-PIGHT)
- STRAIGHT-JOINT
Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring - STRAIGHT-OUT
Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing. Straight-out and generous indignation. Mrs. Stowe. - UPRIGHTNESS
the quality or state of being upright. - STRAIGHTENER
One who, or that which, straightens. - STRAIGHT-PIGHT
Straight in form or upright in position; erect. Shak. - STRAIGHTWAY
Immediately; without loss of time; without delay. He took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi. . . . And straightway the damsel arose. Mark v. 41,42. - ERECTILITY
The quality or state of being erectile. - STRAIGHT-LINED
Having straight lines. - STRAIGHTFORWARD
Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating; honest; frank. -- adv. - ERECTIVE
Making erect or upright; raising; tending to erect. - STRAIGHTLY
In a right line; not crookedly. - UPRIGHTLY
In an upright manner. - STRAIGHTWAYS
Straightway. - STRAIGHTFORTH
Straightway. - ERECTO-PATENT
Having a position intermediate between erect and patent, or spreading. - ERECTLY
In an erect manner or posture. - STRAIGHTEN
1. To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form. 2. To make right or correct; to reduce to order; as, to straighten one's affairs; to straighten an account. To straighten one's face, to cease laughing or smiling, etc., and compose - STRAIGHTHORN
An orthoceras. - POSITION
A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the rule of trial and error. Angle of position , the angle which any line makes with another fixed line, specifically with a circle of declination. -- Double position , - STRAIGHT-SPOKEN
Speaking with directness; plain-spoken. Lowell. - APPOSITION
The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition , a mode of growth characteristic - OPPOSITIONIST
One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed. - EXPOSITION
1. The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view. 2. The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or - DECOMPOSITION
1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of - SEPOSITION
The act of setting aside, or of giving up. Jer. Taylor. - CIRCUMPOSITION
The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed. Evelyn. - ANTEPOSITION
The placing of a before another, which, by ordinary rules, ought to follow it. - PRESUPPOSITION
1. The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption. 2. That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise. - DEPOSITION
The act of laying down one's testimony in writing; also, testimony laid or taken down in writting, under oath or affirmation, befor some competent officer, and in reply to interrogatories and cross-interrogatories. Syn. -- Deposition, Affidavit. - MISEXPOSITION
Wrong exposition. - INTERPOSITION
insertion, fr. interponere, interpositum: cf. F. interposition. See 1. The act of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or coming between; mediation. 2. The thing interposed.