Straight vs Get - What's the difference?
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Not crooked or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
*1811 , (Jane Austen), (Sense and Sensibility) :
*:I do not like crooked, twisted, blasted trees. I admire them much more if they are tall, straight and flourishing.
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*:“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 Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.”
*2011 , Adharanand Finn, (The Guardian) , 22 March:
*:The other people, I presume, are supposed to be standing to attention, but they're all smiling at me. The lines are not even straight .
#Of a path, trajectory, etc. : direct, undeviating.
#*1913 , , The Kentuckians , p.185:
#*:Now, as the world knows, the straightest' way to the heart of the honest voter is through the women of the land, and the ' straightest way to the heart of the women is through the children of the land; and one method of winning both, with rural politicians, is to kiss the babies wide and far.
#*2000 , Allan Wood, Babe Ruth and the 1918 Red Sox , p.293:
#*:He had no time to set himself, but his throw was straight and true. Pick slid in, spikes high, and Schang tagged him in the ribs a foot or two from the plate.
#*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title=Travels and travails #Perfectly horizontal or vertical; not diagonal or oblique.
#*2004 , Chris Weston, 500 Digital Photography Hints, Tips, and Techniques :
#*:There's nothing more annoying than taking a great picture, only to find that the horizon isn't straight .
#(lb) Stretched out; fully extended.
Strait; narrow.
*Sir (John Mandeville) (c.1350)
*:Egypt is a long country, but it is straight , that is to say, narrow.
(lb) Figurative uses.
#Free from dishonesty; honest, law-abiding.
#*1879 , (Anthony Trollope), John Caldigate :
#*:‘It wasn't the proper thing, squoire. It wasn't straight .’
#Direct in communication; unevasive, straightforward.
#*2003 , Rosie Cowan, (The Guardian) , 24 April:
#*:Tony Blair issued a direct challenge to the IRA yesterday when he demanded they give straight answers to three simple questions.
#In a row, in unbroken sequence.
#*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 24, author=David Ornstein, work=BBC Sport
, title= #*2008 , "Bad vibrations", (The Economist) , 30 October:
#*:As of October 29th, three-month dollar Libor (the rate at which banks borrow from each other) had fallen for 13 straight days and was nearly one-and-a-half percentage points below its October 10th level.
#In proper order; as it should be.
#*2007 , Grant Allen, What's Bred in the Bone , p.140:
#*:Oh, music, how he loved it; it seemed to set everything straight all at once in his head.
#*2010 , Paul Gallagher, (The Observer) , 15 August:
#*:"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?"
#Of spirits: undiluted, unmixed; neat.
#*2003 , Ron Jordan, Considerations :
#*:Real cowboys know how to rope, ride a horse and drink whisky straight .
#*2003 , Lowell Edmunds, Martini, Straight Up , p.94:
#*: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 called a Martini.
#(lb) Describing the bat as held so as not to incline to either side; on, or near a line running between the two wickets.
#*2011 , Alan Gardner & Barney Ronay, (The Guardian) , 15 March:
#*:Steyn continues and it's all a bit more orderly down his end as O'Brien defends the first three balls with a straight bat and a respectful dip of the head.
#(lb) Describing the sets in a match of which the winner did not lose a single set.
#*2011 , Press Association, 10 February:
#*:Murray started well against Marcos Baghdatis before slumping to defeat in straight sets and the British No1 admitted he may not have been mentally prepared for the rigours of the ATP Tour after a gruelling start to 2011.
# Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party.
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# Containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a party and no others.
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(lb) Colloquial uses.
#(lb) Conventional, socially acceptable.
#*1994 , (Jarvis Cocker), ‘Do You Remember the First Time?’:
#*:You say you've got to go home. Well at least there's someone there that you can talk to. And you never have to face up to the night on your own. Jesus, it must be great to be straight .
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#*(Wavy Gravy):
#*:‘Sure, I could have done it differentput my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could have compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.’
#*1989 , (Gus Van Sant), (Drugstore Cowboy) :
#*:‘For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.’
#*1998 , Eileen Fitzpatrick & Dominic Pride, , 17 October 1998:
#*:‘Her last album was a bit too straight ,’ he says, ‘but this one puts her in a more contemporary framework and softens her music.’
#(lb) Not using alcohol, drugs, etc.
#*2001 , Ruella Frank, Body of Evidence , p.28:
#*:‘Alex's dad used a lot of drugs. He's been straight for years now, but it took a long time for him to be able to deal with his feelings.’
#(lb) Heterosexual.
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#*2007 , Layla Kumari, (The Guardian) , 17 September:
#*:Some of my friends – gay and straight – seem unable to understand the close but platonic nature of my and Gian's relationship, but have been supportive.
#*2011 , Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home , p.273:
#*:Angela smiles. ‘I'm straight , Zoe, and I'm happily married.’
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Of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line.
Directly; without pause, delay or detour.
* Addison
Continuously; without interruption or pause.
Something that is not crooked or bent.
# A part of a racecourse, running track or other road, etc. , that is not curved.
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Colloquial uses.
# A heterosexual.
# (slang) A normal person; someone in mainstream society.
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#* ## (poker) Five cards in sequence.
# (slang) A cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana. Also .
#* [1923 , J[oseph] Manchon, Le slang : lexique de l'anglais familier et vulgaire : précédé d'une étude sur la pronunciation et la grammaire populaires , p. 296:
(label) To obtain; to acquire.
(label) To receive.
* , chapter=8
, title= To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) To become.
* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
* , chapter=8
, title= (label) To cause to become; to bring about.
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, title= (label) To fetch, bring, take.
* Bible, (w) xxxi. 13
* (Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)
(label) To cause to do.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
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, chapter=5, title= To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
(label) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
(label) To cause to come or go or move.
(label) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
* (Dante Gabriel Rossetti), Retro me, Sathana , line 1
(label) To begin (doing something).
(label) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
(label) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity (to do something).
To be subjected to.
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(label) To be.
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(label) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
To catch out, trick successfully.
To perplex, stump.
(label) To find as an answer.
To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
(label) To hear completely; catch.
(label) To .
To beget (of a father).
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* 2009 , (Hilary Mantel), (Wolf Hall) , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 310:
(label) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out .
* (1625-1686)
Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
*2007 , Tom Dyckhoff,
Offspring.
* 1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 755:
Lineage.
(sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
Something gained.
* 2008 , Karen Yampolsky, Falling Out of Fashion (page 73)
(Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
As nouns the difference between straight and get
is that straight is something that is not crooked or bent while get is offspring or get can be (british|regional) a git or get can be (judaism) a jewish writ of divorce.As verbs the difference between straight and get
is that straight is to straighten while get is (label) to obtain; to acquire.As an adjective straight
is not crooked or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.As an adverb straight
is of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line.straight
English
Alternative forms
* streight (obsolete)Adjective
(er)citation
Arsenal 3-0 Bolton, passage=It moves them from 17th to 12th on seven points, while Bolton are now bottom of the table with five straight defeats.}}
Antonyms
* bent * crooked * curvedUsage notes
* Straight is sometimes humorously used as meaning low quality by homosexuals and bisexuals, rather than gay.Derived terms
* damn straight * go straight * scare straight * straight A * straight-acting * straight and narrow * straight arm / straight-arm * straight as an arrow * straightaway * straight bat * straight dinkum * straightedge / straight edge * straighten * straight face * straight-faced * straight flush * straightforward / straight-forward * straight from the horse's mouth * straight from the shoulder * straight hit * straightjacket * straight line * straightly * straight man * straightness * * straight out of the chute * straight shooter * straight ticket * straight up * straightwayAdverb
(en adverb)- The door will be straight ahead of you.
- Go straight back.
- On arriving at work, he went straight to his office.
- I know thy generous temper well; / Fling but the appearance of dishonour on it, / It straight takes fire, and mounts into a blaze.
- He claims he can hold his breath for three minutes straight .
Noun
(en noun)- My friends call straights "heteros".
- A straight = a straighter = a straight cut, une cigarette en tabac de Virginie.]
Synonyms
* (heterosexual) hetero, breeder * (normal person) seeget
English
(wikipedia get)Etymology 1
From (etyl) geten, from (etyl) 'to seize'. Cognate with Latin prehendo.Verb
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.}}
- We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get .
- His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.}}
- Get thee out from this land.
- Heto the strong town of Mega.
- Get him to say his prayers.
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Pulling the Strings, passage=Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”}}
- to get rid of fools and scoundrels
- to get a mile
- Get thee behind me.
- Do you mind? Excuse me / I saw you over there / Can I just tell you ¶ Although there are millions of / Cephalophores that wander through this world / You've got something extra going on / I think you probably know ¶ You probably get that a lot / I'll bet that people say that a lot to you, girl
- I had rather to adopt a child than get it.
- Walter had said, dear God, Thomas, it was St fucking Felicity if I'm not mistaken, and her face was to the wall for sure the night I got you.
- it being harder with him to get one sermon by heart, than to pen twenty
Let's move to ..., The Guardian :
- Money's pouring in somewhere, because Churchgate's got lovely new stone setts, and a cultural quarter (ooh, get her) is promised.
Usage notes
In dialects featuring the past participle gotten, the form "gotten" is not used universally as the past participle. Rather, inchoative and concessive uses (with meanings such as "obtain" or "become", or "am permitted to") use "gotten" as their past participle, whereas stative uses (with meanings like "have") use "got" as their past participlehttp://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/gotten.html] and [http://www.miketodd.net/encyc/gotten.htm http://www.miketodd.net/encyc/gotten.htm, thus enabling users of "gotten"-enabled dialects to make distinctions such as "I've gotten (received) my marks" vs. "I've got (possess) my marks"; a subtle distinction, to be sure, but a useful one. The first example probably means that the person has received them, and has them somewhere, whereas the second probably means that they have them in their hand right now.
Synonyms
* (obtain) acquire, come by, have * (receive) receive, be given * (fetch) bring, fetch, retrieve * (become) become * (cause to become) cause to be, cause to become, make * (cause to do) make * (arrive) arrive at, reach * come, go, travel * : go, move * (begin) begin, commence, start * : catch, take * : answer * be able to * dig, follow, make sense of, understand * : be * : catch, come down with * con, deceive, dupe, hoodwink, trick * confuse, perplex, stump * (find as an answer) obtain * : catch, nab, nobble * (physically assault) assault, beat, beat up * catch, hear * (getter) getterAntonyms
* (obtain) loseDerived terms
* beget * forget * from the get-go * get about * get a charge out of * get across * get across to * get action * get after * get ahead of oneself * get a look in * get along * get along with * get around * get around to * get at * get away * get away from * get away with * get back * get back to * get behind * get better * get beyond * get by * get carried away * get done * get down * get going * get in * get in with * get into * get into trouble * get it * get it across one's head * get it into one's head * get it on * get it over with * get knotted * get lost * get moving * get off * get off easy * get off lightly * get off with * get on * get one over on * get one's end away * get one's rocks off * get on in years * get on to * get on with * get out * get out of * get over * get-rich-quick * get round * get round to * get some air * get someone's goat * get stuffed * get the goods on * get there * get the time to * get through * get through to * get to * get to be * get together * get under * get up * get up in * get up to * get well soon * get with the program, get with the programme * go-getter * go-getting * got * have gotNoun
(en noun)- ‘You were a high lord's get . Don't tell me Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell never killed a man.’
- I had reconnected with the lust of my life while landing a big get for the magazine.
