Word Meanings - STRAIGHTEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.

• Straight-spoken
  Speaking with directness; plain-spoken.
• Straightway
  Immediately; without loss of time; without delay.
• Straightedge
  A board, or piece of wood or metal, having one edge perfectly straight, -- used to ascertain whether a line is straight or a surface even, and for drawing straight lines.
• Straightways
  Straightway.
• CROOKESSPACE
  The dark space within the negative-pole glow at the cathode of a vacuum tube, observed only when the pressure is low enough to give a striated discharge; -- called also Crookes layer.
• Straighting
  of Straighten
• CROOKESTUBE
  A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it.
• Straightener
  One who, or that which, straightens.
• STRAIGHTJOINT
  Having straight joints. Specifically: (a) 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. (b) In the United States, applied to planking or flooring

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