different between straight vs naked

English

Alternative forms

• streight (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English streight, streght, strei?t, the past participle of strecchen (“to stretch”), from Old English stre??an (past participle ?estreaht, ?estreht), from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan (“to stretch”). Doublet of straught.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?e?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t
• Homophone: strait

Adjective

straight (comparative straighter, superlative straightest)

1. Not crooked or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length. [from 14^thc.]
   • 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.

   • “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.

2. (of a path, trajectory, etc.) Direct, undeviating. [from 15^thc.]
   • 1913, John Fox, Jr., The Kentuckians, page 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.
3. Perfectly horizontal or vertical; not diagonal or oblique. [from 17^thc.]
   • 1925, United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 1, Charges Against William E. Baker, U.S. District Judge:

     Mr. Coniff: He did not have his hat on straight; that is the one thing, is it?
4. (cricket) Describing the bat as held so as not to incline to either side; on, or near a line running between the two wickets. [from 19^thc.]
   • 2011 March 15, Alan Gardner & Barney Ronay, The Guardian:

     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.

5. Direct in communication; unevasive, straightforward. [from 19^thc.]
   • 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 […].
6. Free from dishonesty; honest, law-abiding. [from 16th c.]
   • 1879, Anthony Trollope, John Caldigate:

     ‘It wasn't the proper thing, squoire. It wasn't straight.’

   • 2010 August 4, The Guardian, Out of prison and trying to go straight [2]:

     How easy is it to go straight after a life spent in and out of prison?

7. Serious rather than comedic.
   • 1988, Ed Gould, Entertaining Canadians: Canada's international stars, 1900-1988, Cappis Pr Pub Ltd (?ISBN):

     Allan Blye, a CBC-TV mainstay in the early Sixties, worked as a singer, writer and straight and comedic actor.

   • 2004, Tammy Ravas, Peter Schickele: A Bio-bibliography, Greenwood Publishing Group (?ISBN):

     All of Peter Schickele's music, both straight and comedic are integrated side by side in this chapter.

   • 2005, Bob McCabe, The Rough Guide to Comedy Movies, Rough Guides Limited:

     More success followed, both straight and comedic, with hits such as Dead Poets' Society (1989), in which Williams scored another Oscar nomination for skilfully handling a classic "rogue teacher" role that hovers just this side of sentimentality, […]

8. In proper order; as it should be. [from 19^thc.]
   • 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?"

9. In a row, in unbroken sequence; consecutive. [from 19^thc.]
   • 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.

10. (tennis) Describing the sets in a match of which the winner did not lose a single set. [from 19^thc.]
    • 2011 February 10, Press Association:

      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.

11. (US, politics) Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party.

12. (US, politics) Containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a party and no others.

13. (colloquial) Conventional, mainstream, socially acceptable. [from 20^thc.]
    • 1998, Eileen Fitzpatrick & Dominic Pride, Billboard, 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.’
14. (colloquial) Heterosexual, attracted to people of the opposite sex.
    • 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.
15. (colloquial, of a romantic or sexual relation) Occurring between people of opposite sex.

    straight marriage, sex, relationships

16. (colloquial) Not using alcohol, drugs, etc. [from 20^thc.]

    Synonym: straightedge

    • 1989, Gus Van Sant, Drugstore Cowboy:

      For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.
17. (fashion) Not plus size; thin.

18. (rare, now chiefly religion) Strait; narrow.
19. (obsolete) Stretched out; fully extended. [15^th-16^thc.]
20. (slang) Thorough; utter; unqualified.
    • 2012, Pimpin' Ken, PIMPOLOGY: The 48 Laws of the Game, page 11:

      A real pimp is a gentleman, but these are pimps in gorilla suits. They hang around pimps, they have hoes on the track working for them, they may even look like pimps, but they are straight simps.

21. Of spirits: undiluted, unmixed; neat. [from 19^thc.]
22. (sciences, mathematics) Concerning the property allowing the parallel-transport of vectors along a course that keeps tangent vectors remain tangent vectors throughout that course (a course which is straight, a straight curve, is a geodesic).

Antonyms

• bent
• crooked
• curved

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ?????

Translations

Adverb

straight (comparative more straight, superlative most straight)

1. Of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line.

   The door will be straight ahead of you.

   Go straight back.

2. Directly; without pause, delay or detour.

   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.

3. Continuously; without interruption or pause.

   He claims he can hold his breath for three minutes straight.

Translations

Noun

straight (plural straights)

1. Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.
2. (poker) Five cards in sequence.
3. (colloquial) A heterosexual.

   Synonyms: hetero, breeder

4. (slang) A normal person; someone in mainstream society.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:mainstreamer
5. (slang) A cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana. [from 20th c.]

   Synonym: straighter

   • [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:

     A straight = a straighter = a straight cut, une cigarette en tabac de Virginie.]

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (sutor?to)
• ? Portuguese: straight

Translations

Verb

straight (third-person singular simple present straights, present participle straighting, simple past and past participle straighted)

1. (transitive) To straighten.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of A. Smith to this entry?)

See also

Portuguese

Etymology

From English straight.

Noun

straight m (plural straights)

1. (poker) straight (five cards in sequence)

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English naked, from Old English nacod, from Proto-West Germanic *nak(k)wad, from Proto-Germanic *nakwadaz, from Proto-Indo-European *neg?- (“naked”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ne?k?d/
• (Southern American English) IPA^(key): /?n?k?d/

Adjective

naked (comparative more naked, superlative most naked)

1. Bare, not covered by clothing.

   She was as naked as the day she was born.

2. (obsolete) Lacking some clothing; clothed only in underwear.
   • 1680, James Gordon, History of Scots Affairs:

     For no body would staye to give them intelligence, the countrey people running evry wher out of ther waye, and some of them flying out of ther bedds nacked in their shirts, who runne to the neerest rockes on the sea syde; so formidable was ther very name.

3. Glib, without decoration, put bluntly.

   This is the naked truth.

   The naked facts lay there on the table, enclosed within the files.
4. Characterized by the nakedness of the people concerned or to whom the described noun is attributed.
   • 1666, Samuel Pepys, Diary:

     So here I went the first time into a naked bed, only my drawers on; and did sleep pretty well: but still both sleeping and waking had a fear of fire in my heart, that I took little rest.

   • 1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:

     The satirical historian has not blushed to describe the naked scenes which Theodora was not ashamed to exhibit in the theatre.

5. (obsolete) Unarmed.
   • 1727, Daniel Defoe, An essay on the history and reality of apparitions:

     You an’t even with me yet, ?ays ?he; I ?corn as much to take up a Sword again?t a Naked Man; as you ought to have ?corn’d, if you had been a Gentleman, to give the Lie to a Woman.

6. Unaided, unaccompanied.
   • 1579, William Wilkinson, A confutation of certaine articles deliuered vnto the Familye of Loue:

     Christ commeth not bare or naked, but clothed and accompanied with all his mercies.

   • 2001, Asger Aaboe, Episodes From the Early History of Astronomy:

     If all celestial bodies visible to the naked eye are thus mapped on the celestial sphere, it becomes apparent that the vast majority of them remain in fixed patterns with respect to each other: They form recognizable constellations that, in turn, remain unchangeably distributed.

7. Unprotected, uncovered; (by extension) without a condom.

   The tendrils of the naked flame stretched into the skies.

   I entered her naked and came in her too.

8. (finance, of a derivative contract) Where the writer (seller) does not own the underlying asset to cover the contract.

   a naked put, a naked call

   Synonym: uncovered

9. (literary) Resourceless, poor, lacking means.
   • 1480, anonymous, printed by William Caxton, Cura Sapientiæ; or, The Court of Sapience:

     I knowe my self moost naked in al artes, / My comune ne vulgare eke moost interupte, / And I conversaunte and born in the partes / Where my natyfe langage is moost corrupt, / And with most sundry tonges myxt and rupte.

   • c. 1625, John Fletcher, The Humorous Lieutenant:

     I am a poor Man, naked, / Yet ?omething for Remembrance; four a piece, Gentlemen, / And ?o my Body where you plea?e.

10. (with “of”) Lacking or devoid of something.
    • 1581, Walter Haddon and John Foxe, trans. James Bell, Against Ierome Osorius Byshopp of Siluane in Portingall and Against His Slaunderous Inuectiues: An Aunswere Apologeticall: for the Necessary Defence of the Euangelicall Doctrine and Veritie:

      Freewill is made naked of all maner merite.

    • 1619, Samuel Purchas, Purchas his Pilgrim: Microcosmus, or the Historie of Man, relating the Wonders of his Generation, Vanities in his Degeneration, Necessity of His Regeneration:

      Their eyes were opened to ?ee their nakedne??e: naked they were of diuine protection and fauor, naked of Angelicall guard and cu?todie, naked of Humane puritie and holine??e, naked of dutifull subiection from the rebelling Creatures;

    • 1969, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist:

      I have spent about three weeks at home since Dec 1. As always, I am naked of good article ideas—despite my constant involvement with good subjects.

11. (obsolete) Blank, clean, empty.
    • c. 1660, Robert South, Sermon on John vii. 17.:

      For in the first it finds the mind naked and unprepossessed with any former notions, and so easily and insensibly gains upon the assent, grows up with it, and incorporates into it.

12. (of land, rocks, or plants) Barren, having no foliage, unvegetated.
13. Uncomfortable or vulnerable, as if missing something important.

    I feel naked without my mobile phone.

14. (of food or other consumer products) Without any additives, or without some component that would usually be included.

    a naked burrito (i.e. one without a tortilla); a naked burger (without a bun)

    Naked Bacon (a brand without nitrates or phosphates)

15. (physics) Of a singularity, not hidden within an event horizon and thus observable from other parts of spacetime.

Synonyms

• bare, bareskin, nude, starkers, unclad, unclothed, butt-naked, bare-assed, in one's birthday suit, skyclad, showing skin
• See also Thesaurus:nude

• (without a condom): Thesaurus:condomless

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ne?kt/

Verb

naked

1. simple past tense and past participle of nake

Anagrams

• Danek, Kaden, knead

Middle English

Alternative forms

• nakid, nakyd, naaked, naket, nakit, nakede

Etymology

From Old English nacod, from Proto-Germanic *nakwadaz. Compare naken.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?na?kid/

Adjective

naked

1. Uncovered; exposed, visible:
   1. Fully bodily uncovered; naked, clothesless or unclothed.
   2. Partially bodily uncovered or bald; uncovered in a specific area.
   3. Of a melee weapon; lacking a hilt or sheath; openly carried or readied.
   4. Of an wound; exposed; open, showing internals.
   5. Apparent, unveiled, obviously visible (in contrast to a previous state)
2. (often with a item specified) Having none of something; bare of a thing or quality:
   1. Having no armour or weapons; unequipped for battle.
   2. Unvegetated; lacking plant growth or ground cover.
   3. Bereft of possessions or accoutrements; without one's or its trappings.
3. Put in literal form; without decoration or accoutrements.
4. Referring to the core or substance of something.
5. (rare) Undiluted, unqualified, unconditional.
6. (rare) Restrained, unextended, bound.
7. (rare) Lacking feelings or sympathy.

Related terms

• nakedhed
• nakednesse
• nakidly

Descendants

• English: naked
• Scots: nakit

References

• “n?ked, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-21.

Noun

naked

1. An exposed part of the body.
2. (rare) The state of being naked.

References

• “n?ked, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-21.