Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lying in a straight line.
- adjective Relating to a device whose linkage produces or copies motion in straight lines.
- adjective Meteorology Relating to or being a powerful and often destructive wind that moves in a straight rather than circular path as the leading edge of a thunderstorm or as the result of a downburst.
- adjective Accounting Of or being a mode of amortization by equal payments at stated intervals over a given period of time.
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Examples
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To her, all those fans in the stadium are spinning madly about the earth’s axis, hardly what she would call straight-line motion.
Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001
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To her, all those fans in the stadium are spinning madly about the earth’s axis, hardly what she would call straight-line motion.
Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001
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To her, all those fans in the stadium are spinning madly about the earth’s axis, hardly what she would call straight-line motion.
Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001
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I think Toma is starting to understand the straight-line people, the name he sometimes uses to describe outsiders.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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But if the financial meltdown taught us anything, it's that straight-line projection from the past is a poor guide to the future.
Nathan Newman: Is Google Cruising Towards a Legal Meltdown? Nathan Newman 2011
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Here's the abridged version of the defensive breakdowns that occured in the second half, according to Bennett: miscommunication, transition miscues, not blocking out, giving up straight-line drives to the basket, letting an opponent post up too easily.
Wake Forest 76, Virginia 71: Three up, three down Steve Yanda 2011
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On a road map of Kansas, the straight-line distance between Wichita and Topeka is 5.75 inches.
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Unlike tornadoes, which develop from columns of rotating air, straight-line winds erupt from a thunderstorm in unpredictable downdrafts, then spread across the landscape in all directions.
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But if the financial meltdown taught us anything, it's that straight-line projection from the past is a poor guide to the future.
Nathan Newman: Is Google Cruising Towards a Legal Meltdown? Nathan Newman 2011
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But if the financial meltdown taught us anything, it's that straight-line projection from the past is a poor guide to the future.
Nathan Newman: Is Google Cruising Towards a Legal Meltdown? Nathan Newman 2011
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