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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar

en

go straight

US pronunciation

American soundgo straight

gostraight

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Clear final sound

go - straight -> go straight

Myanmar meaning

Full entry

straight /streÇt/ adj

၁။ ဖြောင့်သော။ မတ်သော။ တည့်သော။ စင်း သော။ a straight line ❍ straight hair (ie without curls) ❍ straight-backed chairs ❍ The road continues straight as an arrow for two miles. ❍ HAIR
၂။ တည့်[သော]။ Is my tie straight? ❍ His hat isn't on straight.
၃။ သပ်ရပ်[သော]။ သေသပ်[သော]။ နေရာတကျဖြစ် [သော]။ It took hours to get the house straight.
၄။ ပွင့်လင်းသော။ ရိုးသားသော။ ဖြောင့်မတ် သော။ မကွယ်မထောင့်သော။ give a straight answer to a straight question ❍ I don't think you're being straight with me. ❍ It's time for some straight talking. ❍ You can trust Peter —he's (as) straight as a die (ie completely honest).
၅။ ယတိပြတ်။ ရိုးရိုးတန်းတန်း(ဖြစ်သော)။ It was a straight choice between taking the job and staying out of work.
၆။ ရိုးရိုး။ သမားရိုးကျ။ တည်ကြည် လေးနက်သော။ a straight play/actor.
၇။ တောက်လျှောက်။ ဆက်တိုက်။ She's had ten straight wins and is in excellent form.
၈။ စစ်စစ်။ ရေမရောဘဲ။ I like my vodka straight.
၉။ (infml ) (က) ရိုးစင်းသော။ သမားရိုးကျ ဖြစ်သော။ (ခ) ဖောက်ဖောက်ပြန်ပြန် မဟုတ်သော။ straight men.
adv
၁။ ဖြောင့်ဖြောင့်။ မတ်မတ်။ တည့်တည့်။ sit up straight (ie without bending one's back) ❍ Keep straight on for two miles. ❍ Look straight ahead. ❍ The smoke rose straight up. ❍ He was too drunk to walk straight. ❍ I can't shoot straight (ie accurately at the target)
၂။ တန်းတန်းမတ်မတ်။ တောက်လျှောက်။ Come straight home/back. ❍ He went straight to Lagos, without stopping in Nairobi. ❍ She went straight from school to college. ❍ I'll come straight to the point—your work isn't good enough.
၃။ ရှင်းရှင်း။ တည့်တည့်။ I told him straight that I didn't like him.
၄။ တစ်ဆက်တည်း။ တောက်လျှောက်။ work for 16 hours straight.
n
၁။ ပြေးလမ်းအဖြောင့်ပိုင်း။ ပြေးလမ်းဖြောင့်။ The two runners were level coming into the final straight. See also THE HOME STRAIGHT
၂။ (infml ) ရိုးရိုးတန်းတန်း။ ကလီကမာမဟုတ်။ gays and straights.
❏ go straight [IDM ] ရိုးရိုးသားသားနေသည်။ come out of prison and go straight.
❏ keep a straight face [IDM ] ရှုတည်တည်ဖြစ်သော။ ဣနြေ္ဒဆည်သော။ He has such a strange voice that it's difficult to keep a straight face when he's talking.
❏ play straight (with sb) [IDM ] ရိုးသားသည်။ I don't think you're playing straight with me.
❏ put/set sb straight (about/on sth) [IDM ] အမြင်မှန် ရအောင်၊ သဘောပေါက်သွားအောင် အပြတ်ပြောသည်။ He seemed to think he could arrive for work whenever he liked, but I soon put him straight (about that).
❏ put sth straight [IDM ] (esp Brit ) သပ်ရပ်အောင် ရှင်း သည်။ Please put your desk straight before you leave the office.
❏ the straight and narrow [IDM ] (infml ) မှန်မှန်ကန်ကန်။ ရိုးရိုးသားသား။ တရားသဖြင့်။ He finds it difficult to stay on/keep to the straight and narrow for long.
❏ straight from the shoulder [IDM ] ဘွင်းဘွင်း၊ မကွယ် မထောင့် (ပြောသည်)။ She gave it to me straight from the shoulder.
❏ straight out [IDM ] တန်းတန်းမတ်မတ်။ မဆိုင်းမတွ။ တည့်တည့်။ I told him straight out that I thought he was lying. ❍ I didn't ask him to tell me—he just came straight out with it.
❏ straight up [IDM ] (Brit sl ) အဟုတ်ပြောတာပါ။ အဟုတ် ပါ။ အမှန်ပါ။
‘I don't believe you got it for nothing. ’ ‘ Yes, I did—straight up!’

More examples

Continue straight on for about 20 yards then turn left.
Sue always looks you straight in the eye when she’s talking to you.
He stared straight ahead.
The car was coming straight at me.
[dead straight] : It flew dead straight through the air.
We decided to go straight home.
We put the children straight to bed.
I decided I’d leave straight after breakfast.
[come straight to the point] : I’ll come straight to the point (=say immediately what I want to say).
Sit up straight.
[tell someone straight (out)] : I’m going to tell you straight.
We drove for five hours straight.

Synonyms

as the crow flies, in a straight line, directly, aboveboard, accurate, arranged, as it comes, at once, authentic, away, bald, beeline, blunt, bourgeois, buttoned-down, by the shortest possible route, candid, candidly, categorical, collinear, concentrated, consecutive, conservative, continuous, conventional, correct, dead, decent, direct, due, enfranchisement, equitable, erect, even, exact, exactly, fair, fair and square, first off, for the period, forthright, forthwith, frank, frankly, from A to B, from beginning to end, good, honest, honestly, honorable, horizontal, immediately, in a line, in a row, in and out, in direct line, in line, in order, in plain English, in the middle, in to, inflexible, instanter, instantly, invariable, just, law-abiding, level, like an arrow, lineal, lineally, linear, moral, near, neat, no holds barred, no punches, nonstop, now, open, orderly, organized, orthodox, out-and-out, outright, perpendicular, plain, plumb, point-blank, precipitous, pure, put to rights, rectilineal, rectilinear, reliable, respectable, right, right away, rightness, running, sheer, shipshape, short, smooth, solid, sorted, sorted out, square, straight-talking, straightaway, straightforward, straightforwardly, straightly, strong, successive, summary, thoroughgoing, through, tidy, traditional, true, trustworthy, truthful, unadulterated, unbent, unbroken, uncurled, undeviating, undeviatingly, undiluted, undistorted, uninterrupted, unmixed, unmodified, unqualified, unrelieved, unswerving, up-front, upright, vertical, virtuousness, without delay, without stopping

Antonyms

askew, broken, changing, corrupt, curved, deceitful, devious, different, diluted, dishonest, dishonestly, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, distort, gnarl, horizontal, incontinuous, indirect, indirectly, intermittent, later, level, make out like, mixed, phony up, pirouette, pirouetting, prone, purl, purled, put one on, putting one on, scammed, snowed, trump up, twirl, twisted, unconventional, uneven, unfair, unjust, unsuitable, untidy, untraditional, untrustworthy, varying, whirligig

Cross references

as the crow flies in a straight line directly aboveboard accurate arranged as it comes at once authentic away bald beeline blunt bourgeois buttoned-down by the shortest possible route candid candidly categorical collinear concentrated consecutive conservative continuous conventional correct dead decent

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