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Definition of 'straw'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) straw
a single stalk or stem esp. of a cereal grass, as wheat, rye, oats, or barley.

2.  straw
a mass of such stalks, esp. after drying and threshing, used as fodder.

3.  straw
material made from such stalks and used to fashion hats or baskets.

4.  straw
something of negligible value:
not to care a straw.

5.  straw
a paper, plastic, or glass tube for sucking up a beverage from a container.

6.  straw
something made of straw, esp. a hat.

7. (adj.) straw
of, pertaining to, or made of straw:
a straw hat.

8.  straw
of the color of straw; pale yellow.

9.  straw
of little value or consequence; worthless.

10.  straw
sham; fictitious.

Definition of 'straw'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) straw
plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder

2. (noun) chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble
material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds

3. (noun) pale yellow, straw, wheat
a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white

4. (adj) straw, drinking straw
a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth

5. (verb) straw
of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored

6. (verb) straw
cover or provide with or as if with straw
"cows were strawed to weather the snowstorm"

7. (verb) strew, straw
spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic)
"strew toys all over the carpet"

Definition of 'straw'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) straw
dried stems of some crops used to feed animals

2. straw
a thin tube used to drink through
She drank the soda through a straw.

3. straw
the last/final straw
the last of several bad things, that makes you unable to deal with the situation anymore
The new law was the final straw for many dairy farmers.

Definition of 'straw'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) straw
a stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease

2. (noun) straw
the gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw

3. (noun) straw
anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing; a mere trifle

4. (verb) straw
to spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow

Translation of 'straw'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: ( The cows need fresh straw; a straw hat.
Afrikaans: strooi, hooi	Arabic: قَش	Bulgarian: слама
Brazilian: palha	Czech: sláma, slaměný	German: das Stroh, Stroh-...
Danish: halm; strå; strå-	Greek: άχυρο, αχυρένιος, ψάθινος	Spanish: paja
Estonian: õlg	Farsi: پوشال	Finnish: olki
French: (de) paille	Hebrew: קַש	Hindi: पायल, पुआल, भूसा, घास-फूस
Croatian: slama	Hungarian: szalma	Indonesian: jerami
Icelandic: hálmur	Italian: paglia; di paglia	Japanese: わら
Korean: 짚	Lithuanian: šiaudai; šiaudinis	Latvian: salms; salmi; salmu-
Malay: jerami	Dutch: stro	Norwegian: strå, halm
Polish: słoma	Persian: پوشال	Pashto: واخه
Portuguese: palha	Romanian: paie	Russian: солома
Slovak: slama; slamený	Slovenian: slama	Serbian: slama
Swedish: halm	Thai: สิ่งที่ทำจากฟาง	Turkish: saman
Taiwanese: 稻草，麥稈	Ukrainian: солома	Urdu: بھوسا
Vietnamese: rơm	Chinese: 稻草，麦秆
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