What does Straw mean?
Definitions for Straw
strɔstraw
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Straw.
Princeton's WordNet
strawnoun
plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder
chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubblenoun
material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
pale yellow, straw, wheatnoun
a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white
straw, drinking strawadjective
a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth
strawverb
of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored
strawverb
cover or provide with or as if with straw
"cows were strawed to weather the snowstorm"
strew, strawverb
spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic)
"strew toys all over the carpet"
Wiktionary
strawnoun
A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
strawnoun
Such dried stalks considered collectively.
strawnoun
A drinking straw.
strawadjective
Made of straw.
straw hat
strawadjective
Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
Etymology: Old English strēaw, from strawan ‘that which is strewn’. Cognate with Dutch stro, German Stroh, Swedish strå, Albanian strohë.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
STRAWnoun
Etymology: streow , Saxon; stroo, Dutch.
I can counterfeit the deep tragedian,
Tremble and start at wagging of a straw,
Intending deep suspicion. William Shakespeare, Richard III.Plate sin with gold,
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;
Arm it in rags, a pigmy’s straw doth pierce it. William Shakespeare.Apples in hay and straw ripened apparently; but the apple in the straw more. Francis Bacon, Natural History.
My new straw hat, that’s trimly lin’d with green,
Let Peggy wear. John Gay, Pastorals.More light he treads, more tall he seems to rise,
And struts a straw breadth nearer to the skies. Thomas Tickell.Thy arms, thy liberty, beside
All that’s on th’ outside of thy hide,
Are mine by military law,
Of which I will not bate one straw. Hudibras.’Tis not a straw matter whether the main cause be right or wrong. Roger L'Estrange.
Wikipedia
Straw
Straw is an agricultural byproduct consisting of the dry stalks of cereal plants after the grain and chaff have been removed. It makes up about half of the yield of cereal crops such as barley, oats, rice, rye and wheat. It has a number of different uses, including fuel, livestock bedding and fodder, thatching and basket making. Straw is usually gathered and stored in a straw bale, which is a bale, or bundle, of straw tightly bound with twine, wire, or string. Straw bales may be square, rectangular, or round, and can be very large, depending on the type of baler used.
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straw
Straw is the dried stalks of cereal plants (such as wheat, barley, oats, or rice) after the grain and chaff have been removed. It's often used as fodder for livestock, for weaving or crafts, or as bedding. The term can also be used to refer to a thin tube used to suck liquid from a container, or in phrases to represent something of little value or importance ('last straw', 'straw man').
Webster Dictionary
Strawverb
to spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow
Strawnoun
a stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease
Strawnoun
the gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw
Strawnoun
anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing; a mere trifle
Etymology: [OE. straw, stre, stree, AS. strew, from the root of E. strew; akin to OFries. str, D. stroo, G. stroh, OHG. str, Icel. str, Dan. straa, Sw. str. 166. See Strew.]
Wikidata
Straw
Straw is an agricultural by-product, the dry stalks of cereal plants, after the grain and chaff have been removed. Straw makes up about half of the yield of cereal crops such as barley, oats, rice, rye and wheat. It has many uses, including fuel, livestock bedding and fodder, thatching and basket-making. It is usually gathered and stored in a straw bale, which is a bundle of straw tightly bound with twine or wire. Bales may be square, rectangular, or round, depending on the type of baler used.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Straw
straw, n. the stalk on which corn grows, and from which it is thrashed: a quantity of these when thrashed: anything worthless, the least possible thing.—ns. Straw′berry, the delicious and fragrant fruit of any of the species of the genus Fragaria, the plant itself; Straw′berry-leaf, a symbolic ornament on the coronets of dukes, marquises, and earls—in pl. a dukedom; Straw′berry-mark, a soft reddish nævus or birth-mark; Straw′berry-tree, a species of Arbutus, which produces a fruit resembling the strawberry; Straw′-board, a kind of mill-board or thick card-board, made of straw after it has been boiled with lime or soda to soften it; Straw′-col′our, the colour of dry straw, a delicate yellow.—adj. Straw′-col′oured, of the colour of dry straw, of a delicate yellowish colour.—ns. Straw′-cut′ter, an instrument for chopping straw for fodder; Straw′-embroi′dery, embroidery done by sewing straw on net; Straw′-house, a house for holding thrashed straw; Straw′ing (slang), the sale of straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things forbidden to be sold, as indecent books, &c.; Straw′-plait, a narrow band of plaited wheat-straw, used in making straw hats, bonnets, &c.; Straw′-stem, the fine stem of a wine-glass pulled out from the material of the bowl, instead of being attached separately: a wine-glass having such a stem.—adj. Straw′y, made of, or like, straw.—Man of straw (see under Man). [A.S. streaw; Ger. stroh, from the root of strew.]
Editors Contribution
straw
A cylindrical shaped tube that you suck liquid through!
She drank a gallon of beer through a strawl
straw
A type of plant fiber.
Straw is necessary for all farmers for food for some of their animals.
Submitted by MaryC on February 6, 2020
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
STRAW
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Straw is ranked #8356 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Straw surname appeared 3,962 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Straw.
89.7% or 3,557 total occurrences were White.
5.1% or 205 total occurrences were Black.
2% or 80 total occurrences were of two or more races.
1.5% or 61 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
0.7% or 30 total occurrences were Asian.
0.7% or 29 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
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British National Corpus
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Straw' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3902
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Straw' in Nouns Frequency: #2328
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Anagrams for Straw »
warts
swart
warst
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Straw in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Straw in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of Straw in a Sentence
Emergency situations are often the last straw for many families who are already living on the brink, they tip the balance and make it impossible for desperate parents to make ends meet and to protect their children. Marrying off their daughters can seem like the only option.
His speech was well-received, but he didn't do that well in the straw poll.
>HONG KONG, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Living under Chinas stringent COVID-19 restrictions for the past three years had caused Zhang Qi enough stress and uncertainty to consider not having babies in the country.When China abruptly dismantled its zero COVID regime last month to let the virus spread freely, the balance tilted to a definite No, the Shanghai-based e-commerce executive said.Stories about mothers and babies not being able to see doctors as medical facilities were overwhelmed by COVID infections were the final straw for Zhang.I heard that giving birth at a public hospital is just horrific. I really wouldn’t consider having a baby, the 31-year-old said.A glimpse of the scars caused by the pandemic to Chinas already bleak demographic outlook may come to light when it reports its official 2022 population data on Jan. 17.Some demographers expect Chinas population in 2022 to post its first drop since the Great Famine in 1961, a profound shift with far-reaching implications for the global economy and world order.New births for 2022 are set to fall to record lows, dropping below 10 million from last years 10.6 million babies - which were already 11.5% lower than in 2020.With this historical turn, China has entered a long and irreversible process of population decline, the first time in China and the worlds history.
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
We know a significant number of crooks and gangs get firearms through straw purchasing, this set of ordinances is really focused on narrowing the flow of guns to those which are clearly legal and, hopefully, doing something to deter the flow of guns that are unlawful to own.
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Translations for Straw
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- قشArabic
- саломаBelarusian
- сламаBulgarian
- pallaCatalan, Valencian
- sláma, slaměnýCzech
- gwelltyn, gwelltWelsh
- halmDanish
- strohfarben, Halm, Stroh, strohblond, Strohhalm, strohgelbGerman
- άχυροGreek
- pajloEsperanto
- paja, pajiza, pajizoSpanish
- põhk, õlekõrsEstonian
- کاه, پوشال, نیPersian
- pahna, olki, oljenkeltainenFinnish
- jaune paille, pailleFrench
- sràbhScottish Gaelic
- pallaGalician
- स्ट्रॉHindi
- szalmaHungarian
- ծղոտArmenian
- jeramiIndonesian
- pagliuzza, festuca, pagliaItalian
- קשHebrew
- 藁, わら色, ワラ, 藁色Japanese
- 짚Korean
- ka, کا, pûşKurdish
- stipulaLatin
- StréiLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- ເຟືອງLao
- šiaudasLithuanian
- salmsLatvian
- слама, сламка, сламенMacedonian
- jeramiMalay
- stroDutch
- palhaOccitan
- słomiany, słomaPolish
- palhaPortuguese
- pai, paieRomanian
- соломина, солома, соломенный, соломинкаRussian
- pàlgia, patza, paza, padha, palla, pàgia, paxaSardinian
- сламка, slamka, слама, slamaSerbo-Croatian
- slamaSlovak
- slamaSlovene
- kashtëAlbanian
- sugrorSwedish
- ฟางข้าวThai
- muntiTagalog
- saman, balya, hasırTurkish
- соломаUkrainian
- poxolUzbek
- rơmVietnamese
- stol, stolastagVolapük
- שטרויYiddish
- 稻草Chinese
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