Definitions for Straw
strɔstraw

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. strawnoun

   plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder

2. 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

3. pale yellow, straw, wheatnoun

   a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white

4. straw, drinking strawadjective

   a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth

5. strawverb

   of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored

6. strawverb

   cover or provide with or as if with straw

   "cows were strawed to weather the snowstorm"

7. strew, strawverb

   spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic)

   "strew toys all over the carpet"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. strawnoun

   A dried stalk of a cereal plant.

2. strawnoun

   Such dried stalks considered collectively.

3. strawnoun

   A drinking straw.

4. strawadjective

   Made of straw.

   straw hat

5. strawadjective

   Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.

6. Etymology: Old English strēaw, from strawan ‘that which is strewn’. Cognate with Dutch stro, German Stroh, Swedish strå, Albanian strohë.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. STRAWnoun

   Etymology: streow , Saxon; stroo, Dutch.

   1. The stalk on which corn grows, and from which it is threshed.

   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.

   2. Any thing proverbially worthless.

   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.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Strawverb

   to spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow

2. 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

3. Strawnoun

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

4. Strawnoun

   anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing; a mere trifle

5. 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.]

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1. 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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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 ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. straw

   A cylindrical shaped tube that you suck liquid through!

   She drank a gallon of beer through a strawl

   
   

   Submitted by anonymous on July 17, 2022  

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   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 RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.

Matched Categories

1. • Cover
   • Plant Fiber
   • Plant Material
   • Spread

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Straw' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3902

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Straw' in Nouns Frequency: #2328

Anagrams for Straw »

1. warts

2. swart

3. warst

How to pronounce Straw?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Straw in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Straw in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Straw in a Sentence

1. Craig Robinson:

   When you have a straw poll, it forces you to turn out people to an event. They make a bigger commitment of giving up their day in the summer to go vote for you at an event. Even though it doesn't matter, it's not binding, it forces you to organize early, it would have forced everyone to organize because the risk of not organizing is that you might get ejected from the race. Not having a straw poll hurt.

2. Jeff Kaufmann:

   Most people who come to the straw poll intuitively know that this is snapshot in time, they know the difference between a scientific poll.

3. Luis Vizcarrondo Jr.:

   But the insurrection was the last straw for me, as a father of three kids, I would never have thought I would see a day like this.

4. Steve Shadowen:

   We are particularly interested in getting the manufacturers going forward to change the way they do business, to tighten up their distribution systems so that they don't continue to supply unlimited amounts of guns to gun dealers who are systematically selling them to straw purchasers and others who are engaged in trafficking into Mexico.

5. Ezdeen Salih:

   They entered houses made from straw and grass and looted all our money and livestock.

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