straw
See also: Straw
straw - English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /stɹɔː/
- (US) IPA: /stɹɔ/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA: /stɹɑ/
Noun
straw (countable and uncountable, plural straws)
- (countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
- (uncountable) Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions.
- (countable) A drinking straw.
- (uncommon) A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
- straw:
- (figurative) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Japanese: ストロー
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Adjective
straw (not comparable)
- Made of straw.
- Synonym: strawen
- straw hat
- Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
- (figurative) Imaginary, but presented as real.
- A straw enemy built up in the media to seem like a real threat, which then collapses like a balloon.
Derived terms
- cheese straw
- drinking straw
- draw the short straw
- grasp at straws
- jackstraw
- the last straw
- the final straw
- make bricks without straw
- man of straw
- pine straw
- silly straw
- straw boss
- straw buyer
- straw hat
- straw in the wind
- straw man
- straw mushroom
- straw poll
- the straw that broke the camel's back
- straw that stirs the drink
- straw vote
- straw wine
- strawboard
- straw-coloured
- strawflower
- strawworm
- windlestraw
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Verb
straw (third-person singular simple present straws, present participle strawing, simple past and past participle strawed)
Anagrams
straw - Middle English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA: /strau̯/, /streː/
- (Northern ME) IPA: /strɑː/
Noun
straw (plural strawes or stren)
- The remaining plant material after cultivation; halm, straw.
- An individual piece or section of straw.
- (figurative) Anything slight or worthless; the least possible thing.
- (rare) A measure of weight for candlewax.
Related terms
Descendants
straw - Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA: /straf/
- Syllabification: straw
Verb
straw
- second-person singular imperative of strawić
Noun
straw f
- genitive plural of strawa