Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb In a direct course.
- adverb Without delay; at once.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Immediately; forthwith; without loss of time; without delay.
- Permitting something, as a fluid, to pass without changes of direction: used of valves or fittings for pipe.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Immediately; without loss of time; without delay.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
straight section of aracetrack . - adverb
directly - adverb
at once
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb at once
- adverb in a direct course
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Examples
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Here was adventure, something to do with head and hand, a world to conquer — and straightway from the back of his consciousness rushed the thought, CONQUERING, TO WIN TO HER, THAT
Chapter 2 2010
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The word straightway means immediately; that is, as soon as the fragments were gathered up.
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Here was adventure, something to do with head and hand, a world to conquer - and straightway from the back of his consciousness rushed the thought, CONQUERING, TO WIN TO HER, THAT
Chapter 2 1908
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The Ursuline nuns, to whose school she was sent, took the precaution, after her mother's death, of having her baptized straightway into the Catholic faith, and she made her _première communion_ in their church.
Lady Rose's Daughter Humphry Ward 1885
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Then he restored the coin straightway to the Sultan and we left the youth in durance vile; whilst I said to my slave who had taken the money,
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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25 And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, I will that thou give me by and by in a charger the head of John the Baptist.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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The friends of the Hunnish Margrave called straightway for their swords and their shields, that they might kill Folker.
The Fall of the Niebelungs Margaret [Translator] Armour
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He loosed his sword straightway, and laid down his quiver.
The Fall of the Niebelungs Margaret [Translator] Armour
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The margrave's kindred from the Hunnish land called straightway for their swords and shields, and would fain have done Folker to death.
The Nibelungenlied Daniel Bussier Shumway
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Give it me again of thy grace, and tell me thy name straightway, that I may give thee a strangers gift, wherein thou mayest be glad.
Book IX Homer 1909
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