All English words - page 3515

Meanings of Stove:

noun

An apparatus for cooking or heating that operates by burning fuel or using electricity.

Usage examples:

There are children out there that don't know you can buy the actual kernels and pop them, in a pan,…

verb

Fumigate or disinfect (a house) with sulphur or other fumes.

Meanings of Stovepipes:

noun

The pipe taking the smoke and gases from a stove up through a roof or to a chimney.

verb

Transmit (information) directly through levels of a hierarchy.

Usage examples:

They stovepiped lies straight up to the white house

Meanings of Stoves:

noun

An apparatus for cooking or heating that operates by burning fuel or using electricity.

Usage examples:

There are children out there that don't know you can buy the actual kernels and pop them, in a pan,…

verb

Fumigate or disinfect (a house) with sulphur or other fumes.

Meanings of Stow-away:

phrasal verb

Conceal oneself on a ship, aircraft, or other passenger vehicle in order to travel secretly or without paying the fare.

Usage examples:

He stowed away on a ship bound for south africa

Meanings of Stowaway:

noun

A person who stows away on a passenger vehicle.

Usage examples:

They inspected recently installed systems for detecting stowaways on vehicles.

Meanings of Stowaways:

noun

A person who stows away on a passenger vehicle.

Usage examples:

They inspected recently installed systems for detecting stowaways on vehicles.

Meanings of Stowed:

verb

Pack or store (an object) carefully and neatly in a particular place.

Usage examples:

Barney began stowing her luggage into the boot

Meanings of Stowing:

verb

Pack or store (an object) carefully and neatly in a particular place.

Usage examples:

Barney began stowing her luggage into the boot

Meanings of Str:

abbreviation

Strait.

Meanings of Straddling:

verb

Sit or stand with one leg on either side of.

Usage examples:

He turned the chair round and straddled it

noun

An act of sitting or standing with one's legs wide apart.

Usage examples:

A sideways-on stance such as a straddle

Meanings of Stradivarius:

noun

A violin or other stringed instrument made by antonio stradivari or his followers.

Usage examples:

Initially the only thing burk noticed about this man was his violin: a genuine stradivarius.

Meanings of Strafe:

verb

Attack repeatedly with bombs or machine-gun fire from low-flying aircraft.

Usage examples:

Military aircraft strafed the village

noun

An attack from low-flying aircraft.

Usage examples:

Next morning they were to carry out a strafe of airfields in southern greece

Meanings of Strafed:

verb

Attack repeatedly with bombs or machine-gun fire from low-flying aircraft.

Usage examples:

Military aircraft strafed the village

noun

An attack from low-flying aircraft.

Usage examples:

Next morning they were to carry out a strafe of airfields in southern greece

Meanings of Strafer:

noun

A person who or thing which attacks someone or something; (now) specifically a low-flying aircraft which attacks repeatedly with bombs or (especially) machine-gun fire.

Meanings of Straggle:

verb

(of an irregular group of people) move along slowly so as to remain some distance behind the person or people in front.

Usage examples:

The children straggled behind them

noun

An untidy or irregularly arranged mass or group.

Usage examples:

A straggle of cottages

Meanings of Straggled:

verb

(of an irregular group of people) move along slowly so as to remain some distance behind the person or people in front.

Usage examples:

The children straggled behind them

noun

An untidy or irregularly arranged mass or group.

Usage examples:

A straggle of cottages

Meanings of Straggler:

noun

A person in a group who becomes separated from the others, typically because of moving more slowly.

Usage examples:

A few stragglers lingered, talking as they slipped on their coats

Meanings of Straggling:

verb

(of an irregular group of people) move along slowly so as to remain some distance behind the person or people in front.

Usage examples:

The children straggled behind them

adjective

(of an irregular group) moving along slowly so as to remain some distance behind those in front.

Usage examples:

The straggling crowd of refugees

Meanings of Straggly:

adjective

Growing or spreading in an irregular, untidy way.

Usage examples:

His straggly dark hair

Meanings of Straight:

adjective

Extending or moving uniformly in one direction only; without a curve or bend.

Usage examples:

A long, straight road

adverb

In a straight line; directly.

Usage examples:

He was gazing straight at her

noun

(especially of drama) serious as opposed to comic or musical.

Usage examples:

A straight play

Meanings of Straight-arrow:

idiom

A frank and honest person

noun

An honest, morally upright person.

Usage examples:

He was remembered as a loner and a straight arrow

adjective

Honest and morally upright.

Usage examples:

The straight-arrow head coach found himself answering for their crimes

Meanings of Straight-away:

phrase

Immediately

Usage examples:

I knew straight away what you were thinking., we don't need to go straight off - we can stay for a …

Meanings of Straight-man:

noun

In a comedy act between two people, the straight man is the more serious of the two who is often made to look stupid by his or her partner.

Meanings of Straight-out:

phrase

If you tell someone something straight out, you say it directly and honestly, without trying to make what you are saying more pleasant

Usage examples:

I told her straight out that i didn't love her any more., you just need to tell her straight out th…

Meanings of Straight-thinking:

idiom

To not be thinking clearly or using good judgment

Usage examples:

I'm sorry, that was a stupid thing to do - i wasn't thinking straight.