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Synonyms for straw
strɔstraw
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Princeton's WordNet
strawnoun
plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder
Synonyms:
stubble, stalk, shuck, wheat, chaff, pale yellow, drinking straw, huskAntonyms:
neutral, achromaticchaff, husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubblenoun
material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
Synonyms:
stubble, stalk, shuck, wheat, chaff, angry walk, pale yellow, drinking straw, still hunt, stalking, stem, huskAntonyms:
achromatic, neutralpale yellow, straw, wheatnoun
a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white
Synonyms:
stubble, stalk, shuck, wheat berry, wheat, chaff, pale yellow, drinking straw, huskAntonyms:
neutral, achromaticstraw, drinking strawadjective
a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth
Synonyms:
stubble, stalk, shuck, wheat, chaff, pale yellow, drinking straw, huskAntonyms:
neutral, achromaticstrawverb
of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored
Antonyms:
achromatic, neutralstrawverb
cover or provide with or as if with straw
"cows were strawed to weather the snowstorm"
Synonyms:
strewAntonyms:
achromatic, neutralstrew, strawverb
spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic)
"strew toys all over the carpet"
Synonyms:
strewAntonyms:
achromatic, neutral
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Editors Contribution
plastic straws
Dictionary of English Synonymes
strawnoun
Synonyms:
stalk (of grain after being thrashed)
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2158 | drop | |
#5836 | stem | |
#6869 | wheat | |
#9260 | hay | |
#11663 | straw | |
#25423 | stalking | |
#27286 | stalk | |
#45173 | mote | |
#53188 | husk | |
#53686 | chaff | |
#53959 | stubble | |
#91387 | shuck | |
#108217 | bathwater | |
#126506 | stro | |
#192301 | strew | |
#225025 | paille |
How to use straw in a sentence?
The actual cylinders are worth between $500 and $1,000 per unit but the semen inside them varies in price, were coming into the AI (artifical insemination) season so there would have been substantial amounts of semen inside the tanks that weve lost, which was owned by our local farmers, and it can range in value from $5 per straw to $95 per straw.
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.
If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. … Just a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
The trash is the straw that broke the camel's back, but the story is much bigger than this straw. It is the story of the political garbage in the country and the political trash in the country.
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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