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Straw

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Noun

1. straw

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

2. chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble

material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds

3. pale yellow, straw, wheat

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

4. drinking straw, straw

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

Verb

5. straw

cover or provide with or as if with straw

Example Sentences:
'cows were strawed to weather the snowstorm'

6. straw, strew

spread by scattering (

Example Sentences:
'straw'
'strew toys all over the carpet'

Adjective

7. straw

of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Straw

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noun
1. 
a. 
stalks of threshed grain, esp of wheat, rye, oats, or barley, used in plaiting hats, baskets, etc, or as fodder
b. 
(as modifier)
a straw hat
2. 
a single dry or ripened stalk, esp of a grass
3. 
a long thin hollow paper or plastic tube or stem of a plant, used for sucking up liquids into the mouth
4. (usually used with a negative)
anything of little value or importance
I wouldn't give a straw for our chances
5. 
a measure or remedy that one turns to in desperation (esp in the phrases clutch or grasp at a straw or straws)
6. 
a. 
a pale yellow colour
b. 
(as adjective)
straw hair
7.  straw in the wind
8.  the last straw
adjective
9. mainly US
having little value or substance
verb
archaic another word for strew
noun
Jack, full name John Whitaker Straw. born 1946, British Labour politician; Home Secretary (1997–2001); Foreign Secretary (2001–06); Lord Chancellor (2007–10)

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Straw

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noun
1. 
hollow stalks or stems of grain after threshing, collectively: used for fodder, for bedding, for making hats, etc.
2. 
a single one of such stalks
3. 
such a stalk or, now esp., a tube of waxed paper, plastic, etc., used for sucking beverages
4. 
something, as a hat, made of straw
5. 
something of little or no value; worthless trifle
6. 
straw man (sense 4)
7. 
see last straw
adjective
8. 
straw-colored; yellowish
9. 
made of straw
10. 
of little or no value or significance; worthless; meaningless

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Straw

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n.
1.
a. Stalks of threshed grain, used as bedding and food for animals, for thatching, and for weaving or braiding, as into baskets.
b. A single stalk of threshed grain.
2. Pieces or a piece of natural or artificial strawlike material.
3. Something, such as a hat or basket, made of straw.
4. A slender tube used for sucking up a liquid.
5.
a. Something of minimal value or importance.
b. The least valuable bit; a jot: I don't care a straw what you think.
c. Something with too little substance to provide support in a crisis: Near the end we were grasping at straws.
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or made of straw: a straw mat.
2. Containing or used for straw, as a barn or feeding trough.
3. Of the color of straw; yellowish.
4.
a. Of, relating to, or constituting a straw man.
b. Apparently legitimate but actually intended as a cover for illegal or secret activity: set up a straw company to launder money.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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