Straight lines represent straight fingers ( these may be at an angle to indicate that they are not in line with the palm ; if they point toward or away from the signer, they have a diamond shape at the tip ); curved lines for curved ( cupped ) fingers ; hooked lines for hooked fingers ; right-angle lines, for fingers bent at only one joint ; and crossed lines, for crossed fingers, as shown in the chart at right.

Straight may refer to:

Straight scales are useful for relatively simple calculations, but for more complex calculations the use of simple or elaborate curved scales may be required.

" Straight path of width w " may be defined as the set of all points within a distance of w / 2 of a straight line on a plane, or a great circle on a sphere, or in general any geodesic on any other kind of manifold.

Straight man may refer to:

Straight up and straight down, and may appear longer than he or she really is, due to the length of limbs coupled with lack of muscle mass developed on those limbs.

Straight ridges may be dikes in which liquid rock once flowed.

Depending on house rules, a Kilter may be a Skeet, a Little Cat, a Skip Straight, or some variation of one of these hands.

Critics claim that a comprehensive explanation of why one colloidal mineral, silver, is nutritionally useless and may in fact cause harm, is given by a recent article from Cecil Adams of Straight Dope.

This may have prevented further re-issues of some Straight Records material.

Scared Straight may also refer to:

" Also, in light of the Speziale case, the Campaign for Youth Justice has petitioned A & E to cancel Beyond Scared Straight, as they claim that the show promotes " the spread of a noxious program " and may be in violation of federal law and standards set forth by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention ( OJJDP ).

Titles have been modified to fit the new form and the episode descriptions given may not cover the shorter episodes: 1: It Couldn't Happen Here 2: Only Here On A Message 3: The Messengers Ride Forth 4: Send A Message To Michael 5: Message Received 6: The Dead Letter Box 7: A Red Letter Day 8: Shoot The Messenger 9: Love Letters Straight From The Heart10: Over and Out

However the older version, now termed " No Straight Ahead ", may be used when combined with a time or other restriction.

Straight Ahead may refer to:

: The actual parentage of this piece will likely remain obscured to some degree, since Bargy's collaborator, Charley Straight, more or less may have let Bargy take credit when the piano rolls of the Eight Piano Syncopations were transcribed into sheet music form.

Love worked with director Alex Cox on her first two films ; she gained a small part in the Sid Vicious biopic Sid and Nancy ( 1986 ), and was then given the leading role in his following film, Straight to Hell ( 1987 ), which caught the attention of artist Andy Warhol.

* The song " Felicia " on the Straight On Till Morning album by Blues Traveler includes the line " I wouldn't feel so much like Casey who never got to bat.

* The Straight Dope on Cow Tipping

According to Fundamentals of Physics ( 4 ed., Wiley, 1993 ), by David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker, on page 30, Chapter Two, " Motion along a Straight Line ", Joe Sprinz, at the time in question, a member of the San Francisco Ball Club, and formerly of the Indians, attempted to beat the World Record for catching a baseball dropped from a great height, set by members of the 1938 Cleveland Indians, who had done so at 700 feet, with balls dropped from a building.

* Straight Dope article about caffeine levels on soft drinks

Parton's soundtrack album from her own 1992 film, Straight Talk, however was less successful, though her 1993 album Slow Dancing with the Moon won critical acclaim, and did well on the charts, reaching No. 4 on the country albums charts, and No. 16 on the Billboard 200 albums charts.

It was one of the most advanced racing cars of the time, and made a noted performance in Le Mans 1963, even though the car did not finish, due to low gearing and so revving out on the Mulsanne Straight.

In 2012, the new extended segment of the Sydney Motorsport Park ( originally called the Long Circuit ) was re-named the Brabham Circuit, as was the front straight, named the Brabham Straight, on the eve of the Muscle Car Masters.

Straight edge bands like Minor Threat, Boston's SS Decontrol, and Reno, Nevada's 7 Seconds rejected the self-destructive lifestyles of many of their peers, and built a movement based on positivity and abstinence from cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, and casual sex.

Paula Abdul's second greatest-hits CD, Greatest Hits: Straight Up !, was released by Virgin Records on May 8, 2007.

The aggressive mutants of Dromm in " Inside Straight ", who totally subdued their own planet and embarked on interstellar conquest, had started as a persecuted minority.

Many other films are associated with punk, such as 24 Hour Party People, which presents the evolution of punk rock into New Wave and Madchester, and Threat, which focuses on militant Straight edge punks in the New York hardcore scene.

L. A .' s N. W. A., on their landmark 1988 album Straight Outta Compton, showed heavy influences from Tougher Than Leather-era Run – D. M. C., and Chicano rap act Cypress Hill were definitely influenced by Run – D. M. C.

* The Straight Dope on the Neutral Zone

Members of the band, including O ' Riordian, acted in Alex Cox's Straight to Hell, and five songs by the band were included on the film's soundtrack album.

Sixty guilders in 1626 had the approximate value of $ 1000 in 2006, according to the Institute for Social History of Amsterdam Based on the price of silver, Straight Dope author Cecil Adams calculated an equivalent of $ 72 in 1992.

"" (, or ), meaning to smarten up, style or improve something, has become commonplace more recently, having been used on the TV series Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and What Not to Wear.

* " Anna ", a 1975 song by Bad Company on their album Straight Shooter

Straight parabolic fletching s on an arrow.

The 3. 15: 1 ratio differential was introduced in 2005 to be used at Bathurst-cars with this ratio can now exceed 300 km / h ( 186 mph ) on Conrod Straight ( this has yet to be demonstrated, although Perkins Engineering claims to have exceeded this speed multiple times in the 2005 event ).

* Judas, in whose house on the Street called Straight in Damascus Saul of Tarsus regained his sight

* Straight Dope on the Philadelphia Experiment

Critically acclaimed as Van Vliet's magnum opus, Trout Mask Replica was released as a 28 track double album in June 1969 on Frank Zappa's newly formed Straight Records label.

* 101A – forward Dive Straight

Straight stitch geometry is produced when the needle has no sideways movements and when the feed dogs are following only in the normal forward " four motion " movement.

* Straight spine, with hips pushed forward.

Straight forward composition and a concern for the efforts of man characterize Bosse's photographic point-of-view, as it would come to be the basis of foto-reportage.

; 45 Degree Angle Step ": the principle of Straight / 45 refers to the desired degree of the feet in relation to one another, usually with the front foot Straight forward and the back foot ( left or right ) at 45 degrees outward.

;" Squaring the hips ": at the end / forward position of a movement ( such as Single Whip ) the hips of a practitioner should be square or facing completely forward and in line with the front or " Straight " foot.