Synonyms for straight line
straight line

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1. straight linenoun

   Synonyms:
   line

2. straight linenoun

   A line with no curvature; a line with constant direction. The path of shortest length between two points.

   Synonyms:
   line

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1. straight linenoun

   a line traced by a point traveling in a constant direction; a line of zero curvature

   "the shortest distance between two points is a straight line"

   Antonyms:
   curve, curved shape

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1. Greg McBride:

   The CPI is likely to underscore the feeling that inflation pressures aren’t going to come down easily or in a straight line, the progress is going to be tougher to come by than what the trend of the past several months would have us believe.

2. Albert Fox:

   There's a straight line through to this intrusive surveillance to unnecessary police stops to the kind of tragic violence we saw in Minneapolis.

3. Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington:

   Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.

4. Thomas Simons:

   The trends in the labor market are intact, demand for labor remains strong, job openings are plentiful, and deviations from trend in the claims data are nothing to get too worried about. Claims will continue to grind lower, but it won't happen in a straight line every week.

5. Monica Lewinsky:

   It was not a straight line to that and it was not a linear process at all, it happened in stages.