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Meanings of straw in anglès

portuguès
canudo
Wikidata

A thin tube used to suck liquids from a container into the mouth of the drinker.

        canudo
        portuguès
        palha
        català
        boll
        espanyol
        gluma

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

              boll
              Sinònims
              Examples for "drinking straw"
              Examples for "drinking straw"
              1
              Her shrunken head will collapse around the drinking straw in her mouth.
              Choke
              2
              Instead he gently pushed a plastic drinking straw between my lips.
              Whispers Under Ground
              3
              Every tree is another drinking straw stuck down into the water of the ground.
              Wired
              4
              I woke with a drinking straw in my mouth.
              The Lightning Thief
              5
              Insert a "trache" tube; a drinking straw or half a ballpoint pen works best.
              Choke
              portuguès
              espalhar
              català
              dispersar
              espanyol
              esparcir

              Spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic)

                    dispersar

                    Color; tone of pale yellow.

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                          Usage of straw in anglès
                          1
                          High in silica content, paddy straw cannot be used to feed animals.
                          Reuters
                          2
                          The next criticism is a related one: the great 'straw man' offensive.
                          The god delusion
                          3
                          The Urchin was greatly interested in the baboon rummaging in his straw.
                          Mince Pie
                          4
                          I have approximately FOUR months to transform myself into said drinking-straw shape.
                          Sahm I am
                          5
                          The 'award' was decided by a straw poll taken by The Economist.
                          The South African
                          6
                          In this way, the banks were able to spin straw into gold.
                          Economics Without Illusions
                          7
                          I could hear Tom working in the stalls, laying down new straw.
                          The heretic's daughter: a novel
                          8
                          The growing crisis in the Alliance remained a straw to clutch at.
                          Hitler 1936 - 1945: Nemesis
                          9
                          With the longer straw in hand, Bolin secured three years as alderman.
                          Reuters
                          10
                          The dinner was the last straw; you might have dispensed with it.
                          The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories
                          11
                          The straw differs in being more or less hollow, and in quality.
                          The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume...
                          12
                          That was the final straw for the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand.
                          Radio NZ
                          13
                          Lifting the straw to the top of the bark proved extremely difficult.
                          The Incredible Shrinking Man
                          14
                          This knowledge was the straw which decided me; I would chance it.
                          My Lady of the North
                          15
                          The women made the straw beds and pillows and hemmed the sheets.
                          For Woman's Love
                          16
                          The straw in which their contents had been wrapped littered the floor.
                          Gossamer
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                          Translations for straw
                          Straw through the time
                          Straw across language varieties
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                          Common
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                          Common
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