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straight: a straight length of road between two curves
Category: Building industry

straight: prefixed to the name of a tanning process or colouring process,indicates that only the process thus specified has been employed in the manufacture of the leather.Thus 'straight chrome' indicates tannage solely by the use of chromium salts,and 'straight dyed' indicates colouring solely by immersion in a dye bath without subsequent application of pigmented finishes
Category: Various industries and crafts

straight-bar: a plain or rib knitting machine having bearded needles fixed in a movable-straight bar or bars.It is used to produce fashioned or fully-fashioned goods
Category: Various industries and crafts

straight-run: bitumen produced directly by distilling off the volatile constituents of the crude oil
Category: Building industry

straight-run: when the distillation process is controlled so that overheating and subsequent chemical changes do not take place,the asphalt residue that remains is called--
Category: Building industry

straightened: The length of a fibre when tensioned sufficiently to remove crimp or other axial deformation.
Category: Various industries and crafts

straightener: device for continuous straightening of sheet metal strips and wire
Category: Mechanical engineering

straightening: River engineering measures taken in order to straighten a watercourse.
Category: Building industry

straightforward: a method of working a group of junctions between two exchanges in which the incoming end of a junction,when taken into use,is connected by automatic means at the incoming exchange to the B position operator`s telephone circuit so that particulars of the call may be passed without delay
Category: News-systems and communications

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