straddle
straddle is a 8-letter English word with 13 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To part the legs wide; to stand or to walk with the legs far apart. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- intransitive verb. To part the legs wide; to stand or to walk with the legs far apart.
- intransitive verb. To stand with the ends staggered; -- said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.
- transitive verb. To place one leg on one side and the other on the other side of; to stand or sit astride of; as, to straddle a fence or a horse.
- noun. The act of standing, sitting, or walking, with the feet far apart.
- noun. The position, or the distance between the feet, of one who straddles; as, a wide straddle.
- noun. A stock option giving the holder the double privilege of a "put" and a "call," i. e., securing to the buyer of the option the right either to demand of the seller at a certain price, within a certain time, certain securities, or to require him to take at the same price, and within the same time, the same securities.
- noun. the option to buy or sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date; consists of an equal number of put and call options
- noun. the act of sitting or standing astride
- noun. a gymnastic exercise performed with a leg on either side of the parallel bars
- noun. a noncommittal or equivocal position
- verb. range or extend over; occupy a certain area
"The plants straddle the entire state"
- verb. be noncommittal
- verb. sit or stand astride of
Synonyms
Common word forms
straddled, straddler, straddles, straddling
Words from these letters
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