Straight
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Not crooked or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length. Strictly along political lines. Direct, truthful, frank. As it should be. Undiluted. Having all cylinders in a single row. (referring to an internal combustion engine) Conventional. Heterosexual. Satisfied. Boring, unappealing, bad or of low quality. On, or near a line running between the two wickets.
Part of speech: adverb
Definition: Of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line. Of movement or travel, directly; without pause, delay or detour. Continuously; without interruption or pause.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A part of a racecourse, running track or other road etc that is not curved. A heterosexual. In poker, five cards in sequence.
Example sentence: If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they've done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.
Continuous
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening time.Without intervening space; continued; protracted; extended.Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.Such that, for every x in the domain, for each small open interval D about f(x), there's an interval containing x whose image is in D.Such that each open set in the range has an open preimage.Expressing an ongoing action or state.
Example sentence: It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.