straddle
Kelime Anlamı :

1. Birşeyin üzerine at biner gibi oturmak.
2. iki tarafı birden idare etmek.
3. iki arada bir derede kalmak.
4. ata biner gibi oturma.
5. çift taraflı işlem.
6. çift opsiyon işlem.
7. çift ikramiyeli işlem.
8. çift opsiyon işlemi.
9. bacaklarını açarak durmak.
10. bacakları ayırma.
Sahne Örnekleri :
Eş Anlamlı Kelimeler :
Tanımlar :
1. to stand or walk with the legs wide apart; sit or stand astride.
2. to include or favor two apparently opposite or different things; occupy or take up an equivocal position in regard to something: as, to straddle on the tariff question.
3. to place one leg on one side and the other on the other side of; stand or sit astride of: as, to straddle a fence or a horse.
4. to occupy or take up an equivocal position in regard to; appear to favor both sides of: as, to straddle a political question.
5. to double (the blind) in poker.
6. astride; with straddled legs: as, to ride straddle.
7. the act of standing or sitting with the legs far apart.
8. the distance between the feet or legs of one who straddles.
9. in speculative dealings on 'change, a “privilegeor speculative contract covering both a “putand a “call”—that is, giving the holder the right at his option of calling, within a specified number of days, for a certain stock or commodity at a price named in the contract, or
10. of delivering to the person to whom the consideration had been paid a certain stock or commodity upon terms similarly stated. see call, n., 15, privilege, n., 5, and put, n., 5. also called spread eagle.
11. in the game of poker, a doubling of the blind by one of the players.
12. an attempt to take an equivocal or non-committal position: as, a straddle in a party platform.
13. in mining, one of the vertical timbers by which the different sets are supported at a fixed distance from each other in the shaft; a vertical post used in various ways in timbering a mine, as in supporting the framework of a shaft at a hanging-on place.
14. A sort of tumble-bug; a scarabæid beetle with long legs, of the genus Canthon, as C. lævis. see cut under tumble-bug.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia