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STRADDLE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("straddle" is a kind of...):

option (the right to buy or sell property at an agreed price; the right is purchased and if it is not exercised by a stated date the money is forfeited)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of sitting or standing astride

Synonyms:

span; straddle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("straddle" is a kind of...):

motility; motion; move; movement (a change of position that does not entail a change of location)

Meronyms (parts of "straddle"):

call; call option (the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date)

put; put option (the option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date)

Derivation:

straddle (sit or stand astride of)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A gymnastic exercise performed with a leg on either side of the parallel bars

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("straddle" is a kind of...):

gymnastic exercise ((gymnastics) an exercise designed to develop and display strength and agility and balance (usually performed with or on some gymnastic apparatus))

Derivation:

straddle (sit or stand astride of)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A noncommittal or equivocal position

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("straddle" is a kind of...):

perspective; position; view (a way of regarding situations or topics etc.)

Derivation:

straddle (be noncommittal)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Range or extend over; occupy a certain area

Example:

The plants straddle the entire state

Synonyms:

range; straddle

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "straddle" is one way to...):

be; comprise; constitute; make up; represent (form or compose)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "straddle"):

spread-eagle (stretch over)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be noncommittal

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

straddle (a noncommittal or equivocal position)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Sit or stand astride of

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "straddle" is one way to...):

be (occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

straddle (the act of sitting or standing astride)

straddle (a gymnastic exercise performed with a leg on either side of the parallel bars)

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