straddle
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- n a noncommittal or equivocal position
- n a gymnastic exercise performed with a leg on either side of the parallel bars
- n the act of sitting or standing astride
- n 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
- v sit or stand astride of
- v range or extend over; occupy a certain area
The plants straddle the entire state - v be noncommittal
- Teeming with bird and marine life, giant ferns and towering mangrove plants whose roots straddle land and water like the legs of lumbering animals, the creeks and swamps of the .
- They straddle some of the world's busiest shipping lanes.
- Though the technology appears to straddle the line between science and science fiction, the era of quantum teleportation has arrived.