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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Strait \Strait\, n.; pl. Straits. [OE. straight, streit, OF.
estreit, estroit. See Strait, a.]
1. A narrow pass or passage.
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He brought him through a darksome narrow strait
To a broad gate all built of beaten gold. --Spenser.
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Honor travels in a strait so narrow
Where one but goes abreast. --Shak.
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2. Specifically: (Geog.) A (comparatively) narrow passageway
connecting two large bodies of water; -- often in the
plural; as, the strait, or straits, of Gibraltar; the
straits of Magellan; the strait, or straits, of Mackinaw.
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We steered directly through a large outlet which
they call a strait, though it be fifteen miles
broad. --De Foe.
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3. A neck of land; an isthmus. [R.]
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A dark strait of barren land. --Tennyson.
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4. Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt;
distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in
the plural; as, reduced to great straits.
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For I am in a strait betwixt two. --Phil. i. 23.
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Let no man, who owns a Providence, grow desperate
under any calamity or strait whatsoever. --South.
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Ulysses made use of the pretense of natural
infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that
time in his thoughts. --Broome.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Strait \Strait\, n.; pl. Straits. [OE. straight, streit, OF.
estreit, estroit. See Strait, a.]
1. A narrow pass or passage.
He brought him through a darksome narrow strait To a
broad gate all built of beaten gold. --Spenser.
Honor travels in a strait so narrow Where one but
goes abreast. --Shak.
2. Specifically: (Geog.) A (comparatively) narrow passageway
connecting two large bodies of water; -- often in the
plural; as, the strait, or straits, of Gibraltar; the
straits of Magellan; the strait, or straits, of Mackinaw.
We steered directly through a large outlet which
they call a strait, though it be fifteen miles
broad. --De Foe.
3. A neck of land; an isthmus. [R.]
A dark strait of barren land. --Tennyson.
4. Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt;
distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in
the plural; as, reduced to great straits.
For I am in a strait betwixt two. --Phil. i. 23.
Let no man, who owns a Providence, grow desperate
under any calamity or strait whatsoever. --South.
Ulysses made use of the pretense of natural
infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that
time in his thoughts. --Broome.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
straits
n 1: a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs [syn: pass,
strait]
2: a difficult juncture; "a pretty pass"; "matters came to a
head yesterday" [syn: pass, head]
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
straits
n.
(plural of en strait)
vb.
(infl of en strait s-verb-form)
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
Straits
n.
1 The Straits Settlements.
2 (lb en informal) The British rock band (w: Dire Straits).
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
straits
n.
(plural of en strait)
vb.
(infl of en strait s-verb-form)
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
Straits
n.
1 The Straits Settlements.
2 (lb en informal) The British rock band (w: Dire Straits).
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
straits
n.
(plural of en strait)
vb.
(infl of en strait s-verb-form)
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
Straits
n.
1 The Straits Settlements.
2 (lb en informal) The British rock band (w: Dire Straits).
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
straits
n.
(plural of en strait)
vb.
(infl of en strait s-verb-form)
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
Straits
n.
1 The Straits Settlements.
2 (lb en informal) The British rock band (w: Dire Straits).
From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
straits
Englanti n.
(en-monikko s trait)
From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]
Straits /stɹˈeɪts/
المضايق
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
straits /stɹˈeɪts/
tísně
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
straits /stɹˈeɪts/
úžiny
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
straits /stɹˈeɪts/
Meerenge , Wasserstraße , Straße [geogr.]
Note: in Zusammensetzungen
Synonym: strait
see: Strait of Bering, Bering Strait, Bering Straits, Strait of Bonifacio, Strait of Davis, Davis Strait, Davis Straits, Straits of Gibraltar, Strait of Hormuz, Straits of Hormuz, Strait of Hudson, Hudson Strait, Hudson Straits, Strait of Magellan, Straits of Magellan, Strait of Messina, Straits of Messina, Palk Strait, Palk Straits, Strait of Sunda, Sunda Strait, Sunda Straits
Note: in compounds
From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 : [ freedict:eng-hrv ]
straits /stɹˈeɪts/
vrata
From IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]
/ˈstɹeɪts/
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]
87 Moby Thesaurus words for "straits":
arm, armlet, bay, bayou, belt, bight, bind, boca, broken fortune,
clutch, complication, cove, creek, crunch, difficulties, distress,
embarrassing position, embarrassment, estuary, euripus,
fine how-do-you-do, fjord, frith, genteel poverty, gulf, gut,
harbor, hard pinch, hardship, hell to pay, hobble, hot water,
how-do-you-do, imbroglio, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, inlet,
insolvency, jam, kyle, light purse, loch, mess, mix, morass, mouth,
narrow, narrow means, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor,
parlous straits, pass, pickle, pinch, plight, poorness, poverty,
predicament, pretty pass, pretty pickle, pretty predicament,
quagmire, quicksand, reach, road, roads, roadstead, scrape,
slender means, slough, sound, spot, squeeze, stew, sticky wicket,
strait, straitened circumstances, swamp, tight spot, tight squeeze,
tightrope, tricky spot, unholy mess, unprosperousness,
voluntary poverty, vows of poverty
From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary : [ stardic ]
n．困难，窘境
From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]
n. 海峡
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