STRAIT

strait

(adjective) narrow; “strait is the gate”

strait, sound

(noun) a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water

pass, strait, straits

(noun) a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

strait (comparative straiter, superlative straitest)

(archaic) Narrow; restricted as to space or room; close.

(archaic) Righteous, strict.

(obsolete) Tight; close; tight-fitting.

(obsolete) Close; intimate; near; familiar.

(obsolete) Difficult; distressful.

(obsolete) Parsimonious; stingy; mean.

Usage notes

The adjective is often confused with straight.

Noun

strait (plural straits)

(geography) A narrow channel of water connecting two larger bodies of water.

A narrow pass, passage or street.

A neck of land; an isthmus.

(often, in the plural) A difficult position.

Verb

strait (third-person singular simple present straits, present participle straiting, simple past and past participle straited)

(obsolete, transitive) To confine; put to difficulties.

(obsolete, transitive) To tighten.

Adverb

strait (comparative straiter, superlative straitest)

(obsolete) Strictly; rigorously.

Anagrams

• Rattis, artist, atrist, ittars, star it, strati, traits

Proper noun

Strait (plural Straits)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Strait is the 5352^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 6505 individuals. Strait is most common among White (89.92%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Rattis, artist, atrist, ittars, star it, strati, traits

Source: Wiktionary

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Strait, a.

Definition: A variant of Straight. [Obs.]

Strait, a. [Compar. Straiter; superl. Straitest.] Etym: [OE. straight, streyt, streit, OF. estreit, estroit, F. étroit, from L. strictus drawn together, close, tight, p.p. of stringere to draw tight. See 2nd Strait, and cf. Strict.]

1. Narrow; not broad. Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Matt. vii. 14. Too strait and low our cottage doors. Emerson.

2. Tight; close; closely fitting. Shak.

3. Close; intimate; near; familiar. [Obs.] "A strait degree of favor." Sir P. Sidney.

4. Strict; scrupulous; rigorous. Some certain edicts and some strait decrees. Shak. The straitest sect of our religion. Acts xxvi. 5 (Rev. Ver.).

5. Difficult; distressful; straited. To make your strait circumstances yet straiter. Secker.

6. Parsimonious; niggargly; mean. [Obs.] I beg cold comfort, and you are so strait, And so ingrateful, you deny me that. Shak.

Strait, adv.

Definition: Strictly; rigorously. [Obs.] Shak.

Strait, n.; pl. Straits. Etym: [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.)

Definition: 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.

Strait, v. t.

Definition: To put to difficulties. [Obs.] Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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