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
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.
The adjective is often confused with straight.
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.
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.
strait (comparative straiter, superlative straitest)
(obsolete) Strictly; rigorously.
• Rattis, artist, atrist, ittars, star it, strati, traits
Strait (plural Straits)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Strait is the 5352nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 6505 individuals. Strait is most common among White (89.92%) individuals.
• Rattis, artist, atrist, ittars, star it, strati, traits
Source: Wiktionary
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
29 April 2024
(noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
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