| strait | Origin: 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. <geography> Specifically: 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. "A dark strait of barren land." (Tennyson) 4. 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) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| straitjacket | A garment-like device with long sleeves that can be secured to restrain a violently disturbed person. Synonym: camisole. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inferior strait | Apertura pelvis superior, superior strait, apertura pelvis superior. Origin: M.E. Streit thr. O. Fr. Fr. L. Strictus, drawn together, tight (05 Mar 2000) |
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anything immaterial that severely hinders or confines; "they defected because Russian dance was in a straitjacket"; "the government is operating in an economic straitjacket" a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person
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| strait |
a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water pass: a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs strict and severe; "strait is the gate"
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narrow waterway, as in: To get from the state of Washington, in the US, to Vancouver Island, British Columbia, in Canada, we crossed the Juan De Fuca Strait by ferry.
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a narrow area of water which joins two larger areas of water
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informal name for camisole.
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| strait | a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water |
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| strait | a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs |
| strait | (archaic) strict and severe |
| strait | the way of proper and honest behavior |
| strait | the strait between the English Channel and the North Sea |
| strait | the strait between the English Channel and the North Sea |
| strait | the strait separating Vancouver Island from the Canadian mainland |
| strait | the strait between Spain and Africa |
| strait | a strategically important strait linking the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman |
| strait | the strait separating South America from Tierra del Fuego and other islands south of the continent |
| strait | the strait separating Sicily from the tip of Italy |
| strait | a strategically important strait linking the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman |
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