STRAIT
\stɹˈe͡ɪt], \stɹˈeɪt], \s_t_ɹ_ˈeɪ_t]\
Definitions of STRAIT
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By Princeton University
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A variant of Straight.
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Narrow; not broad.
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Tight; close; closely fitting.
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Close; intimate; near; familiar.
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Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.
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Difficult; distressful; straited.
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Parsimonious; niggargly; mean.
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Strictly; rigorously.
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A narrow pass or passage.
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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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A neck of land; an isthmus.
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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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To put to difficulties.
By Oddity Software
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A narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water; perplexity; difficulty; as, to be in a financial strait: often plural.
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Narrow; not broad; as, the strait gate; restricted; hampered.
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Straitly.
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Straitness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Straitly.
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Straitness.
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Of small dimensions; narrow.
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Close; tight.
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A narrow passage of water connecting two lar er bodies of water.
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Any narrow pass or passage.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Difficult: distressful: (obs. strict, rigorous: narrow, so in B.).
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A narrow pass in a mountain, or in the ocean between two portions of land: difficulty: distress.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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