strait
IPA: strˈeɪt
noun
- (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.
- A surname.
verb
- (obsolete, transitive) To confine; put to difficulties.
- (obsolete, transitive) To tighten.
adjective
- (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.
- Obsolete spelling of straight. [Not crooked or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.]
adverb
- (obsolete) Strictly; rigorously.
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Examples of "strait" in Sentences
- The newspaper was in dire straits.
- The depth of the Strait of Georgia is 5km.
- The strait connects the Visayan Sea to the Bohol Sea.
- The Ionian Sea lies to the east with the Strait of Ithaca.
- The island of Pantelleria lies in the middle of the strait.
- First thing you all need to get strait is Obama is biracial.
- Steven strait is cute, but he looks wayyyy too old for jacob.
- That study is a lie strait from the pits of hell, and you know it.
- To the north is the Strait of Wetar, to the south is the Timor Sea.
- Across the Strait of Malacca to the west lies the island of Sumatra.
- Instead the cows headed strait for the Israelites and did not waver.
- The Selasan Strait cuts through the bottom of the cluster of islands.
- It is the narrowest part of the Strait between the island and the continent.
- My faith is the ONLY TRUE faith, that whole “many paths to God” is a lie strait from the pits of Hell.
- You apparently took no time to think about the definition of intelligence I posted strait from the dictionary
- Taking the issue to the people, and free from what he termed strait-jacket restrictions, the Governor said at Columbus, when he talked to the Ohio Democratic Convention:
- We were right in our guesses here to a tittle, and we steered directly through a large outlet, which they call a strait, though it be fifteen miles broad, and to an island they call Dammer, and from thence N.N.E. to
- I also have NO HOMOSEXUAL people in my family, this means my family as a whole. 1/3 peope are gay is a LIE strait from the pits of hell, there is NO SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE that a person is born gay, thus meaning that they choose to live that way.
- Sumatra from Java, which he called the strait of Polimban, from a city he erroneously supposed to lie on the Javan shore, and passing through this returned to Malacca by the east; being the first European who sailed round the island of Sumatra.
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