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English

Image:Strait.png|thumb|right|150 px|Strait diagram

Etymology

from Middle English streit, from Old French estreit (modern form étroit), from Latin strictus, past participle of stringere (to compress, tighten). Doublet of strict.

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-strait.ogg



Homophones


Adjective

strait

  1. narrow; restricted as to space or room; close
  2. righteous, strict
  3. : To follow the strait and narrow


Usage notes

The adjective is often confused with straight.

Derived terms


Noun

  1. A narrow channel of water connecting two larger bodies of water
  2. : The Strait of Gibraltar
  3. A difficult position (often used in plural)
  4. : To be in dire straits


Translations

Anagrams


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Strait \Strait\, adv.
Strictly; rigorously. [Obs.] --Shak.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Strait \Strait\, a.
A variant of Straight. [Obs.]
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Strait \Strait\, a. [Compar. Straiter; superl. Straitest.]
[OE. straight, streyt, streit, OF. estreit, estroit, F.
['e]troit, from L. strictus drawn together, close, tight, p.
p. of stringere to draw tight. See 2nd Strait, and cf.
Strict.]
1. Narrow; not broad.
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Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which
leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
--Matt. vii.
14.
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Too strait and low our cottage doors. --Emerson.
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2. Tight; close; closely fitting. --Shak.
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3. Close; intimate; near; familiar. [Obs.] "A strait degree
of favor." --Sir P. Sidney.
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4. Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.
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Some certain edicts and some strait decrees. --Shak.
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The straitest sect of our religion. --Acts xxvi. 5
(Rev. Ver.).
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5. Difficult; distressful; straited.
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To make your strait circumstances yet straiter.
--Secker.
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6. Parsimonious; niggargly; mean. [Obs.]
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I beg cold comfort, and you are so strait,
And so ingrateful, you deny me that. --Shak.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Strait \Strait\, v. t.
To put to difficulties. [Obs.] --Shak.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Strait \Strait\, n.; pl. Straits. [OE. straight, streit, OF.
estreit, estroit. See Strait, a.]
1. A narrow pass or passage.
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He brought him through a darksome narrow strait
To a broad gate all built of beaten gold. --Spenser.
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Honor travels in a strait so narrow
Where one but goes abreast. --Shak.
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2. Specifically: (Geog.) 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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We steered directly through a large outlet which
they call a strait, though it be fifteen miles
broad. --De Foe.
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3. A neck of land; an isthmus. [R.]
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A dark strait of barren land. --Tennyson.
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4. 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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For I am in a strait betwixt two. --Phil. i. 23.
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Let no man, who owns a Providence, grow desperate
under any calamity or strait whatsoever. --South.
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Ulysses made use of the pretense of natural
infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that
time in his thoughts. --Broome.
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WordNet strait
adj : strict and severe; "strait is the gate"
n 1: a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of
water [syn: sound]
2: a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs [syn: pass,
straits]
Moby Dictionary
angustifoliate , angustirostrate , angustisellate , angustiseptal ,
arm , armlet , bay , bayou , belt , bight , bind , boca , bottleneck ,
bound , bounded , box , breakers ahead , canal , cardhouse ,
cause for alarm , channel , circumscribed , climacteric , close ,
close-fitting , clutch , complication , conditioned , confined ,
confining , constricted , contingency , convergence of events ,
copyrighted , cove , cramp , cramped , creek , crisis ,
critical juncture , critical point , crossroads , crowded ,
crucial period , crunch , danger , dangerous ground , defile ,
demanding , difficult , dilemma , disciplined , embarrassing position ,
embarrassment , emergency , endangerment , estuary , euripus , exacting ,
exigency , extremity , fine how-do-you-do , finite , fjord , frith ,
gaping chasm , gathering clouds , gulf , gut , harbor , hazard ,
hell to pay , hinge , hobble , hot water , house of cards ,
how-do-you-do , imbroglio , imperilment , incapacious , incommodious ,
inlet , isthmian , isthmic , isthmus , jam , jeopardy , kyle , limited ,
limiting , loch , meager , menace , mess , mix , moderated , morass ,
mouth , narrow , narrow seas , narrows , natural harbor , near , neck ,
parlous straits , pass , patented , peril , perplexity , pickle , pinch ,
plight , predicament , prescribed , pretty pass , pretty pickle ,
pretty predicament , proscribed , push , quagmire , qualified ,
quicksand , reach , restricted , restricting , rigorous , risk , road ,
roads , roadstead , rocks ahead , rub , scant , scanty , scrape , slender ,
slough , sound , spot , squeeze , stew , sticky wicket , storm clouds ,
straitened , straits , swamp , thin ice , threat , throat , tight ,
tight spot , tight squeeze , tightrope , tricky spot , trouble , turn ,
turning , turning point , unholy mess


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