strait

strait

1. määritelmä/puuttuu

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Synonyymisanakirja

strait

kapea, ahdas, arkaismi, Dardanellit, Dardanellien salmi, Hellespontos, East River, salmi.

Slangisanakirja

1. straitta: levysoitin

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Englannin sanakirja

strait (englanti > suomi)

1. salmi

2. kiipeli

strait englanniksi

1. puhekieltä narrow Narrow; restricted as to space or room; close.

2. Emerson

too strait and low our cottage doors

3. 1866, :w:Algernon Swinburne|Algernon Swinburne, Aholibah, lines 53-55

Sweet oil was poured out on thy head

And ran down like cool rain between

The strait close locks it melted in.

4. 1900, :w:Ernest Dowson|Ernest Dowson, To One in Bedlam, lines 3-5

Those scentless wisps of straw, that miserably line

His strait, caged universe, whereat the dull world stares,

pedant Pedant and pitiful.

5. puhekieltä righteous Righteous, strict.

to follow the strait and narrow

6. 1597, w: William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare, s: The First Part of King Henry the Fourth|Henry IV, Part 1, IV. iii. 79:

some certain edicts and some strait decrees

7. Bible, Acts xxvi. 5 (Rev. Ver.)

the straitest sect of our religion

8. puhekieltä tight Tight; close; tight-fitting.

9. 1613, w: William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare, s: The Two Noble Kinsmen|The Two Noble Kinsmen, III. vi. 86:

Is not this piece too strait? / No, no, 'tis well.

10. puhekieltä close Close; intimate; near; familiar.

11. Sir Philip Sidney

a strait degree of favour

12. puhekieltä Difficult; distressful; straited.

13. Secker

to make your strait circumstances yet straiter

14. puhekieltä parsimonious Parsimonious; niggardly; mean.

15. 1596, w: William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare, s: The Life and Death of King John|The Life and Death of King John, V. vii. 42:

I beg cold comfort, and you are so strait, / And so ingrateful, you deny me that.

16. puhekieltä A narrow channel of water connecting two larger bodies of water.

The Strait of Gibraltar

17. De Foe

We steered directly through a large outlet which they call a strait, though it be fifteen miles broad.

18. A narrow pass or passage.

19. Spenser

He brought him through a darksome narrow strait / To a broad gate all built of beaten gold.

20. 1602, w: William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare, s: Troilus and Cressida|Troilus and Cressida, III. iii. 154:

For honour travels in a strait so narrow / Where one but goes abreast.

21. A neck of land; an isthmus.

22. Tennyson

a dark strait of barren land

23. A difficult position (often used in plural).

to be in dire straits

24. South

Let no man, who owns a Providence, grow desperate under any calamity or strait whatsoever.

25. Broome

Ulysses made use of the pretense of natural infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that time in his thoughts.

26. puhekieltä To put to difficulties.

(rfquotek)

27. puhekieltä Strictly; rigorously.

28. 1593, w: William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare, s: The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth|Henry VI, Part 2, III. ii. 20:

Proceed no straiter 'gainst our uncle Gloucester

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