strait

strait

englanti

1. määritelmä/puuttuu

Esimerkkejä strait sanan käytöstä:

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Synonyymisanakirja: strait

strait

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

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Slangisanakirja: strait

• straitta: levysoitin

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Riimisanakirja: strait

strait rimmaa näiden kanssa:

1. parfait, kait, suitsait...

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Käännökset: strait

strait suomeksi

ahdinko, kiipeli, ahdas, salmi

• salmi

• kiipeli

strait englanniksi

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

• Emerson

too strait and low our cottage doors

• 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.

• 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.

• puhekieltä righteous Righteous, strict.

to follow the strait and narrow

• 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

• Bible, Acts xxvi. 5 (Rev. Ver.)

the straitest sect of our religion

• puhekieltä tight Tight; close; tight-fitting.

• 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.

• puhekieltä close Close; intimate; near; familiar.

• Sir Philip Sidney

a strait degree of favour

• puhekieltä Difficult; distressful; straited.

• Secker

to make your strait circumstances yet straiter

• puhekieltä parsimonious Parsimonious; niggardly; mean.

• 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.

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

The Strait of Gibraltar

• De Foe

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

• A narrow pass or passage.

• Spenser

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

• 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.

• A neck of land; an isthmus.

• Tennyson

a dark strait of barren land

• A difficult position (often used in plural).

to be in dire straits

• South

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

• Broome

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

• puhekieltä To put to difficulties.

(rfquotek)

• puhekieltä Strictly; rigorously.

• 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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