strait

strait englannista suomeksi

1. ahdinko, kiipeli

2. ahdas

3. salmi

0. Substantiivi

1. salmi

2. kapeikko

3. kannas, kapeikko

4. kiipeli

4. Verbi

strait englanniksi

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

2. {{quote-book|en|year=1866|author=Algernon Swinburne|chapter=Aholibah|title=Poems and Ballads|location=London|publisher=John Camden Hotten|page=311|url=https://archive.org/details/b29012685

3. (RQ:Emerson May-Day)

4. 1894, (w), “To One in Bedlam” in ''The Second Book of The Rhymers’ Club'', London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, p. 35,https://archive.org/details/secondbookofrhym00rhym

Those scentless wisps of straw, that miserably line

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

Pedant and pitiful.

5. Righteous, strict.

(ux)

6. (RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-1)

7. (RQ:King James Version) after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

8. Tight; close; tight-fitting.

9. (RQ:Beaumont Fletcher Comedies and Tragedies) Stay a little, / Is not this peece too streight? / ''Arcite''. No, no, tis well.

10. Close; intimate; near; familiar.

11. (RQ:Sidney Arcadia)

12. Difficult; distressful.

13. 18th c., (w), ''Sermons on Several Subjects'', 2nd edition, 1771, Volume III, Sermon XI, p. 253,https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007692365

But to make your strait Circumstances yet straiter, for the Sake of idle Gratifications, and distress yourselves in Necessaries, only to indulge in Trifles and Vanities, delicate Food, shewish Dress, ensnaring Diversions, is every Way wrong.

14. Parsimonious; stingy; mean.

15. (RQ:Shakespeare King John) I do not ask you much, / I beg cold comfort; and you are so strait / And so ingrateful, you deny me that.

16. (obs sp).

17. (quote-book)|year=1810|volume=1|page=lxiii|text=''A strait Line over a Vowel denotes the Omission of the Letter'' m ''or'' n ''following:''quā(spaces)-(spaces)-(spaces)quam(spaces)‖(spaces)nō(spaces)-(spaces)-(spaces)non(spaces)‖(spaces)(..)(..)''The strait Line over'' m ''in the Middle of a Word denotes the Omission of the Letter'' n ''following:''om̄es(spaces)-(spaces)-(spaces)omnes(spaces)‖(spaces)om̄ia(spaces)-(spaces)-(spaces)omnia

18. A narrow channel of water connecting two larger of water|bodies of water.

19. (RQ:Defoe Captain Singleton) we steered directly through a large Out-let, which they call a Streight, tho’ it be fifteen Miles broad (..)

20. A narrow pass, passage or street.

21. (RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)

22. (RQ:Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida)

23. A neck of land; an isthmus.

24. (RQ:Tennyson Poems 1842)

25. A difficult position.

26. 1684, (w), “A Sermon Preached at Westminster-Abbey” in ''Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions'', London: Thomas Bennett, 1692, p. 420,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A60954.0001.001

(..) let no man, who owns the Belief of a Providence, grow desperate or forlorn, under any Calamity or Strait whatsoever (..)

27. (RQ:Homer Pope et al Odyssey)

28. To confine; put to difficulties.

29. (quote-book)|location=London|volume=1|publisher=The Historie of Englande|page=3|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A03448.0001.001

30. (RQ:Shakespeare Winter's Tale) If your lass / Interpretation should abuse and call this / Your lack of love or bounty, you were straited / For a reply (..)

31. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Humphrey Moseley, et al|page=885|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A62144.0001.001

32. To tighten.

33. Strictly; rigorously.

34. (RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-2)