strait

strait

englanti

  1. määritelmä/puuttuu

Esimerkkejä strait sanan käytöstä:

straitjacket

Synonyymisanakirja

strait

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

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Käännökset

englanti

ahdinko, kiipeli

ahdas

salmi 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

Slangisanakirja

  • straitta: levysoitin

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