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Meaning and definition for "strait" word
[noun] a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
[adjective] (archaic) strict and severe; "strait is the gate"
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\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. Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. --Matt. vii. 14. Too strait and low our cottage doors. --Emerson. 2. Tight; close; closely fitting. --Shak. 3. Close; intimate; near; familiar. [Obs.] ``A strait degree of favor.'' --Sir P. Sidney. 4. Strict; scrupulous; rigorous. Some certain edicts and some strait decrees. --Shak. The straitest sect of our religion. --Acts xxvi. 5 (Rev. Ver.). 5. Difficult; distressful; straited. To make your strait circumstances yet straiter. --Secker. 6. Parsimonious; niggargly; mean. [Obs.] I beg cold comfort, and you are so strait, And so ingrateful, you deny me that. --Shak.
\Strait\, adv. Strictly; rigorously. [Obs.] --Shak.
\Strait\, n.; pl. {Straits}. [OE. straight, streit, OF. estreit, estroit. See {Strait}, a.] 1. A narrow pass or passage. He brought him through a darksome narrow strait To a broad gate all built of beaten gold. --Spenser. Honor travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast. --Shak. 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. We steered directly through a large outlet which they call a strait, though it be fifteen miles broad. --De Foe. 3. A neck of land; an isthmus. [R.] A dark strait of barren land. --Tennyson. 4. Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits. For I am in a strait betwixt two. --Phil. i. 23. Let no man, who owns a Providence, grow desperate under any calamity or strait whatsoever. --South. Ulysses made use of the pretense of natural infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that time in his thoughts. --Broome.
\Strait\, v. t. To put to difficulties. [Obs.] --Shak.
Synonyms for strait
narrow, pass, sound, straits
See also: Bering Strait | Bosporus | channel | Dardanelles | desperate straits | dire straits | East River | Golden Gate | Hellespont | Korea Strait | Korean Strait | Menai Strait | narrow | Pas-de-Calais | situation | Solent | state of affairs | Strait of Calais | Strait of Dover | Strait of Georgia | Strait of Gibraltar | Strait of Hormuz | Strait of Magellan | Strait of Messina | Strait of Ormuz | the Solent |
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Let's analyse "strait" as pure text. This string has Six letters in One syllable and Two vowels. 33.3% of vowels is 5.3% less then average English word. Written in backwards: TIARTS. Average typing speed for these characters is 1635 milliseconds. [info]
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Numerology Hearts desire number calculated from vowels:
strait: 1 + 9 = 10, reduced: 1 . and the final result is One. |
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