strait
- IPA[streɪt]
英式
- a narrow passage of water connecting two seas or two other large areas of water;used in reference to a situation characterized by a specified degree of trouble or difficulty
- (of a place) of limited spatial capacity; narrow or cramped;close, strict, or rigorous
noun: strait, plural noun: straits
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名詞
- 1. a narrow passage of water connecting two seas or two other large areas of water the Straits of Gibraltar 同義詞
- 2. used in reference to a situation characterized by a specified degree of trouble or difficulty the economy is in dire straits redundancy left him in severe financial straits 同義詞
形容詞
- 1. archaic (of a place) of limited spatial capacity; narrow or cramped the road was so strait that a handful of men might have defended it
- ▪ archaic close, strict, or rigorous my captivity was strait as ever
- a channel separating the northern tip of Queensland, Australia, from the island of New Guinea ...
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- an ocean passage between Newfoundland and Nova Scotia that links the Gulf of St. Lawrence with ...
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- the strait separating the South Island and the North Island of New Zealand. It was named after ...
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- having or showing very strict moral attitudes: his strait-laced parents were horrified
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- a channel that separates Tasmania from the mainland of Australia.
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- a channel separating Anglesey from the mainland of northwestern Wales. It is spanned by two ...
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- a sea passage 645 km (400 miles) long separating Greenland from Baffin Island and connecting ...
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- an inlet of the Bay of Bengal that separates northern Sri Lanka from the coast of Tamil Nadu in ...
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- a narrow passage of water connecting two seas or two other large areas of water: the Strait of Gibraltar
- (of a place) of limited spatial capacity; narrow or cramped: the road was so strait that a handful of men might have defended it
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