Strait

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “Sweet oil was poured out on thy head And ran down like cool rain between The strait close locks it melted in.”

2. sıfat Righteous, strict.

   “to follow the strait and narrow”

3. sıfat Tight; close; tight-fitting.

   “Palamon. […] Stay a little, Is not this peece too streight? Arcite. No, no, tis well.”

4. sıfat Close; intimate; near; familiar.

   “After the noble Prince Leonatus had by his fathers death succeeded in the kingdome of Galatia, he (forgetting all former iniuries) had receiued that naughtie Plexirtus into a streight degree of fauour […]”

5. sıfat Difficult; distressful.
6. sıfat Parsimonious; stingy; mean.

   “[…] I do not ask you much, I beg cold comfort; and you are so strait And so ingrateful, you deny me that.”

7. sıfat Obsolete spelling of straight, now a misspelling of straight.

   “He was of stature somewhat under the middle size, but strait and well shap'd.”

8. isim A narrow channel of water connecting two larger bodies of water.

   “the Strait of Gibraltar”

9. isim A narrow pass, passage or street.

   “He brought him through a darksom narrow strayt, To a broad gate all built of beaten gold:”

10. isim A neck of land; an isthmus.

    “The bold Sir Bedivere uplifted him, Sir Bedivere, the last of all his knights, And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land.”

11. isim A difficult position.

    “to be in dire straits”

12. fiil To confine; put to difficulties.

    “After Bardus, the Celtes […] were in short tyme, and with small labour broughte vnder the subiection of the Giaunt Albion, the sonne of Neptune, who altering the state of things here in this yland, straited the name of Celtica and the Celtes within the boundes of Gallia […]”

13. fiil To tighten.
14. zarf Strictly; rigorously.

    “Lords, take your places; and, I pray you all, Proceed no straiter ’gainst our uncle Gloucester Than from true evidence of good esteem He be approved in practise culpable.”

15. özel isim A surname.