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bight
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bight
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun bight has 4 senses
- bight(n = noun.shape) Array - a loop in a rope; Array is a kind of loop
- bight(n = noun.shape) Array - a bend or curve (especially in a coastline); Array is a kind of bend, crook, turn, twist
- bight(n = noun.object) Array - a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline; "the Bight of Benin"; "the Great Australian Bight" is a kind of bay, embayment
- bight(n = noun.artifact) Array - the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends); Array is a part of rope
Derived form verb bight1
has particulars: bight of benin, great australian bight
is a kind of center, centre, midpoint
Verb bight has 1 sense
- bight(v = verb.contact) Array - fasten with a bight; Array is one way to fasten, fix, secure
Derived form noun bight1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
bight, n. [OE. bi a bending; cf. Sw. & Dan. bugt bend, bay; fr. AS. byht, fr. b. Bout, Bought a bend, and see Bow, v. ].
- A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow. [1913 Webster]
- A bend in a coast forming an open bay; as, the Bight of Benin. [1913 Webster]
- The double part of a rope when folded, in distinction from the ends; that is, a round, bend, or coil not including the ends; a loop. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
bight, n.
1 a curve or recess in a coastline, river, etc.
2 a loop of rope.
1 a curve or recess in a coastline, river, etc.
2 a loop of rope.
Etymology
OE byht, MLG bucht f. Gmc: see BOW(2)
THESAURUS
bight
L, angle, apex, arm, armlet, bay, bayou, belt, bend, bifurcation, boca, cant, chevron, coin, corner, cove, crank, creek, crook, crotchet, deflection, dogleg, elbow, ell, estuary, euripus, fjord, fork, frith, furcation, gulf, gut, harbor, hook, inflection, inlet, knee, kyle, loch, mouth, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, nook, point, quoin, reach, road, roads, roadstead, slough, sound, strait, straits, swerve, veer, vertex, zag, zig, zigzagROGET THESAURUS
bight
Lake
N gulf, lake, land covered with water, gulf, gulph, bay, inlet, bight, estuary, arm of the sea, bayou, fiord, armlet, frith, firth, ostiary, mouth, lagune, lagoon, indraught, cove, creek, natural harbor, roads, strait, narrows, Euripus, sound, belt, gut, kyles, continental slope, continental shelf, lake, loch, lough, mere, tarn, plash, broad, pond, pool, lin, puddle, slab, well, artesian well, standing water, dead water, sheet of water, fish pond, mill pond, ditch, dike, dyke, dam, reservoir, alberca, barachois, hog wallow, lacustrine.
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