strait

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Adj

1. (archaic) Narrow; restricted as to space or room; close.
2. (archaic) Righteous, strict.
3. (obsolete) Tight; close; tight-fitting.
4. (obsolete) Close; intimate; near; familiar.
5. (obsolete) Difficult; distressful.
6. (obsolete) Parsimonious; stingy; mean.
7. (alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete spelling of straight.

Noun

1. A narrow channel of water connecting two larger bodies of water.
2. A narrow pass, passage or street.
3. A neck of land; an isthmus.
4. (in-plural, often) A difficult position.

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To confine; put to difficulties.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To tighten.

Adv

Strictly; rigorously.

Konzepte

Meerenge

Straße

Enge

Meeresstraße

schmal

Kanal

Sund

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Meerstraße

Meerenge Kanal

Schwierigkeiten

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Synonyme

channel

narrow

sound

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straits

distress

close

pass

gorge

narrows

stringent

pinch

plight

dire straits

strict

predicament

cramped

ravine

neck

confined

constricted

nigh

parochial

particular

perplexity

poky

quandary

rigid

route

short

small

thronged

tight

uncleared

uncomfortable

waterway

waterways

Str

circumscribed

contracted

crowded

difficult

difficulty

distressed

embarrassing

fix

gut

hardship

hot water

incommodious

inconvenient

Übersetzungen

détroit

stretto

estrecho

estreito

straat

nauw

boğaz

zeestraat

zeeëngte

kanaal

estrech

مضيق

fauces

estret

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/stɹeɪt/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: streit

In summary

From Middle English streit, from Old French estreit (modern form étroit), from Latin strictus, perfect passive participle of stringō (“compress, tighten”). Doublet of stretto and strict.