A strait is a narrow sea channel or a difficult situation remember that both are difficult to navigate. If you're stranded on a strait off the Black Sea, you might also say that you're in dire straits.
A variant of
Noun
a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water
Noun
a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
Adjective S.
strict and severe; "strait is the gate"
a.
A variant of Straight.
superl.
Narrow; not broad.
superl.
Tight; close; closely fitting.
superl.
Close; intimate; near; familiar.
superl.
Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.
superl.
Difficult; distressful; straited.
superl.
Parsimonious; niggargly; mean.
adv.
Strictly; rigorously.
a.
A narrow pass or passage.
a.
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.
a.
A neck of land; an isthmus.
a.
Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt;
distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural;
as, reduced to great straits.
v. t.
To put to difficulties.
Strait
Strait
Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Too strait and low our cottage doors.2.
Some certain edicts and some strait decrees.
The straitest sect of our religion.5.
To make your strait circumstances yet straiter.6.
I beg cold comfort, and you are so strait, And so ingrateful, you deny me that.
Strait
Strait
He brought him through a darksome narrow strait To a broad gate all built of beaten gold.
Honor travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast.2. Specifically:
We steered directly through a large outlet which they call a strait, though it be fifteen miles broad.3.
A dark strait of barren land.4.
For I am in a strait betwixt two.
Let no man, who owns a Providence, grow desperate under any calamity or strait whatsoever.
Ulysses made use of the pretense of natural infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that time in his thoughts.
Strait
A variant of
Narrow; not broad.
Strictly; rigorously.
A narrow pass or passage.
To put to difficulties.
Usage Examples
Secondly I would like to make continuous efforts of stabilising cross Strait relations, eventually reaching peace across the Taiwan strait and stability and security in the Asia Pacific region.
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Other Usage ExamplesWe sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people.
Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge closer ties based on mutual understanding and respect, leading to permanent peace in the Taiwan Strait.
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