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Noun strait has 2 senses
- strait, sound - a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water
--1 is a kind of situation; channel; situation; channel
--1 has particulars: | | desperate straits, dire straits; 2 senses of strait ; strait, sound; Dardanelles, Hellespont; East River; Bering Strait; Bosporus; Cook Strait; Golden Gate; Kattegatt; Korean Strait, Korea Strait; Menai Strait; narrow; North Channel; Skagerrak, Skagerak; Solent, the Solent; Strait of Georgia; Strait of Gibraltar; Strait of Hormuz, Strait of Ormuz; Strait of Magellan; Strait of Messina; Strait of Dover, Strait of Calais, Pas de Calais; Torres Strait; pass, strait, straits; desperate straits, dire straits; 2 senses of strait ; strait, sound; Dardanelles, Hellespont; East River; Bering Strait; Bosporus; Cook Strait; Golden Gate; Kattegatt; Korean Strait, Korea Strait; Menai Strait; narrow; North Channel; Skagerrak, Skagerak; Solent, the Solent; Strait of Georgia; Strait of Gibraltar; Strait of Hormuz, Strait of Ormuz; Strait of Magellan; Strait of Messina; Strait of Dover, Strait of Calais, Pas de Calais; Torres Strait |
- pass, strait, straits - a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
--2 is a kind of juncture, occasion; situation; juncture, occasion; situation
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