| 单词 | bight |
| 释义 | bight (once / 4639 pages) 1n 2nv WORD FAMILY bight: bights USAGE EXAMPLESHer “Birthday Poem,” perhaps a nod to Bishop’s “The Bight,” is both hard to stomach and, er, delicious: Los Angeles Times(Nov 11, 2016) The visitor told him it had slipped off between the Bight Reef sign and the buoys marking the snorkeling zone. Washington Post(Oct 27, 2016) BP had said the Bight’s geology was similar to some of the world’s biggest oil and gas regions, such as the Mississippi Delta. Wall Street Journal(Oct 11, 2016) 1 1n a bend or curve (especially in a coastline) Hyper bend, crook, turn, twist a circular segment of a curve 2n a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline 2the Bight of Benin the Great Australian Bight Exp|Hyper Bight of Benin a broad indentation of the Gulf of Guinea in western Africa Great Australian Bighta wide bay of the Indian Ocean in southern Australia; notorious for storms bay, embayment an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf 1n a loop in a rope Hyper loop anything with a round or oval shape (formed by a curve that is closed and does not intersect itself) 2n the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends) Hyper center, centre, midpoint a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure 3v fasten with a bight Hyper fasten, fix, secure cause to be firmly attached |
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