CANSO, STRAIT OF

Meaning of CANSO, STRAIT OF in English

Function: geographical name

narrow channel Canada separating Cape Breton Is. from N.S. mainland

Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary. Merriam Webster - Энциклопедический словарь английского языка. 2012

CANSO, STRAIT OF — geographical name narrow channel Canada separating Cape Breton Island from Nova Scotia mainland
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
CANSO, STRAIT OF — or Canso Gut Channel, Nova Scotia , Canada. Separating mainland Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island , it is 4.5 …
Английский словарь Британика
CANSO, STRAIT OF — narrow channel Canada separating Cape Breton Island from Nova Scotia mainland
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
CANSO, STRAIT OF — also called Canso Gut a channel separating Cape Breton Island from the Nova Scotia, Canada, mainland, leading from Chedabucto Bay …
Britannica English vocabulary
CANSO, STRAIT OF — or Canso Gut Channel, Nova Scotia , Canada. Separating mainland Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island , it is 4.5 …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
STRAIT — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) Bass Strait Canso Strait of Chatham Strait Cook Strait Davis Strait Dover Strait of …
Английский словарь Британика
STRAIT — n. Bass Strait Belle Isle Strait of Canso Strait of Chatham Strait Cook Strait Davis Strait Dover Strait of Euripus …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
STRAIT — a. strett; n. strette; desfacilitá
English interlingue dictionary
STRAIT — hiktin
English-Visayan vocabulary
STRAIT — I. ˈstrāt, usu -ād.+V adjective ( -er/-est ) Etymology: Middle English streit, strait, straight, from Old French estreit, from Latin …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CANSO — ˈkanˌsō noun also can·zo -ˌzō ( -s ) Etymology: Provençal, from Latin cantion-, cantio song — more at canzone : …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
STRAIT — ( a. ) A (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water; -- often in the plural; as, the …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
STRAIT — — straitly , adv. — straitness , n. /strayt/ , n. 1. Often, straits . ( used with a sing. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
CANSO — /kan"soh/ , n. 1. Cape , a cape in SE Canada, the NE extremity of Nova Scotia. 2. Strait of …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
STRAIT — I. ˈstrāt adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French estreit, from Latin strictus strait, strict, from past participle of stringere Date: …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
STRAIT — adj a variant of straight. 2. strait ·superl narrow; not broad. 3. strait ·adv strictly; rigorously. 4. strait ·adj a …
Webster English vocab
STRAIT — [strait] adj [ME, fr. OF estreit, fr. L strictus strait, strict, fr. pp. of stringere] (13c) 1 archaic: strict, rigorous …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
STRAIT — strait BrE AmE streɪt ▷ straits streɪts
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
STRAIT — / streɪt; NAmE / noun 1. [ pl. ] (also straits ) (especially in the names of places) a narrow …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
STRAIT — strait /streɪt/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: 1300-1400 ; Origin: strait 'narrow' (13-20 centuries) , from Old French estreit …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
STRAIT — n. & adj. n. 1 (in sing. or pl.) a narrow passage of water connecting two seas or large bodies …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
STRAIT — n. & adj. --n. 1. (in sing. or pl.) a narrow passage of water connecting two seas or large bodies …
Oxford English vocab
STRAIT — ( straits) 1. You can refer to a narrow strip of sea which joins two large areas of sea as …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
STRAIT — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE desperate ▪ Without papal assistance, crown finances would have been in even more desperate …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
STRAIT — [noun] [C usually plural] - a narrow area of sea which connects two larger areas of seaThe Straits of GibraltarThe …
Cambridge English vocab
STRAIT — noun 1 narrow piece of water connecting seas, etc. ADJECTIVE ▪ narrow VERB + STRAIT ▪ go through , pass …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
STRAIT — n. 25B6; noun a strait about six miles wide : CHANNEL, sound, inlet, stretch of water. the company is in …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
STRAIT — laced adj. priggish, prim, conservative, old-fashioned, Victorian, old-maidish, proper, prudish, puritanical, moralistic, strict, narrow-minded, (over-)scrupulous, fussy, Colloq pernickety or US …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
STRAIT — сущ. 1) часто мн. пролив 2) обыкн. мн. затруднительное положение, стесненные обстоятельства, нужда in desperate strait ≈ в отчаянном положении …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
STRAIT — strait.ogg _I 1. streıt n 1. обыкн. pl (узкий) пролив the Strait of Magellan - Магелланов пролив the Straits of …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
STRAIT — I 1. [streıt] n 1. обыкн. pl (узкий) пролив the Strait of Magellan - Магелланов пролив the Straits of Dover …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
STRAIT — _I 1. streıt n 1. обыкн. pl (узкий) пролив the Strait of Magellan - Магелланов пролив the Straits of Dover …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
STRAIT — сущ. 1) часто мн. пролив the Straits of Gibraltar — Гибралтарский пролив 2) обыкн. мн. затруднительное положение, стесненные обстоятельства, нужда …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
STRAIT — сущ. 1) часто мн. пролив the Straits of Gibraltar — Гибралтарский пролив 2) обыкн. мн. затруднительное положение, стесненные обстоятельства, нужда in desperate strait — …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
STRAIT — - pelvic strait
Новый Англо-Русский словарь по биологии
STRAIT — - pelvic strait
Новый Англо-Русский биологический словарь
STRAIT — пролив - international strait
Англо-Русский юридический словарь
STRAIT — сущ. 1) часто мн. пролив 2) обыкн. мн. затруднительное положение, стесненные обстоятельства, нужда in desperate strait ≈ в отчаянном положении …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
CANSO, CAPE — geographical name cape Canada on NE Nova Scotia mainland
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
GUT OF CANSO — Canso (def. 2).
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
CANSO, CAPE — geographical name cape Canada on NE Nova Scotia mainland
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
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Britannica English vocabulary
SABLE ISLAND — geographical name island Canada 20 miles (32 kilometers ) long in the Atlantic SE of Cape Canso; belongs to Nova …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
CANZO — variant of canso
Webster's New International English Dictionary
GUT — (n.) A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso.
Английский словарь Webster
GUT — ( n. ) A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SABLE ISLAND — island Canada 20 miles (32 kilometers ) long in the Atlantic SE of Cape Canso; belongs to Nova Scotia
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
GUT — noun a narrow passage of water; as, the gut of canso. 2. gut ·vt to take out the bowels from; …
Webster English vocab
TROUBADOUR — lyric poet of southern France, northern Spain, and northern Italy, writing in the langue d'oc of Provence; the troubadours, flourished …
Britannica English vocabulary
MINNESINGER — German Minnesnger or Minnesinger any of certain German poet-musicians of the 12th and 13th centuries. In the usage of these …
Britannica English vocabulary
SICILIAN SCHOOL — a group of Sicilian, southern Italian, and Tuscan poets centred in the courts of Emperor Frederick II (11941250) and his …
Britannica English vocabulary
SABLE ISLAND — gently curving sandbar in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, 110 mi (180 km) southeast of …
Britannica English vocabulary
PORT HAWKESBURY — town, Inverness county, northeastern Nova Scotia, Canada. It lies along the Strait of Canso, at the southern end of Cape …
Britannica English vocabulary
NOVA SCOTIA — Canadian province, one of the four British colonies federated into the Dominion of Canada in 1867. It comprises the peninsula …
Britannica English vocabulary
CAPE BRETON ISLAND — northeastern portion of Nova Scotia, Canada. It is separated from the remainder of the province and the Canadian mainland by …
Britannica English vocabulary
BAR FORM — in music, the structural pattern aab as used by the medieval German minnesingers and meistersingers, who were poet-composers of secular …
Britannica English vocabulary
YOUR
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
WORK — I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a business/working lunch (= a lunch during which you also do business ) ▪ …
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WITH
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WELL — I. adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a better/greater/deeper understanding ▪ All of this will lead to a better understanding of …
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UP
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TIME
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TAKE
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Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary

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