PALK STRAIT

Meaning of PALK STRAIT in English

Pronunciation: ' po ̇ (l)k

Function: geographical name

strait 40 mi (64 km ) wide bet. N Sri Lanka & SE India connecting Gulf of Mannar & Bay of Bengal

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

PALK STRAIT — geographical name strait 40 miles (64 kilometers ) wide between N Sri Lanka & SE India connecting Gulf of Mannar …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
PALK STRAIT — geographical name strait 40 miles (64 kilometers ) wide between N Sri Lanka & SE India connecting Gulf of Mannar …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
PALK STRAIT — inlet of the Bay of Bengal, between southeastern India and northern Sri Lanka and bounded on the south by Pamban …
Britannica English vocabulary
PALK STRAIT — Полкский пролив
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
PALK STRAIT — геогр. Полкский пролив
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
PALK STRAIT — Полкский прол.
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
PALK STRAIT — геогр. Полкский пролив
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
PALK STRAIT — геогр. Полкский пролив
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
PALK STRAIT — Полкский прол.
Англо-Русский географический словарь
STRAIT — a. strett; n. strette; desfacilitá
English interlingue dictionary
STRAIT — hiktin
English-Visayan vocabulary
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 — 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
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
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
PALK — Palk BrE AmE pɔːk pɔːlk pɑːk, pɔːlk, pɑːlk
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 — n. Bass Strait Belle Isle Strait of Canso Strait of Chatham Strait Cook Strait Davis Strait Dover Strait of Euripus …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
PALK — A geriatric, trundling motion, devoid of any other deliberation bar that of the need to get to B from A. …
Slang 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
PALK — [Korean] In ancient Korea, he is the sun god and founder of the realm of light. Palk is the personification …
Encyclopedia Mythica 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
MANNAR, GULF OF — geographical name inlet of Indian Ocean between Sri Lanka & S tip of India S of Palk Strait
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
JAFFNA PENINSULA — geographical name peninsula N extremity of Sri Lanka extending into Palk Strait
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
MANNAR, GULF OF — geographical name inlet of Indian Ocean between Sri Lanka & S tip of India S of Palk Strait
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
JAFFNA PENINSULA — peninsula N extremity of Sri Lanka extending into Palk Strait
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
TOMBOLO — one or more sandbars or spits that connect an island to the mainland. A single tombolo may connect a tied …
Britannica English vocabulary
VAIGAI RIVER — river in Tamil Nadu state, southern India, flowing 150 miles (240 km) generally southeast. Rising in the Varushanad Hills of …
Britannica English vocabulary
THANJAVUR — also called Tanjore, town, administrative headquarters of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu state, southeastern India, in the Cauvery Delta. An early …
Britannica English vocabulary
SRI LANKA — officially Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Sinhalese Sri Lanka Prajathanthrika Samajavadi Janarajaya, formerly Ceylon island country lying in the …
Britannica English vocabulary
INDIA
Britannica English vocabulary
ADAM'S BRIDGE — also called Rama's Bridge, chain of shoals, between the islands of Mannar, near northwestern Sri Lanka, and Rameswaram, off the …
Britannica English vocabulary
KUD — [Korean] The Korean personification of darkness and evil. He is the antipode of Palk.
Encyclopedia Mythica English vocab
KOREAN MYTHOLOGY — All the articles available in the Korean mythology section of the Encyclopedia Mythica: Alyeong; Aryong Jong; Chiha Yo Changgun; Chumong; …
Encyclopedia Mythica English vocab
ПОЛКСКИЙ ПРОЛИВ — Palk Strait
Русско-Американский Английский словарь
ПОЛКСКИЙ ПРОЛИВ — между п-овом Индостан и о. Шри-Ланка, Индийский океан. Назван в честь губернатора Мадраса в 1763-1767 гг. Роберта Полка (R.Palk, 1717-1798). …
Англо-Русский географический словарь

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