MENAI STRAIT

Meaning of MENAI STRAIT in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈme-ˌnī ]

geographical name

strait 14 miles (22 kilometers ) long N Wales between Anglesey Island & mainland

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary. Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster. 2003

MENAI STRAIT — geographical name strait 14 miles (22 kilometers ) long N Wales between Anglesey Island & mainland
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
MENAI STRAIT — Channel of the Irish Sea separating the Isle of Anglesey from the mainland of northern Wales. It extends 15 mi …
Английский словарь Британика
MENAI STRAIT — /men"uy/ a strait between Anglesey Island and the mainland of NW Wales. 14 mi. (23 km) long.
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
MENAI STRAIT — channel of the Irish Sea separating Isle of Anglesey (Ynys Mn) county from the mainland of North Wales. It extends …
Britannica English vocabulary
MENAI STRAIT — a channel that separates the island of Anglesey from the north-west coast of Wales. The Menai Bridge , the road …
Oxford Guide to British and American Culture English vocabulary
MENAI STRAIT — Pronunciation: ' me- ˌ n ī Function: geographical name strait 14 mi (22 km ) long N Wales bet. Anglesey …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
MENAI STRAIT — Channel of the Irish Sea separating the Isle of Anglesey from the mainland of northern Wales. It extends 15 mi …
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 — 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
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
MENAI — Menai BrE AmE ˈmen aɪ —Welsh [ ˈme nai, -ne ] ▶ ˌ Menai ˈ Bridge BrE AmE ▶ ˌ …
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
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
MENAI BRIDGE — County: Isle of Anglesey Post Code: LL59
UK Post Codes and Counties English vocabulary
MENAI BRIDGE — suspension bridge spanning the Menai Strait from Bangor, Wales, to the island of Anglesey, a distance of 580 feet (176 …
Britannica English vocabulary
MENAI STRAITS — Men ‧ ai Straits, the /ˌmenaɪ ˈstreɪts/ BrE AmE a narrow area of sea in North Wales, between the Welsh …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
MENAI STRAITS, THE — Men ‧ ai Straits, the /ˌmenaɪ ˈstreɪts/ BrE AmE a narrow area of sea in North Wales, between the Welsh …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
MENAI BRIDGE — ➡ Menai Strait
Oxford Guide to British and American Culture English vocabulary
TELFORD, THOMAS — born Aug. 9, 1757, near Westerkirk, Dumfries, Scot. died Sept. 2, 1834, London, Eng. Scottish civil engineer. He built the …
Английский словарь Британика
STEPHENSON, ROBERT — born Oct. 16, 1803, Willington Quay, Northumberland, Eng. died Oct. 12, 1859, London British civil engineer and builder of long-span …
Английский словарь Британика
CAERNARFON — Town (pop., 1995 est.: 10,000), seat of Gwynedd county, Wales. Located near the west end of the Menai Strait , …
Английский словарь Британика
CAERNARVON — /kahr nahr"veuhn/ , n. 1. a seaport in W Gwynedd, in NW Wales, on Menai Strait: 13th-century castle of Edward …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
TELFORD, THOMAS — born Aug. 9, 1757, near Westerkirk, Dumfries, Scot. died Sept. 2, 1834, London, Eng. versatile Scottish civil engineer whose crowning …
Britannica English vocabulary
STEPHENSON, ROBERT — born Oct. 16, 1803, Willington Quay, Northumberland, Eng. died Oct. 12, 1859, London outstanding English Victorian civil engineer and builder …
Britannica English vocabulary
GWYNEDD — county of northwestern Wales, extending from the Irish Sea in the west to the mountains of Snowdonia in the east. …
Britannica English vocabulary
FAIRBAIRN, SIR WILLIAM, 1ST BARONET — born Feb. 19, 1789, Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scot. died Aug. 18, 1874, Moor Park, Surrey, Eng. Scottish civil engineer and inventor …
Britannica English vocabulary
CAERNARVONSHIRE — also spelled Carnarvonshire, also called Caernarvon or Carnarvon, Welsh Sir Gaernarfon historic county of northwestern Wales, bordered on the north …
Britannica English vocabulary
CAERNARFON — also spelled Caenarvon or Carnarvon town, Gwynedd county, historic county of Caernarvonshire (Sir Gaernarfon), Wales, near the west end of …
Britannica English vocabulary
BRITANNIA BRIDGE — railroad bridge in northern Wales spanning Menai Strait, between Bangor and the Isle of Anglesey. It was designed and built …
Britannica English vocabulary
BANGOR — city, seat (1816) of Penobscot county, east-central Maine, U.S. It is a port of entry at the head of navigation …
Britannica English vocabulary
ANGLESEY, ISLE OF — Welsh Ynys Mn, Latin Mona county, northwestern Wales, separated from the North Wales mainland by the Menai Strait. The county …
Britannica English vocabulary
TELFORD — Tel ‧ ford, Thomas /ˈtelfəd $ -fərd/ BrE AmE (1757–1834) a Scottish ↑ architect and engineer, known for building bridges, …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
TELFORD, THOMAS — Tel ‧ ford, Thomas /ˈtelfəd $ -fərd/ BrE AmE (1757–1834) a Scottish ↑ architect and engineer, known for building bridges, …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
STEPHENSON, ROBERT — Stephenson, Rob ‧ ert /ˈrɒbət $ ˈrɑːbərt/ BrE AmE (1803–59) a British engineer, the son of George Stephenson. He continued …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
STEPHENSON — I. Ste ‧ phen ‧ son, George /ˈstiːv ə ns ə n/ BrE AmE (1781–1848) a British engineer who is …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ANGLESEY — An ‧ gle ‧ sey /ˈæŋɡ ə lsi/ BrE AmE an island off the northwest coast of Wales, which is …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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