STRAIT

adj a variant of straight.

2. strait ·superl narrow; not broad.

3. strait ·adv strictly; rigorously.

4. strait ·adj a narrow pass or passage.

5. strait ·vt to put to difficulties.

6. strait ·superl strict; scrupulous; rigorous.

7. strait ·superl tight; close; closely fitting.

8. strait ·superl parsimonious; niggargly; mean.

9. strait ·superl close; intimate; near; familiar.

10. strait ·superl difficult; distressful; straited.

11. strait ·adj a neck of land; an isthmus.

12. strait ·adj fig.: a condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity;

— sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits.

13. strait ·adj a (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water;

— often in the plural; as, the strait, or straits, of gibraltar; the straits of magellan; the strait, or straits, of mackinaw.